For 21 years, a cyberweapon called fast16 sat completely undetected. This one did not destroy machines or blow things up. It corrupted the math. Scientists running nuclear and engineering simulations got output that looked completely normal, every number added up, every result made sense, and all of it was deliberately wrong. It surfaced last week. It predates Stuxnet by five years.
Just got word that this does exist in the US.
There it's called The Bliss Point... very nice compared to the german phrase.
Sugar, Salt, and Fat are calculated down to the milligram for each individual product, creating a craving that never makes you feel satiated.
In a sense, this is the most devastating thing the food industry has given us... if you ignore cancer chemicals being widely used as ingredients because they're cheaper.
Europe’s $24T breakup with Visa & Mastercard has begun. ECB’s Lagarde warns almost all EU card/mobile payments still run on non‑European rails, sending spending data outside the EU. Now EPI + EuroPA are launching Wero, a pan‑EU wallet for 130M users to pay cross‑border without US networks. A huge shift for payment sovereignty—and data privacy.