Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones

Securelist

Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery

Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass th...

Just move to Nostr

No Bullshit Bitcoin

X (Twitter) Now Collects More Data Than Ever, Including Biometrics

X's new privacy policy allows the platform to collect users' biometric data, employment and education history, access encrypted messages, and use h...

What powered the world in 2022? It wasn't Wind & Solar!

Visual Capitalist

What Electricity Sources Power the World?

Coal still leads the charge when it comes to electricity, representing 35% of global power generation.

I wonder who is benefiting from the war in Ukraine?

The i Paper

Inside the arms deals worth billions at the heart of the Ukraine war

The war has served as a shop window for weapons producers, with the UK spending more than £55bn on arms – the most in central and western Europe

Another great video from @Max DeMarco

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MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

System combines light and electrons to unlock faster, greener computing

MIT's “Lightning” system connects photons to the electronic components of computers using a novel abstraction, creating the first photonic...

That was an expensive mistake

The Mempool Open Source Project®

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

Protect your identity and move aware from Google services! Good article from Proton

Proton

Email is more than communication – It’s your identity and worth protecting | Proton

Your email address is an identifier tech giants use to track you and exploit your personal data. Learn how to protect yours.

Now that is worrying. Just self custody!

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Ripple Acquires Fortress Trust Used by Swan Bitcoin

Ripple has acquired Fortress Trust few months after it splashed $250 million on Swiss custody startup Metaco. Fortress is used by popular bitcoin e...

With its energy surplus and desire to diversify and modernize its economy, Oman is now moving heavily into bitcoin mining

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining Around the World: Oman

Hashrate Index's Jaran Mellerud produced an analysis of Bitcoin mining industry in Oman - potentially biggest bitcoin mining hub in the Middle East.

Great video @Max DeMarco

Join us Tuesday 29th August at London Bridge Rooftop Bar for the NextGen Fundraiser!

Eventbrite

NextGen Fundraiser @ London Bitcoin Space - London Bridge Rooftop Bar

a fundraiser for the U.K. Sovereign Student Project to provide bitcoin education in secondary schools!

South American style BBQ starting at 7pm with homemade Chimmichurri Bring a precoiner friend to see a demo of class activities! A short talk and Q&A - "Is Learning about Bitcoin a Righteous Act?" Chant down Babylon with the reggae LNbits Jukebox Bitcoin Artwork Auction in collaboration with BitcoinApex (https://twitter.com/bitcoin__apex) We will be fundraising for the U.K. Sovereign Student Project which brings bitcoin education based on the Mi Primer Bitcoin diploma curriculum to secondary school age children. Read more here - https://www.bitcoinpolicy.uk/post/teaching-genz-about-bitcoin By supporting this initiative, this project could be developed to provide more resources for the kids to practically engage with bitcoin and to expand this to other schools.

You gota check this out. It's the song that Marty Bent played on Rabbit Hole Recap. Follow and support @Oliver Anthony

X (formerly Twitter)

Kari Lake (@KariLake) on X

I can’t listen to Oliver Anthony's “Rich Men North of Richmond” without getting chills. It's raw, it's true, & it's touching the hearts ...

I'm on the lookout for my next book, ideally an audio book. Any book recommendations on bitcoin and/or energy would be greatly appreciated? If that topic is too narrow, what's your favorite book?

Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy I stumbled on this article by Lewis Parker today. Was written in 2019 but 100% current.

Bitcoin Does Not Waste Energy - Unchained

And here's @Guy Swann version on Bitcoin Audible <iframe src="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/embed/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_306---Bitcoin-Does-Not-Waste-Energy-Parker-Lewis-e7ojph/a-at0dnn" height="102px" width="400px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

View quoted note → We are seeing the exit ramps to #bitcoin being blocked now. Get familiar with using no-KYC p2p exchanges like RoboSats and HodlHodl now before you actually need them

View quoted note → Hyperinflation is going to be a painful but necessary step to #bitcoin adoption

The Global Financial Crisis 2? With Lyn Alden “The end game, that’s where it gets tricky, because there’s really no plan to ever stop the fiscal deficits. Debt to GDP is very, very high. And the world’s never been in this position before where we have an entirely Fiat-based system with debts this high. And especially because it’s not due to war. It’s due to accumulated promises over decades. So there’s no light switch, that can just change it next year.” If you want to understand the mess the current financial system is in you have to listen to #[0]​ she is amazingly knowledgeable. Spoiler alert, it’s fucked!

Great to see p2p, no KYC, solutions like Robosats doing well

No Bullshit Bitcoin

RoboSats Reached A Record P2P Trading Volume in March

RoboSats is a simple and private way for to exchange fiat currencies for bitcoin and vice versa.