I’m pretty sure Hindenburg would have been able to land somewhere instead of crashing out of the air if it used Helium. The surface catching fire wouldn’t spread nearly as quickly as the cells exploding with hydrogen gas. I’m not sure what material the cells were made out of, but I doubt it burns like flash paper.

35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize

What? You can’t have 35 “First” annual events

$60k a year is not enough to live comfortably in most of the cities with tech hubs. Rent alone would be 60+% of your paycheck, plus utilities and a car to get to work, you might be going hungry.

All the terrible touch features they’re adding to cars these days makes me think a brand new car today would go obsolete before a 10 year old used car with 100k miles. New cars are unrepairable because of how complicated they are.

Even the $3000 Samsung TVs have ads if you connect them to the Internet. Noone is safe

An image is a quantization of reality. An image alone is biometric data if it’s a picture of a face, fingerprint, or any other identifiable feature of a person.

Usually the opposite is true when gutters are this clogged. They turn into a swamp.

I’ve got a 9700X and it absolutely rips at only 65W

The trusted 3rd party in this case is actually multiple 3rd parties. There’s several options for trusted timestamping just like there’s multiple trusted root CAs for SSL. Since the timestamping service is free and public, anyone can use it to sign anything, even self-signed certificates. There’s no mechanism to deny access, at least for this portion.

There’s always a risk the root CAs all collude and refuse to give out certificates to people they don’t like, but at least so far this hasn’t been a problem. I don’t have a better solution unfortunately. If we could have a 100% decentralized signing scheme that would be ideal, but I have no idea how you would build such a thing without identity verification and some inherit trust in the system

This isn’t “my idea”, this is how the industry already does code signing. You can’t sign something with a date of 1984 because your certificate has a start and end date, and is usually only valid for 1 year.

You can read more about how this works here: https://knowledge.digicert.com/general-information/rfc3161-compliant-time-stamp-authority-server

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

Code signing certificates work a little differently than SSL certificates. A timestamp is included in the signature so the certificate only needs to be valid at the time of signing. The executable will remain valid forever, even if the certificate later expires. (This is how it works on Windows)

Loads of new technologies are discovered because of people mixing disciplines that hadn’t been put together before. A new perspective on a problem can make a massive difference!

That’s probably true, but it sure can be hard to motivate yourself to do things yourself when that AI dice roll is right there to give you an immediate dopamine hit. I’m starting to see things like vibecoding being as addictive as gambling.
Personally I don’t use AI because I see all the subtle ways it’s wrong when programming, and the more I pay attention to things like AI search results, it seems like there’s almost always something misrepresented or subtly incorrect in the output, and for any topics I’m not already fluent in, I likely won’t notice these things until it’s already causing issues

+ biometrics

This means you only enter the password when your phone restarts, you access specific settings, or I think one or two other rare cases. Personally I only need to enter my pin maybe once a week

That’s for breaking a bcrypt hash, and I don’t believe there’s any way to extract the pin hash from a phone since it happens inside a secure hardware layer (like a TPM). If it is possible, the attacker would most likely have to physically destroy your phone to get at it. To bruteforce a 4 digit pin with retry lockout timers, it takes 16 hours to try all combinations, according to a tool I found that auto-enters pins via usb keyboard emulation.

Sponsorblock works perfectly fine on Firefox Mobile

That’s unfortunate. Personally I can barely tell all the black rectangles apart. It’s a utility for me, not a fashion accessory. Maybe if it was, I’d have an iPhone

Doing some quick math and numbers pulled from wikipedia, Lead is about 14-15x as effective by volume compared to water at blocking gamma radiation.

I think far more significant in saving the other scientists was the inverse square law. The radiation energy falls off with the square of distance, so Slotin would have received a significantly higher dose just from being right next to it.

I used my last phone for about 4 years. At that point the battery life was getting worse, and the coating to prevent smudges and make your finger slide easily had worn off in the middle. Even then it’s still perfectly usable, I just wanted an upgrade and to get away from Samsung.

I don’t understand the people that upgrade every year or two. In the last 5 years basically the only new development has been higher refresh rate displays and faker looking (more processed) camera images…

Surely, you can’t be serious?