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Trump says U.S. will bomb Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected hub of Iranian nuclear activity
-- after claiming earlier U.S. strikes had ‘obliterated’ the country’s nuclear program.
-- Few experts ever bought into the Trump administration’s claims that Iran’s nuclear program had been destroyed.

Trump says U.S. will bomb Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected hub of Iranian nuclear activity
Pickaxe is a heavily fortified facility deep underground that would be difficult to penetrate even with powerful 'bunker buster' bombs.

Fun, electrical activity in blobs of moss; spiking patterns!
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/7/252341/482568/Multi-scale-electrical-activity-and-signal

I left my pet #Csharp #dotnet #ActivityPub project running overnight to see how it would handle HEAD requests overnight from UpTimeRobot (it did great).
I check the logs this morning and discover OMG what are all these I…

#ActivityPub Over #ATProto
https://berjon.com/ap-at/

"sure it doesn't work TODAY but the technology is getting better every day!!" was a more compelling argument when you were actually allowed to use the better technology
“Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Uber and Meta are among early adopters that have introduced caps, discouraged wasteful use or pushed employees to cheaper models in a bid to keep AI spending under control.”

‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets
Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity

Today's opus-length Metacurity is a must-read because it sums up a tremendous amount of AI news that cyber defenders should know, along with other critical infosec developments, including
--AI Watch: OpenAI details 'unprecedented cyber incident' behind Hugging Face breach,
--Frontier AI models routinely cheat on evaluations,
--Lightweight AI model for vulnerability hunting emerges,
--Google launches Gemini Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection and repair,…

AI Watch: OpenAI details 'unprecedented cyber incident' behind Hugging Face breach
Frontier AI models routinely cheat on evaluations, Lightweight AI model for vulnerability hunting emerges, Google launches Gemini Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection and repair, Malware hides inside normal AI coding activity, US weighs sanctions over alleged Chinese AI model theft, much more

🚨Cool chord alert🚨
#guitar
https://www.guitarworld.com/lessons/chords/5-chords-that-sound-like-theyr…

“Reminiscent of Joni Mitchell’s jazzier moments… but no strings were retuned to create it!” 5 chords that sound like they’re in an open tuning (but aren’t)
Because sometimes retuning your guitar is, well, a pain in the backside – and there are workarounds

Doing errands with our #suv (shopping utility vehicle). For the cover we bought the rain cover of an outdoor backpack. Works pretty well.
Meanwhile I also have an adapter mounted on my axel, too. so I can use it as well. 🎉
Best combination of shopping and physical activity. But I feel a little weird as hardly ever see anybody else with a trailer around. But I simply shouldn't care …

Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity
by uploading their government-issued documents,
according to a new version of the company’s privacy policy. 
The AI giant says the move was to allow users to appeal having their account flagged for potentially fraudulent activity
rather than outright banning them,
-- but comes at a time when Anthropic seeks to placate the Trump administration
amid an ongoing standoff over who gets access to th…

Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID | TechCrunch
Claude's chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity "in certain circumstances," such as with a passport or driver's license, according to a privacy policy change.