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The view on the way to work along the Oak Leaf Trail is lovely at some spots...
(Though stopping for the photo I got attacked by bugs, which is not great.)
#biking #bikeTooter #mke

If you’ve ever tried putting butter in your coffee, you have Dave Asprey to thank.
(Sure, it was your annoying coworker who finally convinced you,
but that’s where your annoying coworker got the idea.)
Asprey is arguably the man who popularized the brew of smart drugs, supplements, and self-experimentation
we now know as biohacking.
As part of his multi-million-dollar empire
—which also involves the company Bulletproof Labs
and dressing increasingl…

Snake Venom, Urine, and a Quest to Live Forever: Inside a Biohacking Conference Emboldened by MAHA
WIRED attended a biohacking conference filled with unorthodox and often unproven anti-aging treatments. Adherents revealed how the Make America Healthy Again movement has given them a renewed fervor.

Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chatbot-children-ftc-safety-guidelines-202…

Leaked Meta guidelines show how it trains AI chatbots to respond to child sexual exploitation prompts
A leaked Meta document shows how its AI chatbot is trained to handle child sexual exploitation prompts as it faces FTC scrutiny.

Steven Bartlett, host of the popular UK podcast The Diary of a CEO, is using AI to clone his voice and create animated videos for his new podcast, 100 CEOs (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/diary-of-a-ceo-steven-bartl…

'Diary of a CEO' star Steven Bartlett uses AI cloning for new podcasts
The execs behind "Diary of a CEO" podcaster Steven Bartlett's company describe how he's using AI to build franchises.

> The stabbing is understood to have taken place near consultancy firm Prospira Global and housing provider Trademark Homes.
The BBC have made a choice here in how to report that location. I don't condemn the decision, I'm just sad that it had to be made.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz71wj…

Man arrested after two stabbed to death at Bermondsey business
A man, aged 31, is arrested following the stabbing deaths of two people in south-east London.

Sourced Carrollian Fluids Dual to Black Hole Horizons
Sercan H\"usn\"ugil, Luis Lehner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Sourced Carrollian Fluids Dual to Black Hole Horizons
The (degenerate) geometry of event horizons is linked to Carrollian fluids. We investigate the behavior of event horizons via a perturbative coupling to a massless scalar field, making connections to Carrollian hydrodynamics with a driving source, and discuss the fluid equilibration in tandem with the horizon's relaxation to equilibrium. We observe that after the perturbation dies off, the Carrollian fluid energy and momentum densities approach equilibrium as the horizon asymptotically becomes …

Characterizing the Sensitivity to Individual Bit Flips in Client-Side Operations of the CKKS Scheme
Matias Mazzanti, Augusto Vega, Esteban Mocskos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20891

Characterizing the Sensitivity to Individual Bit Flips in Client-Side Operations of the CKKS Scheme
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables computation on encrypted data without decryption, making it a cornerstone of privacy-preserving computation in untrusted environments. As HE sees growing adoption in sensitive applications such as secure machine learning and confidential data analysis ensuring its robustness against errors becomes critical. Faults (e.g., transmission errors, hardware malfunctions, or synchronization failures) can corrupt encrypted data and compromise the integrity of HE opera…

South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4b19bf90-4202-4fe7-8caf-d7db6deeb768…

Crypto-crazy investors make South Korea the best-performing market in Asia
New president’s pledge to allow won-based stablecoins has led to huge gains in related shares this month

Q&A: Rodney Benson, one of four authors of How Media Ownership Matters, on which ownership models for news lead to strong journalism and business outcomes (Dr. Anya Schiffrin/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/rodney-b

Rodney Benson on the Value of Publicly Backed Journalism
A recent book suggests American media can learn from European ownership structures.

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai's Hong Kong trial wraps up, with three judges set to take months to give a verdict; he looked thin and tired after years in prison (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/world/asia/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-trump.html

Jimmy Lai’s Freedom May Now Hinge on Beijing and Trump
As the outspoken Hong Kong publisher awaits a verdict, his trial has become a test of China’s resolve to crush dissent, and of whether President Trump can free him.