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Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/indigenous-knowledge-confirms-what-scientists-observe-large-birds-are-disappearing…

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing
Indigenous knowledge confirms a trend scientists have observed- large bird populations are declining faster than small birds.

so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
Zero Knowledge Encryption is a term widely used by vendors of cloud-based password managers. Although it has no strict technical meaning, the term conveys the idea that the server, who stores encrypted password vaults on behalf of users, is unable to learn anything about the contents of those vaults. The security claims made by vendors imply that this should hold even if the server is fully malicious. This threat model is justified in practice by the high sensitivity of vault data, which makes …

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"Hedgehogs can hear high‑frequency ultrasound – that knowledge could help save them"
#Hedgehogs #Animals

Hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound – that knowledge could help save them
Millions of hedgehogs die as they cross the roads, but a discovery is paving the way for a warning that might stop them crossing at dangerous times.

Film director Werner Herzog has always been drawn to the limits of human knowledge
– to the places where science meets myth, where discovery shades into obsession.
In "Ghost Elephants", which premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival,
he follows conservationist Steve Boyes in Angola as he searches for a herd of elephants that may or may not exist.
It is both a scientific expedition and a philosophical fable that asks what it means to chase a dream that…

Werner Herzog searches for ghost elephants in stunning new documentary
A film about the quest for “ghost elephants” is as much about not knowing and asking the right questions as about exploration, finds Davide Abbatescianni

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-compute-cursor-…

Elon Musk's xAI plans to supply AI computing power to coding startup Cursor
Elon Musk's xAI is collaborating with Cursor, which is using xAI's GPUs for model training, people with knowledge of the matter said.

I've been thinking more about this AI stuff in terms of industry impact. What I think will happen is that upward mobility will stall for a lot of devs (no more promotions), and there will be no new devs coming in.
Part of improving yourself is knowing that, one day, you'll likely pass your knowledge, responsibility, and more on to another person so you can pursue new and different challenges.
You'll essentially see folks stuck on a treadmill going nowhere until they f…

Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-clinches-aws-deal-bid…

OpenAI Clinches AWS Deal in Bid to Win Government Contracts
OpenAI on Friday signed a new contract with Amazon Web Services to sell its AI to U.S. government employees for both classified and unclassified work, according to two people with direct knowledge of the agreement. The contract will allow OpenAI to support the Pentagon through a deal it hastily ...

Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-cracks-vibe-coding-apps

Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps
Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and Vibecode, which help people create games and other applications, from releasing updates to their mobile apps on the App Store unless they make modifications, according to several people with knowledge of the situation. The ...