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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
There's a great article by @RyanHoliday:
"Are you sure that “getting everything you want” is what you actually want? Will it mean the ability to dictate what you do today?
Because if it doesn’t… well, what’s the point?"
ryanholiday.net/autonomy/
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Pleasure to be working with you @zan_team and Ant Digital Technologies.
So early and so much to do.
ZAN is a Web3 and AI infrastructure brand under Ant Digital Technologies, delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance services to power business innovation. ZAN and @Theta_Network have formed a deep strategic partnership this year across both Web3 and AI. From underlying blockchain networks to decentralized cloud compute, we are jointly building the core foundation for next-generation digital applications.
Our collaboration began in Web3 this June. ZAN officially joined Theta Network as a strategic enterprise validator node, staking $THETA to participate in transaction validation, block production, and on-chain governance. Enterprise validators are the backbone of Theta's consensus layer. By bringing enterprise-grade infrastructure capabilities, ZAN ensures Theta's decentralized network operates with superior reliability and stability.
In September, we extended our partnership from Web3 into AI. Through ZAN Router, Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, a financial LLM from Ant Ling, went live on Theta EdgeCloud. This enables enterprises to seamlessly route, monitor, and scale AI integrations, while giving developers direct access to professional tools for financial research, analytics, and agentic workflows.
From Web3 to AI, this is just the beginning. We look forward to deeper collaboration as we continue to push boundaries across both frontiers. Whether fortifying Web3 infrastructure or accelerating AI innovation, ZAN and Theta empower builders to simply build.
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Yes people, I’m not making this up.
The foundation is set!
Large organisation wants a piece of it.
People are listening .
The world is watching $THETA and they’re not wrong.
Theta Network's latest big partnership.
Just a few days ago, @Theta_Network announced an official partnership with blockchain Telecom company, @Weaver_Labs.
Weaver will leverage Theta's decentralized GPU network as an AI compute resource for its Cell-Stack.
At time of writing, the theta-token:native token is down nearly -17% on the week.
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A friendly reminder that Carl Jung believed life doesn’t truly begin until your 40s. Everything before that is just research and development.
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@jieyilong wow, go @Theta_Network. Core step of a quantum attack.
The core step of a quantum attack on Bitcoin and Ethereum now fits in under 900 logical qubits within Google's gate budget. In three published attack designs, the machine would shrink by zero to about 28%.
On October 13, Jieyi Long of Theta Labs posted an 893-qubit circuit to ECDSA Fail, an open benchmark for the point addition that Shor's algorithm repeats to recover a private key. A day later he posted an 874-qubit version. Both stay below the 1,175 qubits and 2.7 million Toffoli gates Google proved for its own circuit in March.
Narrower circuits exist, down to 676 qubits, but all of them exceed Google's gate count. The 676-qubit one needs about 150 times as many.
Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, a co-author of the ECDSA Fail paper, put the physical saving at 25% for the IonQ, Oratomic and Google attack designs. I checked each one.
- Google: about a quarter, if every part of the machine shrank with the qubit count.
- Oratomic: nothing with its published codes, and at most 16% with a code sized for 893 qubits.
- IonQ: about 28% fewer ions, but longer attempts, because the circuit needs about 1.6 times IonQ's Toffoli gates per addition.
Nobody has compiled a full attack around either circuit yet.
postquantum.com/security-pqc…
#QuantumComputing #PostQuantumCryptography #PQC #QuantumSecurity #Cryptography #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Cybersecurity
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August 6, 1945. A 29 year old engineer is walking to work in Hiroshima on the last day of a three month business trip.
He's packed. He's going home to his wife and baby son tomorrow.
He looks up and sees a bomber high overhead. Something small falls from it.
Then the sky turns white.
His name was Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He designed oil tankers for Mitsubishi, and he'd been sent to Hiroshima to work at the company's shipyard. He was about two miles from where the bomb exploded.
The blast threw him off his feet. It burst his eardrums. It burned the left side of his upper body, his face and arms. For a while he couldn't see.
He spent the night in an air raid shelter in a city that no longer existed.
The next morning, badly burned, he found two of his coworkers who had also survived. Together they made their way through the ruins to a train station and got on one of the few trains still running.
They were going home.
Home was Nagasaki.
He got back on August 8, covered in bandages. His family barely recognized him. Doctors treated his burns. Most people would have stayed in bed.
On August 9, Yamaguchi reported to work.
He was sitting in the Mitsubishi office in Nagasaki, telling his boss what had happened in Hiroshima. How one bomb had wiped out an entire city. According to Yamaguchi, his boss told him that was impossible. That he must be out of his mind.
And at that moment, through the window, the room filled with the same white light.
The second atomic bomb had just exploded over Nagasaki. Once again, Yamaguchi was about two miles away.
The blast tore the bandages off his burns. The office was wrecked. And somehow, again, he lived.
He rushed home terrified of what he'd find. His house was destroyed. But his wife and son had survived too. They had gone out looking for burn ointment for him and were sheltering in a tunnel when the bomb hit.
Treating his injuries from the first bomb may have saved them from the second.
He was sick for a long time. His hair fell out. He had fevers and infections. But he recovered. He went back to work, raised a family, and lived a normal life for decades. He rarely talked about it publicly.
Hundreds of people are believed to have lived through both bombings. But in 2009, the Japanese government officially recognized Yamaguchi as a survivor of both, the only person ever formally given that status.
Late in life he finally started speaking out against nuclear weapons. He even addressed the United Nations.
He died in 2010 at the age of 93.
He was hit by the only two atomic bombs ever used in war. And he outlived the century they were dropped in.
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I’ve never heard this story.
May 5, 1945. Hitler has been dead for five days. The war in Europe is almost over.
In a castle in the Austrian Alps, American soldiers, German soldiers, and a group of elderly French prisoners grab rifles and get ready to fight the SS.
Together.
The castle was called Schloss Itter. The Nazis had turned it into a prison for very important people. Not ordinary prisoners. Trophies.
Inside were two former prime ministers of France, Paul Reynaud and Édouard Daladier. Two of France's top generals, Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin. A famous tennis champion, Jean Borotra. And the older sister of Charles de Gaulle.
As the Reich collapsed in early May, the SS guards panicked and ran. The prisoners suddenly found themselves in charge of a castle, with weapons left behind, and a serious problem.
Waffen-SS units were still roaming the area. Fanatics who would gladly kill them all.
They needed help. Fast.
One of the castle's prisoners, a Yugoslav handyman, slipped out on a bicycle to find the Americans. Separately, a German army officer named Major Josef Gangl also went looking for them.
Gangl was a Wehrmacht officer who had turned against the Nazis and was secretly working with the Austrian resistance. He wanted to protect the prisoners too.
He found an American tank commander named Captain Jack Lee.
Lee was 27, tough, cigar chewing, and willing to do something insane. With a single Sherman tank and a handful of American soldiers, he drove up into the mountains alongside Gangl and a few of his German troops.
They reached the castle on May 4.
The French prisoners were not exactly thrilled to see a tiny rescue force. They had expected an army. Instead they got a few Americans, a few Germans, and one tank.
The next morning, the SS attacked.
Somewhere between 100 and 150 Waffen-SS troops hit the castle with machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank weapons. The defenders fought back from the walls and windows. Americans and Germans side by side.
The French prisoners refused to hide. Some of them, including Reynaud, picked up weapons and joined in.
The Sherman tank was knocked out. The defenders were running out of ammunition. It looked like the castle would fall.
Then Jean Borotra, the tennis star, volunteered to make a run for it. He jumped the wall, slipped past the SS, and sprinted through the countryside to find American reinforcements.
He found them. And he insisted on coming back with them to finish the fight.
During the battle, Major Gangl saw Paul Reynaud exposed to gunfire and moved to pull him to safety. A sniper shot Gangl dead.
He had survived the whole war as a German soldier, only to die defending French prisoners from the SS in its final days.
That afternoon, the American relief force arrived and broke the attack. The SS were scattered and captured. The prisoners were saved.
Jack Lee received the Distinguished Service Cross. In Austria, Josef Gangl is remembered as a hero, and a street is named after him.
It is believed to be the only battle of the war where American and German soldiers fought together on the same side.
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Apple’s researchers have noticed too. In a paper published this month, they turn a team’s own Macs, whose GPUs “remain largely idle during normal usage,” into a shared GPU cloud.
machinelearning.apple.com/re…
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Tesla's latest self-driving tech faces a real-world Mad Max test in a congested university campus. Can it navigate busy intersections, unexpected lane changes, and a sea of pedestrians? Watch to see if it earns its parking spot.
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Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen after spending just 12 days in the country.
Then he bought 193 hectares on Lake Wānaka, in the mountains near Queenstown, and filed plans for a 330-meter compound built INTO the hillside. Grass roof. Room for 30 people.
The council rejected it, the court rejected it again. Officially, nothing was built.
But in 2016, Sam Altman told The New Yorker his pandemic backup plan: fly with Peter Thiel to Thiel's house in New Zealand. In the same interview he listed his stockpile: guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, gas masks.
That part is documented.
Rumor has it the real bunkers aren't on any map. The owners only get GPS coordinates.
And Thiel isn't the only one. New Zealand has become the super-rich's favorite bolthole. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman said telling someone you're "buying a house in New Zealand" is "kind of a wink, wink, say no more."
Look at what surrounds this place:
🏔 Mt Aspiring / Tititea – 3,033 m
🏔 Mt Earnslaw / Pikirakatahi – 2,819 m
🏔 The Remarkables (Single Cone) – 2,319 m
🏔 Ben Lomond – 1,748 m
Solid rock overhead. Glacial lakes. Snowmelt water. One of the most isolated countries on Earth.
If the Geophysical Event comes, with crustal displacement and oceans spilling over the continents, this is exactly where you'd want to be: deep inside a mountain, with your own clean water.
They're not preparing for nothing.
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Idle GPUs cost money on both sides of the market. Owners earn nothing from them, and teams pay for compute they never use.
Theta EdgeCloud was built to fix both, and the numbers show why that matters 🧵
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Tesla's standard self-driving mode faces a challenging rainy rush hour. From difficult merges to aggressive drivers, watch if it can navigate the chaos without a single human touch. Standard mode vs. real-world conditions – a nail-biting test.
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Is Australia governed by morons or evil psychopaths?
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Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan.
When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago.
So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care.
They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill.
So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people.
Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power.
It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.
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