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Just in: France's Prime Minister asked telecom companies to prepare to block social media platforms. "I wish to have the ability to temporarily suspend access to these services in case of a repeat of urban violence," he wrote. @blast news broke the story.

look the foundational problem with ethereum protocol design is that most of the people designing the protocol don't actually use ethereum themselves. you can't fix the right things if you don't use your own fucking product. you don't have enough skin in the game if you don't personally depend on the system you're designing & stand to lose money when it breaks. i understand, everything looks great from an ivory tower lol. things look very different when you're actually on the ground dealing with the consequences. if you don't use ethereum yourself but still think you're qualified to design its protocol, you're playing god with a system you don't have to live with and whose consequences you don't have to suffer.

האחיינית שוקלת להצביע לבן גביר? סבא עדיין מתלבט למי להצביע? צרפו אותי לקבוצת הואטסאפ המשפחתית ואשכנע את כולם להצביע לי. לא עוצרים עד שמשכנעים את כולם!

If SOL isn't above 240 by the end of 2025, I will shave my beard and go full mustache

look the foundational problem with ethereum protocol design is that most of the people designing the protocol don't actually use ethereum themselves. you can't fix the right things if you don't use your own fucking product. you don't have enough skin in the game if you don't personally depend on the system you're designing & stand to lose money when it breaks. i understand, everything looks great from an ivory tower lol. things look very different when you're actually on the ground dealing with the consequences. if you don't use ethereum yourself but still think you're qualified to design its protocol, you're playing god with a system you don't have to live with and whose consequences you don't have to suffer.

2 years later as per tradition albert is great

Imagine you wake up and: - PHP has two critical vulnerabilities, rated 9.2, and exploitation has already started, even before the fix was published. There's not fix for old versions... cybersecuritynews.com/php-ea… - Node.js has four high vulnerabilities, including arbitrary code execution. nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerabi… - Eight TLS intermediates have private keys of 3 to 8 bits. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but... arstechnica.com/security/202… All of this is in the field. Millions of machines are vulnerable. Most of them will not be patched in the near future and you can't really trust TLS anymore... The state of security is really, really frightening. And it won't get better anytime soon. 🫠

privacy pools v2 is live a new privacy layer for ethereum is here

Batel Blaish sultanik “I'm writing to you from the jet bridge in New York, a moment before they ask us to switch to airplane mode. Next to me stands a guy with a croissant-shaped neck pillow, and they just announced that our flight to Tel Aviv is running a little late. Turns out he's on his way to the polls too. The pillow is for the flight, the jet lag is for democracy. I left behind four little kids and a partner on crutches, who walked me to the front door this morning. I'm flying eleven hours just to walk into an elementary school classroom, stand behind a slightly crooked cardboard screen, and slip a small ballot into an envelope. I'm here thanks to AID Coalition’s Fly&Vote initiative, and the crazy part is that I'm really not alone in this. Tens of thousands of Israelis around the world are packing their carry-ons right now and crossing oceans. We could easily have said, "We're far away, let someone else worry about it." But the truth is, this is our home, and we have a say in its future too. 36J. I'm seated, we're taxiing, and the plane is full of Israelis on their way to the polls. To my right, Dotan from Atlanta. A row behind me, Adar from Austin. Ravit from Miami is in Economy Plus. And to my left, Mori, 70, from Hod Hasharon, who's still debating whether to go vote at all. So from my cramped seat, I'm asking you, with all the love in the world: if we're willing to fly halfway around the world to vote, won't you make the five-minute walk to the polling station? The short trip down the stairs of your building? I know, Election Day is a day off. There's the beach, there's the barbecue, and there's that couch in the living room, with the dip that knows the exact shape of your back. But the couch will wait. The beach will wait too. The polls are open for just one day. And it truly doesn't matter who you vote for. Right, left, center, everyone has their own truth. What matters is that you don't give up your right to make a difference, because whoever stays on the couch is simply letting others decide for them. Yours, your mom's, the upstairs neighbor's: every vote counts. Democracy goes on all year long, but it starts right there, behind the screen. On Election Day, have your coffee, grab your ID and the people you love, and go vote. And think of us, standing in line with you, jet-lagged (plus one guy with a croissant pillow). See you at the polls! P.S. By the time the flight attendants cleared the dinner trays, Mori had already promised she’d go vote.

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…

Alpenglow mode 🏔️