Biologist Pierre Joliot, photosynthesis pioneer and grandson of Pierre and Marie Curie, dies at 94

"Inspired by the work of American scientist Robert Emerson, Joliot used light flashes to study the oxygen production of algae and observed that it took 4 pulses to release the gas, leading him to decipher one of the fundamental mechanisms of photosynthesis: 4 electrons must be stripped from a water molecule for 1 molecule of oxygen to be produced."

https://archive.is/i0HzB

#PlantScience #Science

Move Fast and Break Things is antithesis to good security and privacy.

You cannot have both. It takes time to build great, secure, and private things.

Move carefully and build secure and private software thoughtfully.

#Privacy #Security

Something humans built is now flying where the Sun’s power finally gives out.

Voyager 1 has left the giant bubble our star blows around the solar system. It pushed through the heliosheath, slipped past the heliopause, and is now cruising through real interstellar space.

How far out is that? About 25.9 billion km from home.

No human-made object has ever been farther. And it was launched back in 1977.

Still going.

@IrrationalMethod @Frantasaur @nash like maybe AI really is secretly super intelligent and they are just tricking Venture Capitalists into freeing up money to invest in more clean water and renewable energy capacity, knowing the bubble will burst but the infrastructure will have been built.

you ever write code so inefficient you have to start complaining about the global allocation of RAM

Binance hasn’t REcovered $6B+, it’s COVERING it (reimbursing customers from company funds). Some was frozen, but Binance is not likely to recover even half.

Bad headlines like this are a big part of why I started covering crypto. Generalist reporters on deadline far too often end up repeating company spin.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #journalism

Absolutely gorgeous afternoon at the beach. My favorite days are when bright, glaringly sunny skies are replaced with dramatic storm clouds. Lots of brown pelicans diving for fish and a dolphin swam just a few yards out in front of me. Pure magic. #Florida #Nature #Birds

Writers are reportedly removing em dashes and deliberately adding typos so AI detectors won’t accuse them of using AI.

We’ve reached the point where people are making their writing worse to prove they wrote it themselves.

Authors have already lost million-dollar book deals over disputed AI accusations.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-30/how-ai-detectors-like-pangram-are-changing-human-writing

The biggest benefits are always from restructuring the process. Changing the process takes much longer and is much harder than changing how task level work is performed.

“What isn’t happening nearly as much as it should is a serious consideration of the cross-functional nature of the problem. Most of these emerging “factories” seem to stop at the boundaries of existing professions.”
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-448-the-software-factory-as-identity

I’d like to thank Binance for teaching a load of crypto bros why banking regulations that make it possible to reverse fraudulent transactions exist.

And this is my Sir Patrick Stewart story to tell. He is so incredibly extraordinary that he is the only ST actor to appear as his character and with himself on screen at the same time. He is canon in the #StarTrek universe. And he will never be forgotten...until the 24th century and beyond! 10/10

Staring back at me on pages 354/355 of Volume I of the Annotated Shakespeare was none other than...a young and bearded Sir Patrick Stewart, playing Touchstone in the 1968 Royal Shakespeare Company production of "As You Like It"! I was awed and knew that I had discovered something extraordinary! 6/10

I never saw Patrick Stewart at a convention and didn't come with him into direct contact in any way when working on #StarTrekPicard but there's one Patrick Stewart/Jean-Luc Picard related achievement that only I have ever made - find proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the #StarTrek universe. 1/10

A recent gorgeous, golden hour capture of the North Shore of Lake Superior by a local artist that’s highlighted in the bottom left corner of the photograph. Enjoy 😎

#LakeSuperior
#landscapephotography
#greatlakesphotography
#shorelinephotography
#goldenhourphotography

@onandonandon @kim_harding

MTOSA

Make The Onion Satire Again lol

@datarama @GossiTheDog
"The agents went wild and wanted to expand to more computers" - definitely not "We vibe code our security"

I've confirmed Binance use Claude Code on Cursor with this extension.

To be clear this is a supply chain attack, the threat actor got reverse SSH (command line) connectivity to Anthropic customer environments at scale.

Anthropic Visual Studio Claude Code extension on Cursor has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/