#TBOT 23: KYC for Your Phone, New ReCAPTCHA, UK Digital ID, Decentralized Social Media - NOSTR Paid Members Public
Your weekly tech update!
Own Your Router with Open-Source Firmware Paid Members Public
Your home router is the gateway to the internet. Do you own the keys? In this interview we discuss the dangers of proprietary router firmware and the benefits of open-source firmware like OpenWrt. We also cover helpful tips to increase your speed while reducing EMF exposure.
#TBOT 22: Age Verification Computers, War & AI, Data Centers Drained by AI, GrapheneOS & Motorola Paid Members Public
Here are this week’s stories:
The Future is Fungal: Mushroom Computing Paid Members Public
A research team at Ohio State University has taken a surprisingly ordinary ingredient—store‑bought shiitake mushrooms—and connected it to electrodes to see whether the fungus can behave like a memristor. A memristor (short for “memory resistor”) is an electronic component that both processes signals and stores data, promising
Flock × Ring Pull the Plug After Super Bowl Backlash Paid Members Public
Thankfully, their ill-conceived ad creeped everyone out.
CBP & ICE’s Clearview AI Contract: Off Social Media & Onto the Street Paid Members Public
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has awarded a fresh contract to Clearview AI, a company notorious for pulling 60 billion images off social media and racking up privacy violations around the world.
What Epstein's Emails Reveal About Privacy and Power Paid Members Public
After missing the deadline for the Epstein Transparency Act, the Department of Justice has released an additional 3M pages of Epstein’s emails and documents, many heavily redacted. They are also holding onto an additional 2.5M documents that will remain unreleased, supposedly to protect the victims. Watch on Substack
