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Alex Rukundo retweeted
Finland just pushed electricity through open air. No cable. First ever nation to achieve this.
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the University of Oulu fired high-intensity ultrasonic waves to carve an invisible channel through the air, then guided a spark down it.
Lasers handle the rest. Power-by-light beams energy to receivers where you really don't want a conductor: nuclear plants, high-voltage stations.
Radio-frequency harvesting pulls microwatts from ambient waves, enough to retire millions of disposable sensor batteries.
Alex Rukundo retweeted
Prices, since start of the year.
European natural gas: +233%
UK natural gas: +212%
Heating oil: +134%
Brent crude: +91%
Gasoline: +87%
US crude oil: +79%
Coal: +40%
Alex Rukundo retweeted
Who decides whether a Bitcoin payment is valid? Not a bank.
Independent nodes check it against shared rules, while miners add blocks.
That allows BTC to move without a central operator, but protecting your private keys remains your responsibility.
Microblog by @antgrasso
Alex Rukundo retweeted
The Entire Semiconductor Ecosystem
Semiconductor Industry Stack (From Raw Materials to End Products)
Every computing device relies on an interconnected 8-tier hierarchy, from Japanese silicon ingots and American EDA code to Dutch lithography systems and Taiwanese foundries.
Alex Rukundo retweeted
Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.
Hear it for yourself: block.xyz/dessa
V insightful & informative with lots of clarity wrt different oil&gas blends [crude vs products], customer servicing, quantities both now & planned, the transport & logistics + tankers & pipeline capacity +... just the superb resilience.
Kuwait Petroleum CEO's very insightful & informative interview on @BloombergTV, enjoy! youtu.be/_dJnwX2-BYg?si=Coyg…
Alex Rukundo retweeted
Who pays when a tanker gets hit?
3 letters in the contract decide it.
Incoterms set the point where risk passes from seller to buyer:
EXW at the seller's door.
FOB, CFR and CIF once the cargo is on board at the port of loading.
DAP and DDP at the destination, before unloading. DPU after unloading.
Most people miss this: under CFR and CIF the seller pays the freight, but the buyer carries the risk from the moment the cargo is loaded.
Read the contract before you read the price.
🤖 Made with AI
Alex Rukundo retweeted
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
Alex Rukundo retweeted
Dessa does not need a text-trained language model in the middle to formulate an answer. Its conversational capabilities were learned directly from human speech.
block.xyz/dessa
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
Alex Rukundo retweeted
Finally AI is giving us some hope for modernizing COBOL
OpenAI’s COBOL migration score has made a striking leap thenewstack.io/penai-cobol-m…
Alex Rukundo retweeted
iPhone Duo is here! Loved celebrating its arrival with our teams in Austin this morning.
Alex Rukundo retweeted
The 9 Rare Earth Elements Behind Modern Robotics
Robot motors and actuators run on Nd and Pr magnets, with Dy and Tb added for heat resistance. Er and Yb enable LiDAR, and Eu, Tb and Y are used in displays. A humanoid robot can use dozens of these motors, and over 97% of humanoid shipments in the first half of 2026 came from Chinese manufacturers.
Created in collaboration with @sprott.
#RareEarths #CriticalMinerals #Robotics #HumanoidRobots
Alex Rukundo retweeted
🚨 Operation Serengeti III dismantles thousands of malicious cyber networks
One of Africa’s largest cybercrime enforcement operations has seen agencies from 21 countries:
🔵 Arrest 1,462 suspects
🔵 Disrupt 10,909 malicious networks
🔵 Recover USD 105 million in illicit funds
Under INTERPOL's coordination, investigators from participating countries joined forces to combat cyber-enabled fraud, ransomware, business email compromise, online scams and digital extortion.
Authorities also identified 65,929 victims targeted by cybercriminal networks, underscoring the scale and sophistication of today's digital threats. Financial investigations linked criminal activity to losses exceeding USD 385 million.
➡️ 🔗 interpol.int/en/News-and-Eve…
Alex Rukundo retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: JORDAN PETERSON DROPS MAJOR TRUTHS ON PIERS MORGAN UNCENSORED 🚨
Jordan Peterson perfectly highlights the dangerous reality of the energy crisis. With brilliant sarcasm, he unmasks the policies making environmental problems
worse while pushing millions into food insecurity.
"It's not that you love the planet, it's that you hate humanity." 🎯
Watch him completely expose the logical flaws in Western policy:
#JordanPeterson #PiersMorgan #EnergyCrisis #BreakingNews
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a clip from a September 2022 Jordan Peterson interview with Piers Morgan, not recent or breaking.
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Alex Rukundo retweeted
think today’s php disclosure is a harbinger of things to come. these models will make us all safer by finding long lurking issues.
however the entire software supply chain will need the muscles to rapidly build and deploy fixes.
we might need a lot more public + private partnerships to secure infrastructure across the country.