hottakes

how someone speaks about Britney Spears will tell u everything u need to know about that person 

if they answer that her Instagram is concerning or she’s insane… 

Immediate red flag 🚩

u need to get up and leave
Block them on all social media 
and honestly Lowkey maybe call the cops

Cats

First Draft Club

/new-york by day 🗽 /untzuntz by night 😈 Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

let’s gooooo

down to get back into the monthly grind

I also picked up Blood on the Clocktower and have been meaning to get a group playing on the regular

eggsfun

Memes

[my girlfriend]: the United States needs a federal Sriracha reserve

infosec

Ethereum

Matthew Green providing counsel to the EF on privacy and censorship resistance is fantastic news if Ethereum is to become the internet’s ubiquitous data layer.

The EF Silviculture Society: a loose collection of individuals from outside the Foundation who provide informal counsel to the EF in tending to the (dark or otherwise) forests in the infinite garden of Ethereum, to make sure we sustain the core values of open source, privacy,… https://t.co/cleIrpArCi

Ethereum Foundation

Matthew Green providing counsel to the EF on privacy and censorship resistance is fantastic news if Ethereum is to become the internet’s ubiquitous data layer. 
https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1895442343689363652?s=46&t=dO0uo_CgV6MrB7N3NkVjDA

Solidity Engineer | Researcher | Onchain Degen | DMs Open | https://github.com/0xCooki

Bomb Yemeni food (and tea w condensed milk), thank you @geoffgolberg for organizing! 👊

feat @slokh @artlu @defikaran.eth @pirosb3 @mazmhussain 

Yemen Cafe in downtown brooklyn

2 people from this lunch are now Merkle employees

2 people from this lunch are now Merkle employees https://warpcast.com/mantej.eth/0x48314c86

News

Plans include a new factory in Texas, doubling the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, a manufacturing academy, and accelerated investments in AI and silicon engineering

Plans include a new factory in Texas, doubling the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, a manufacturing academy, and accelerated investments in AI and silicon engineering
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/

be the change you would like to see in the world

1) Does Apple really care about encryption?

2) What was the U.K. really asking for?

3) How might Apple respond to a broad global demand from the U.K.?

1) Does Apple really care about encryption?

2) What was the U.K. really asking for?

3) How might Apple respond to a broad global demand from the U.K.?

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/23/three-questions-about-apple-encryption-and-the-u-k/

Honeypot detection will probably be important for the cashtag feature here. 

Top coin showing up is a fake $coins at 10m market cap with $1 in liquidity.

Better, use social signals to determine the “right” token

BREAKING: A new coronavirus with the ability to spread to humans similar to the Covid-19 pandemic has been discovered in China, per researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology and Newsweek.

unusual_whales

🫠🫠🫠
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1893009292154020064?s=46&t=dO0uo_CgV6MrB7N3NkVjDA

tl;dr If you use iOS, turn on Advanced Data Protection right now. Mass adoption is a consistent and reliable path to making a technology—in this case, end-to-end encrypted iCloud—mandatory. 

Settings -> Apple Account -> iCloud -> Advanced Data Protection -> Turn On

The onus is still on Apple to make encrypted iCloud the default instead of opt-in 🫠
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u-k-asks-to-backdoor-icloud-backup-encryption/

If you have “Messages in iCloud” enabled, then messages are stored in iCloud separately (E2EE) and not included as part of the iCloud backup. 

But if you both a) don’t have Messages in iCloud enabled and b) don’t have Advanced Data Protection turned on, then RIP

New public statement from Apple (sent to me privately):

“As of Friday, February 21, Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection as a feature to new users in the UK.”

Matthew Green is on BlueSky

If you have “Messages in iCloud” enabled, then messages are stored in iCloud separately (E2EE) and not included as part of the iCloud backup. 

But if you both a) don’t have Messages in iCloud enabled and b) don’t have Advanced Data Protection turned on, then RIP
https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/1892954546873180608?s=46&t=dO0uo_CgV6MrB7N3NkVjDA

weird internet kid. word rotator. building /seemore. yapping on /okbanger. curating in /cameron + pdfproject.org | dev + vet + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

How the NSA Allegedly Hacked China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University

How the NSA Allegedly Hacked China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University
https://www.inversecos.com/2025/02/an-inside-look-at-nsa-equation-group.html

security engineering and applied cryptography saltshaker.blog

Mantej Rajpal

@mantej.eth