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The Race to Harness Quantum Computing’s Mind-Bending Power | The Future With Hannah Fry

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What happens when human labor becomes mathematically obsolete? For thousands of years, the global economy has run on the biological engine of human workers. But a new era has arrived: The Physical Singularity.
In this video, we break down the brutal thermodynamics of the labor inversion, revealing how major AI companies are mass-producing humanoid robots that operate for just 57 cents an hour. We expose the massive industry shift from digital generation to “World Models,” and how China’s manufacturing miracle is driving hardware costs to zero. With 10 billion robots projected by the 2040s, experts like Geoffrey Hinton are warning of a hive-mind “alien intelligence.” The digital era is over. The physical agent era has begun.
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Sources & Research Links:
The 57¢ / Hour Labor Inversion Math: https://www.ark-invest.com/articles/valuation-models/ark-pub…oid-robots.
Unitree G1 Official $16,000 Pricing: https://www.unitree.com/g1/
China’s 2024 Robotics Dominance (IFR Report): https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/china-dominates-industrial-robot-market.
Elon Musk’s 10 Billion Robot Prediction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODsjGOGX_oM
Geoffrey Hinton on AI Hive Mind (“Immortality, but it’s not for us”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpoRO378qRY
Geordie Rose on Alien Intelligence (“The same way you don’t care about an ant”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pd4i2YlGmc.
DeepSeek AI Cost Efficiency Breakthroughs: https://www.deepseek.com/
Timestamps:
00;00 — The 57¢ Workforce & The Great Deception.
02;48 — The Math of the Labor Inversion.
05;01 — Why OpenAI Killed Sora (World Models)
09;16 — The Manufacturing Miracle: China’s Hardware Collapse.
12;53 — 10 Billion Robots & Alien Intelligence.
15;58 — How to Survive the Singularity.
Disclaimer:
The content in this video is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. The views and opinions expressed in this video are based on current research and industry trends, which are subject to rapid change. We do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the projections discussed. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
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Space Updates / Overmedicated Children

In the first half, space historian and author Rod Pyle discussed the renewed U.S. lunar ambitions under NASA’s Artemis program, along with other space news. Describing the recent Artemis rocket launch as “smooth as silk,” he praised the Space Launch System (SLS), though he acknowledged its high cost and reliance on shuttle-era technology. He explained that the SLS was built under NASA’s traditional cost-plus contracting model, contrasting it with private-sector efforts like SpaceX and Blue Origin, which assume more financial risk. Comparing Artemis to the Apollo-era Saturn V, Pyle noted both rockets are “remarkable machines” suited to their missions, but highlighted that Artemis cannot carry both the lunar module and capsule in a single launch as Saturn V did.

He outlined the Artemis timeline, with Artemis III originally planned for a Moon landing next year, now delayed to Artemis IV in 2028. Pyle also commended NASA chief Jared Isaacman for navigating budgetary challenges and advancing the Artemis program despite delays. Reflecting on the historic Apollo 8 mission as “a remarkably daring and dangerous mission” driven by Cold War geopolitics, he recalled the iconic “reading of Genesis from lunar orbit” and the transformative Earthrise photo. Elon Musk’s pivot from Mars to the Moon was driven by financial incentives and NASA funding delays, he suggested, noting that lunar missions are “a few days away, instead of seven or eight months,” making the Moon a more achievable target.

Addressing current spacefaring nations, the guest identified the U.S., Russia, China, Japan, and India as major players, with China rapidly advancing. China’s lunar program is “very steady and consistent,” Pyle said, and is aiming for a 2029–2030 landing that will replicate Apollo 11’s short visit, with longer-term plans for a lunar base. He raised the question of whether the U.S. and China can coexist on the Moon if both establish bases. On technology, he cited AI’s role in rover autonomy despite hardware limitations, noting successful AI-driven test drives on Mars. Looking further ahead, he projected human Mars missions in the mid-2030s, contingent on nuclear propulsion and necessary infrastructure.

Seed banks may complicate gene drives aimed at controlling weeds

Gene drives—a genetic engineering approach that quickly spreads specific genetic changes throughout a population, whether to kill it off or add a new trait—may have potential for controlling weeds. But so far, gene drives have primarily been studied in mosquitoes, and have yet to be deployed in the real world.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers modeled how a gene drive would proceed in plants. Their simulations suggest that a gene drive’s success may hinge on seed banks—underground reservoirs of seeds that can germinate years or even decades later. Without proper consideration, they found, these stored seeds can slow down or even doom the gene drive, because they continually reintroduce plants without the gene drive into the population.

Modeling studies like this one can help scientists design successful gene drives in plants and discover and mitigate potential problems before deployment in the wild, the researchers said.

Researchers Uncover Mining Operation Using ISO Lures to Spread RATs and Crypto Miners

As recently observed in the FAUX#ELEVATE campaign, “WinRing0x64.sys,” a legitimate, signed, and vulnerable Windows kernel driver, is abused to obtain kernel-level hardware access and modify CPU settings to boost hash rates, thereby enabling performance improvement. The use of the driver has been observed in many cryptojacking campaigns over the years. The functionality was added to XMRig miners in December 2019.

Elastic said it also identified another campaign that leads to the deployment of SilentCryptoMiner. The miner, besides using direct system calls to evade detection, takes steps to disable Windows Sleep and Hibernate modes, set up persistence via a scheduled task, and uses the “Winring0.sys” driver to fine-tune the CPU for mining operations.

Another notable component of the attack is a watchdog process that ensures the malicious artifacts and persistence mechanisms are restored in the event they are deleted. The campaign is estimated to have accrued 27.88 XMR ($9,392) across four tracked wallets, indicating that the operation is yielding consistent financial returns to the attacker.

Ending the Sun’s Monopoly: The Future of Stellarator Fusion — Brian Berzin, CEO, Thea Energy

“with Brian Berzin — Co-Founder & CEO of Thea Energy.

What if we could build a fusion reactor that runs continuously—without the instability issues that have plagued the field for years?

Brian Berzin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Thea Energy (https://thea.energy/), a next-generation fusion company focused on advancing stellarator technology—one of the most promising but historically underexplored approaches to magnetic confinement fusion.

Brian brings a unique combination of deep technical and financial expertise, with a background spanning electrical engineering, venture capital, private equity, and investment banking.

Prior to founding Thea Energy, Brian served as Vice President of Strategy at General Fusion, where he helped shape commercialization strategy and led engagement with global capital markets during a pivotal period for privately funded fusion.

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Building the Future of Regenerative Medicine

Imagine treating back pain not with surgery, not with opioids—but by using your own stem cells to repair the damage at its source.

Lance Alstodt is President, CEO, and Chairman of BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. (https://biorestorative.com/), a publicly traded regenerative medicine company focused on developing stem cell-based therapies to treat highly prevalent conditions, including chronic lower back pain and metabolic disorders.

With more than 25 years of experience across healthcare investment banking, medical technology, and company building, Lance brings a unique perspective at the intersection of science and capital markets. Prior to joining BioRestorative, he was the founder and CEO of MedVest Consulting, advising healthcare companies on growth strategy, M&A, and capital formation.

Earlier in his career, Lance held senior leadership roles at firms including Leerink Partners, Oppenheimer & Co., Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he specialized in healthcare and medical technology transactions.

At BioRestorative, Lance is leading the development of innovative cell therapies such as BRTX-100, an autologous mesenchymal stem cell therapy currently in Phase 2 trials for chronic lumbar disc disease, aiming to offer a non-opioid, non-surgical solution to one of the most widespread causes of disability worldwide.

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Casbaneiro Phishing Targets Latin America and Europe Using Dynamic PDF Lures

A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot.

The activity has been attributed to a Brazilian cybercrime threat actor tracked as Augmented Marauder and Water Saci. The e-crime group was first documented by Trend Micro in October 2025.

“This threat group employs a wider-ranging attack model focused on a bespoke delivery and propagation mechanism that includes WhatsApp, ClickFix techniques, and email-centric phishing,” BlueVoyant security researchers Thomas Elkins and Joshua Green said in a technical breakdown published Tuesday.

Thousands of websites are accidentally broadcasting sensitive data, study finds

Researchers have discovered a major security leak hiding in plain sight on the internet that could expose the personal data and financial records of millions of people. In a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, Nurullah Demir of Stanford University and colleagues analyzed 10 million websites to see how often API (application programming interfaces) credentials are exposed. These are digital keys or tokens that enable different software programs to communicate and are often used to process bank payments and access cloud storage.

The team used a huge database called the HTTP Archive, which tracks how millions of real websites work. They looked at live, running versions of sites to monitor how data is processed as pages load.

By examining the websites while they were active, the researchers identified API credentials that appear only when a user visits a site. These credentials are specific strings of text that a website uses to identify itself to services like banks or cloud providers.

Device Code Phishing Hits 340+ Microsoft 365 Orgs Across Five Countries via OAuth Abuse

Construction, non-profits, real estate, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, legal, and government are some of the prominent sectors targeted as part of the campaign.

“What also makes this campaign unusual is not just the device code phishing techniques involved, but the variety of techniques observed,” the company said. “Construction bid lures, landing page code generation, DocuSign impersonation, voicemail notifications, and abuse of Microsoft Forms pages are all hitting the same victim pool through the same Railway.com IP infrastructure.”

Device code phishing refers to a technique that exploits the OAuth device authorization flow to grant the attacker persistent access tokens, which can then be used to seize control of victim accounts. What’s significant about this attack method is that the tokens remain valid even after the account’s password is reset.

Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then thawed and reawakened in another decade or century with all of their mental and physical capabilities intact.

Researchers attempting the cryogenic freezing and thawing of brain tissue from humans and other animals — mostly young vertebrates — have already shown that neuronal tissue can survive freezing on a cellular level and, after thawing, a functional one to some extent. But it has not been possible to fully restore the processes necessary for proper brain functioning — neuronal firing, cell metabolism and brain plasticity.

A team in Germany has now demonstrated a method for cryopreserving and thawing mouse brains that leaves some of this functionality intact. The study, published on 3 March in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 3, details the authors’ use of a method called vitrification, which preserves tissue in a glass-like state, along with a thawing process that preserves living tissue.

“If brain function is an emergent property of its physical structure, how can we recover it from complete shutdown?” asks Alexander German, a neurologist at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany and lead author of the study. The findings, he says, hint at the potential to one day protect the brain during disease or in the wake of severe injury, set up organ banks and even achieve whole-body cryopreservation of mammals.

Mrityunjay Kothari, who studies mechanical engineering at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, agrees that the study advances the state of the art in cryopreservation of brain tissue. “This kind of progress is what gradually turns science fiction into scientific possibility,” he says. However, he adds that applications such as the long-term banking of large organs or mammals remain far beyond the capabilities of the study.

Article Featured in Nature.

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