In fact public key encryption is exactly how Signal or WhatsApp work. Each message you send gets encrypted with the public keys of all recipients. Only they can decrypt it. What the proposed mechanism would effectively do is automatically put law enforcement on BCC.

"Backdoor" and "provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena" are technically not the correct framing. This is not how public key encryption works.
Rather than that, when such mechanisms are in place, each message is additionally encrypted with the public key of law enforcement before sending so that law enforcement can decrypt such a message with their private key without any further ado. This is as if you send a CC of each message to law enforcement. This is neither a "backdoor" nor "decrypting end-to-end encryption".

I'd be extremely careful with reports from this outlet. Let's talk again when this has been peer reviewed and confirmed by independent research groups.

When I read about this finding 2 weeks ago, I couldn't help asking myself "who writes such headlines". It it completely bogus. In space, by definition, there is no preferred up or down, left or right, front or back, clockwise or counterclockwise. These notions are always relative to the observer. OK, in this case it's us. But they are never absolute, which is why that makes no sense. Rotation of a body is mathematically defined by its rotation vector. If you look at a rotating body and the rotation vector points at you, you see the body rotating CCW, and CW otherwise. This is what other commenters refer to as the right-hand rule. If you bend the fingers of your right hand and point the thumb at you, the fingers point in CCW direction. What the article says is that it appears that most galaxies within the sample seem to have a rotation vector which has a radial component pointing away from us, which you can easily visualize by pointing the thumb slightly away from you. But the notion of CW or CCW is entirely bogus in this example because it depends on your aspect angle. If we were to watch a galaxy rotating "CW" from the other side, it would be seen rotating CCW. It appears the author of this article does not trust his readers with this spatial imagination, and everyone else copied the headline without thinking. And while we're at it - the doppler shift does not make a galaxy appear brighter or dimmer. Instead, the part of a rotating body moving towards us (or rather, the part whose motion vector has a radial component pointing towards us) will be blue shifted, the other part red. This is how we can determine the rotation of a galaxy to begin with. Duh. Anyway - the finding, if statistically confirmed, would be interesting enough without this fuzzy clickbait. However, one would have to check if a potential preferred direction coincides with the anisotropy that has been known for long for the cosmic microwave background. Everything else (we're inside a black hole etc.) is theoretical astrophysics speculation which can hardly ever confirmed by actual observations.

Now if THAT isn't great news for the Trump administration. Finally they can easily adhere to the DoD's warning to strictly avoid using Signal! ðY'

Too bad the other 100 attempts using an AI for solving complex problems and ending in hallucinations aren't discussed in the public. Hindsight is 20/20.

I was so hoping for a disruptive event ("move fast and break things") in the right place.

... they also have no clue about SQL or COBOL.

or if the world runs on Microsoft drivers, which is a no-go in IoT as far as I'm concerned.

... I can see why this is a match.

The chance of us extincting ourselves within the next 30 years is, given the apparent lack of NI, presumably higher.

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N/T.

While fasting can have positive health effects, did praying ever help beyond the "correlated means causal" fallacy, for arbitrary sample sizes? It's beyond me that people still fall for the illusion that praying would do more good that giving you a warm fuzzy feeling. While it's actually escapism. (A) God is not going to create new jobs and he does not pay your rents.

Since we cannot prove or disprove these hypotheses, I would be more impressed if we developed a model for intelligent life on this planet. So far, given how we (do not) deal with the climate change that we help accelerating, or considering recent election results, not much going on.