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(video 19min) What if everything you know about consciousness is wrong?

What if everything you know about consciousness is wrong? This video challenges the long-standing belief that the brain creates consciousness, revealing a bold new theory: the brain is not the creator but the *consumer*—a filter limiting your access to an infinite, boundless consciousness that exists beyond it. We’ll explore David Chalmers’ \.

White House declares BGP security issues a national priority – BGP handles routing for the entire internet.

A Dangerous Network: The Border Gateway Protocol has been the primary routing technology for the internet for at least three decades. Like other fundamental internet protocols developed in the 1980s, BGP was not originally designed with security in mind – and it shows.

After numerous incidents related to traffic routing among different autonomous systems, the White House has decided to address the security issues of the Border Gateway Protocol. The US administration has tasked the White House Office of the National Cyber Director with developing a roadmap to enhance the security of routing procedures managed through BGP.

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A hot potato: For almost as long as we’ve had smartphones, there has been the belief that they surreptitiously listen to our spoken conversations to serve us targeted ads; most people have experienced seeing an ad on Facebook for something they were recently talking about. It’s always been claimed that this type of privacy invasion doesn’t happen. However, a marketing agency, whose clients included Facebook and Google, has admitted to using an “Active Listening” feature that eavesdrops on conversations via phone mics to gather data.

A pitch deck from Cox Media Group (CMG), seen by 404 Media, states that the marketing firm uses its AI-powered Active Listening software to capture real-time data by listening to phone users’ conversations. The slide adds that advertising clients can pair the gathered voice data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers.

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Knowledge of how centenarians’ biomarker profiles differ from those of non-centenarians at comparable ages already earlier in life is scarce. The lack of suitable, large prospective data with long follow-up is one likely reason for this. The Japanese cohort mentioned above included individuals aged 85+ only, and more than half of them were already centenarians at baseline enrollment. Since health selection likely starts even earlier than age 85, it is important to examine potential differences between long-lived individuals and those with average life spans already several years before—or during the process of—health deterioration.

Moreover, several studies have reported that centenarians are not such a homogeneous population as sometimes perceived. An Italian study based on 602 centenarians identified three subgroups with distinct health profiles [11]. It was found that 20% of the centenarians were in good health, 33% had intermediate health status, and 47% were in poor health. A Danish study also detected three distinct subgroups defined by health status: robust, intermediate, and frail centenarians [12]. About half of the Danish centenarians were in the “robust” group. A German study using health insurance data from 1,121 centenarians found four distinct comorbidity profiles, and only a small proportion of centenarians had a low morbidity burden [13]. These findings raise the question of whether such heterogeneity in centenarians’ health profiles is already visible earlier in life and, for example, reflected in their biomarker profiles. Uncovering potential heterogeneity in such profiles more than one decade ago may help us understand characteristics of health trajectories associated with exceptional longevity.

The AMORIS (Apolipoprotein MOrtality RISk) cohort offers a unique opportunity to compare biomarkers measured at similar ages but earlier in life between centenarians and their shorter-lived peers. The cohort contains a variety of biomarkers assessed approximately 30 years ago and was linked to several administrative health registers with data until 2020. Using these data, we aim to (i) describe biomarker profiles earlier in life among individuals eventually becoming centenarians and their shorter-lived peers, (ii) investigate the association between a set of biomarkers and the chance of reaching age 100 with up to 35 years of follow-up, and (iii) investigate differences in biomarker profiles within the centenarian population.

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Food dye transformed the skin of mice into a living window revealing blood vessels, muscle fibers and gut contractions, according to a new study.