I thought that the dripping rainbow ones were enough. Maybe you have to ask for rainbow unicorns flying on the screen.

There's also much more recent research where you can actually track the position of people by the changes to the Wifi signal. Passive monitoring only, no device involved. See https://github.com/Saad-Imtiaz/WiFi-Sense for example (first thing I found by looking up now, never tried myself).

Isn't it rather detecting UWB or pings from NFB reader? But at least the latter should work also do detect Android phones (see also https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1jsr9jv/eavesdroppi...).

Yeah that makes more sense than wifi or Bluetooth. It's probably more of a guarantee than a hard limit on only detecting iPhones. The list of devices with UWB support show all iPhone models since the 11 (except e models) but for Android, it's mostly just the pro/plus/ultra versions of the flagships.

About L-Glucose: according to Wikipedia, "the authors state that it is not usable as a sweetener due to laxative effects."

Yes, but there are more sugars than just glucose

Well, if you’re full of it… :)

> they also seem significantly smarter than older generations.

They seem or they are? In many places, statistically, they're actually NOT smarter. It's the other way around.

https://cepr.harvard.edu/news/2026/05/why-us-test-scores-are... https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/student-test-scores-read...

must be availability bias on my end.

still though - newer generations must get smarter because the cumulative knowledge of society increases with time.

to your articles, i don't know if test scores on reading and math are necessarily good measures of intellect

Knowledge and intelligence are not the same, although there might be some link.

again today on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442

Some people believe that there's the CIA is behind Signal.

The CIA certainly uses Signal, which is why privacy advocates who think the US government will go after it are idiots. Same thing for Tor.

What if the camera doesn't give you an original but just a signed image?

from a signed image you can always extract just the image

I think some people are confused and think this is a watermark or something

And then? What if the flat surface is a wall showing cracks and it's the photo that should have been signed?

Maybe it should include depth info in the image instead.

lidar = depth sensor

Sure (I already worked with lidars before they were in phones ;-)), I had just understood that the proposal was to just not sign the images coming from a flat surface like a screen, which of course can have unintended effects.

I still think to Hayes AT commands almost every time I see an article about the AT protocol, thinking "who is still using analog phone modems"?

They're still used today for cellular modems

Yep. And not your grandpa's AT command set - it's been extended to support HTTP.

https://computer.rip/2026-04-26-voice-modems.html

> Modem vendors continue to build on AT. If you look at LTE modems made for IoT applications, for example, it's common for them to provide a complete HTTP implementation (and sometimes MQTT, and sometimes some kind of proprietary message broker protocol) accessible via AT commands. That means you can implement an IoT device without a network stack at all, deferring all network operations to the modem itself. With a JSON-over-HTTP backend, for example, you might send AT commands with JSON payloads over the serial control channel and then get JSON back. You never interact with the network at all, the modem is a completely self-contained system. At the extreme, you might implement your entire device using exclusively the modem. This is a common approach for telematics devices like GPS trackers: they consist of nothing but a cellular modem, the telemetry application is built for the modem using an SDK from its vendor, and you interact with it using AT commands. IoT-class modems frequently provide GPIO and user flash for just this purpose.

So nice to see such projects! Thank you for doing that.