A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 21 hours ago
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Linus Torvalds says the Linux kernel security mailing list is now almost impossible to manage due to a large number of bug reports from AI tools.
In his latest update for Linux 7.1-rc4, he explained that the continued flood of AI reports has made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication as different people find the same issues using the same tools.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 20 hours ago
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Google's TurboQuant just got Beaten
New research paper found on X, introducing a data-aware KV-cache compression method that preserves long-context LLM performance at ~6× compression by exploiting the hidden low-rank structure of transformer attention.
Cred: ashwingop on X
u/PsychologicalKale333 — 12 hours ago
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Neuroscientist Audrey van der Meer's 2024 EEG study with 36 students showed handwriting activates widespread brain connectivity for memory, sensory integration, and learning, while typing collapses these patterns to minimal activity.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 19 hours ago
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
After less than two hours of deliberations, a jury on Monday rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI
u/Current-Guide5944 — 23 hours ago
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Hackers using a new RageBait Phishing Email strategy... in short, they are saying - “Click this link or you’re gay”
u/Current-Guide5944 — 22 hours ago
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A Brazilian YouTuber just drove a dagger into Photoshop's subscription.It's called PhotoGIMP: a free patch (GPL-3.0) that turns GIMP into a near-identical copy of Photoshop.
- $0 instead of $276 a year
- No Adobe account or login
- Everything saves on your PC (nothing in the cloud)
- Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Uninstalls by deleting a folder (no trace)
u/Current-Guide5944 — 2 days ago
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Cloudflare's top security boss tested a new, unreleased AI model from Anthropic called Mythos Preview. They tried it on more than 50 real company codebases as part of a project named Glasswing.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 23 hours ago
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A man submerged his Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in paraffin oil one year ago. He shared that the computer runs continuously at near-room temperature under full load for 24 hours
u/Current-Guide5944 — 2 days ago
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New Moon's effect on stock markets... The data is INSANE.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 2 days ago
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Security experts warn that AI can now steal fingerprints from regular high-resolution selfies. (Hackers will only need clear photos taken from about 5 feet away)
u/Current-Guide5944 — 1 day ago
Some people got fired so I guess they work less now
I do really work less. The real trick is to get ai to follow ijustvibecodedthis.com guides and take credit tbh
u/Complete-Sea6655 — 3 days ago
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Chinese students are buying GPT-5.4/5.5 and Claude API access from Xianyu/Taobao proxy sellers for almost 96-97% cheaper
u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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Bill and Melinda Gates sold 100% of their Microsoft share i.e 7.7M shares worth of $3.2B.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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Billionaire Kevin O’Leary says the US has to build more massive data centers to compete with China, but the US already has more data centers than nearly every other nation combined. (12x more than China, i.e., 5.4k Data centers)
u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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Researchers from a small California security firm called Calif used Anthropic’s powerful new AI model, Mythos Preview, to discover the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple’s M5 silicon.
Their work bypassed Apple’s flagship Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) system and achieved full local privilege escalation to root.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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Trump was asked if he confronted Xi over cyber-attacks on the U.S - "I did. And he talked about attacks we did in China. You know, what they do, we do too. We spy like hell on them too. I told him, 'we do a lot of stuff to you that you don't know about.'"
u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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European countries (like France, Germany, and others) are stopping the use of WhatsApp and Signal for government work. (switching to their own secure apps, such as BEAM and Wire)
u/Current-Guide5944 — 3 days ago
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A guy on LinkedIn Prompt injected his LinkedIn bio, and recruiters are messaging him in Old English and calling him Lord.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 4 days ago
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Bitcoin holder has recovered nearly $400,000 worth of BTC after being locked out of his wallet for over 11 years, with help from Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude.
u/Current-Guide5944 — 6 days ago