A massive outage of the learning platform Canvas occurred after a ransom message from the ShinyHunters hacking group. The group claims to have breached 9,000 schools, affecting 275 million students and staff.
'dirty frag' is a universal linux lpe that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. once either target is corrupted, spawn /usr/bin/su - inside inside s fresh ttp and bridge the user's root to it. if the target reaches the /etc/passwd ro, it will be able to access the
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Researchers studied hospital investment in management consultants and found no significant improvements in finances, staffing, or patient outcomes. Nonprofit hospitals spent at least $7.8 billion on management consulting services from 2010-2022 with little evidence of meaningful impact.
You ran a successful campaign to find 15 more paying members of Not-Ship. You're now taking a break from writing "pay if you love this work" emails after two weeks.
Reliable agents need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not elaborate prompt chains. Deterministic scaffolds and aggressive error detection are necessary for reliable systems prone to silent failure.
Baylor researchers found the human brain processes language and sound while unconscious under general anesthesia. This discovery challenges what we know about consciousness and cognition, and could lead to new technologies for communication.
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Cloudflare is reducing its workforce by over 1,100 employees globally due to increased AI usage. The company is reimagining internal processes and roles to supercharge value delivery in the agentic AI era.
Researchers developed Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs) to understand AI model activations by converting them into human-readable text. NLAs help improve AI safety and reliability by revealing internal thoughts and motivations.
AlphaEvolve is a system that optimizes AI and hardware design, achieving breakthroughs in efficiency and speed. It has been used by various companies to solve complex problems, including optimizing transformer models, computational lithography, and routing challenges.
ds4.c is a native inference engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash, a large language model with unique characteristics that make it suitable for local inference on high-end personal machines. The engine provides a Metal-only implementation with a KV cache that allows for long-context inference and persistence, and is designed to work with the DeepSeek V4 Flash GGUFs.
The author is frustrated with the internet being overrun with AI-generated content that adds no value to communities. They argue that sharing low-quality AI work can be detrimental to communities and stifle organic growth.
The xz-utils backdoor, a near-miss global cybersecurity attack, was made possible by two longstanding design decisions in critical open source software: linking OpenSSH against SystemD and the existence of GNU IFUNC. GNU IFUNC is a powerful tool for software supply-chain attacks, and its use should be avoided in applications outside of the GNU C Library due to its complexity and potential for ...
Bebop, my Greyhound, is a big dog. 85lbs, and starting to slow down. Tall enough to sneak a bite of Easter ham off the counter from behind the island, and cute enough to get away with it. Greyhounds might look weird, yet their form strictly follows function. Track movement in an open field, chase it, and entertain the people watching. As a puppy, he never stopped. Yet, the moment came when I ...
At etke.cc, we host Matrix servers for a living. Almost a decade ago, we were dissatisfied with Matrix self-hosting and launched the matrix-docker-ansible-deploy Ansible playbook (which our etke.cc SaaS is based on). Thanks to that, over time we believe we solved Matrix self-hosting for thousands of users. All that time, we’ve also been spending a lot of hours staring at Matrix clients — and ...
The Department of Home Affairs suspended two officials over AI-generated references in a policy document, which were deemed "hallucinations" due to lack of credible data. The department will implement AI checks and modernise its processes to prevent similar incidents.
The author, a former Costco skeptic, has become a member and is embracing the Costco lifestyle, finding comfort in its familiarity and convenience. He reflects on the diverse people and experiences within Costco, where every phase of life can be shopped for.
Hackers compromised Instructure's Canvas platform, defacing login pages of several schools and threatening to publish stolen data on May 12 unless a settlement is negotiated. The cybercrime group ShinyHunters is behind the hack, trying to pressure Instructure and its customers into paying a ransom.
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Cryptographic keys are transient and should be regularly reevaluated and revised due to the evolution of computational capacity. Limiting key usage and time can ensure secrecy within those bounds.
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Researchers led by the University of Cambridge analysed 411 advertisements from 88 licensed gambling operators in Ireland and found that young men were reached 2.3 times more than women across Meta platforms including Facebook and Instagram, even if the ads were not directly targeting men. The age group most exposed to gambling advertising was 25 to 34-year-olds, who accounted for over a ...
RaTeX is a Rust-based math rendering engine that ships SDKs for various platforms and supports chemistry and units. It offers predictable timing and avoids browser stacks for mobile UIs and servers.
My parents encouraged curiosity and creativity by making things accessible and not pressuring us to follow strict rules. They valued our exploration over protecting their tools, allowing us to develop our skills and interests.
PySimpleGUI version 6 is released with new features and bug fixes, replacing version 5. The project is now open source and available on GitHub and PyPI.
MtnKBD, a bespoke mechanical keyboard designer, is closing down due to cost inefficiencies in shipping niche products. The author, a software developer, understands this struggle as they create high-quality, niche software for small gaming audiences.
A family's streaming subscription was unexpectedly deactivated due to a credit card expiration issue. The problem was resolved after un-linking and re-linking the accounts, revealing a delayed and repeatable failure mode in the system's asynchronous workflow.
User implemented Colored Penumbra effect in Unreal Engine by editing engine shaders. This allows for easy configuration of color saturation across the board, but has limitations in customization per light or scene.
TRUST is a retro Rust IDE inspired by classic DOS environments, allowing file saving with F2 or Ctrl+S. It's an independent nostalgia project with features like project creation and compiler output display.