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Writes about Engineering and AI. 93% of posts open with an observation. A typical post reaches 1,625 likes.

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Posts: 15
Likes: 75K
Typical: 1.6K
Best: 19K

What they write about

Engineering: 40%
AI: 27%

How they open

observation: 93%
announcement: 7%

Every post of theirs in the library

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The xz backdoor was initially caught by a software engineer at Microsoft. He noticed 500ms lag and thought something was suspicious. This is the Silver Back Gorilla of nerds. The internet final boss.

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Amazon has announced they're phasing out their checkout-less grocery stores. The "Just Walk Out" technology, which was labeled as automatic, was actually 1,000+ Indian employees monitoring you as you walked through the store. t.co

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🚨BREAKING🚨 According to a mysterious document published by DeepSeek titled "Terms and Conditions", DeepSeek does the following when you visit their website - Record your IP address - Record your user-agent - Record your input into DeepSeek - Stores it in their servers

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CEO of Coinbase sends out catastrophic message this morning. 1. Laid off over 2,000 people. This message to laid off people was written using AI. 2. Code being pushed to prod is vibe coded. He admits that. That is absolutely terrifying.

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GitHub, a company owned by Microsoft, was compromised. A GitHub employee browsing the VS Code marketplace, an asset owned and operated by Microsoft, inadvertently donated a malicious VS Code extension, which Microsoft offers guidance and best practices on to avoid

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Today on 4chan someone leaked the source code (?) to the New York Times. They leaked 270GB of data They wrote that the New York Times has 5,000+ source code repositories, with less than 30 being encrypted (?). It is 3,600,000 files in total Note: We haven't reviewed the data

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Word on the street is Haliey Welch a/k/a Hawk Tuah girl, has rugged pulled her fans with a memecoin. She has stated publicly she and her team have not sold anything. Today Haliey is going to learn about the blockchain, CoffeeZilla, and ZachXBT (she's going to have a bad day)

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Hi, We've archived the MITRE CVE database. The CVE DB is free and open source on GitHub. However, we're providing a backup location for the data. We doubt it'll magically disintegrate in ash, but if it does we have a copy. t.co

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.@404mediaco is reporting Reddit is blocking ALL search engine crawls EXCEPT Google – which is currently paying $60,000,000/year for the right to scrape Reddit for AI training data. More information: t.co

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Possible reasons: - DNS - Ransomware - Someone stepped on a banana, slid, fell onto important thing - Bad code pushed to prod - Unplugged massive FCC router, didn't wait long enough before plugging back in

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> wake up > check news > more ransomware attacks against critical infra > more problems found in microsoft recall > more malware campaign findings shared > more company databases leak > more twitter dm spam

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Yesterday I briefly spoke with the Threat Actor(s) responsible for compromising Discord's Zendesk. They said they were able to compromise Discord Zendesk by compromising a "BPO Agent" (outsourced support). They never specified how they compromised them.

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Damn, I guess we're putting malware on the blockchain now I don't know what the fuck a smart contract is, but I guess it can be abused, or something. Thanks, North Korea t.co

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Cyberhaven, a thing we've never heard about before until about 2 minutes ago, that does something with cybersecurity and lists it's biggest customers on it's website, was compromised. It resulted in a web-browser-based supply chain attack.

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We've never personally encountered an active United States military personnel doing something like this. It is difficult to assess if they'll go to trial as a civilian or as a soldier (United States military court) or both (which is possible, a rare double whammy)

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