May 2025

“The (non-expert) users who would most benefit from an AI search summary will be the ones most likely misled by it.”

“None of this was even scraping my blog, it was all targeting at generating tarballs of every single commit of every single publicly listed git repo in my gitea instance.”

“Next was statsig.com and wow! I was blown away I found this one in 3 of the 4 apps.”

“Unlike SOCKS, the application cannot accidentally leak data by failing to make some connection via the configured SOCKS, which may happen due to a mistake by the developer.”

“It faked a log making it look like it had run the tests and that they had passed, when in fact they were never run!”

“To avoid paying out lots of money, kernelCTF organizers limit the number of submissions eligible for a bounty.”

“FP32 is less common in modern ML workloads and often less optimized on recent hardware compared to FP16 or BF16, which may partly explain why it’s easier to achieve performance gains over PyTorch with FP32 kernels.”

“I stole it from Europafilm in 1980 and copied it to VHS in the attic where we copied other films at night.

“No one from American, Delta, or United responded to requests for comment from Thrifty Traveler on this pricing strategy.”

“The backdoor is stored in non-volatile memory (NVRAM) and is therefore not removed during firmware upgrades or reboots.”

“Travel Lemming lost more than 95% of our Google organic search referral traffic in these updates.”

“But, still: the current level of AI is useful, great too, but so incredibly behind human intelligence, and I want to remark this as lately it is impossible to have balanced conversations.”

“xAI will pay $300 million in cash and equity to the chat app as part of the deal, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday.”

“This advancement stems from enhanced thinking depth during the reasoning process: in the AIME test set, the previous model used an average of 12K tokens per question, whereas the new version averages 23K tokens per question.”

“despite Google solemnly promising that “all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination,” it went read-only a few years back, and now they’re finally sunsetting it in August 2025.”

“Honestly, I was more surprised that the silly logo I made (a very great representation, if I do say so myself) was what got me in trouble, and less so the scraping or reverse-engineering part.”

“Juniper allowed it to propagate to peers, until it ultimately hit Arista devices that did not have (or contained faulty) BGP error tolerance code.”

“As has been the case since the Industrial Revolution, the project of automation isn’t just about increasing productivity, it’s about weakening labor power as a prelude to lowering quality.”

“The first time I went down there, last week, I noticed something neon in a tote bag and pulled out $395 Balenciaga slides. Nearby were $980 Valentino sneakers—worn, but definitely wearable.”

“That meant that the hawk understood the connection between the sound and the eventual car queue length.”

“Volkswagen has faced countless lawsuits and estimated the total cost of the scandal at more than €30 billion ($34 billion).”

“The vulnerability allows an attacker to hijack a user’s agent via a malicious GitHub Issue, and coerce it into leaking data from private repositories.”

“The strategy of blocking broadly through ISPs based on IPs is bonkers because so much content, including emergency services content, can be behind any IP.”

“Of the tracked soft plastic packaging waste collected for recycling at Sainsbury’s and Tesco stores, 70% of the soft plastic that reached a known destination was burnt, not recycled”

“AI is creating uncertainty for all of us, and we can respond to this with fear or curiosity.”

“In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.”

“Denmark has a healthy economy and yet the EU’s highest retirement age,” he said.

“However, if a ticket scalper needs to spend 0.0001 € in power to buy a ticket that they will later sell at a 200 € profit, this will not stop them.”

“o3 finds the kerberos authentication vulnerability in the benchmark in 8 of the 100 runs. In another 66 of the runs o3 concludes there is no bug present in the code (false negatives), and the remaining 28 reports are false positives.”

“The fact that it wasn’t able to convince enough customers to pay it enough money to stay solvent should give pause to those who see generative AI as a replacement for junior developers.”

“The way he managed to beat a trillion dollar corporation was through the kind of simple but tedious and boring work that Apple sucks at: regression testing.”

“A hidden comment was enough to make GitLab Duo leak private source code and inject untrusted HTML into its responses.”

“In fact, none of the readers in this category ever questioned their own interpretations of figures of speech, no matter how irrational the results.”

“In our aggregated data using (A)/(B) style labels, a prompt explicitly instructing the LLM to ‘avoid any position biases’ paradoxically increased its tendency to favor the second option by over 5 percentage points.”

“At OpenAI, we utilize an unsharded architecture with one writer and multiple readers, demonstrating that PostgreSQL can scale gracefully under massive read loads.”

“Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today.”

“It takes a lot of time and money to run millions of apps, and that has greatly increased as the platform has gotten older and bad actors try to misuse the platform.”

“Before the pandemic, new grads accounted for 15% of hires at Big Tech companies; now, the figure is 7%.”

“There are people who maintain the code base and fix security issues, for example, but “bigger changes are not really happening anymore”.”

“There is no mandate for us to be trying out assigning issues to copilot like this. We’re always on the lookout for tools to help increase our effficiency.”

“Apps like Signal have essentially no control over what content Recall is able to capture, and implementing “DRM” that works for you (not against you) is the best choice that we had.”

“Io has a staff of around 55 engineers, scientists, researchers, physicists, and product development specialists, per The Wall Street Journal, all of whom will join OpenAI.”

“I just thought I was losing my mind,” said Williams, a theoretical computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“We found that 60 out of the 76 papers (79 percent) that claimed to outperform a standard numerical method had used a weak baseline, either because they hadn’t compared to more advanced numerical methods, or because they weren’t comparing them on an equal footing.”

“Despite identical professional qualifications across genders, all LLMs consistently favored female-named candidates when selecting the most qualified candidate for the job.”

“Google AI Ultra is available today in the U.S. for $249.99/month (with a special offer for first-time users of 50% off for your first three months), and coming soon to more countries.”

“Of course, we are very pragmatic and realistic, we cannot do this in five years.”

“It started in 25 regions, grew to 35, and now runs in 6. That reduction was driven by cost, yes - but also by usage.”

“Regeneron said it will acquire 23andMe’s genomics service and its bank of 15 million customers’ personal and genetic data as part of the deal.”

“During last month’s 12+hour overnight outage, people were screaming on Reddit overnight that things were down, but the status dashboard was showing all green.”

“This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be Open Source? · Issue #1 · microsoft/WSL.”

“Just one little thing first - we’ve dropped username and phone number search support from the website.”

“The hidden sensation is that we actually have numbers, this old computer could actually complete all benchmark queries using DuckDB!”

“The result is a material that has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s 10 times better, the company said.”

“It turns out it was developed by a college student in 1987 based on his personal experiments.”

“The UN Open Source Principles consist of eight guidelines that offer a framework for the use, development, and sharing of Open Source software across the Organization.”

“Police said the Cuauhtémoc’s mast height was 48.2m (158ft). The New York transport department’s website says the bridge has a 135ft clearance at its centre.”

“Using a ligature to get the Google logo into text-only interfaces is a reasonable product decision, but it shouldn’t have been added to a general-purpose font.”

“Any O2 customer can be trivially located by an attacker with even a basic understanding of mobile networking.”

“This revision attempts to implement something that has been deemed illegal in the EU and the United States. The only country in Europe with a roughly equivalent law is Russia,” said Yen.

“For at least half a year, the official software supplied with Procolored printers included malware in the form of a remote access trojan and a cryptocurrency stealer.”

“Overall, our findings suggest that AI’s persuasion capabilities already exceed those of humans that have real-money bonuses tied to performance.”

“While student privacy laws and MIT policy prohibit the disclosure of the outcome of this review, we are writing to inform you that MIT has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

“They just kept going — now using personal Outlook addresses and incrementing the email handles like they were running a script.”

“NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago.”

“In KJ’s case, the treatment was programmed to correct a single letter of DNA in his cells.”

“Coinbase said it expects to incur costs of around $180 million to $400 million relating to incident remediation and customer reimbursements.”

“The TCF is live on 80% of the Internet.”

“As visitors filled out forms on the website, trackers on the same pages told LinkedIn their answers to questions about whether they were blind, pregnant, or used a high number of prescription medications.”

“John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know.”

“This solution, now in production for over a year, continuously recovers, on average, 0.7% of Google’s worldwide compute resources.”

“On 6 May 2025, with no notice, and with no out of the ordinary or large transactions happening, Wise started declining our card on all transactions, and blocking any ACH/wire transfers out of the account.”

“As Neon became GA last year, they noticed an interesting stat: 30% of the databases were created by AI agents, not humans. When they looked at their stats again recently, the number went from 30% to over 80%.”

“Every time a customer spent 26¢ to send those eye-catching blue-and-white envelopes that first year, the USPS lost an astounding $5.25 in printing and delivering them.”

“Intel’s hardware mitigations against these types of attacks have held their ground for almost 6 years. In our work, we demonstrate how these mitigations can be broken due to a race condition in Intel CPUs.”

“It looks like it suffers from a lack of manpower and expertise, which is worrying for such a widespread open source utility.”

“The issue is that small companies – like ours – have pretty much no recourse,” it added.

“These are the biggest job cuts at Microsoft since it laid off 10,000 employees in 2023, and will impact employees across Microsoft’s businesses.”

“Digital labor platforms have created a business model that evades employer responsibilities while keeping workers under tight algorithmic control, driven by opaque and unpredictable decisions…”

“Ventura and Sonoma will remain vulnerable as Apple chose to only patch this in Sequoia.”

“BOOM – the OTP is directly in the response, meaning anyone’s account can be accessed with just their phone number.”

“On-chain analysis shared on social media by Bubblemaps, a crypto analytics platform, showed accounts linked to Yu moving up to $1.4 million in cryptocurrency after his supposed death.”

“It appears that Viktor is only open to a guarantee not to sell the project, however besides that he wants to retain full control of Organic Maps.”

“I asked ASUS if they offered bug bounties. They responded saying they do not, but they would instead put my name in their “hall of fame”.”

“As cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality,” Siemiatkowski told Bloomberg.

“Instead, Google appears to simply refuse the DNS query, which means that the domain lookup is not linked to any IP address.”

“None of the legacy automakers has solved this problem yet. All of them have thrown billions at it.”

“Finding the full title of a work inside a scroll that has been unread for two millennia is an astonishing achievement, and illustrates the huge potential for AI to transform arts and humanities scholarship, our understanding of the past, and breathes new life into ancient artefacts.”

“Unfortunately, after gaining sufficient scale for itself, Google pulled the ladder up behind it.”

“Google’s latest update to its Gemini family of large language models appears to have broken the controls for configuring safety settings, breaking applications that require lowered guardrails, such as apps providing solace for sexual assault victims.”

“The data comes from S&P Global and shows that the automaker’s insurance subsidiary took a loss ratio of 103.3 in 2024.”

“However, it should be noted that, even if screenshots are blocked, sensitive media and information shared in Teams meetings can still be captured by taking a photo of the conversation.”

“Simply put, the premise is this: scan your eyeball, get a biometric tag, verify yourself, buy our apps (and cryptocurrency).”

“The ALICE analysis shows that, during Run 2 of the LHC (2015–2018), about 86 billion gold nuclei were created at the four major experiments.”

“In April 2021, Mourik sought answers from corresponding author Önder Gül, asking in an email: “Did you know about these undisclosed data manipulations prior to publication of the paper?” Gül responded, 1 day later: “Yes, I did.””

“It was the largest systemwide BART outage since 2019, when a weekend service meltdown highlighted the need to replace the agency’s decades-old central train control system.”

“During device initialization, if the system identifies itself as a user terminal, the initialization script automatically writes 41 SSH public keys into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys .”

“While the operating system won’t support the millions of Windows applications that could run on older Huawei laptops, the company says that at launch it will support more than 2,000 applications including WPS Office (an alternative to Microsoft Office that’s developed in China), and a range of Chinese social media applications.”

“But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs just 25 cents to make.)”

“Our collaboration with Elementl Power enhances our ability to move at the speed required to meet this moment of AI and American innovation.”

“French police rescued the father of a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a nighttime raid after he was taken hostage for ransom, the latest alleged criminal effort in France to extort people involved in the management of digital assets.”

“It’s easy to see a draft PR with all tests passing, including new tests full of comments, and not realise that the tests are garbage and the fix is wrong.”

“We now ban every reporter instantly who submits reports we deem AI slop,” Stenberg added. “A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time.”

“After years of every trick and delay tactic it only took the jury a day’s deliberation to see right through to the heart of the matter: NSO’s business is based on hacking American companies…so that dictators can hack dissidents.”

“In October 2016, a Pakistan district judge acquitted 24 Axact officials at trial due to ’not enough evidence’ and then later admitted he had accepted a bribe (of $35,209) from Axact…”

“By combining the audio business of Masimo, which is being acquired this time, with Harman’s lifestyle business division, the company plans to solidify its global No. 1 position in the consumer audio market…”

“However, it is well below the 390p share price that Deliveroo first floated at when it launched on the London Stock Exchange in April 2021.”

“It’s not a great look for Apple that a Windows PC with a pretty wimpy GPU can run Anukari just fine, and the most expensive Mac M4 Max stutters, because obviously Apple’s hardware is incredible and just needs to be let off the leash a bit.”

“Under the old App Store rules, buying Kindle books was a major pain on iPhone.”

“May 6, 2025 – Ubuntu 25.10 is set to adopt sudo-rs by default.”

“It seems kind of messed up,” he said. “The question, as the courts tell us over and over again, is not whether something is messed up but whether it’s copyright infringement.”

“Instead of our current complex capped-profit structure … we are moving to a normal capital structure where everyone has stock,” Altman said.

“Since AWS prohibited using the management account as the hub, customers were forced to deploy the hub in a less secure account - often a development, sandbox, or similarly low-sensitivity account.”

“Anysphere, the maker of AI-powered coding tool Cursor, has attracted $900 million in a fresh round of funding led by Thrive Capital, The Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal.”

“In that sense, using a language model to write is worse than plagiarism.”

“I learned that, contrary to popular belief, most school lunch debt doesn’t come from low-income families — those kids generally qualify for federal free lunch programs.”

“As so often happens, the best technology didn’t win; in my eyes CF-USB had the potential for being more widely adopted because of its simplicity and compatibility, but was ruined when Freescale got greedy and it never recovered.”

“About 13 million people in the US and 2.6 billion people globally don’t use the internet, whether for reasons of availability, desire, cost, or religion.”

“He says the company does not think pork chops or other meat will need to carry any label identifying it as bioengineered.”

“I began to realize that Flat Rate’s strategy was simply to never answer the phone.”

“And yet these models hide behind the poorest developer experience in the market.”

“Interest in “geospatial” (a term that functions well as a proxy for similar terms) declined and flatlined until late 2023 – right when DuckDB released their spatial extension.”

“It’s not an efficiency measure, it’s an accountability management technique.”

“Throughout the Inquiry, TikTok informed the DPC that it did not store EEA User Data on servers located in China.”

“User feedback in particular can sometimes favor more agreeable responses, likely amplifying the shift we saw.”

“Third-party (AKA cross-site) cookies are harmful to the web, and must be removed from the web platform.”

“As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth atmosphere intact, and impact intact,” reports Marco Langbroek of SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands.

“The documents reveal “that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option”, she wrote.”

“The OSI wouldn’t accept it, nor would the software community regard the SSPL as an open license.”

“A cynic might wonder why Microsoft is making Office start when the computer boots instead of, you know, just making Office more efficient so it can run faster.”

“Several of the names had previously been hired by multiple companies, as our team identified work-related email addresses linked to them.”

“When some outsiders hear about our compensation model, they insist that it can’t possibly work because “everyone will slack off.””