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WalterSobchak··on An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
https://archive.is/745xs
WalterSobchak··on MIT creates method to force AI to comply with safety rules
MIT's blog post: https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-method-enables-ai-safety-criti...
WalterSobchak··on Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js
Related Next.js blog: https://nextjs.org/blog/CVE-2025-66478
WalterSobchak··on Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app
This is really slick. I wasn't aware of this project so thanks for sharing!
WalterSobchak··on Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Starlink
That's a really interesting name. How would you pronounce it?
WalterSobchak··on Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-...
WalterSobchak··on Dementia Cases in the U.S. Will Surge in the Coming Decades, Researchers Say
https://archive.ph/ll1PS
WalterSobchak··on Meta suspends accounts tracking jets
https://archive.is/4G3Uj
WalterSobchak··on Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]
IOCs: https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/Communication-ID-0...
WalterSobchak··on Devin, an AI Software Engineer
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679787
WalterSobchak··on Google Podcasts will die in 2024
Direct link to Google's blog post: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/podcast-destination-on-...
WalterSobchak··on Killed by Google
Pretty sure Feedly is the most popular news aggregator these days. I've been using it for years, and it is great. https://feedly.com/
WalterSobchak··on Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use
quite a few. here's one: https://github.com/imartinez2/azurechatgpt
WalterSobchak··on AWS us-east-1 down
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status seems to be working fine for me (been refreshing it every couple of minutes).
WalterSobchak··on Neeva acquired by Snowflake
Nope.The companies did not reveal the terms of the deal.
WalterSobchak··on Vulnerability scanner written in Go that uses osv.dev data
Blog post: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/announcing-osv-scann...
WalterSobchak··on Carvana to cut 1,500 jobs as online auto dealer’s troubles mount
No.

https://www.carvana.com/help/carvana-inventory/are-carvanas-...

WalterSobchak··on Lyft to lay off about 700 employees in second round of job cuts
https://archive.ph/VKWGP
WalterSobchak··on uBlacklist – Block specific sites from appearing in Google search results
This is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.
WalterSobchak··on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days
I remember that time a few years back when Bitbucket was down for days after they somehow dropped their entire storage layer. We never received a postmortem of any kind.
WalterSobchak··on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days
Yes. You should routinely generate and pull down a backup. We do it once a month.
WalterSobchak··on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days
Correct. It's only a small percentage of users.
WalterSobchak··on Microsoft Azure Adds Ampere Altra Arm CPUs
Official blog post: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/now-in-preview-azure-...
WalterSobchak··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
They do have a Linux distro.

https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/

WalterSobchak··on HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol
Have you seen this yet? https://portswigger.net/research/http2
WalterSobchak··on Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home?
We're about to adopt the same hybrid schedule. It's a good compromise from what it was before the pandemic (always in office).
WalterSobchak··on NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725799
WalterSobchak··on Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?
https://isitsnowinginpdx.com/

The site owner doesn't enforce HTTPS for some reason but supports it at the same time.

WalterSobchak··on LastPass to become independent company
So it sounds like LastPass will get better customer service and faster updates, but the actual day-to-day usage will remain more or less unchanged. And of course, there's no mention of the price dropping to where it was before LogMeIn took over, so users who were hoping to save some money are going to be disappointed.
WalterSobchak··on Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4IpD_V...
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