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This is another Wally-themed episode my friend. Looks like I’m stuck on these, but you do remember those books, right? Where’s Wally? Or ...
Some of us drilled it, some tried it, some lived it. All of us lost — because in this case, the future was predestined.
* The asterisk is doing serious heavy lifting in the title. It usually does. But this time, it’s carrying an entire argument.
Yesterday we talked with our future AI overlords in heaven, and heaven haiku’d back. Google sent a command into orbit, booted up a TPU on a satellite, prompted an LLM, and got back a haiku...
We’ve received our first response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite.
This week, we reached our "Hello World" milestone: the first-ever AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.
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Hackers, 1995: “Hack the Planet!” Good old times. OpenAI, present day: “Patch the Planet.”…and here we go again, my friends, with another internet-wide security scare, serious enough to get Japan’s prime minister talking about PHP...
PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet | Wiz Blog
Core PHP engine flaws enable remote code execution and Heartbleed-style memory disclosure across the web.
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Margaret Hamilton died on September 30th, at 90. I call myself a software engineer partly because of her, and so does most of the industry whether we know her name or not. She was the...
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program,…
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After attending Cloudflare’s Lisbon Engineering Meetup on using the Rust programming language with Cloudflare Workers, I felt a familiar sense of FOMO. Once again, I was reminded that I knew nothin...
After a few projects and some nasty burns, eventually, any engineer understands that the code doesn’t care. It will compile, or it will be interpreted, it will run, and it will fail or succeed, but...
The Diderot Effect is an application of belief reinforcement on a self-identity stereotype within the context of consumption.