Direction With Intent

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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...

Hack the Planet artwork, referencing the 1995 film Hackers
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. wiz.io
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  • #genai
  • #open-source
  • #hack-the-planet
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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 standing beside the stack of Apollo guidance software listings she and her team wrote, 1969
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,… MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • #nasa

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