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TLS certificates for internal services done right

TLS certificates for internal services done right

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Title is a bit clickbait-y — YMMV, but let me explain why I think “this is the way”. Let’s start with a simple example — we have a server which hosts bunch of HTTP services. Some of those services are external, others internal. In order to reach the internal ones you need to be connected to the VPN. For the sake of simplicity let’s consider we have two choices: We use top-level domain restricted by ICANN for private use — e.g. .internal. We use a…
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Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos

Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos

🔥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,Social,Generative AI,image generator,Instagram,Meta,Muse Image âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Meta on Tuesday launched “Muse Image,” a new AI image creation feature that allows users to create original images, edit existing images, and even create personalized ads directly within its apps. But one of these capabilities quickly became the subject of controversy. Muse Image allows users to create AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their photos as part of an AI-generated creation. (Private accounts…
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In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service

In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A common refrain is that Emacs is an operating system (OS). This isn’t true, but what invites comparison to an OS is its ability to orchestrate applications and utilities above the OS kernel level. The diagram below suggests a truer picture of how Emacs’ relates to an OS and its capabilities. Emacs’ built-in access to OS system services (file system, network, etc.) coupled with the ability to run other programs makes it routine to improvise client behavior within it. Because of this, Emacs users…
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How did the government decide that OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

How did the government decide that OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

✨ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,OpenAI đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI is releasing its latest advanced LLM software, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is at least on par with Anthropic's Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) vexed the White House enough that it was briefly banned from public access. So how did these models get approved for release? Short answer: No one is quite sure. “Honestly, I don't have a clear view of these precise processes, so yeah, I don't feel like I have enough information to say whether it's…
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A road to Lisp: Why Lisp

A road to Lisp: Why Lisp

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: The question that most programmers face when seeing some Lisp code for the first time is, without doubt, “what the hell is this?”. I asked myself the same thing when I first read its unconventional syntax: all those parentheses, the weird indentation, and who thought to use the first argument of format to print to stdout? (defun flip-coin-for-real () (write-line "What is your name?") (learn-it (if (flip-coin-for-real) (format t "Hello, ~A.~%" name) (format t "The Oracle said... you ~A learn Lisp!~%" learn-it))) After getting comfortable…
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Paris-based AI startup Gradium raises $100 million, with backing from Nvidia

Paris-based AI startup Gradium raises $100 million, with backing from Nvidia

🚀 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Venture,nvidia,Kyutai,In Brief,Gradium âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, said it has reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia, and has now raised a total of $100 million for the round. The company is using the funds to open an office in the Gulf region and compete for talent there, “cementing its position at the heart of the world’s leading AI ecosystem,” Gradium said. Paris is a major European hub for AI, so this is an interesting recognition of the benefits…
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The Glass Backbone: Why the Army’s Logistics Will Break in the Next War

The Glass Backbone: Why the Army’s Logistics Will Break in the Next War

✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases. As the National Defense Strategy shifts toward strategic competition and multidomain operations, however, this efficiency-driven model has become a liability. In large-scale combat operations, victory will depend less on which force fields the most advanced weapons and more on which can sustain combat power under persistent attack. A lethal maneuver force without a survivable logistical backbone is simply a…
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FanDuel sent a video from sports star Bryce Harper to a client with a gambling problem

FanDuel sent a video from sports star Bryce Harper to a client with a gambling problem

đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Apps,FanDuel,In Brief,online gambling đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: FanDuel, a sports betting app, is being sued for using VIP privileges to deepen customers' gambling addictions. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Phillies star and two-time MLB MVP Bryce Harper sent a personal video message to Terry Thompson, one of the plaintiffs in the case, as part of FanDuel's special treatment for big spenders. FanDuel hires VIP managers to build personal relationships with big players like Thompson, who has wagered $18.5 million with FanDuel since 2020. According to the lawsuit, he eventually…
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Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark 1.1, the latest model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and a significant upgrade from Muse Spark. Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic tasks, with major gains in tool and computer use, coding, and multimodal understanding.With these improvements, Muse Spark 1.1 advances the performance-efficiency frontier. Together with this week’s launch of Muse Image, this release brings us closer to our vision of personal superintelligence: models that help you pursue your goals, create what you imagine,…
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Slate Auto is teaming up with Crayola to colorize its electric truck

Slate Auto is teaming up with Crayola to colorize its electric truck

✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Transportation,crayola,EVs,jeff bezos,slate auto đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Slate Auto, the electric car startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has built its business around the idea of ​​simplicity and customization. Start with a $24,950 unpainted gray electric pickup truck with a range of 205 miles—with none of the tech flair—and allow the buyer to customize it to their liking with vehicle wraps, decals, lighting and other accessories. Vehicle wraps—a printed vinyl layer that can be applied to a car, truck, or SUV without having to paint it—are a key component of this…
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