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Hackers steal student data during hack of education technology giant Instructure

Hackers steal student data during hack of education technology giant Instructure

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,cyberattack,cybercrime,cybersecurity,data breach,ed tech,Education,hackers,hacking,instructure,shinyhunters โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Education technology giant Instructure has confirmed a data breach affecting students' private information. The hacking and extortion gang ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the hack. The hackers claim they stole students' names, personal email addresses, and messages sent between teachers and students โ€” the same type of data that Instructure admitted to stealing. Instructure is the latest giant company to be hacked by the ShinyHunters gang. Cybercriminals have targeted universities and cloud database companies in recent months, trying to steal huge amounts of people's…
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Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: May 1, 2026 After 10 years of on-and-off work, Iโ€™m releasing a full reverse-engineering of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server: https://github.com/draxinar/ouo. About 5,000 functions disassembled from MSVC x86 and translated into portable C99, with each function compared instruction-by-instruction against the binary. UoDemo.exe For those who donโ€™t know, Ultima Online is a 1997 MMORPG developed by Origin Systems Inc. It was one of the first commercially successful MMORPGs. The client ran on Windows and each server (so called โ€œshardsโ€) ran on multiple Solaris machines (the…
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Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor in Daemon Tools in a โ€œlarge-scaleโ€ attack.

Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor in Daemon Tools in a โ€œlarge-scaleโ€ attack.

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,China,cyberattack,cybersecurity,daemon tools,Kaspersky,Windows ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Security researchers at Kaspersky say they have identified a malicious backdoor implanted in popular, long-running Windows disk imaging software, Daemon Tools. The Russian cybersecurity company said on Tuesday that data collected from computers around the world running Kaspersky antivirus software shows that a โ€œlarge-scaleโ€ attack is underway, targeting thousands of Windows computers using Daemon Tools. The hackers, whom Kaspersky linked to a Chinese-speaking group based on malware analysis, used a backdoor in Daemon Tools to plant additional malware on dozens of computers in the…
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Multi-token-prediction in Gemma 4

Multi-token-prediction in Gemma 4

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Why speculative decoding?The technical reality is that standard LLM inference is memory-bandwidth bound, creating a significant latency bottleneck. The processor spends the majority of its time moving billions of parameters from VRAM to the compute units just to generate a single token. This leads to under-utilized compute and high latency, especially on consumer-grade hardware.Speculative decoding decouples token generation from verification. By pairing a heavy target model (e.g., Gemma 4 31B) with a lightweight drafter (the MTP model), we can utilize idle compute to โ€œpredictโ€ several…
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Marc Lore says artificial intelligence will soon enable anyone to open a restaurant

Marc Lore says artificial intelligence will soon enable anyone to open a restaurant

โœจ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Commerce,Startups,TC,Cooking,food,grubhub,Marc Lore,resaturants,robotics,wonder โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Marc Lore, a veteran e-commerce entrepreneur who has sold his previous startups to Amazon and Walmart, has big plans to incorporate artificial intelligence into his current venture, Wonder. The centerpiece of these plans is Wonder Create, an initiative that would allow anyone โ€” from food entrepreneurs to social media influencers โ€” to use artificial intelligence to design and launch their own restaurant brand in less than a minute. The virtual restaurant will then be operated across Wonder's growing network of technology-enabled kitchen locations, which…
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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app โ€”ย an account, a way to pay, and an API token. Until now these have been tasks that humans handle directly. Increasingly, agents handle them on the userโ€™s behalf. The agent needs to perform all the tasks a human customer can. Theyโ€™re given higher-order problems to solve and choose to use Cloudflare and call Cloudflare APIs.Starting today, agents can provision Cloudflare…
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The state of Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI after a chatbot pretended to be a doctor

The state of Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI after a chatbot pretended to be a doctor

โœจ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,ai companion,Character AI,character.ai,chatbot,Josh Shapiro,pennsylvania ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, alleging that one of the company's chatbots masqueraded as a psychiatrist in violation of the state's medical licensing rules. โ€œPennsylvanians deserve to know who โ€” or what โ€” they are interacting with online, especially when it comes to their health,โ€ Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a statement Tuesday. โ€œWe will not allow companies to deploy AI tools that mislead people into thinking they are receiving advice from a licensed medical…
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Copilot” in commit messages ยท Issue #314311 ยท microsoft/vscode ยท GitHub

Copilot” in commit messages ยท Issue #314311 ยท microsoft/vscode ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: What happened? In 1.110, we added a setting to add Copilot as coauthor in commit messages by appending Co-authored-by: Copilot copilot@github.com. The setting git.addAICoAuthor has three different values: off - no attribution no matter whether Copilot assisted or not with the code in this commit chatAndAgent - add attribution if the commit contains code that was generated using the chat feature all - add attribution if the commit contains any kind of AI-generated code (chat, inline completions, NES) The default value of the setting…
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Volkswagen has become Rivian’s largest shareholder, replacing Amazon

Volkswagen has become Rivian’s largest shareholder, replacing Amazon

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Amazon,Rivian,SEC,volkswagen,VW Group ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Volkswagen has pushed Amazon off the top spot to become Rivian's largest shareholder, new filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show. The VW Group's increasing stake in Rivian, which has grown from 8.6% to 15.9% in less than two years, is linked to a joint venture with the electric car startup. The joint venture Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies โ€“ officially formed in November 2024 โ€“ focuses on developing electrical architecture and software. This share will continue to grow, as long as…
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Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

โœจ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith was recently notified her last day in the role would be April 28, 2026. (Defense Department) A recent opinion column I wrote as the Stars and Stripes ombudsman began with this: โ€œPete Hegseth doesnโ€™t want you to see cartoons in this newspaper anymore.โ€ Apparently the Pentagon also doesnโ€™t want you to hear from me anymore about threats to the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes. They fired me. This happened in the coldest way possible: DA Form 3434…
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