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Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.Xint Code Research TeamCopy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a logic bug in the Linux kernel's authencesn cryptographic template. It lets an unprivileged local user trigger a deterministic, controlled 4-byte write into the page cache of any readable file on the system. A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017.The kernel never marks the corrupted page dirty for writeback, so the file on disk…
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Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

โœจ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Meta ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: When Meta released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday evening, a colleague pointed out how Meta lost $4 billion on Reality Labs, the division responsible for augmented reality headsets, VR headsets, and VR software. I yawned at first. Meta's $4 billion loss at Reality Labs wasn't surprising. It's certain. Reality Labs lost another $4 billion, and the sky is blue too. Then I realized that this in itself is noteworthy - for Meta, the losses in this unit are average behavior in the literal sense…
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cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code: The official code repo of Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models ยท GitHub

cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code: The official code repo of Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The paper is now on arxiv and check out our demo! This repository contains the data preprocessing pipeline, finetuning scripts, memorization evaluation code, and analysis scripts for our paper. We provide partial example files in data/ containing a small subset of excerpts and generations from The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Full book content and model generations are not included because the books are copyrighted and the generations contain large portions of verbatim text. We use uv for dependency management. Install uv if you haven't…
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SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers โ€” and is already eyeing a $100 billion IPO

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers โ€” and is already eyeing a $100 billion IPO

โœจ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,robots,Softbank ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Technology companies are racing to build the infrastructure that can power the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank is reportedly planning to create a new company designed to automate the construction of that infrastructure. SoftBank is establishing a new company called Roze AI, the Financial Times originally reported. Rose will seek to make building data centers in the United States more โ€œefficient,โ€ the Wall Street Journal reports. It will do this by - among other things - deploying autonomous robots to help build server…
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Biology is a Burrito

Biology is a Burrito

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A bacterium's genome, pulled into a straight thread, is nearly 1,000 times longer than the cell from which it came. If you placed one E. coli into a gallon-sized jug with some nutrients and waited a few hours, the genomes of its descendants, placed end-to-end, would reach to the moon and back...several times.1 One rarely pauses to ponder how so much DNA โ€” let alone sugars, proteins, lipids, and other molecules โ€” can fit inside such a small vessel. A typical E. coli cell, after…
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On the platform, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets

On the platform, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Elon Musk appeared in federal court in California on Wednesday to argue that Sam Altman and his founders "stole a charity." He left after admitting, under oath, that Tesla is not currently pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) โ€” a direct contradiction to a tweet he posted just weeks ago. It was that kind of day for Musk. His lawsuit challenging OpenAI's structure alleges that Altman and the other founders tricked him into supporting a nonprofit, then launched the for-profit arm of Frontier Lab and allowed…
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Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos With Historic JFK Flight

Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos With Historic JFK Flight

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: New Yorkers this week are getting a glimpse of the future of aviation, as electric air taxis soar across the cityโ€™s network of airports and heliports for the first time. After conducting a handful of test flights over the weekend, a Joby Aviation production prototype eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft lifted off Monday from John F. Kennedy International (KJFK), marking the first time an electric air taxi has departed one of New York Cityโ€™s three major airports. It touched down at the…
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Sources: Anthropic could raise new $50 billion round at a $900 billion valuation

Sources: Anthropic could raise new $50 billion round at a $900 billion valuation

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Venture,Anthropic,Fundraise ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Investor interest in Anthropics has reached a fever pitch. The maker of the Claude AI assistant has received several preemptive offers to raise about $50 billion in new capital at a valuation of between $850 billion and $900 billion, according to six sources familiar with the matter. Bloomberg and Business Insider reported earlier this month that Anthropic had received several preemptive bids for $800 billion, but at the time, the company had not yet committed to a fundraising. However, sources say Anthropic is finding it…
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Claude Status – claude.ai and API unavailable

Claude Status – claude.ai and API unavailable

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Subscribe to updates for claude.ai and API unavailable via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever Claude creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375) Belgium (+32) Belize (+501) Benin (+229) Bermuda (+1) Bolivia…
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Amazon and Meta join the fight to end the dominance of Google Pay and PhonePe in India

Amazon and Meta join the fight to end the dominance of Google Pay and PhonePe in India

โœจ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Fintech,Amazon,WhatsApp,Exclusive,Mobikwik,amazon pay,Google Pay,Cred,PhonePe,UPI,NPCI,Super.money ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Amazon and Meta are among the major companies set to lobby the Payments Authority of India over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the country's fast-growing instant payments network. Executives representing platforms including Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED, MobiKwik and Flipkart's Super.money are set to meet with India's national payments company on Thursday, TechCrunch has learned. The authority runs the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India's instant payments system that processes billions of transactions every month. The meeting comes more than a…
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