🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers. The tool is highly popular in the Node Package Manager (npm) registry, with an average of nearly 50 million weekly downloads. It is used for inter-service communication, in real-time applications, and for efficient storage of structured data in databases and cloud environments. In a report on Friday, application security company Endor Labs says that the remote code execution vulnerability (RCE) in…
💥 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: combat veterans,Donald Trump news,ibogaine,Joe Rogan,psychedelics ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday directed his administration to speed up reviews of some psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine, which have recently been embraced by veterans and conservative lawmakers despite serious safety risks. Ibogaine and other narcotics remain banned under the federal government's most restrictive category of high-risk illegal drugs. But the administration is taking steps to ease restrictions and stimulate research into the use of the drugs for medical purposes, including conditions such as…
💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Previously: Notes from the SF Party SceneScott Alexander writes an excellent series of posts about Bay Area house parties. He’s written more than a half-dozen at this point. They all involve the straight-man audience/scott-insert (and the only sane man left alive, apparently) entering some strange lovecraftian event that, if you squint, could be called a house party. The weirdness of the event is, of course, the satire. Everyone else seems totally oblivious that they are the joke. These parties are completely and totally ridiculous, and…
✨ Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Iran,iran war,Saeed Khatibzadeh,Strait of Hormuz 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: ANTALIA, Turkey (AP) — A senior Iranian official said Saturday that Iran is not yet ready to hold a new round of direct talks with U.S. officials, citing Washington's refusal to abandon "maximum" demands on key issues. In an interview with the Associated Press on the sidelines of a diplomatic forum in Turkey, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh also said that his country would not deliver enriched uranium to the United States, rejecting the claims of US…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s no time to schedule calls, get input from subject matter experts, or resolve key differences of opinion. ASAP makes a big assumption that all relevant parties are already in the room. Not everything needs to be a conversation. I’m a firm believer in “get the…
💥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Justice,doj,fbi,Federal Bureau of Investigation 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the past year, with leaders loosening staffing requirements and accelerating hiring in ways that some current and former officials see as lowering long-accepted standards. The FBI has turned to social media campaigns to attract applicants, offered brief training to candidates from other federal agencies and relaxed requirements for support staff seeking to become agents, according to…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Police lured the man to a meeting and arrested him after accessing a private WhatsApp group with colleagues Want LBC stories before everyone else? Set us as your Preferred Source on Google Dubai International Airport . Picture: Getty An airline employee was arrested by Dubai police after he shared images with colleagues in a private WhatsApp group of bomb damage caused by the Middle East conflict. Police accessed the closed WhatsApp group chat, saved the evidence and told the man to come to a meeting…
💥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: arizona,Democrats,justin heap,maricopa county,midterms,republicans ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is expected to see at least two competitive races for the U.S. House of Representatives in November while Democrats will defend their seats for governor, attorney general and secretary of state. However, until now, it has been the office that administers elections in the state's most populous county that has hogged much of the spotlight. Republican Justin Hipp is an election skeptic who will oversee his first statewide election in Maricopa County. He has been embroiled…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 18th April 2026 Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems. Their system prompt archive now dates all the way back to Claude 3 in July 2024 and it’s always interesting to see how the system prompt evolves as they publish new models. Opus 4.7 shipped the other day (April 16, 2026) with a Claude.ai system prompt update since Opus 4.6 (February 5, 2026).…
✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zahran Mamdani for the first time Saturday at a child care center where they read to preschoolers and led a sing-along. The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist, tries to build a working relationship with Republican President Donald Trump. The meeting comes just over a week after Mamdani celebrated his 100th day in office. Obama and Mamdani did not take questions after reading the children's book "Alone and Together" and singing the song…
