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The RCE that AMD won’t fix!

The RCE that AMD won’t fix!

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After being interrupted multiple times by an annoying console window that would pop up periodically on my new gaming PC, I managed to track the offending executable down to AMD’s AutoUpdate software. In my anger, I decided to punish this software by decompiling it to figure out how it worked, and accidentally discovered a trivial Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the process. The first thing I found, is that they store their update URL in the program’s app.config, although its a little odd that…
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A Minneapolis man is accused of threatening ICE officers and cyberstalking

A Minneapolis man is accused of threatening ICE officers and cyberstalking

💥 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: cyberstalking,immigration enforcement,karoline leavitt,minnesota,Pam Bondi,tom homan,u.s. immigration and customs enforcement 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man was arrested Thursday on charges of cyberstalking and threatening to kill or assault Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers involved in a crackdown in Minnesota. Federal prosecutors said in a statement that Kyle Wagner, 37, of Minneapolis was charged by complaint, and that a decision to file an indictment, which is necessary to take the case to trial, will be made soon. reconnaissance: Nearly two-thirds of Americans say…
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Arcadia Review – Love, gardening, and Euclidean geometry come together in Tom Stoppard’s cosmic masterpiece | platform

Arcadia Review – Love, gardening, and Euclidean geometry come together in Tom Stoppard’s cosmic masterpiece | platform

💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Tom Stoppard,Theatre,Culture,Old Vic Theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Tom Stoppard was asked what this play would be about, just as it was making its fast way from London to New York in the 1990s, he called it a drama of romance, mathematics, gardening, landscape and Byron. It doesn't cover it completely. Arcadia is often seen as his best work, about life, the universe and everything, to borrow a phrase.It takes place in one room, across time, filled with the 19th century past and a parallel…
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Reddit is looking to AI research as its next big opportunity

Reddit is looking to AI research as its next big opportunity

🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Reddit,Search ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Reddit suggested Thursday that its AI-powered search engine could be the next big opportunity for its business — not just in terms of product, but also as a revenue driver that impacts its bottom line. During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday, it offered an update on its plans to merge traditional search and AI-based search together, and hinted that while search has not yet been monetized, it is a "huge market and opportunity." In particular, the company believes that generative AI search…
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Rio Ngomoha: Liverpool have been asked to pay Chelsea an initial £2.8m fee for the teenage winger after the 2024 signing.

Rio Ngomoha: Liverpool have been asked to pay Chelsea an initial £2.8m fee for the teenage winger after the 2024 signing.

💥 Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A court has ruled Liverpool He must pay at least £2.8m to his Premier League rivals Chelsea For the wing, Rio has its stars.The 17-year-old left Chelsea's academy in September 2024 to join the Reds and signed his first professional contract with them a year later.The Professional Football Compensation Commission (PFCC) has now decided how much Chelsea are owed for the England striker's training and development while he was with the Blues.The initial £2.8m is non-negotiable, but could rise through additions if certain conditions are…
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Six Nations: Farrell’s Ireland must ‘stop rotting’ after Paris humbling

Six Nations: Farrell’s Ireland must ‘stop rotting’ after Paris humbling

🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: With Farrell rolling the dice on his choice - dropping James Lowe as well as giving Cian Prendergast a rare start - there were plenty of interesting subplots as the match approached. Such was the nature of performance in Paris, that few of these themes can bear fair scrutiny. Ireland have selected a team to compete in the air, but have rarely been challenged in that regard, with the new-look trio of Jimmy Osborne, Tommy O'Brien and Jacob Stockdale largely on the sidelines.While losing both…
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Cuban coastal town struggles in darkness as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

Cuban coastal town struggles in darkness as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SANTA CRUZ DEL NORTE, Cuba (AP) — The smell of sulfur hits hard in this coastal town that produces petroleum and is home to one of Cuba’s largest thermoelectric plants. Yet, even as the plant cranks back to life, residents remain in the dark, surrounded by energy sources they cannot use.As tensions deepen between Cuba and the U.S. after it attacked Venezuela and disrupted oil shipments, so have the woes of Santa Cruz del Norte.People in this town east of Havana are plunged into…
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WATCH: Trump says he’ll revoke church’s tax-exempt status if leaders say something bad about him

WATCH: Trump says he’ll revoke church’s tax-exempt status if leaders say something bad about him

💥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: churches,Donald Trump news,internal revenue service,johnson amendment,National Prayer Breakfast,Religion,tax code,tax exempt 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: President Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed to have repealed a provision in the U.S. tax code that prohibited 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Watch the clip in the video player above. “People like me and a lot of people want to hear from the secretaries,” Trump said. "They want to hear from the priests. They want to hear from them. I have been banned from talking…
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I loved Prue, but Nigella joining Bake Off sounds like the good news I needed | Rebecca Shaw

I loved Prue, but Nigella joining Bake Off sounds like the good news I needed | Rebecca Shaw

✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Great British Bake Off,Nigella Lawson,Food TV,Television,Culture,Reality TV 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: toLast week, a friend sent me an interesting news story. This was a surprise for two reasons: I'm chronically online so I usually see everything first, and also there's no more good news in this life. But it was real, and for many people, myself included, this good news was worth three or four good news.He's the king of good news, a lump of good news clogging my pipe. It has been announced*The trumpets herald…
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Sapiom raises $15 million to help AI agents buy their own tech tools

Sapiom raises $15 million to help AI agents buy their own tech tools

💥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Fintech,Venture,Accel,payments Tech 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: People without programming backgrounds are discovering that they can build their own custom applications using so-called vibe programming, solutions like Lovable that turn simple language descriptions into working code. While these code tools can help create great prototypes, launching them into full-scale production (as this reporter recently discovered) can be difficult without knowing how to connect the app to external tech services, like those that can send SMS text messages, email, and process Stripe payments. Ilan Zarbib, who spent five years as a payments…
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