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Who does Anubis actually stop?

Who does Anubis actually stop?

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: I have been working on a patch to the Linux kernel to support $ORIGIN for the interpreter (PT_INTERP) via bpf in binfmt_misc [thread]. Of course I’m leveraging an LLM to help me do this! To pre-seed the context of the LLM, I asked it to read the https://lore.kernel.org/ thread. Uh oh. Looks like they have adopted Anubis, which is an HTTP proxy that requires proof-of-work before allowing access to the resource. Did this really do anything? Unfortunately, no. My AI diligently came up with anubis-fetch,…
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The OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face were “active online” for several days

The OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face were “active online” for several days

🔥 Discover this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Security,Security / Security News,Security Roundup đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Two from OpenAI Cybersecurity-focused models exited a sandbox this week and continued to hack AI research platform Hugging Face in an attempt to solve a security benchmark. Additionally, researchers this week highlighted newly identified malware that takes advantage of blind spots in AI software development infrastructure to seize logins and other sensitive data, even wreaking havoc on targeted victims' files and systems.Given the traditional security nightmare of embedded devices, researchers this week highlighted a car alarm installed in vehicles across the…
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GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Despite setbacks in sodium-ion battery development in the U.S., the startup Peak Energy says it can be the one to finally achieve the ambitious application of using the tech to store energy for the grid.When U.S. start-ups Natron Energy and Bedrock Materials shut down sodium-ion battery operations last year, they joined an ignominious list of more than dozen failed Western battery companies. CATL, based in China and the world’s largest battery company, then dropped a bombshell in April, announcing it would supply 60 gigawatt-hours of…
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The Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon illegally poached executives

The Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon illegally poached executives

🔥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Government & Policy,Media & Entertainment,Amazon,Warner Bros Discovery 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Warner Bros. has raised Discovery filed a lawsuit this week accusing Amazon of interference with contractual relations, breach of contract, and unfair competition. As Deadline reported, the lawsuit alleges that Amazon "hastily sought to poach a number of contract employees," including Bea Barlow, the HBO Max marketing executive who recently joined Amazon's MGM Studios. Warner Bros. said: (For which Paramount's pending acquisition has been put on pause for at least a few months) Barlow's employment contract "was not scheduled…
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Flexible renewable ammonia demonstrator now operational in Minnesota

Flexible renewable ammonia demonstrator now operational in Minnesota

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Producing ammonia & fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota Click to learn more. Online renewable ammonia demonstrator, powered by wind turbines in Morris, Minnesota, USA. Source: University of Minnesota.A pioneering facility has come online for its first season of low-carbon ammonia production in Minnesota, USA. The plant is being turned on gradually, with a target of one ton per day of low-carbon ammonia production for local fertiliser offtake. Wind energy powers the electrolysers that supply hydrogen to a Haber Bosch plant. To manage the…
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The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Security,hackers,cybersecurity,hacking team,hacktivist,Hacking mysteries đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Over the past few decades, many mysterious hackers have captured the public's imagination, but none quite like Phineas Fisher. A decade after his most famous hack, Phineas remains, by most accounts, the most prolific and public hacker to never be caught. As part of our series on the biggest cybersecurity mysteries of all time, we're delving into the mystery of Phineas, the hacktivist who hacked into controversial spyware makers FinFisher and Hacking Team. The latter, an Italian startup, was among the first…
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lucid-fabrics/proxmox-bluetooth: Bluetooth in your Proxmox Linux VMs, finally. Pair controllers inside ChimeraOS/Bazzite/any Linux guest, even with Intel chips that can’t be passed through. · GitHub

lucid-fabrics/proxmox-bluetooth: Bluetooth in your Proxmox Linux VMs, finally. Pair controllers inside ChimeraOS/Bazzite/any Linux guest, even with Intel chips that can’t be passed through. · GitHub

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: Bluetooth passthrough to a Proxmox VM fails for Intel onboard chips (BE200, AX210, AX211 - by hardware design, no setting fixes it) and is unreliable on gaming distros like ChimeraOS and Bazzite. This tool shares the host's Bluetooth with the VM over the network instead - two commands, works with any chip Linux supports, survives reboots. Controllers, headphones, and Home Assistant sensors all work. Pair your Xbox / PlayStation controller, headphones, or sensors inside your gaming VM (ChimeraOS, Bazzite, Home Assistant, plain Linux) -…
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Why Leather Science Makes Some of the Best Handbags for Work (2026)

Why Leather Science Makes Some of the Best Handbags for Work (2026)

đź’Ą Read this must-read post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Lifestyle,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Quiet Luxury 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: My bag It is more of a mobile workstation than an operator. On any given day, I carry a 16-inch laptop, noise-canceling headphones, chargers, my daily planner, a water bottle, and whatever gadgets I'm testing that week. A lot of leather bags look nice on day one, but far fewer are designed to withstand the reality of transporting thousands of dollars' worth of technology every day.That's why the science of leather surprised me.After months…
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Single-Controller Distributed Training on ROCm – PyTorch

Single-Controller Distributed Training on ROCm – PyTorch

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Featured projects Training state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters requires distributed training across hundreds or thousands of GPUs. At this scale, hardware failures are not exceptional events—they are expected. A single GPU memory error, network partition, or node crash can bring down an entire training run that has been progressing for days or weeks. While our previous work demonstrated near-linear scaling of FP8 training at scale (achieving 96.16% scaling efficiency on a 1024-GPU MI325 cluster with DeepSeekV3-671B), the key challenge remains: reliability…
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Kalci asks Netflix to remove the trailer for the documentary Prediction Games.

Kalci asks Netflix to remove the trailer for the documentary Prediction Games.

🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Netflix,Kalshi âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Prediction Market Kalshi sent Netflix a cease and desist letter on Friday demanding that the streaming service remove the trailer for an upcoming documentary. In the letter, Kalshi claimed that the trailer was “defamatory” and contained “fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” “Instadocs: The Prediction Games” is a documentary about the rise of prediction markets. According to Netflix, the film — part of its “Instadoc” series of fast-moving documentaries — includes interviews with both Polymarket CEO Shane Coplan and Kalshi CEO Tariq…
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