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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable โ€” security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable โ€” security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: According to a report by Ars Technica, AMD has quietly stripped a critical security feature from its lower-end CPUs, leaving unaware users potentially vulnerable to physical attacks. Following a months-long investigation tracked on GitHub, Ben Kilpatrick confirmed that the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) feature โ€” which protects CPUs against physical exploits that siphon data from connected memory chips โ€” was suddenly no longer available on AMD CPUs outside the company's Pro lineup.As the exhaustive inquiry, which involved conversations with AMD engineers, board vendors, and…
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Mastodon is looking to newsletters to help revive the open social web

Mastodon is looking to newsletters to help revive the open social web

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Social,newsletters,Mastodon,open social web ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to big tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email can help solve the biggest problem the open social network faces: audience growth. With the latest release of the software, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters, a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers' inboxes, even if those subscribers don't have or want a Mastodon account. This feature could allow Mastodon to evolve beyond being just another…
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Arbee’s WIP Emporium ยป I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: One of the reasons little progress was made on the Power Macintosh emulation in MAME for a long time is that itโ€™s very tedious to debug. Thereโ€™s a lot of code surface, itโ€™s written in 3 languages (PowerPC, emulated 680ร—0, and compiled FORTH), and Iโ€™m not as familiar with the innards of the newer stuff like the Code Fragment Manager as I am with the behavior of the 680ร—0 codebase. So, this being 2026, I asked Claude Code if it could control and debug MAME.…
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Global model maker Odyssey has secured a $1.45 billion valuation boosted by Amazon and other big names

Global model maker Odyssey has secured a $1.45 billion valuation boosted by Amazon and other big names

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Fundraising,Startups,TC,In Brief,odyssey,world models ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Odyssey, a global AI startup founded by CEO and self-driving vehicle pioneer Oliver Cameron and CTO Jeff Hook, has raised a $310 million Series B round at a $1.45 billion valuation led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV and others. Universal models are the next big thing in AI beyond large text- and chat-based language models. They collect data from the physical world and simulate it with precise physics. In the case of Odyssey, it emulated how Google…
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Local Qwen isn’t a worse Opus, it’s a different tool

Local Qwen isn’t a worse Opus, it’s a different tool

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: We've all heard people say that local Qwen 27B or 35-A3B is "near-Opus level", but I have receipts from a software business and open source projects, and am here to be transparent with you. This post is long-form for a reason. It's not a cursory glance, an unsubstantiated claim on X about cancelling Claude Max, or a hobbyist report from a model running at single-digit tokens per second with a 32K context window. It isn't written by a famous CEO tweeting about coding from an…
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The next evolution of social media: user-controlled algorithms

The next evolution of social media: user-controlled algorithms

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,Social,Instagram,Meta,social media,TikTok ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: For many years, social media giants have controlled what users see in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn't enjoy, recommendation algorithms control what they are shown. Now, social platforms are handing over some of their power by allowing users to customize their algorithms with the help of artificial intelligence. Beyond traditional โ€œnot interestedโ€ buttons, apps like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok are starting to offer tools that allow people to train their own algorithms and influence what…
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SMS Sender ID Register | ACMA

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The way businesses and organisations send branded text messages is changing. From 1 July 2026, new rules mean texts sent with an organisationโ€™s name at the top of a message (known as a branded sender ID) will need to have the sender ID registered. Find out about the changes and how they apply to you. If you are a telco or message provider, find out about the SMS Sender ID Register industry rules. Your details must be current on the ABR to register a sender…
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NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, sets up race with SpaceX

NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, sets up race with SpaceX

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Space ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Relativity Space โ€” the rocket maker that was acquired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the way to orbit โ€” may overtake SpaceX in getting to Mars. NASA said Tuesday it has hired the company to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch them into space and fly them to Mars. The contract structure is similar to deals NASA has with SpaceX to transport cargo to the International Space Station, or Firefly Aerospace to put…
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I hate compilers – Xe Iaso

I hate compilers – Xe Iaso

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Published on 2026-06-18, 1665 words, 7 minutes to read You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated. Anubis is about to get WebAssembly-based proof of work checks so that administrators can use a non-SHA256 proof of work method to protect their websites. Part of the implementation goals of this work is that the check logic is defined in one place on both client and server. The client and server will…
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Cybercriminals have allegedly breached tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies around the world

Cybercriminals have allegedly breached tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies around the world

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,cybercrime,cybersecurity,data breach,Fortinet,hackers,hacking,Passwords โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Cybercriminals have breached tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls and VPNs used by major companies around the world, according to two cybersecurity firms. The large-scale, still-ongoing hacking campaign dubbed FortiBleed appears not to involve exploiting any unknown vulnerability in the targeted devices, but rather to do with a more fundamental issue: Companies should not change passwords to the firewall, or ensure that the credentials they use for sensitive systems exposed online are not already known by hackers. In this campaign, hackers first use automated…
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