Entertainment

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025

As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what occurred, what we verified, and the actions we’ve taken to strengthen our security processes.On September 30th, a blog post raised concerns that a former maintainer continued to have access to the RubyGems.org production environment after administrative access was removed from several accounts earlier that month. We want to share the outcome of our investigation including: what happened, the extent of what we verified, what we got wrong, and the actions we have taken…
Read More
GitHub Status – Incident with Webhooks

GitHub Status – Incident with Webhooks

Subscribe to updates for Incident with Webhooks via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever GitHub 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 (+591) Bosnia and Herzegovina (+387) Botswana (+267) Brazil (+55) Brunei (+673) Bulgaria (+359) Burkina Faso (+226)…
Read More
The End – MC++ BLOG

The End – MC++ BLOG

Dear readers, we are extremely sad to inform you that Rainer passed away on October 6, 2025, surrounded by his closest family. After suffering from life-threatening pneumonia, Rainer decided against further life-sustaining measures that would have severely restricted his life. He passed away peacefully, accompanied by his family. >> Rainers Journey with ALS << Rainers lifework Despite his progressive ALS disease, Rainer remained full of energy and drive until the very end and continued to work on his two life goals: 1. Creating Value for the C++ Community First, to share his knowledge and experience of C++ with you through…
Read More
Governor Newsom signs first-in-the-nation law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

Governor Newsom signs first-in-the-nation law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

“With Governor Newsom’s signature on AB 1264, California has taken a historic step toward protecting our children from harmful ultra-processed foods and chemical additives,” said Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel. “While Washington DC is paralyzed by inaction, California is once again leading the nation with a bipartisan, commonsense, science-based approach. Here in the Golden State, Democrats and Republicans are joining forces to ensure that students are receiving healthy, nutritious meals that are made from real foods, not harmful chemical additives. I applaud Governor Newsom for his continued leadership on food safety and I am grateful to the dedicated advocates from around the…
Read More
Founding Machine Learning Engineer at The Forecasting Company

Founding Machine Learning Engineer at The Forecasting Company

We are on a mission to create the forecasting foundation model to rule them all. Forecasting drives critical decisions worldwide - impacting staffing, supply chain management, finance and more. Our solution provides companies with the models, platform and APIs they need to easily generate the most accurate forecasts possible, helping to significantly reduce waste and enabling smarter, more confident decisions. The forecasting model is at the heart of our technology. As the second founding MLE, you will build, train and deploy large foundation model architectures: implement and combine ideas from the literature, push the state of the art, and ultimately…
Read More
California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data. The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use. The bill signed Wednesday would require them to set up an easy-to-find mechanism that lets Californians opt-out with the push of a button, instead of having to do so repeatedly when visiting individual websites. Privacy and consumer rights activists have been nervously waiting…
Read More
How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into your company. The first couple of years, students love your program. Positive feedback, extraordinary student outcomes, employees love the mission. You are quite literally changing lives. Your business grows. One day, you realize you’ve grown to 70 employees. And then… A competitor gets control of the main subreddit for your industry by becoming a Reddit Moderator. That watering hole becomes their megaphone. They are…
Read More
Kurt Got Got · The Fly Blog

Kurt Got Got · The Fly Blog

Image by Annie Ruygt We know. Our Twitter got owned. We knew within moments of it happening. We know exactly how it happened. Nothing was at risk other than our Twitter account (and one Fly.io employee’s self-esteem). Also: for fuck’s sake. Here’s what happened: Kurt Mackey, our intrepid CEO, got phished. Had this been an impactful attack, we would not be this flippant about it. For this, though, any other tone on our part would be false. How They Got Kurt Two reasons: one, it was a pretty good phishing attack, and two, Twitter fell outside the “things we take…
Read More
I played 1,000 hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

I played 1,000 hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

In the last two weeks I spent over a dozen hours playing poker, primarily online at pokerstarsmi.com, and live at a local casino. You can view the last 1,000 hands I played here: https://poker.rchase.comI spent at least as much time reviewing my hands with a desktop app called PokerTracker 4, I read 6 books, studied strategy, and journaled about it my Apple Notes.Then I started building my own Python script automations to export my hand history from PokerStars, import it into PokerTracker 4, check my balance, stuff like that.That led me to getting help writing code from Grok, then Cursor,…
Read More
A few things to know before stealing my 914

A few things to know before stealing my 914

Dear Thief, Welcome to my Porsche 914. I imagine that at this point (having found the door unlocked) your intention is to steal my car. Don’t be encouraged by this; the tumblers sheared off in 1978. I would have locked it up if I could, so don’t think you’re too clever or that I’m too lazy. However, now that you’re in the car, there are a few things you’re going to need to know. First, the battery is disconnected, so slide-hammering my ignition switch is not your first step. I leave the battery disconnected, not to foil hoodlums such as…
Read More