๐ฅ Discover this trending post from WIRED ๐ ๐ **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,About Me ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: When you jump Between the many different apps that Google offers โ Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, and all the rest โ you might not think much about the Google Account that powers them all or the countless settings you have access to that help define your experience across all of them.If you've never opened your Google Account page on the web or on your phone, there are a bunch of options to browse through. They cover everything…
๐ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: A simple x86 bare-metal tool designed to boot from a disk/USB and dump the system's RAM directly to the booting medium. It relies on BIOS interrupts to boot and perform disk operations, and enters unreal mode to access memory above the 1MB barrier. Background: Cold Boot Attacks โ๏ธ This tool was originally developed and successfully tested for experimenting with Cold Boot Attacks. By freezing a laptop's RAM (down to -60ยฐC) and quickly rebooting from a USB drive containing this tool, it is possible to dump…
๐ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐ ๐ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Drug War ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Enforcement of drug laws The administration plans to temporarily ban 7-OH, an ingredient in kratom that has opioid-like effects and is sold at gas stations and smoke shops across the country in the form of gummies, drinks and capsules.In a draft notice of intent in the Federal Register, scheduled to be published Monday, the federal agency says it will temporarily make 7-OH a Schedule I drug in the Controlled Substances Act, the same class as heroin.The ban will apply to…
โจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids (review). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon is moving everyone over to a new one ("Verizon Family"). But the new app doesn't work for watch-only accounts like ours yet, and they're still saying they're going to turn off the old app on July 6th. Without the app we won't be able to text back and forth, see where they are, or add new contacts (the watch blocks…
๐ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,Disney,MidJourney,Universal,Warner Bros ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, AI startup Midjourney is seeking to force those studios to disclose how they use AI themselves. Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for copyright infringement last year, noting that the startup's image-generating models could create images of characters, such as Bart Simpson and Darth Vader, that are owned by the studios. A few months later, Warner Bros. upped the ante. Midjourney also sued. The startup says that training its AI models on…
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**What Youโll Learn**: The Setup YouTube Studio has an AI assistant called Ask Studio. You open it, ask something like "what are my viewers saying?" and it goes off, reads your comments, and comes back with a summary. Useful feature. Completely normal. What's not normal is what happens when one of those comments contains instructions instead of feedback. The Helpful Stranger My initial theory was simple: if the AI reads comments and generates a response based on them, what happens if a comment tells it what to do…
๐ Read this awesome post from WIRED ๐ ๐ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Books,Livestream AMA ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: We have too The first WIRED Book Club livestream, book author Kate Knibbs will join Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception and the Real Lives of Romance Scammers in NigeriaCarlos Barragรกn.Barragรกn, journalist and researcher New York Timeshe flew to Lagos to join himself with a group of desperate young fraudsters. The account he brought back is a funny, sad, and angry read about how the internet can fuel heartbreak.On the plateKate Nibbs: A senior writer at WIRED, he covers prediction markets, the future of…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Bug DescriptionApparent session leakage, despite authenticated to Enterprise ZDR workspace. Agent suddenly started asking me what kind of bricks I wanted for my Minecraft temple and confidently asserted in its recap that it's building a Minecraft temple. I thought cache was isolated to workspace? Maybe one of my colleagues is building a minecraft temple. That's one way to spend your token allowance, I suppose. Or maybe it's leaking from a consumer plan, in which case this raises some very serious questions about Enterprise ZDR and…
๐ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI,Startups,evergreens,mistral,Mistral AI ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: In the wake of Trump's directives that prompted Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline, and growing calls for sovereign technology that reduces dependence on the United States, AI company Mistral is in a whirlwind of attention. But the beloved French AI is often misunderstood, and the fact that it develops large language models (LLMs) has muddied the picture. Anyone who judges Mistral by how close it comes to becoming โEurope's OpenAIโ will be disappointed. Chat and its agent Vibe, formerly known…
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**What Youโll Learn**: This wasnโt package.json or something deep in node_modules. It was tailwind.config.js. The file you touch once, when youโre setting up the project, figuring out whether your primary color is blue-600 or blue-700 . Then you never open it again. Half of us didnโt even write ours, it got spat out by create-next-app or a starter template and we never looked twice.I wasnโt even looking for anything wrong. I was just copying my old color tokens into a fresh tailwind.config.js file. Except the paste took a…
