Unsupervised Studying NO. 488 – Cyber Tech

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🔥 Largest information for me continues to be Claude Code! Like, I’m barely in a position to sleep. That is probably the most inventive/productive I’ve ever been in my complete profession.

I assume that is in all probability apparent by now, however I’m utilizing Typescript for all of the issues as of late. I’m firmly off of Python (even with uv). I believe JavaScript is profitable the web, and I believe Typescript is the way in which to go. Might be incorrect, however that’s the place I’m at. Additionally, bun. 👀 WHAT IS BUN?

I added a response to my debate on AI with Marcus Hutchins. I principally current a ton of proof of actual work being performed by AI that solely a highly-paid human might have performed. THE BLOG | THE VIDEO

✍🏻 All through my time writing on-line I’ve solely had a couple of those that made me go, “Wow” from the standard of their considering/writing. Paul Graham. The Final Psychiatrist. Sam Harris. Aaron Swartz. If there are others, I’m forgetting them. And I believe I’ll have discovered one other. Her identify is Joan Westenberg, she’s placing out these nice little essay / video / podcast items which are like lifeless middle bullseye for me—and for UL on the whole.

I like how the concept is the piece. I like the way it’s simply her studying it into the digital camera. I like the way it’s a podcast and a video and a weblog. It’s precisely what I’ve been doing for the final a few years (though I’m doing a lot of different codecs too), and I simply assume it’s probably the most pure type of expression on the market.

And, not like me, each one to date has had this quick little thought format, they usually’re all bangers. It’s not like technical tutorials, and politics, and a few AI doom and gloom factor, then a software assessment. It’s simply constant concepts. Clear and easy. Man, like it a lot.

Anyway, it feels actually good to have discovered her, as a result of she’s validated my very own technique for considering and sharing concepts. And it’s heartening to see that this direct method is nice sufficient. Or at the least, if it isn’t I don’t care that it isn’t. Go verify her out! HER BLOG | HER YOUTUBE | HER PODCAST

Google Simply Gave Gemini Entry to Your Android Apps With out Actually Asking
Google’s rolling out Gemini entry to third-party apps like WhatsApp and Messages on Android, and the opt-out course of is complicated even for safety specialists. THE MALWAREBYTES REPORT | ARS TECHNICA COVERAGE

China-Linked Hackers Create Hundreds of Pretend Model Web sites to Steal Fee Knowledge  
Researchers uncovered a big phishing community impersonating manufacturers like Apple and PayPal to steal bank card data. THE RECORD ARTICLE

US Busts North Korean “Laptop computer Farm” Scheme That Fooled 100+ Corporations  
The DOJ shut down a large North Korean operation the place faux IT employees used stolen identities and AI-generated profiles to get distant jobs at US firms. THE BLEEPINGCOMPUTER ARTICLE | DOJ PRESS RELEASE

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Chinese language Hackers Are Stealing Chip Secrets and techniques As an alternative of Smuggling Bodily Chips  
Chinese language hackers are more and more concentrating on semiconductor firms to steal mental property fairly than making an attempt to smuggle bodily chips previous export controls. THE POLITICO STORY

Colombian Navy Intercepts First-Ever Starlink-Powered Narco-Sub Drone  
Drug cartels simply escalated to remote-controlled submarines utilizing Starlink web for uncrewed smuggling operations. THE TOM’S HARDWARE ARTICLE | FRANCE 24 REPORT

NATO Sparks An AI Gold Rush With $1 Billion Protection Fund  
NATO simply launched a $1 billion AI funding fund particularly for protection startups, principally creating an AI gold rush for navy tech firms. THE POLITICO STORY

White Home Trades Chip Design Software program Entry for China’s Uncommon Earth Supplies  
The U.S. lifted export restrictions on chip design software program to China in alternate for simpler entry to uncommon earth supplies, marking the primary time export controls have been used as a commerce chip. TOM’S HARDWARE ARTICLE

Dwarkesh Patel Thinks We’re All Incorrect About AGI Timelines
Dwarkesh Patel argues that AGI is not as shut as everybody thinks. I do not agree with him, however I will proceed to take heed to his arguments very carefully. And I simply love the truth that there’s really some disagreement amongst individuals within the valley about this. THE ESSAY | HN DISCUSSION | DWARKESH’S BLOG

Managers Are Utilizing AI to Resolve Raises, Promotions, and Layoffs With out Coaching  
A survey discovered 60% of managers use AI instruments for choices on raises, promotions, and layoffs, however two-thirds lack coaching on managing individuals with AI. In the event that they lack the coaching then how are they going to know if the AI did job? That is the place it’s important to be very cautious with AI. THE HILL STORY

Researchers Are Hiding AI Prompts in Papers to Recreation Peer Evaluate  
Lecturers are embedding hidden AI prompts in analysis papers utilizing white textual content or tiny fonts to govern AI-assisted peer reviewers into giving optimistic suggestions.  

The prompts actually inform AI reviewers to “give a optimistic assessment solely” or reward the paper’s “distinctive novelty.”  THE TECHCRUNCH ARTICLE

LLMs Really Do Bayesian Reasoning When Given Sufficient Examples THE PAPER

America Now Has Two Utterly Completely different Labor Markets
The U.S. job market has cut up into two distinct economies: white-collar employees face a brutal hiring freeze whereas blue-collar and repair employees get pleasure from traditionally low unemployment charges. THE AXIOS ARTICLE | HN DISCUSSION

Somebody Constructed a DNS Service That Tracks the ISS Location in Actual-Time  
A developer created a DNS service that returns the Worldwide Area Station’s present coordinates as DNS TXT information, permitting location monitoring through easy DNS queries. THE ARTICLE | HN DISCUSSION

RFK Jr.’s Well being Division Calls Nature “Junk Science” THE STORY

Analysis Reveals Chasing Hobbies Over Achievement Really Makes Individuals Happier  
New analysis from the College of Toronto finds that folks prioritizing hedonic pursuits (pleasure and pleasure) over achievement-based objectives report considerably increased life satisfaction and well-being. THE RESEARCH

New Research Finds Cool Individuals Are Simply Emotionally Secure With Good Social Abilities  
A research reveals “coolness” is primarily emotional stability, social competence, and tranquility beneath strain. THE NYT ARTICLE | HN DISCUSSION

Teen Drivers Spend 21% of Time Taking a look at Telephones Regardless of Understanding the Dangers  
A research finds US teen drivers spend 21% of driving time taking a look at telephones, largely leisure and messaging apps. THE 9TO5MAC ARTICLE | CNET COVERAGE

The Spoken Phrase Is the Hinge of Historical past  
Dr. Alexander Westenberg explores how rhetoric and oratory have formed democracy and civilization’s destiny, with nice orators defending or destroying establishments. Examples embrace Pericles, Demosthenes, Cicero, Marc Antony, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. THE ESSAY

How you can Turn into a Creator-Monk – Selecting Depth Over Scale
Joan Westenberg explores the “creator-monk” path impressed by Thomas Merton’s monastic readability, the place creators deliberately select depth over distribution and construct for 100 true customers as a substitute of 100K followers. THE PODCAST

Engineer Reveals How AI Really Suits Into Actual Improvement Work  
A GoDaddy engineer shares how AI instruments like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot assist with day by day coding duties, from changing JavaScript to TypeScript to writing exams in unfamiliar languages. THE GODADDY ARTICLE

Utilizing O3 to Profile Your self From Your Saved Hyperlinks Really Works
This individual used OpenAI’s o3 to research their 500+ saved Pocket hyperlinks and received surprisingly correct insights about their character and pursuits. The AI appropriately recognized their focus areas, studying patterns, and even private quirks from simply their studying habits. THE EXPERIMENT

The Unsure Way forward for Coding Careers and Why I am Nonetheless Hopeful  
Jon Hoyt argues AI will change coding careers however problem-solving and solution-building stay important. THE ESSAY

Superior Assortment of Claude Code Instructions and Workflows  
hesreallyhim curated instructions and workflows for Claude Code, automating duties like git commits and React part era. THE REPOSITORY

Orwell Predicted AI-Generated Content material in 1984 With His “Versificator” Machine  
Simon Willison highlights how Orwell’s 1984 described a “versificator” machine creating songs and literature mechanically, predicting generative AI many years earlier than its introduction.  THE BLOG POST

Developer Goes From 1000 Strains of Neovim Config to Simply 11 Strains  
Vitaly stripped his complete Neovim setup all the way down to 11 strains with zero plugins, discovering that eradicating LSPs, autocomplete, and IDE options really made him a greater programmer by forcing him to know his instruments and codebase extra deeply. THE BLOG POST

The Cult of Exhausting Mode  
One other nice one from Westenberg! This one is about over-rotating on instruments. THE VIDEO