NPM Supply Chain Attack

Michael Tsai

GitLab (via Hacker News): Our internal monitoring system has uncovered multiple infected packages containing what appears to be an evolved version of the “Shai-Hulud” malware.Early analysis shows worm-like propagation behavior that automatically infects additional packages maintained by impacted developers. Most critically, we’ve discovered the malware contains a “dead man’s switch” mechanism that threatens to destroy […]

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Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)

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Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve:
Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 — I think I've published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an [image]

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★ Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot

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How could someone who would even *consider* leaving Apple for Meta rise to a level of such prominence at Apple, including as one of the few public faces of the company?

Meghan Markle’s Holiday Netflix Special is Just the Kind of Self-Care Black Folks Need Right Now

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has a special holiday episode of her lifestyle show and her Black fans are here it. Spoiler alert: Prince Harry loves gumbo!

For Black Folks, the Duchess of Sussex’s Holiday Netflix Special is Just the Kind of Self-Care We Need Right Now