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ruthless mercenary with a weird sense of humor, master of all things wrong, who plots evil plans

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Read Before Monday #115: Rune’s investigation into what happens inside an LLM…; how 16-bit… — Inside: Rune’s investigation into what happens inside an LLM…; how 16-bit Windows memory management worked; the panic over… https://t.co/YmhjsUQT5q #abstractionleaks #AIGovernance

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Still, no one wants to come, not even paying them...

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Rachel Reeves will reimburse British firms £5,000 per foreign worker in a bid to make the country more attractive despite the UK’s growing youth unemployment crisis

🖇️ https://t.co/J0uxGTrnyr

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

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loops everywhere now. just like the old days do update and refresh until exhaustion, but now without harming humans, just tokens

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A secret camera has been discovered in a ceiling panel in a sensitive Government building where the decision was made to approve the new Chinese embassy

[@theipaper]

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@xadisingh does it work with Kimi?

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@Deus_outro esta capitalização de algo popular, como o destino natural das greves, choca-me um pouco

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I have a pet peeve with laptops that charge on the right side

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@igama @AmazonUK

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: No 10 says Keir Starmer uses disappearing messages on WhatsApp so his chats with Peter Mandelson could not be retrieved

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I just said hello...

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Microsoft has identified a npm supply chain compromise impacting 90+ redhat-cloud-services/* packages, including patch-client 4.0.4, insights-client 4.0.4, rbac-client 9.0.3, host-inventory-client 5.0.3, frontend-components 7.7.2, and others. The payload is a self-propagating worm that infects other npm packages and self-publishes.

Each compromised package adds a malicious preinstall hook, embedding an index.js script in the package.json that silently executes “node index.js” during installation, downloads Bun, and runs a payload that steals secrets from npm, GitHub, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Secure Shell (SSH). The added code bloats index.js from ~8KB to ~4.3MB, acting as a heavily obfuscated ROT-9 eval loader.

If any of the compromised packages are installed, users and organizations should assume compromise, rotate credentials, revert to a previously trusted version, and block compromised packages. Identified compromised npm packages have been taken down, and we continue to work with the npm team. Microsoft continues to investigate this attack and will publish updates as more information is available.

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Read Before Monday #114: Project Gus investigates why a Griffin Technology iMate…; in Every… — Inside: Project Gus investigates why a Griffin Technology iMate…; in Every that AI automation creates more expert human…; product… https://t.co/yPmrILUhAk #AgenticAI #AI

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about time!

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really struggle to see how this is a 'price cap'... 2k per year for energy bills... mind boggling

[LBC @LBC]

Energy bills will rise for millions as Ofgem announces new price cap.
https://t.co/nXpC7rus5t

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️

This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

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Read Before Monday #113: advertising was not the web’s original sin, but the…; Japanese… — Inside: advertising was not the web’s original sin, but the…; Japanese companies diversify so widely because they…; snarky, over-familiar… https://t.co/Lws59DMfj5 #agenticweb #AI

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@LisaForteUK and money returned to treasury

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Let's dwell on that! Here are 3 main ideas...

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

You're absolutely right!