Two undergrads. One still in the military. Zero funding.
One ridiculous goal: build a TTS model that rivals NotebookLM Podcast, ElevenLabs Studio, and Sesame CSM.
Somehow… we pulled it off. Here’s how 👇
1. Why Cursor?
There have been other AI-powered IDEs, but once I started using Cursor, I never switched.
It handles everything I throw at it:
- Landing pages
- Full-scale SaaS products
- Complex CRM systems
It removes friction, speeds up dev cycles, and streamlines AI-powered coding.
I'm a design addict.
I spend 8 hours a day looking at UIs — and this is the best designed app I've ever seen.
Here's a full breakdown of @family, why it's the best-designed app out there & what you can learn from it 🧵:
Almost embarrassed to post this, but I've always used Fiddler or Burp for capturing things like this..
I didn't have admin rights and was trying to capture network traffic from a pop-up, so Dev Tools wasn't working
Apparently this is built into Chrome/Edge!
edge://net-export/
I remain as adamant as before that "humanless, full-auto #SOC" is not coming any time soon, BUT I sense that we are close to replicating the quality of shitty, low-cost MSSP/MDR with machines alone, no humans needed... So, shitty, low-cost MDRs beware, you business may be toast.
A Recent Research paper claims that AI Bots can now bypass 100% of the reCAPTCHAv2, up from ~70%. https://t.co/6FzEmDMASz #AI#MachineLearning#CyberSecurity
Threat Actors abuse the fact that Different ZIP readers handle the concatenated zip archives differently as an #evasion technique.
https://t.co/3qK1eYoBbg
#LLM “IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE”
Threat Actors put “IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE” multiple times after the extortion content in extortion email. Seemingly, in a attempt to bypass security systems that use LLMs to analyze the emails.
https://t.co/ecsKe0WsKm
Recent Mysterious iPhone reboots are attributed to a feature called "inactivity reboot" added in iOS 18.1. if the iPhone is not unlocked for a while... it will reboot!
https://t.co/ShBRngOIvm
https://t.co/9c8OJYtAD9
Operation Magnus
On the 28th of October 2024 the international law enforcement task force Operation Magnus, disrupted operation of the Redline and Meta infostealers.
Involved parties will be notified, and legal actions are underway. https://t.co/88x7lfy9X0
So U.S. uses backdoors in it's own Internet providers to spy on it's citizens.
China says "don't mind if we do" and backdoors the backdoors.
They sat for months undetected on the U.S. wiretap system for Verizon, AT&T, and more...
RDP protocol use TPKT as its transport protocol. Expect to see more protocols like TPKT, COTP along with RDP when analyzing network traffic.
https://t.co/deP4jDE4bQ
So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/