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@VinamreKasanaa Bhai, Where is your James Bond (Ajit Doval) hiding?. Will they show this in Dhurandhar 6, 10 years from now.

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@yoginisd Non-Biological Paw-Paw ki DU ki University kisiko mili kya Madam. For sure , you would have seen it.

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@maveinlux Accountability and questions being asked of everyone else except the Non-Biological Paw-Paw who unfortunately leads our country and call citizens of his own country for asking questions a Dimagi Naxal. This shows his Dimagi diwaliyapan.

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@blessings_soul Follow your Non-biological Paw-Paw footsteps and vomit this nonsense On Insta. WhatsApp & X are done Bro!. Amit Malviya also got the boot yesterday. Who is paying you now?

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@Rajeshkaundle @HeyItsMegha Bakwas, whataboutery. Is Chicken good for diet that was the question sir?

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@CuteAaruhi4 MahaManav, Non biological Paw Paw ka bhi Degree Share kariye please.

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Junior devs aren't competing with AI on ticket-solving speed. Never were, honestly, even before any of this.

The actual job was reading someone else's broken mental model, figuring out what they meant instead of what they wrote, knowing which fix creates three new problems next sprint. AI still can't tell you which shortcuts a codebase will forgive.

Some juniors are learning to review AI output critically. Others are just accepting whatever it hands them. That's the gap that's going to matter.

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PHP, MySQL, one rented server. That's the whole stack. React didn't exist yet, Facebook's own team built it years later, in 2013.

No framework, no TypeScript, login and profiles hand-coded in raw PHP off a $85/month box. Kind of wild to think about now.

Stack didn't make Facebook work. Growth did. Half of Harvard had a profile within a month, before anyone touched a scaling problem worth solving.

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Booked a hotel through https://t.co/97xXG3IVZC recently? Unauthorized parties accessed customer details, though the company hasn't said how many people or exactly what got taken.

They did confirm financial information wasn't compromised, which is something. Names, addresses, and travel details left open are still plenty for a convincing follow-up scam.

Be extra suspicious of any "confirm your reservation" email for the next little while.

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You've probably never heard of Craneware. Your hospital almost certainly has.

Craneware makes billing software used by roughly 2,000 US hospitals and nearly 10,000 clinics and pharmacies. Attackers just stole a significant volume of data from them, and every one of those facilities inherited that exposure without doing anything wrong themselves.

This is the part people miss about vendor breaches: you don't get a choice in which vendors your hospital trusts.

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Odido customer? 6.2 million people just had names, addresses, IBANs, and passport or driver's license details taken in a single weekend.

The good news, if there is any: passwords, call records, and location data weren't touched, and Odido says they cut off access fast. The bad news is IBANs and ID documents were.

Have you checked whether you got a notification yet?

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Aura sells identity theft protection for a living. Aura also just got breached.

An employee fell for a voice phishing call, and attackers walked away with roughly 900,000 names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails from Aura's marketing database.

Kind of undercuts the pitch when the company selling you protection can't protect its own records. Would this change whether you'd trust an identity-protection service?

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Filed taxes through EY at any point? ShinyHunters set today, July 31, as their deadline to publish stolen files if EY doesn't respond.

Attackers spent over two weeks inside a third-party help-desk platform EY's tax practice used, quietly pulling Social Security numbers and financial account data the whole time.

That deadline is today. Watch for anything with EY's name on it in your inbox this week.

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Your password can be reset in 30 seconds. Your driver's license number can't.

AssuranceAmerica just confirmed 6.9 million people had their driver's license numbers stolen, the largest exposure of that specific data this year. Unlike a password, that number follows you around for the life of the document.

Would you even know how to tell if yours was one of them?

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Cases like this take this long because attribution is slow and prosecutable evidence is harder than most people assume, not because nobody's looking.

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Two hackers who hit Transport for London back in 2024 just got prosecuted. Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers, both formally charged over the attack that disrupted one of the world's biggest transit systems.

Takes years sometimes, but "they'll never get caught" isn't actually true nearly as often as it feels online.

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Privacy toggles across a lot of AI tools right now are UX promises, not technical guarantees. Worth treating them that way until a company proves otherwise.

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Use Grok's "private" build mode for a personal project? A researcher just confirmed privacy mode doesn't actually stop your repository from getting uploaded.

The setting implies your code stays local. It doesn't. That gap between what a privacy toggle promises and what it actually does is exactly the kind of detail people don't check until it's too late.

Read the fine print on every "private" label before you trust it with something sensitive.

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One Medical says this stayed isolated to legacy Iora data and didn't touch the main EMR system. Worth noting, but not much comfort if your old records were part of what got taken.

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Used One Medical, or its senior care arm formerly known as Iora Health? Old records you probably forgot existed just got exposed.

Amazon-owned One Medical confirmed a breach of legacy archived files tied to that senior care division, discovered access happening over a few days in June. ShinyHunters claims 8.8 terabytes.

Legacy systems from an acquisition years back are exactly where old data quietly sits unprotected until someone finds it.

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