Karthik P H ಕಾರ್ತಿಕ್ ಪಿ ಹೆಚ್

Optimist, Right winger, Naturalist student trapped in IT world. Not accountable for actions of followers or following.

[Nalini Unagar @NalinisKitchen]

Dear @NarendraModi,

Is it really necessary to reappoint the same IAS or IPS officers who have previously been caught in bribery or corruption cases? Can't we suspend them permanently? Just throw them out of the system. No post, not even a small job. Transfers are just a way to fool the public.

But today, an officer caught taking a bribe is suspended for some time and then given a powerful position again, where they can do the same thing all over again.

If a thief is caught, we don't hand him the keys and ask him to guard the house.

Just because the court cannot prove them guilty does not mean they are innocent. They know how to play the legal system.

Corruption is so common that even ordinary people face demands for bribes in government offices. Instead of giving the same officers another chance again and again, why not promote honest officers?

I know it.
You know it.
People know it.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Since 2023, Karnataka has endured its worst drought in 123 years, 48 lakh hectares of crop loss and over 1,100 farmer suicides.

But Minister Ramalinga Reddy resigns over getting the Irrigation portfolio because he wanted Bengaluru Development. 👏🏽🙏🏽

[ANI @ANI]

Delhi: Sarthak Sidhant, one of the students affected by the CBSE's 'On-Screen Marking' (OSM) system, arrived at the Parliament House Annexe to give a presentation before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth, and Sports. This committee is reviewing the use of 'On-Screen Marking' (OSM) in Class 12 CBSE examinations and the consequent problems faced by students.

[Bharatha4Ever (Modi Ka Parivaar) @RSBHAT]

The biggest curse of Tamilnadu politics is the two BJP women @DrTamilisai4BJP & @VanathiBJP led by another wonen who can't win any assembly or LS seat @nsitharaman . These three women have destroyed @BJP4TamilNadu by conspiring against @annamalai_k . Feel sad for people

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

The govt should consider creating a national pool of young ethical hackers, cybersecurity researchers, and talented students to regularly test the security of its websites and digital infrastructure.

Every year, crores are spent on private contractors to build and maintain govt portals. Yet many remain slow, poorly designed, vulnerable to security flaws, plagued by glitches, and raise concerns about data privacy.

As the recent CBSE controversy showed, even a small technical vulnerability can trigger confusion, mistrust, and nationwide outrage. So why not tap into the talent that already exists in the country?

A structured bug bounty and security-audit program, with attractive rewards, would encourage some of India's brightest minds to identify vulnerabilities before malicious actors do. The cost would be a fraction of current spending and should be made part of contractors' obligations.

While some govt platforms already have bug bounty programs, the current approach is either not comprehensive enough or not effective enough. A stronger, centralized, and better-funded system may be needed. No system is perfectly secure, but having thousands of skilled people actively looking for weaknesses is more effective than relying solely on a handful of vendors.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Vedant Srivastava - 17 yrs old
Took to social media and exposed discrepancies in CBSE's OSM marking system.

Nisarga Adhikary- 19 yrs old
Hacked CBSE website and informed them (and us) that it is vulnerable and can be hacked.

Sarthak Sidhant- 17 yrs old
Exposed how CBSE bent rules to award the OSM tender to COEMPT.

These 3 kids need to be lauded. They have given us a glimmer of hope. They have shown us, not all is lost.

We still have a future to salvage.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[Aravind @aravind]

The number of people without electricity by country.
Look what happened after 2016. Someone started fixing India for real. Many things at a time. Still some way to go. The lag of last 60 is that bad.

[Subramoney.com @pvsubramanyam]

The avg guy in TN thinks he is much smarter than the guy in UP. UP people come to TN to sell bhel puri - or maybe clean toilets.
The dumb UP guy voted @myogiadityanath as CM.
You know what the smart TN guy did............right?

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

For every seat BJP has won, they should feature one BJP worker who was killed/molested/maimed in the 2021 post poll violence. Do a full page story. 206 stories of atrocities. Please document this. Let people not forget.

[Preetam Rao @Preetam_M_Rao]

People of Karnataka need to be worried. There'll be a Congress govt in Kerala.

This means more diversion of funds to Kerala as our leaders are obedient to their masters.

Bandipura forest in danger

[Akanksha Badaya 🎨 @art_lover_09]

Mocking North Indians over education and then choosing an actor as your CM is quite ironic.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

The Dark One, Goddess of Time, turns the Wheel of Epochs, slows but surely.

[Karthik P H ಕಾರ್ತಿಕ್ ಪಿ ಹೆಚ್ @karthik_ph]

Amazing @authoramish Sir!

[Claude @claudeai]

You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks.

It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk.

Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Goodbye, everything.

[Karthik P H ಕಾರ್ತಿಕ್ ಪಿ ಹೆಚ್ @karthik_ph]

@techxutkarsh @techxutkarsh pls share

[Karthik P H ಕಾರ್ತಿಕ್ ಪಿ ಹೆಚ್ @karthik_ph]

@priyankac19 Respect!

[Abhinav A. Bindra OLY @Abhinav_Bindra]

Not every inspiring sporting story ends with a trophy. Over the last few days, Lakshya Sen has shown India what courage, resilience and belief truly look like. His run to another All England final, through extraordinary wins and immense physical pain, has been about far more than a result. He has reminded young India that greatness lies not only in winning, but in the honesty of effort, the dignity of the fight and the strength to keep believing. I am Proud of you, @lakshya_sen . Very, very proud.