Madushanka

Software/Solution/Enterprise Architect - Interested in many; science, technology, business, finance, cricket, & politics are some of them

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 This is China's solution to nighttime driver fatigue

All they need is to add the Bee Gees to it for the full 80s disco experience 🕺

Writer: Ian

[Yasuni Manikkage @ManikkageYasuni]

As a Sri Lankan female doctor, it is not easy to be on social media and speak about sexual health.
These are the kinds of comments I receive - some encouraging & some deeply insulting, without even considering that I am a professional or a human being.

But in the end, what matters is that I may have helped at least one person save a marriage or relationship & achieve a better quality of life.

[𝔻𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕝 @DaNel0325]

Shoes from the future🔥

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat.

Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks.

Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it.

The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them.

From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this.

⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities:

— Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.

— The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared.

Stay vigilant! ☝️

[Codez @0xCodez]

Anthropic engineer at Stanford:

“80% of our engineers are using self-improving loops. Now everyone is building agentic graphs.”

in 1-hour Stanford lecture, Anthropic engineer reveals how Claude thinks - and why Graphs are the future.

This 1-hour watch will replace your $500 course on agentic engineering.

Watch it today, then read how to become a Graph Engineer in the article below.

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

capital markets addressing crypto challenge?

[London Stock Exchange @LSEplc]

Today, we announced plans to launch LSE 24, a new 24x5 trading venue to support the next generation of digital, algorithmic and agentic trading.

Read more here: https://t.co/2lGYdjIy0V

#capitalmarkets #24x5trading #innovation

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

Steve Smith is the best test batter in the world - he is dedicated, knowledgable, skilled, and very scientific about way he thinks about batting.

[cricket.com.au @cricketcomau]

"Bowl fast when there's nothing going on champion."

Steve Smith v Jofra Archer was seriously spicy 🍿 #Ashes

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

for a sec, I thought this is a fake - it is not. https://t.co/J9kNigF7VU

[Akunjee 🖋 @mohammedakunjee]

I just threw up a little bit

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

Aus played solid, tactical Test cricket with their last 2 wickets. Most teams woulda tried to slog with tailenders, instead Aus demoralized Eng with proper, disciplined batting. Now England are not only mentally & physically down, but they also have to bat under lights.

[Dinidu de Alwis @dinidu]

The opposition benches yesterday when the budget for 2026 was being voted on.

Sri Lanka has faced an unparalleled natural disaster, which will have implications for decades to come. This is a point for the opposition to show buy-in and support. But no.

Utter fucking fuckwits.

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

Reason behind eye-blacks : https://t.co/uR8MTLzZRU.

lil bit of science : eye-blacks absorbs light instead of reflexing it, so improves contrast a bit - background vs ball.

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

https://t.co/y1LUEvhStx

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

Kalshi is a prediction market. Their vision is to literally apply sports betting to everything, remaking the world and our lives into a casino of speculation. This is a fundamentally dehumanizing and degenerate view of society. It must be stopped at all costs.

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

Such a dangerous business model. In the long run, it turns issues, events etc into betting markets. Instead of having solid conversations & debates, people may start shifting their narratives & influencing others’ opinions purely for financial gain. Some e.g.:

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

[Sri Lanka Tweet 🇱🇰 @SriLankaTweet]

Sri Lanka Disaster Impact – Key Updates
🔺Agriculture Sector Damage
•1,777 tanks damaged
•483 dams affected
•1,936 canals damaged
•328 agricultural access roads impacted
•137,265 acres of cultivated land destroyed
•305 minor irrigation channels damaged

(Commissioner General Essential Services)

[Madushanka @madushankaf04]

@Techway0 As a Samsung fan, I'm enjoying Samsung Fold 7 that I bought recently. The TriFold looks great. One thing I miss in the Fold 7, which I had in the Note series, is the S Pen - it woulda been great if they can include it in Fold series.

[Starlink @Starlink]

For those affected by Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka, Starlink is providing free service to new and existing customers through the end of December. We’re also coordinating with the Sri Lankan government to provide additional assistance → https://t.co/CgNs9mzXTe

[Marianne David @MarianneDavid24]

The Government totally dropped the ball with this disaster, ignoring warnings and keeping its head in the sand. The repercussions are going to be severe. Sri Lanka was just getting on the path to recovery and now this. Lives lost, property damaged, economy hit.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:

1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.

TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.