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FTX
Two really great articles that tell you what exactly went down at FTX. Fascinating read!
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Feds likely to challenge Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover
Josh Sisco for Politico: The Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard, maker of the hit games Call of Duty and Candy Crush, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. A lawsuit
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Fastly Subdomain Takeover $2000
Today, I am going to share how I found Fastly subdomain takeover vulnerability and earn my first four digits bounty. Let’s get started. What a fascinating read. Alexander Thangavel walk through the subdomain takeover vulnerability. This was an edge case scenario and only exploited when specific conditions were met.
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Inside Matter!
Inside of Apple Watch vs. Pixel Watch pic.twitter.com/AQjo6OPeGz — Joseph Cohen (@josephcohen) November 3, 2022 cool.
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Absolutely love these one off data correlations
Cricket is a religion in India. And when Virat (King) Kohli was batting the way he was after a couple of years; everyone stopped and watched. I remember witnessing such moments when Sachin Tendulkar was playing an innings of his life.
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Merck pays Moderna $250m for personalized cancer vaccine
Kristin Houser writing for Freethink: A personalized cancer vaccine: Moderna’s cancer vaccine works differently than most vaccines because it’s designed to treat an existing disease rather than prevent it entirely. It’s also personalized for each patient, while other shots are typically mass produced and distributed to the
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Good to see Apple folks at Formula 1’s Austin Grand Prix
It was hard to miss watching Tim Cook wave the checkered flag at the Austin Grand Prix. Also present was Apple’s exec Eddie Cue Which would have prompted that Formula 1 is coming to AppleTV. Unfortunately, ESPN renewed its contract to air Formula 1 through 2025 this weekend. Apple
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How to learn modern Rust
Came across this gem of a repo on Github today - How to learn modern Rust. This repo has some great collection for you to get started on rust to implementing some complex projects. What a great repo. Instant start and bookmark.
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The 20 Fastest Growing Jobs in the Next Decade
Jenna Ross writing for Visual Capitalist: The tile and the choice of visualization caught my eye. The visualization especially does a great job as it very clearly tells me what will matter in the future and what is becoming obsolete. # 11 on the top 20 fastest growing job did raise
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Now Even Science Grants Must Bow to ‘Equity and Inclusion’
Lawrence Krauss writing for WSJ: Starting in fiscal 2023, which began Oct. 1, every proposal responding to a solicitation from the Office of Science is required to include a PIER plan, which stands for Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research, to “describe the activities and strategies of the applicant to promote
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Carbon, a new programming language from Google, aims to be C++ successor
Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should. Unfortunately, the designs of these languages present significant barriers to adoption and migration from C++. These barriers range from changes in the idiomatic design
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Bun
Kind of excited about this project and its prospects: Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime like Node or Deno. It was built from scratch to focus on three main things: Start fast (it has the edge in mind). New levels of performance (extending JavaScriptCore, the engine). I'm most