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The Policy Puppetry Attack: Novel bypass for major LLMs
HiddenLayer’s latest research uncovers a universal prompt injection bypass impacting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more, exposing major LLM security gaps.
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Tools: Code Is All You Need
The solution to agentic flows was code all along.
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Things we've learned about building products
To celebrate 50k subscribers to Product for Engineers, here are the 50 most important lessons we’ve learned about building great products.
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OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
Starting with OBS Studio 32.0.0 a new renderer backend based on Apple's Metal graphics API is available for users to test as an experimental alternative to the existing OpenGL …
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Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …
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The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon
Towards the end of last year, we learned that a group (allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government, referred to as “Salt Typhoon”) breached T-Mobile and other telecommunications co…
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Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities were discovered in ruby-saml up to version 1.17.0. See how they were uncovered.
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The Beer Can (2023)
Connecting old and new.
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Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
How the redesign of a street in a walkable college town reflects our broader values for cars over people.
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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Asynchrony is not concurrency
Yes I know about that one talk from Rob Pike.
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All AI models might be the same
what can language model embeddings tell us about whales speech, and decoding ancient texts? (on The Platonic Representation Hypothesis and the idea of *universality* in AI models)
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Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
For my day job , I need to build and run a Docker Compose project. However, because Docker doesn’t play well with nftables and I prefer a rootless + daemonless approach, I’m using Podman .
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I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
Everything you wanted to know about using Cloudflare Zero Trust Argo tunnels for your personal network
1819
The benefits of learning in public
Learning in public helps me grow as an engineer and seems to benefit others too. Here's why I should do more.
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Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.
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Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford
Why splitting your codebase too early can quietly destroy your team’s velocity — and what to do instead.
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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.
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Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy
Kodak clarifies it is not closing or filing bankruptcy; plans debt repayment and pension fund transaction for a stronger balance sheet in 2025.
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Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32
How I went from buying a €200 tracker to building a custom telescope mount with harmonic drives, ESP32, and way more engineering than necessary
1827
William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
The author Ray Bradbury is one of the early science fiction authors that moved science fiction into a literary form. As a writer Bradbury constructs beautifully written stories and novels. Bradbury's writing is in stark contrast to Bradbury as a speaker. The first time I heard Ray Bradbury speak was at the Association…
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I live my life a quarter century at a time
So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. The Age of A…
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The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”
There's a corner of the Internet where people have been reclaiming their digital independence by hosting their own websites and promoting the idea of owning your own content. It's called the IndieWeb. The community has its own website , IRC channels, social media presence, etc. as well