Cross-reading #12

Make it Yourself (makeityourself.org)

Make it Yourself is a digital book that showcases this incredible talent, bringing together over 1000 useful DIY projects to demonstrate just what is possible when you make things yourself.

POSSE (indieweb.org)

POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties.

‘AI with reasoning power will be less predictable’: Ilya Sutskever (indianexpress.com)

AI that can reason better could solve problems in creative ways, but its unpredictability might make it harder to trust

Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip (blog.google)

Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years.

M5Paper ESP32 Development Kit V1.1 (shop.m5stack.com)

M5Paper v1.1 is M5Stacks latest core device with a touch enabled E-ink display. Powered by the ESP32-D0WDQ6-V3

Why Scrum is Stressing You Out (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)

With sprints, there are no breaks, little autonomy, and insufficient time to prepare. No wonder developers today seem more stressed

390,000+ WordPress Credentials Stolen via Malicious GitHub Repository Hosting PoC Exploits (thehackernews.com)

A now-removed GitHub repository that advertised a WordPress tool to publish posts to the online content management system (CMS) is estimated to have enabled the exfiltration of over 390,000 credentials.

New Red Teamers Tool to Execute System Commands Via Microsoft Teams (cybersecuritynews.com)

A groundbreaking tool has emerged in the realm of red teaming, offering a sophisticated method to execute system commands on compromised hosts through Microsoft Teams.

Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch (cointelegraph.com)

The price of the token then plummeted and was trading at a valuation of $41.7 million at the time of publication, marking a 91% downturn in less than three hours

Over 4,000 Adobe Commerce, Magento shops hacked in CosmicSting attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

Adobe Commerce and Magento online stores are being targeted in "CosmicSting" attacks at an alarming rate, with threat actors hacking approximately 5% of all stores