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London, England
Joined February 2009
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We're hiring a new Community Manager to join the Old School RuneScape team! There can be huge value in a CM joining a studio with fresh eyes and limited knowledge of the game. For this particular role though, we're looking for someone who knows OSRS inside and out. Its content, its players, its creators, and its culture. Previous Community Management experience isn't essential. If you've never worked in CM before but believe you can turn deep game knowledge into strong communication, meaningful player advocacy, and compelling ways to promote our updates, we'd genuinely encourage you to apply. Equally, if you're an experienced CM but completely new to OSRS, this specific role may not be the right fit. This is a unique position within a team and community unlike any other, and genuine expertise in the game will be central to succeeding in it. Apply here: apply.workable.com/jagex-lim…
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund    alzresearch.org/giving/ Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources     alzfdn.org/donate/ Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street is a godsend for cabbies. They can combine two favourite activities. Taking tourists on the most convoluted route to Selfridges to rack up a fare while having an extra 15 minutes to rant about Sadiq Khan.
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Let me get this straight. A guy keeps getting weirdly targeted ads on his new Samsung TV. So he breaks into his own TV to find out why. 1.2M people watch. 42 hours later, OpenAI deactivates his account. Reason: "Cyber Abuse." His words: "i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering" Same week, people on r/claude say Claude now cuts off reverse-engineering write-ups MID-SENTENCE: "A safety check stopped my response partway through creating the playbook" The TV is fine. The guy who opened it is the problem.
banned for reverse engineering work? that’s wild oh well, -$500, and a bunch of banked resets) but gained motivation to get 3 more machines and finish my cluster. i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering which tripped daybreak.
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-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- 4 -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
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this security researcher just dropped two unpatched critical vulnerabilities on twitter for everyone to see. before a fix even existed CVEs that let attackers take over servers through PHP’s session handler. fully weaponizable. lab tested. working exploit and they posted it publicly. on twitter. while millions of servers are still vulnerable other researcher is furious saying he should be blacklisted from the industry for life this is the debate nobody outside of security understands responsible disclosure means you report the bug privately, give the team time to fix it, THEN go public this person skipped all of that and dropped a loaded gun on the timeline for anyone to pick up every script kiddie on earth now has a working exploit for a bug that hasn’t been patched yet “but the public deserves to know” sure. and now every attacker knows too. before the fix is ready there’s a difference between transparency and recklessness. this was recklessness
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Imagine the opening if A24 was a competent distributor.
‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING’ opened with $15M domestically. Biggest opening weekend for a non-music documentary in over 2 decades.
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being a cinephile outside of the US
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> be JayTaelien > security researcher > discovered Discord zero day exploit > send Twitch embed to victim > something something > massive exploit chain > arbitrary code execution > only requirement is victim clicking a Twitch embed > Discord confirms 1 ClickRCE > pays him $5,500 Dawg, someone get Discord on the horn and tell their CEO his company is a fucking piece of shit. This exploit is devastating and if this guy didn't tell them, and instead decided to weaponize it, he could have fucking destroyed end users. All bro would have had to do is be like. "Check out this Twitch streamers clip", and destroyed their machine, executing any malware they wanted arbitrarily, stealing data, whatever. Bro could have gone to large Discord channels, shared the link, potentially infecting thousands upon thousands of people effortlessly He could have down more precise operations targeting prominent streamers, moderators, celebrities known to use Discord, and fucking wiped them all out with anything he chose to execute Imagine if he sold this exploit to ransomware groups He could have made millions of dollars, easily Imagine if he went into a cryptocurrency Discord and the payload was a cryptodrainer. He could have drained entire communities in seconds And they paid bro $5,500 That's absolutely sickening. JayTaelien is a fucking saint and decides a much larger payouf
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XKCD: I wrote xkcd.com/221/ "Random Number" as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Random Number from classic web comic Don't Create The Random Number.
This is the least surprising graph in the world if you understand how gradient descent works.
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Richard “Levelord” Gray. From his legendary work on Duke Nukem 3D to the countless players and developers he inspired, Richard leaves behind a lasting legacy. Rest in peace, Levelord.
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Ukraine's targeting of Russian data centers is exposing the true nature of the online support for not just America's Republican party, anti-Ukraine and secession movements globally, but Germany's AFD as well. This whole platform is just Russia's plaything, supporting the Russia/Musk/Trump global fascist movement.
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It’s really an A+ troll by Zelenskyy to take out half of Russia’s bot farm, weeks before the US midterm elections.
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Martin Lewis has asked the public for simple, inexpensive and broadly uncontroversial changes that could make Britain work a little better. What better place to start than with putting an end to street scars? We can hold utility companies to account for scarring our streets with just a few changes to legislation that will: 🚧Make them put pavements back exactly as they found them and increase the fines for failing to do so. 🚧Require them to pay the full cost of restoring damaged pavements to the original standard. Find out more...
Please submit your small ideas for fixing Britain to the Small-Ideas.org website. It’s a new charitable initiative I’ve set up to try and make sure life’s potholes don’t get ignored. Working with two charities and a cross party panel to turn your ideas into policy then try and make it happen. Please share.
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pw… Interesting phrasing, BBC News! I feel sure a woman has won something in a UK tournament before… don’t tell me, don’t tell me..
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Kick was started when Twitch did their gambling bans and Stake players were affected. Literally the Bender Blackjack meme. If you think Kick was actually started to be an actual full blown competitor in the streaming space and not a space carved out for gambling...wanna buy a bridge?
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I am not joking when I say this. Traveling is over. Google Street View is now very, very good. You just don’t know yet because all the street views you’ve seen are from 2-3 generations ago. Google Street View has solved infinite personalized travel.
I am not joking when I say this. Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over. AI music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all AI music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago. Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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PR people and devs, I’m covering on the IGN news team until the end of the year. You can get me on my personal email: kirkules.mck(at)gmail.com
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Hello fellow Firefox users Yes you can disable it about:config browser.nova.enable - set it to false
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This week's newsletter talks about the role of community in marketing and how Path of Exile 2 leveraged these principles in its road to launch. bexsayswords.substack.com/p/…
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