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Even in well-secured environments, attackers are getting in—not with flashy exploits, but by quietly taking advantage of weak settings, outdated encryption, and trusted tools left unprotected. These attacks don’t depend on zero-days. They work by staying unnoticed—slipping through the cracks in what we monitor and what we assume is safe. What once looked suspicious now […]
Posted July 20, 2025 by Ben Carlson The 1980s and 1990s bull market was an all-timer, perhaps the greatest of all-time for U.S. stocks.1 The S&P 500 was up nearly 18% per year for two decades straight.2 The bull market of the 2010s and 2020s hasn’t reached those heights but we’ve still seen above-average double-digit […]
You already know that security is important to keep in mind when creating code and maintaining projects. Odds are, you also know that it’s much easier to think about security from the ground up rather than trying to squeeze it in at the end of a project. But did you know that GitHub Actions injections […]
The hypothesis in Ilyas et. al. is a special case of a more general principle that is well accepted in the distributional robustness literature — models lack robustness to distribution shift because they latch onto superficial correlations in the data. Naturally, the same principle also explains adversarial examples because they arise from a worst-case analysis of distribution […]
Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground. According to Inc., the current cost of CO2 removal with the company is $350 per ton. If you multiply that by Microsoft’s […]
Jul 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Social Engineering Threat actors are leveraging public GitHub repositories to host malicious payloads and distribute them via Amadey as part of a campaign observed in April 2025. “The MaaS [malware-as-a-service] operators used fake GitHub accounts to host payloads, tools, and Amadey plug-ins, likely as an attempt to bypass web filtering […]
GitHub Homepage As a junior computer science student, I have encountered various frameworks during my web development learning journey. From traditional Apache to modern Node.js, each framework has its unique advantages and limitations. Recently, I discovered an impressive Rust web framework whose performance made me reconsider the design philosophy of web servers. Performance Bottlenecks in […]
In June, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 5 17:47 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 33 minutes) On June 5, 2025, between 17:47 UTC and 19:20 UTC, the Actions service was degraded, leading to run start delays and intermittent job failures. During this period, 47.2% of runs had […]
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Some questions that are rattling around in my head along with some quips, answers and guesses. 1. What seems obvious now that will look foolish with the benefit of hindsight in the future? Probably something to do with crypto, AI, tech stocks, government debt or climate change. 2. Why do some beers taste better on draft […]
