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She wasn't hunting for bugs. She was doing something mundane when she discovered the issue and made the fix. 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This Ryzen 9 mini PC with 32GB RAM is ludicrously cheap at $430 https://www.pcworld.com/article/3001779/whoa-this-ryzen-9-mini-pc-with-32gb-ram-is-ludicrously-cheap-at-430.html npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets A new report found that Amazon is charging schools thousands of dollars more for supplies due to algorithmic price changes. https://www.theverge.com/news/838491/amazon-dynamic-pricing-school-supplies-islr npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news It's easy to train your own image classification model with an ESP32, and I did it in five minutes https://www.xda-developers.com/train-image-classification-model-esp32/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Marcus on AI Has the bailout of generative AI already begun? Or is pouring a pile of government money in just a coincidence? https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/has-the-bailout-of-generative-ai?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=888615&post_id=180066235&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3bs7cj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Data Centers are Gobbling up All the Capital The Weekend Leverage, November 23rd https://www.gettheleverage.com/p/data-centers-are-gobbling-up-all?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4210429&post_id=179704583&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5jn9ti&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news OpenAI debuts GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max coding model and it already completed a 24-hour task internally https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-debuts-gpt-5-1-codex-max-coding-model-and-it-already-completed-a-24 npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news This is my favorite network security app on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/this-is-my-favorite-network-security-app-on-linux/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Is your phone on the list? LineageOS adds Android 16 support for more device https://www.androidauthority.com/lineageos-23-expands-to-more-devices-3612920/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Raspberry Pi Projects to Try This Weekend (October 31 - November 2) https://www.howtogeek.com/raspberry-pi-projects-to-try-this-weekend-october-31-november-2/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news I added Bluetooth to my car with this FM transmitter for just $14 — and it's way better than I expected https://www.tomsguide.com/vehicle-tech/i-just-used-an-fm-transmitter-in-my-car-for-the-first-time-in-16-years-and-it-was-better-than-i-expected npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news 🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM. https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex?utm_source=tldrinfosec npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock?utm_source=tldrinfosec npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news What Happens If No One Reads “What is it about sitting with a book, a quintessential experience of civilized life until very recently, that can’t be automated or replaced?” writes Spencer Klavan. (Heritage Images via Getty Images) With AI able to quickly summarize everything from self-help books to great novels, we need to remind ourselves why we read in the first place. https://www.thefp.com/p/what-happens-if-no-one-reads-culture-education?ref=newsletter.rabbitideas.online npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Effortless database administration tool https://github.com/liweiyi88/onedump?utm_source=tldrdevops npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news New malware waits until you watch porn, then secretly films via webcam The so-called Stealerium malware can detect porn activity and take compromising material for use in blackmail and sextortion attacks. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2938021/new-malware-waits-until-you-watch-porn-then-secretly-films-via-webcam.html npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Microsoft: Hackers target universities in “payroll pirate” attacks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks This is the codebase for the paper: "Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks". TRM is a recursive reasoning approach that achieves amazing scores of 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2 using a tiny 7M parameters neural network. https://github.com/SamsungSAILMontreal/TinyRecursiveModels npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Google confirms: Unlocking your phone's bootloader breaks local Gemini features Google's been restricting Gemini on hardware with unlocked bootloaders for some time, but is finally explicit about it. https://www.androidauthority.com/gemini-nano-bootloader-3605497/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news ICE is stepping up its smartphone tracking, but Android 16 has a secret weapon ICE ordered a bunch of vehicles that track cell phones, because of course it did. https://www.androidauthority.com/ice-phone-tracking-3605014/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news This is a port of many Plan 9 libraries and programs to Unix. https://github.com/9fans/plan9port?utm_source=newsletter.danielmiessler.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unsupervised-learning-no-500 npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses "We're nowhere near ready for a world in which artificial intelligence can create a working virus." https://futurism.com/health-medicine/experts-alarmed-ai-viruses?utm_source=ai-report.kdnuggets.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ai-creates-living-viruses-that-actually-work npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Goodbye Adobe: This free, open-source photo editing app for Linux freed me from expensive subscriptions https://www.xda-developers.com/open-source-photo-editing-app-linux-freed-from-adobe/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news 2.5 billion Gmail users at risk after Google’s databases were hacked A hacker group gained access to Google databases and is now attempting to scam Gmail and Google Cloud users. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2880822/2-5-billion-gmail-users-at-risk-after-googles-databases-were-hacked.html npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think https://www.xda-developers.com/libreoffice-is-right-about-microsoft/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Microsoft asks users to ignore certificate enrollment errors https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-asks-users-to-ignore-certificate-enrollment-errors/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news This so-called Android 'antivirus' is just a front for spyware Protecting you is the last thing this app has in mind. https://www.androidauthority.com/fake-android-antivirus-app-spyware-3586460/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Let’s Make a Free Software Jubilee Happen https://fossforce.com/2025/08/lets-make-a-free-software-jubilee-happen/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Canonical's OpenJDK builds promise Java devs more speed - and a whopping 12 years of security support The company is also aligning Ubuntu's and OpenJDK's release cadences. https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonicals-openjdk-builds-promise-java-devs-more-speed-and-a-whopping-12-years-of-security-support/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-coretemp-Orphaned npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news FDA approves breakthrough eye drops that fix near vision without glasses https://newatlas.com/aging/age-related-near-sighted-drops-vizz/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Microsoft's Windows Recall is reportedly still capturing passwords and Social Security numbers even after its relaunch https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/microsofts-windows-recall-is-reportedly-still-capturing-passwords-and-social-security-numbers-even-after-its-relaunch npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news The ls Command: 11 Most Useful Flags for Finding What You Need https://www.howtogeek.com/the-most-useful-ls-flags-for-finding-what-you-need/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news A Pill for Sleep Apnea Could Be on the Horizon Experts say that if the new drug gets approved, it may lead to a big shift in how we treat the condition. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/well/apnimed-sleep-apnea-clinical-trial-ad109.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aU8.yQmt.kB_7MmN3CVPB&smid=url-share&utm_source=tldrnewsletter npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news The Denylist Delusion: Cursor’s Auto-Run Leaves Agentic AI Wide Open https://www.backslash.security/blog/cursor-ai-security-flaw-autorun-denylist?utm_source=www.cramhacks.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cramhacks-chronicles-94-weekly-cybersecurity-newsletter npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Building a 10GbE home lab was worth every penny (even though it’s not for everyone) https://www.xda-developers.com/building-a-10gbe-home-lab-was-worth-every-penny/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news A popular VPN is seeing a 1,400% spike in signups as the UK's age verification law takes effect https://mashable.com/article/proton-vpn-uk-age-verification-signups npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news More than 250 malicious apps are spreading info-stealing malware on Android and iOS — delete these right now https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/malware-adware/more-than-250-malicious-apps-are-spreading-info-stealing-malware-on-android-and-ios-delete-these-right-now npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app - and it’s completely free If you're looking for a scanning app but don't want to pay unnecessary subscriptions, you need PDFgear Scan. https://www.androidauthority.com/pdfgear-scan-android-ios-3579115/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records Technique transforms the Internet DNS into an unconventional file storage system. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/hackers-exploit-a-blind-spot-by-hiding-malware-inside-dns-records/ npub1wlnrplzteanvqyk2u25kck97psh3ucl689uamazqmatrsx4e3vus9n5lxr Michael Ross Tech news What is Linux and Why There are 100's of Linux Distributions? Cannot figure out what is Linux and why there are so many of Linux? This analogy explains things in a simpler manner. https://itsfoss.com/what-is-linux/