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We made another thing! 🍕
Cowabunga! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have arrived in a new radical DLC.
Play as any of the four @TMNT to take down gnarly enemies and save New York from Shredder. Don’t forget to head to the Dressing Room for a free Turtle t-shirt! aka.ms/TMNT-Minecraft
ALT Minecraft x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DLC splash art, featuring the four Turtles against a purple swirl background
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‼️ BREAKING: We now know what led to the major breach at Manchester Airports Group that exposed 8.7 million people's data. Turns out they made a serious error: they put API keys with access to everything in their frontend's JavaScript files.
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My mum’s hearing aids are permanently connected to her phone via Bluetooth, so you can imagine the sort of evening she’s had.
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Explaining an Outage 101:
@Cloudflare: "John uploaded a bad config file at 08:24:47.252 UTC. It flipped bit 0x00007FF6E4D316D0 in datacenter 49 and brought down the whole Internet. This is unacceptable. We know you count on us. John has been shot."
@Apple: "Some users may have been affected by a service 'problem'. Pray we do not affect you further."
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‼️ UPDATE: LG Electronics says it will suspend smart TV apps that secretly turn hundreds of millions of TVs into residential proxy nodes, after researchers found the proxy SDKs in more than 42% of apps in LG's webOS store and over a quarter of Samsung's Tizen apps, routing unknown third parties' internet traffic through users' home connections.
Residential proxy firms pay developers to bundle these SDKs, then rent the resulting home IP addresses to customers who often use them for large-scale scraping aka stealing your shit (also for AI training).
Proxy nodes are being embedded at scale in hardware people don't treat as computers and can't easily inspect, and LG's cleanup does nothing for Samsung's Tizen store, where the same problem is present.
❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch.
Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200+ on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't.
Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control.
To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running.
Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default.
Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.
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Typo alert: Some customers saw quadrillion-dollar AWS billing estimates today. Slight miscalculation on our end (very slight 😅).
We're fixing it now. No action needed on your end. Sorry for the confusion.
Real question: what will you do with those trillions instead?
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Dear Anthropic,
I say this as your champion not your critic.
You may have superior intelligence,
but providing a service is about more than that.
It’s about trust.
It’s about being reliable,
providing a service that one can count on, a promise fulfilled.
Progress moves at the speed of trust - and Anthropic it pains me to say you are losing it.
Paying $200/month for a Max plan with unknown and shifting usage terms week by week doesn’t work.
A business owner can’t operate clearly leading a team,
planning and approving budget for a project based on service where the terms: capability, capacity, price can up and change within a 1-week time horizon.
Now Claude I love you,
you have moments of brilliance that truly blow me away.
And Fable when you are on you are truly on! I turn to you when I need that genius savant Hail Mary coding session on a particularly thorny problem or where I need max out the box creativity.
But for my daily driver trusted inexhaustible workhorse who gets shit done…
Codex you’re my right hand man.
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Insane, Yeah he really did it, he made a RAM at home in his backyard shed.
While big tech cries about RAM shortages Man builds functional DRAM from scratch using homemade sputtering and lithography tools.
20-bit memory cell array, 12pF capacitance.
Turned it into a legit Class 100 cleanroom and fabricated memory cells himself. 5x4 memory cell array fabricated,This is the first RAM ever made at home.
Drug lab vibes, semiconductor god mode.
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As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.
Here’s what this means for you:
Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.
On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.
We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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One of my personal favorite features announced at WWDC will I suspect be a sleeper hit: container machines, allowing your Mac to run a lightweight, persistent Linux environment with your home directory and repos automatically mounted: github.com/apple/container/b…