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Slopsquatting

Absolutely wild attack vector I never would have thought of. It's almost as if it is targeted at "vibe-coding". AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain riskA new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for

· 1 min · Dev / AI / Tech

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Red Bag Oranges

Saw this orange display tonight at the grocery store and this piece I read this morning was all I could think of, solid read: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?Look at this orange: Now look at this orange: It’s the same orange. But, look

· 1 min · Food

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NIL Times

A federal judge yesterday began a final hearing in the settlement talks of three anti-trust lawsuits against the NCAA that have been combined. The outcome of the case appears to be a $2.8 Billion settlement with former players who graduated before Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) payments began in

· 1 min · Sports

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TIL: Key West is inhabited by Six Toed Cats because of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was given a white six-toed cat by a ship’s captain and some of the cats who live on the museum grounds are descendants of that original cat, named Snow White. Key West is a small island and it is possible that many of the cats on the

· 1 min · Destinations

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Sell the Sizzle

The US spun up a shock-and-awe campaign to sell the world on the splendor of its affordable, abundant consumer conveniences. It started in Marshall Plan-era West Berlin, where in 1950 the US Department of State built a gleaming trade pavilion packed with thousands of everyday products available to the growing

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Where your shoe money goes

"In 2016, Sole Review took a look at Nike's income statement and came up with this breakdown. On an imaginary $100 shoe, they estimate manufacturing cost is $22. Add freight, insurance, and import taxes, they estimate it costs Nike $27 to bring that shoe from Asia to

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