Entrepreneur, Chief OTP Officer @karooya (Contact: [email protected])
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BREAKING: Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs in AI-led efficiency drive
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I am mostly clueless about American sports, but still managed to guess it third try.
Tonight, I can sleep well.
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Muted
You can silence Indian citizens by threatening them, but the genie has left the bottle and CEO of a $100bn company is talking about it.
Some introspection would be welcome.
Shashikant Kore retweeted
EXPRESS INVESTIGATION
Bihar banned alcohol. But a new drug crisis is emerging.
Ten years of prohibition. An extraordinary policing effort.
Every day, Bihar Police has seized an average of 8,650 litres of liquor and arrested 196 people for liquor-related crimes. Yes, that’s 196 arrests / day. No typo.
Yet, beneath the crackdown on illicit alcohol, a more insidious trade is taking root.
Heroin. Tablets. Pocket-sized packets. Vials. Drugs hidden in soap boxes and petticoat folds.
From smuggled bottles to a booming underground drug market, Bihar’s battle with addiction is entering a dangerous new phase.
An investigation by The Indian Express.
indianexpress.com/article/ex…
Shashikant Kore retweeted
पापान्निवारयति योजयते हिताय
गुह्यं निगूहति गुणान्प्रकटीकरोति ।
आपद्गतं च न जहाति ददाति काले
सन्मित्रलक्षणमिदं प्रवदन्ति सन्तः ॥
“The wise describe these as the characteristics of a true friend: one who restrains another from wrongdoing, directs them towards what is beneficial, conceals confidential matters, makes their virtues known, does not abandon them in adversity, and gives help at the appropriate time.”
(Nitishatakam - Bhartruhari)
Shashikant Kore retweeted
Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
You can silence Indian citizens by threatening them, but the genie has left the bottle and CEO of a $100bn company is talking about it.
Some introspection would be welcome.
Shashikant Kore retweeted
Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
Shashikant Kore retweeted
I heard a fascinating story about human behaviour today.
A tour guide at a historic castle was getting very high ratings from tourists.
They went to see what he was doing differently.
On several of the rooms he had used the red velvet ropes to block the doors.
These were normally used when the rooms were being repaired or cleaned. He had put them up at the beginning of each day.
During g the tour he would look around and say to the group “would you like to have a quick look in here?” And they would say yes in hushed tones.
He would ceremoniously unclip the rope and let them through into the room. A room that was always a normal part of every tour.
This simple little bit of theatre made people love the tour that much more.
Humans love what we can’t have.
Does anyone know what happened to all the Jalyukt Shivar, which was hailed as a major success earlier?
Shashikant Kore retweeted
Pretty unbelievable the head of drug discovery at Anthropic is only now realizing the bottleneck in biotech isn’t actually drug discovery
Where do you go next after reporting from the Strait of Hormuz? For the past three months, Citrini Research, an independent research firm, has been working with our team and an internal research model to see if they could use AI to create a new drug. What follows is an entertaining, candid, and humbling account of a group of motivated nonexperts (or “filthy casuals”, as Citrini would say) trying to tackle a real problem in human health with Claude.
We landed on scorpion neurotoxins, which kill over 3,000 people a year. Of the 211 designs we produced and tested, 17 met our criteria for a binder. None of the designs bound more than one toxin and none have been tested for neutralizing a toxin.
One of my favorite quotes from the piece is: “Our virtual biologist may have compressed a year's worth of work into a couple days, but biology works at the speed of life…Over two days, we watched Claude work through problems at a speed that was difficult to comprehend. For the next two months, we spent much of the time becoming familiar with laboratory turnaround times (This mostly involved sending memes in Slack).”
This company's investors need to initiate class action suit, a rarely used legal remedy.
At the very least, the board must fire every executive responsible, without compensation.
📄 Update: eMudhra Ltd has responded.
It wasn't a hack. A flaw in its April 2025 key ceremony created weak keys, one of which was literally "4". The company says the global TLS business is about 1% of revenue, and Indian DSC and eSign are unaffected.
But it also admits the reputational risk "cannot be quantified."
For a company that sells trust, that's the part to watch. 👀
Shashikant Kore retweeted
How ridiculous can it get
CEOs of companies will now be arrested for incidents in any factory.
It was a tragic loss of life but this will make so many MNCs rethink India plans and expansion.
@Dev_Fadnavis
m.economictimes.com/industry…
India needs to solve large companies staying private.
You can't have Flipkarts and Jios of the India remain private when they grow into $50-$100bn valuation.
Flipkart’s board is in an incredibly tough situation right now:
> Leadership exodus: 10+ SVP & CXO level departures since April ‘26 (each with 5+ YOE at FK) incl their CPTO & CFO
> Bad acquisitions: ₹3.2k cr lost on Cleartrip alone over 5 yrs alone after spending ₹300cr to buy the company.
> Core E-Comm business has slowed down (growth is down to ~15% v/s 40% earlier) while it remains unprofitable (₹5k cr+ loss for FY26)
> War of attrition in Quick Commerce: FK was late, invested ₹5.5k cr to build Minutes; losing ₹400 cr per quarter.
> Disgruntled ex-employees: 20k of whom are expected to sign a petition for ESOP liquidity; this is after 5 events have distributed $1.38 bn back to employees.
Our country’s Internet crown jewel is in real trouble ⤵️