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Kumar Harsh retweeted
I will be taking a 3 hours session on basics of financial simulations for techies in BLR - a google meet session on 7 Nov 2026 Sat 930 pm; you need to upload receipt of Rs 108/- donation to sringeri. net to be admitted to the session. You can donate higher amounts as well, but this is the minimum amount
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- basics of understanding financial instruments as a techie in context of personal finance
- basics of understanding compounding in context of long term investing
- anecdotes of which mistakes to avoid in personal finance
- basics of dealing with fomo/fear/greed in context of personal finance
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Kumar Harsh retweeted
What's happening with cybersecurity is what rationalists freaking about AI capabilities had been predicting for a long while.
It's called "The Great Hackening" & it is is going to get worse.
(Systems will emerge stronger from it, but in the short term, expect chaos).
Kumar Harsh retweeted
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
Kumar Harsh retweeted
Mythos kind of AI will reshape India. There's no escape. Change for the better fast or get wrecked. CBSE or IRCTC or HDFC or Ambani or Adani, none will be spared by such AI in the hands of adversaries unless these Indian orgs and companies invest in the right innovations and adapt. But if they still continue to have lousy cyber security policies and continue to be stingy about IT and innovation, god save India. The adversaries are going to mess with us big time.
I think everyone knows this at some level (consciously or subconsciously).
With the advent of AI, finding these vulnerabilities will be even easier and I think we'll see many instances over the next year. Indian cos. should start taking security seriously if they need to survive
Kumar Harsh retweeted
All supporters of so called revolution.
This is how each will be shocked when mobs come.
Their leaders will be outside.
Colère d'une fleuriste, dont la boutique a été saccagée à Lyon. "Ils ont voulu nous frapper, ils ont piqué la caisse… Ma mère était présente elle a 70 ans" #17octobre
Kumar Harsh retweeted
"13 crore names" is the number every TV debate on the Election Commission's SIR now starts from.
You get media to repeat that number ten times and it becomes the fact. Almost nobody has asked what is inside it...
@TheJaggi breaks it down. What the 13 crore actually contains:
- 2.8 crore listed as dead
- 6.3 crore flagged as possible permanent migrants
- 1 crore duplicate registrations
- ~3 crore simply absent from home when enumerators called
- Every one of these can be restored on appeal (except the dead..)
These numbers - the scale of them - is UNREMARKABLE at India's scale:
- Up to 1 crore Indians die every year
- The last SIR was 2002-04
- at least 10-12 crore voters have died since
- and most never came off the rolls (nobody files a deletion for the dead)
How about migrants?
- India's internal migrant population is around 45 crore
- 6.3 crore flagged as migrated is a fraction of that
- Wrongful deletions are probably under 50 lakh nationally
- half of one percent of a roll approaching 100 crore
The two mind traps doing the work:
FIRST
- Anchoring: the first big number sticks.
- Vinod Rai's Rs 1.76 lakh crore "presumptive loss" on 2008 telecom licences came with three lower estimates
-only the biggest survived
SECOND
- Loss aversion: a voter who fears deletion shouts louder than the 99% who were never touched
- Result: "millions and millions" disenfranchised (Justice Ujjal Bhuyan at Nalsar) and "90 lakh knocked out in Bengal to help the BJP" (Rohinton Nariman)
- neither claim came with a denominator
It's not like EC is all OK, they've also goofed up but not that badly:
- It never stress-tested its process for a country where every gross number is huge
- A once-in-two-decades purge was always going to throw up figures this size
- roll-cleaning has to be continuous
- The appeals route for wrongful exclusion has to be stronger than it is now
(Link below)
Kumar Harsh retweeted
Literally the only policy I have heard from these folks about what they will do when they take power is punishing people they don't like. Nothing on infra, economic growth, industry, energy, transit, defense, urban QoL, reforms.
Yeah bro, I see massive uptake of this in the uncovered villages in India.
Current price of @Starlink in Alaska: ₹143,397.55 Set up fee. ($1500)
₹12,428.12 Per month. ($130)
Current price of internet in India:
₹1000 Set up fee. ($10.46)
₹599 Per month. ($6.27)
Kumar Harsh retweeted
See my post from Jun 10. See what's happening now.
All of a sudden so many India based accounts (some that joined X in Oct 2026) are preaching Indians to get Starlink in India citing "bad internet."
Indians must see more & more posts on SM that talk about "bad internet in India" and "why India needs Starlink."
There is also a possibility of actual disruptions of net services to try push the discomfort levels and public pressure for Starlink.
Since my attached post in 2024, India started considering allowing Starlink so everything was good.
But now that this consideration has been suspended, the psyops and disillusionment through disruption ops will restart.
What about Age of Ultron where they killed millions of Ultrons - I think they were major too
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What. The. Fuck. Is. Going. On.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
