How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick
this blogpost was a collaboration with two people, their articles are here: hackermon and mdl this started when i was notified that discord switched documentation platforms to mintlify, a company i briefly looked into before, and i thought it would be a good idea to take another look now that theyre bigger. introduction mintlify is […]
We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
hi, i’m daniel. i’m a 16-year-old high school senior. in my free time, i hack billion dollar companies and build cool stuff. about a month ago, a couple of friends and I found serious critical vulnerabilities on Mintlify, an AI documentation platform used by some of the top companies in the world. i found a […]
Top Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools – Pen America
The 52 most banned books of the last four school years include National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winners, bestsellers, and beloved books by authors including Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Judy Blume. Since PEN America began tallying school book bans in 2021, thousands of books have been targeted repeatedly – as many as 147 […]
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
SINGAPORE – In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance. Completed in early 2025 and now undergoing testing, the prototype fills nearly […]
FunctionGemma 270M Model
It has been a transformative year for the Gemma family of models. In 2025, we have grown from 100 million to over 300 million downloads while demonstrating the transformative potential of open models, from defining state-of-the-art single-accelerator performance with Gemma 3 to advancing cancer research through the C2S Scale initiative. Since launching the Gemma 3 […]
Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
Deliberate Internet Shutdowns For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, reportedly instituted “to prevent immoral activities.” No additional explanation was given. The timing couldn’t have been worse: […]
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes. This makes a cleaning to playtime ratio: 2 minute play vs 10 minute clean up Sucking away my life as a parent. This is not fun to clean A beautiful toy is […]
There’s no such thing as a fake feather [video]
Military Standard on Software Control Levels
The mil-std-882e standard specifies levels of software control, i.e. how dangerous the software can be based on what it is responsible for. Although the standard is a little more complicated, we can simplify to essentially four levels: The most alarming case is when the software has direct control of something that can be immediately dangerous […]
Agent Skills is now an open standard
In October, we introduced skills—a way to teach Claude repeatable workflows tailored to how you work. Today we’re making skills easier to deploy, discover, and build: organization-wide management for admins; a directory of partner-built skills from Notion, Canva, Figma, Atlassian, and others; and an open standard so skills work across AI platforms. Manage skills across […]