Phrack Magazine released issue #72, marking 40 years of legendary hacker culture and technical innovation with 16 cutting-edge papers from security researchers worldwide. This historic edition features exploit techniques, vulnerability research, and stories from the underground scene that continues to shape cybersecurity today. MORE

Software billionaire Joe Liemandt, who built Trilogy into a $1B+ AI company in the 1990s, has spent the last three years secretly developing "Timeback" - an AI tutoring system that helps students learn twice as much in just two hours per day. After 25 years away from the spotlight, he's investing $1 billion to scale this technology globally, potentially revolutionizing education by replacing traditional classrooms with personalized AI tutors that could reach a billion children worldwide. MORE

Big O notation describes how an algorithm's performance changes as input size grows, focusing on growth patterns rather than exact timing. This interactive guide walks through constant O(1), logarithmic O(log n), linear O(n), and quadratic O(n²) complexities with visual examples and practical coding tips to optimize your algorithms. MORE

"We should build AI for people; not to be a person." Mustafa warns that AI systems appearing conscious could arrive within 2-3 years using existing technology, potentially leading people to believe these systems deserve rights and moral consideration. MORE

Python: The Documentary traces Python's journey from Guido van Rossum's 1989 Christmas hobby project to becoming one of the world's most popular programming languages. The film explores how Python's emphasis on readability and simplicity revolutionized programming accessibility, powering everything from web development to AI research and even Mars rovers. MORE

DHH walks you through Omarchy 2.0. This version brings a new online ISO installer, custom package repository to replace AUR, and system snapshots with rollback capability. The Linux distro also adds live browser theme switching, emoji picker, and numerous UI improvements for a more polished desktop experience. MORE

Research Preview: Claude for Chrome. MORE

Senior engineer with 15 years of experience shares hard-won lessons after applying to 450 positions in today's brutal tech job market. His key advice: embrace "spray and pray" applications, use AI strategically for resume generation, protect your time from lengthy processes, and remember that interviewing is like dating—not every match will work out. MORE

How experienced engineers get unstuck in coding interviews. In-person algorithmic interviews are not disappearing from Big Tech and many top scaleups and startups, so it’s useful to know how to succeed at them. Advice and tactics from Mike Mroczka. MORE

Tech executive explains why liberal arts education beats narrow specialization in the AI era, arguing that while machines excel at specific tasks, humans who can think across disciplines and ask better questions will thrive. MORE

Dr. Morgan Depenbusch from Snowflake shares how to advance your career by leading with value instead of self-promotion. She explains three types of value (informational, emotional, strategic) and why building genuine relationships through helping others creates better opportunities than traditional networking approaches. MORE

How to Get Promoted Faster: These 5-Steps Made Me an Amazon VP - Stuck in your career? Discover the exact 5-step "Magic Loop" framework used by an Amazon VP to grow. MORE

Three simple AI habits that eliminate friction and boost productivity: universal keyboard shortcuts for instant AI access, text expanders for frequently-used prompts, and a "prompt multiply" method that generates better prompts for high-stakes tasks. MORE

The Engineers Guide to Calendaring For Productivity: 10 practical calendar management techniques that can immediately boost your productivity, from aggressive time blocking to strategic meeting batching. MORE

Obsidian for Work: A Complete Project Management Setup. This video showcases using Obsidian to manage projects in a consulting environment, demonstrating how to organize sub-projects, meetings, and tasks efficiently. The presenter highlights Obsidian's capabilities for comprehensive information management and streamlined project tracking. MORE

How to Build Your AI Writing System. Discover how to create a repeatable AI writing system that automates low-value tasks while you focus on high-value creative work. MORE

MacSparky creator David Sparks shipped his first app called "The No List" - a simple tool that tracks opportunities you've declined to help strengthen your ability to say no to future distractions. MORE

STÖK, a popular cybersecurity content creator, lost YouTube subscribers after posting lifestyle content but embraces the change as part of his creative growth. He plans to blend personal vlogs (vintage camper restoration, winter camping) with AI security research content, believing discomfort fuels creativity. MORE

Jason Haddix explains why AI security testing can't be automated like traditional red teaming - it requires slow, manual work blending web security with prompt injection techniques. Each attack must be custom-tailored to bypass specific guardrails, making it slower than standard pentesting due to AI models' unpredictable nature. MORE

Sam Parr shares his 10-point blueprint for "flourishing" in life, highlighting family health, career control, and long-term thinking as key happiness drivers. His framework emphasizes focusing on what truly matters while saying no to distractions. MORE

Here's a banger of a Tweet: "A job interview is basically a conversation between two lìars." MORE

A New York Times columnist shares his surprisingly positive experience with GPT-5, finding it genuinely useful as an AI assistant despite widespread criticism that it's a disappointment. He explores the rapid, often invisible integration of AI into daily life and warns about humanity's growing dependence on these systems, especially for children. MORE

Despite massive GenAI investment, 95% of organizations see zero return, with only 5% of AI pilots extracting meaningful value. The "GenAI Divide" stems from implementation challenges, not technology limitations. Successful organizations focus on process-specific customization, context-aware learning, and outcome-driven evaluations, seeing early impacts in customer support, engineering, and administrative functions through targeted, adaptive AI systems. MORE

Researchers tested AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and found they easily fall for phishing sites, fake shops, and hidden prompt injections without human oversight. The study reveals a dangerous new "Scamlexity" era where scammers only need to trick AI agents once to potentially compromise millions of users simultaneously. MORE

This detailed walkthrough explores Ken Gannon's Samsung S24 exploit chain from Pwn2Own 2024, demonstrating how five CVEs can be chained together for remote code execution. The attack starts with URL injection in Samsung's Gaming Hub WebView, bypasses security checks to enable JavaScript, then leverages intent handling vulnerabilities to install malicious apps through Smart Switch and Quick Share components. MORE

Hunting postMessage Vulnerabilities is a comprehensive guide on how modern web apps use postMessage for cross-origin communication and the critical security flaws that can lead to account takeover vulnerabilities. MORE | PART 2

Breakdown of essential techniques that transform your photography, from mastering composition and lighting to using color theory and depth of field. The video covers practical tips like the rule of thirds, leading lines, and achieving visual unity to help anyone take better photos. MORE

Break & Repair: A Practical Approach to SQL Injection - Tib3rius shares the technique for detecting and verifying SQL injections quickly. MORE

Nahamsec reveals how mastering regex patterns helped him earn over $15,000 in bug bounties by efficiently filtering recon data and finding hidden vulnerabilities. The video demonstrates practical regex techniques for GitHub reconnaissance, subdomain discovery, and API endpoint hunting that separate skilled hackers from tool runners. MORE

An Indonesian user explores VPN alternatives after government blocking of Twitter, Discord, and Cloudflare WARP during protests. The discussion highlights advanced censorship circumvention techniques like obfuscated protocols V2Ray/XRay, shadowsocks, and self-hosted solutions to bypass deep packet inspection. MORE

Jessie Frazelle (Zoo, Oxide, ACM Queue) talks about what it takes to get real value out of async AI agents in your dev workflow. Revealing why most tools spam PRs with useless summaries while one actually catches real bugs. MORE

How to resist everyday temptations. Acting on impulse often feels good at first, but brings trouble later. Understanding these urges can help you control them. MORE

Every building, business, and innovation around us exists because someone fought irrationally hard against impossible odds to make it real. Success isn't about talent or luck—it's about an almost crazy dedication to push through pain that would break most people. MORE

Diet masterclass: what to eat, when to eat & how to eat for longevity. Fitness expert Sal DiStefano reveals why 95% of diets fail long-term and explains his controversial hierarchy for sustainable weight loss that puts lifestyle and relationships above exercise. MORE

Just One More Prompt. Former iOS entrepreneur Peter Steinberger shares his candid confession about becoming addicted to AI coding agents like Claude, working obsessive hours and losing sleep while building endless side projects. He warns fellow developers about the intoxicating "slot machine" nature of AI tools that promise productivity but often lead to unhealthy work patterns reminiscent of startup culture extremes. MORE

Two major vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Device Pricing Program that exposed employee personal information and over 700 million partner records. The flaws included an authentication bypass and a leaked API key that granted access to sensitive Azure databases containing addresses, names, and partner IDs. MORE

The popular NX build tool was compromised to steal crypto wallets, API keys, and credentials from at least 1,400 developers' machines. MORE

Deep dive into CVE-2025-49706 reveals how SharePoint's authentication bypass fooled him with 401 responses while code execution was happening behind the scenes. Through patch diffing and debugging, they discovered that malicious payloads could execute successfully even when the server returned "Unauthorized" errors. MORE

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known. This deep dive reveals surprising href values like empty strings for page reloads, data URLs for inline content, and media fragments for timestamped video links. MORE

The History of Themeable User Interfaces traces how themeable user interfaces evolved from 1970s video game sprites to today's design tokens. From Mario and Luigi being the same character with different colors to modern CSS custom properties, it shows how creative constraints drove innovation in making interfaces adaptable across products and platforms. MORE

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