Hasnain says:

“Castro quickly and successfully moved to repeal the ZEDEs law in the face of intense bipartisan U.S. pressure to maintain them. The American response has been to repudiate the very idea of Honduran democracy and sovereignty, with investors using the World Bank’s ICSID to force the new Honduran government to respect the policies carried out by the former president now sitting behind federal bars.”

Hasnain says:

Why are finances even a question here?

““Lately, Boeing appoints C.E.O.s that seem more focused on stock price and dividends than on flight safety and production quality,” said Dennis Tajer, a captain at American Airlines and a spokesman for the union that represents the airline’s pilots.
Boeing declined to comment.

How Boeing navigates its latest crisis in the coming weeks and months could have broad implications for its credibility with regulators, airlines and travelers, as well as its long-term financial performance.”

Hasnain says:

Amazing.

“Meta was apparently tipped off to this alleged betrayal when Khurana used his Meta email and network access to complete a writing assignment for Omniva as part of his hiring process. For this writing assignment, Khurana "disclosed non-public information about Meta’s relationship with certain suppliers that it uses for its data centers" when asked to "explain how he would help his potential new employer develop the supply chain for a company building data centers using specific technologies."

In a seeming attempt to cover up the alleged theft of Meta documents, Khurana apparently "attempted to scrub" one document "of its references to Meta," as well as removing a label marking it "CONFIDENTIAL—FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY.” But when replacing "Meta" with "X," Khurana allegedly missed the term "Meta" in "at least five locations."”

Hasnain says:

“In the end, product security is a red herring; it’s enterprise security that urgently needs a paradigm shift. I know that we’ll end up with more regulation for software development: the narratives of “market failures” are unfalsifiable and it’s the nature of all bureaucracies to amass influence and expand. But I think we’re barking up the wrong tree.”

Hasnain says:

From 2021 but still super relevant.

“But whether this or another approach is the best solution is not the key question. What matters is that housing shortages may be the biggest problem facing our era, and solving it needs to become everyone’s highest priority. And as important as it is, we should be wary of letting it become politically tribalised: the disastrous politicisation of Covid vaccines in the United States highlights the danger of that. Some kind of creative, below-the-radar solution that turns this zero-sum game into a positive-sum one is likely to have a better chance. In a tug of war, it’s often surprising how far you can go if you tug the rope sideways.

If we’re right about this, it means that fixing this one problem could make everyone’s lives much better than almost anyone realises – not just by making houses cheaper, but giving people better jobs, a better quality of life, more cohesive communities, bigger families and healthier lives. It could even give renewed reasons to be optimistic about the future of the West.”

Hasnain says:

“The situation has sparked immense alarm and outrage among professional humanitarian groups, many of whom blasted Biden’s recent new proposals for Gaza.

“Oxfam does not support U.S. airdrops to Gaza, which would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior U.S. officials,” Scott Paul of Oxfam America recently wrote on X.”

Hasnain says:

Did they just assassinate the whistleblower? (If this was a novel and a dystopia..)

“Boeing denied his assertions. However, a 2017 review by the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), did uphold some of Mr Barnett's concerns.”

Hasnain says:

“A quick experiment with Claude suggests this approach could be promising (with some prompting, Claude was able to generate a program to generate an input to trigger the Heartbleed-style vulnerability mentioned above). But of course further work is needed to validate this approach and work out what challenges need to be overcome to make it practical (if indeed it can be made practical).

That’s certainly more work than can be squeezed into the odd free moment on a heatwave weekend.”

Hasnain says:

“In August of 2023, a month before Jager and Esch reached their plea agreements with prosecutors, this unidentified male co-conspirator escaped from prison. This triggered a nationwide manhunt and caused Esch and his family "to go into hiding," as stated in a court document. Two weeks after the escape, the co-conspirator was found dead.”

Hasnain says:

“Research Medical Center didn’t provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks as “injuries evolve.””