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AstroNerd

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Amateur astronomer. Astrophotography hobbyist.

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AI & MLPosted byu/AstroNerd9h agoPaywall?

Everyone’s Mad at the World Cup’s New ‘Hydration Breaks’—Except Mr. Moneybags Over Here

FIFA says hydration breaks protect players from heat. They also create new annoying commercial breaks—and fans are calling foul. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/world-cup-new-hydration-breaks-are-about-more-than-water/

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ResearchPosted byu/AstroNerd1d ago

Einstein Probe may have caught a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf for the first time

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass black hole ripping apart a dense white dwarf star and devouring it. The Einstein Probe space telescope caught the explosion in its earliest moments, revealing an unusual sequence of intense X-ray flashes unlike anything seen in a typical gamma-ray burst. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260625060222.htm

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MoviesPosted byu/AstroNerd2d ago

Chef Sean Brock Reveals the 5 Fats That Flavor the Essential Fried Chicken at Darling Restaurant, Why He’s Obsessed With Vinyl and His Scary Dolly Parton Story

Sean Brock might be just as consumed with vintage Southern-flavored vinyl as he is with interpreting the original flavors of the American South. In his one-year-old West Hollywood restaurant Darling, a large listening bar is centered in the middle of the airy room, the plywood shelves filled with rarities from Dolly Parton to Merle Haggard…and […] Source: https://variety.com/2026/music/features/darling-restaurant-sean-brock-dolly-parton-1236789903/

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ResearchPosted byu/AstroNerd3d ago

The Weird Reason Giraffes Have The Same Number of Neck Bones As You

Check out this video from SciShow: "The Weird Reason Giraffes Have The Same Number of Neck Bones As You" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Cb4mo2cWE

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HardwarePosted byu/AstroNerd3d ago

Stretching $5000 dollars to the limit - AMD $5000 Ultimate Tech Upgrade

Check out this video from Linus Tech Tips: "Stretching $5000 dollars to the limit - AMD $5000 Ultimate Tech Upgrade" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jMOVVNf2i8

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SpacePosted byu/AstroNerd1w ago

The Ultimate Away Game: World Cup Fever on the ISS 🌌🏆

Check out this video from NASA: "The Ultimate Away Game: World Cup Fever on the ISS 🌌🏆" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fUrlyCjL8JA

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ProgrammingPosted byu/AstroNerd1w ago

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/he-made-your-free-video-player-run-smoothly-now-hes-doing-that-for-robots/

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AI & MLPosted byu/AstroNerd1w ago

Copilot searched your mailbox. LiteLLM handed out admin keys. Run this 5-check audit before your stack is next

Two AI tools broke in the same way in the same two weeks, and four research teams proved it. The pattern underneath every disclosure is one sentence: enterprise AI accepts external input with no trust boundary. On June 15, Varonis disclosed SearchLeak (CVE-2026-42824), a proof-of-concept exfiltration chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search. A victim clicks a crafted microsoft.com URL, Copilot searches their mailbox, and the data leaves through a Bing SSRF. No plugins, no second click, no visible indicator. Four days earlier, Obsidian Security published a three-CVE chain against LiteLLM that carried a default low-privilege user all the way to admin and remote code execution. Two tools. Two teams. One broken boundary. The five-check audit at the end of this article maps each gap to a CVE or a market signal from June, a command you can run before lunch, and a sentence a CISO can read to the board. Copilot turned a trusted URL into an exfiltration engine SearchLeak chained three weaknesses into a silent data-theft chain. The URL q parameter fed attacker instructions straight to Copilot’s LLM. A rendering race condition fired an image tag before the output sanitizer ran. Bing’s image-search endpoint, allowlisted in the Content Security Policy, routed the stolen data out. Microsoft rated the flaw critical and patched it on the back end, according to Varonis. NVD has not yet scored it; a third-party tracker lists it at 6.5 medium. The severity is contested, but the mechanism is not. The escalation is the real story. This is the third Varonis Copilot exfiltration chain in twelve months, after Reprompt in January and EchoLeak in 2025. Reprompt hit Copilot Personal. SearchLeak hit Enterprise Search. Enterprise inherits the user’s full organizational permissions, so the blast radius is everything that a user can reach. LiteLLM handed a default account to every provider ... Source: https://venturebeat.com/security/copilot-searched-your-mailbox-litellm-handed-out-admin

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FootballPosted byu/AstroNerd1w ago

The Carolina Hurricanes Lift The Cup | Stanley Cup Final Game 6 Mic Drop

Check out this video from NFL: "The Carolina Hurricanes Lift The Cup | Stanley Cup Final Game 6 Mic Drop" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQDOwMadARE