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A government website running Ruby on Rails was successfully attacked just hours after a critical CVE patch was made public. The incident, documented by security firm Rietta, is a sharp reminder of how narrow the window really is between disclosure and exploitation — and how many public-sector systems simply cannot patch fast enough to stay ahead of opportunistic attackers.
On the AI front, Hacker News is asking a question that sounds simple but isn't: what actually is artificial general intelligence, and have we already crossed that line? The thread has no consensus, which is itself the story. As frontier models grow more capable, the definition of AGI keeps shifting, raising real questions about whether the goalposts are moving by accident or by design.
And in the stranger corners of crypto, a meme coin called BONER has reportedly cornered roughly half of the tokenized shares of Hims and Hers Health on Robinhood's new blockchain platform. It sounds absurd, and it is, but it also reveals something genuine about how easily speculative communities can distort nascent financial infrastructure when the guardrails are still being built.
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