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Before Stuxnet became the name everyone cited when talking about state-sponsored cyberattacks, there may have been something quieter, and arguably more precise, already in the wild. SentinelOne's research team has surfaced evidence suggesting a high-precision software sabotage operation was active roughly five years earlier, tied to references buried in the Shadow Brokers leak. It's a reminder that the history of cyberwarfare is still being written backward.
On a lighter note, a developer named Ismat Samadov got tired of juggling fourteen browser tabs while job hunting and decided to build the solution himself. What started as a personal scraping project to aggregate listings eventually grew into Birjob, a startup now pulling in ten thousand job postings. It's a familiar origin story in tech — frustration as a product brief — but it's a clean example of scratching your own itch all the way to a business.
And a post making the rounds asks whether your AI can actually do arithmetic wrapped in misdirection. The sheep puzzle involves subtraction, multiplication, a generous neighbor, and a Wednesday that follows a Monday. The weight of the sheep is irrelevant, which is rather the point. Spoiler: the answer is thirty one, and the trap is trusting the noise.
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