Asish kumar·14h agoA certificate authority trusted by every browser used the number 4 as a private key. For 18 months.Not a hack, not a backdoor. A Python script read one byte of a 48-byte key, nobody tested the result, and two audits waved it through.
Asish kumar·3d agoAn AI settled a quantum computing conjecture open since 2008 in 3 days.The interesting part is not that a model did maths. It is what the run looked like from the inside: it dug up an old lemma that a PhD…A response icon1A response icon1
Asish kumar·4d ago1.3 million TV boxes shipped with a hacker pre-installed. The hacker was the manufacturer.Google just banned a company that made Android TV boxes, after finding that the firmware itself phoned home, rented out your home internet…
Asish kumar·5d agoFor 10 years, any 257-character password logged you into Alpine Linux. Nobody noticed.The bug was not in one program. It lived in the gap between two programs that each did the sensible thing, and a 4-character check fixed…
Asish kumar·6d agoStop chasing 10,000 steps. The number was a 1965 pedometer’s brand name.In 16,741 women tracked for four years, the death rate stopped falling at about 7,500 steps. The 10,000 came from a Japanese clock company.
Asish kumar·Nov 7Stop splitting your protein into 30g meals. A 100g dose kept working for 12 hours.The famous per-meal limit comes from six men, one leg workout and a four-hour stopwatch.A response icon1A response icon1
Asish kumar·Nov 7An AI opened another AI’s brain, changed 0.016% of it, and its math score went up 6x.No retraining, no new data. GPT-6 Astra read the raw weights of a small model, found the part that made it loop, and switched it off.A response icon1A response icon1
Asish kumar·Nov 7It doesn’t take 21 days to build a habit. In the study that measured it, it took 18 to 254.The famous number came from a surgeon watching patients get used to new faces. The people who actually measured habits got a very different…A response icon1A response icon1
Asish kumar·Jun 21, 2025Stateful Authentication — Cookie, Cached and moreAuthentication is the process of ascertaining that somebody really is who they claim to be.
