🧑💻 Hackers Are “Slopsquatting”—And It’s Worse Than It Sounds; Map of The Entire Railway Network of the World; Countries That Didn't Exist 100 Years Ago
PLUS, legendary founders who started their company after age 40.
🏋️♀️ “Slopsquatting” is the word of the day
Don’t get got by slopsquatters.
Hackers are using new cyberattack enabled by AI hallucinations.
🤔 How does it work?
Developers use AI to write code for them. Sometimes the AI makes up a fake package name that doesn’t exist — which is harmless at first. But then hackers create a real package using that hallucinated name. And then the next time you run your program, you get got.
From Rachel Braun’s newsletter:
👴 Famous Founders Who Started Their Company After Age 40
Me:
🚂 The Railway Network of the Entire World: MAPPED
There aren’t any trains in northern South America?
🌏 Countries that Did Not Exist 100 Years Ago
Interesting
💰 Cities With The Most Millionaires
I’m moving to Tokyo. ✈️
🫃 Nearly 20% of Young Adults Are Living With Their Parents in the U.S.
Wow almost one in five are living w their parents.
🎶 Banger of the Day
NEW DORP. NEW YORK - SBTRKT (feat. Ezra Koenig)
👉 Play this track next time someone passes you the aux. It’s so so good.
I first heard this track on Solomun’s Boiler Room mix and I’ve prob listened to it 200 times since then. Absolute masterpiece.
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