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-Lazarus Group ran a watering hole + zero-day combo attack
-Targets included at least six South Korean tech companies
-The zero-day was in CrossEx, a browser security tool
securelist.com/operation-sy...
Yeah, my emphasis on the former. It's suddenly worth media attention and a news story because who is affected now. It's more a comment on what western media cares about.. ie if it was purely a moral/legal position, nothing much has changed.
There is a certain level of western privilege on display here in that one thinks one can just work their way through a holiday without a work visa.
While what's happening is bad, I feel these aren't new rules.. just getting applied to westerners for the first time.
To me the most importing thing about today is that they knew what this would do to the market, and did it anyway.
If nothing else, that ought to tell you what time it is.
GrabCab gets licence to run street-hail service, becoming Singapore's 6th taxi operator
Faced a docker compose issue today.
None of claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 pro, and o1 could solve it. All proposed obviously wrong solutions.
I need to get some time from my staff engineers now 😅
The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all the data.
It turns out the largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma, it was law enforcement.
Given the rise of authoritarian governments, the project is now dead.
Haha. Yeah, there's a timeline before kids and a timeline after kids!
I had thoughts on this that wouldn't have fit in one post..
So here:
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The pressure to grow revenue year over year pulls SaaS products further away from their core. Meanwhile, the build-vs-buy equation is tilting back toward build.
The value gap is widening and I bet it’s making at least some buyers rethink the whole model. /9
When paired with dead-simple hosting options, the cost of building - and maintaining - simple internal tools is dropping. Fast. /8
Until recently, the answer to that was usually no, because building in-house meant ongoing maintenance, distraction, and lost time.
But with GenAI-assisted coding, that calculus might be shifting. /7
And then comes Renewal. You’ve barely used the new stuff, but the price goes up anyway, because “look at all the value we’ve added!”
You're stuck since switching costs are real.
And you start wondering, would it have been cheaper and simpler to build a basic internal tool for that _one_ job? /6
Now you’ve got a bloated tool that kinda-sorta does a dozen things, but doesn’t really do the thing you hired it for.
But instead of fixing that, they add more features. Because hey, more features = more “value,” right? /5
And the SaaS vendors know it is steep too! They know the value doesn’t match the price. So they start piling on adjacent features to “justify” the pricing.
The focus shifts away from the one thing the product was supposed to do well into “value add”. /4
Here’s where it starts to go sideways: a product that solves one simple need-say org charts-often launches at $10–$20/user.
They _all_ start at this price point. Why? I assume because that’s what some “SaaS pricing best practices” say.
But let’s be real: for just org charts, 10$/user is steep. /3
It used to feel obvious: if something isn’t core to your business, just outsource it. Buy a tool. Subscribe to a service.
But lately, I find myself second-guessing that instinct. Especially with the way most SaaS products evolve.
Let me explain … /1
Have we swung too far toward “just buy SaaS for everything” ?
Between GenAI-assisted development and bloated SaaS pricing, maybe the smarter move now is to build simple internal tools that do one thing really well?
Curious if others are feeling this too!
As a startup, we use SaaS for a bunch of non-core workflows. I’ve evaluated SaaS for all kinds of things—from big ones like SDLC tools to a long tail of smaller tools like status pages, org charts, polls, feature flags, and so on..
And we’re not unique—every company does this now. /2
Oh wow. Didn't think this would happen due to competition dynamics! Nice!
Incorrect hindi spellings in ChatGPT generated images
ChatGPT image generation still struggles with Hindi text
OpenAI's report is like something you would get from a consultant (without the fancy slides) whereas Google's report is like a high school paper.
I gave Google #Gemini Deep Research and #OpenAI Deep Research the same research task, both via their web interfaces (gemini.google.com Advanced and chatgpt.com Plus)
OpenAI's report was much more detailed, comprehensive, and I actually learned something new! Google's was very meh.
The truth is these systems are good enough that things are going to change in work, society & education. Things are already changing. And even if AI models don’t get better (and that seems to be a bad bet) we have a couple decades of absorbing what we have. That is a starting point for conversation.
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The Pebble smartwatch team shares all of the ways Apple limits non-Apple smartwatches on the iPhone.
Your smartwatch can’t send texts, respond to notifications or talk to iOS apps unless it’s an Apple Watch. No one is allowed to build a device that connects to an iPhone as well as an Apple device.