How Sammy Azdoufal hacked 7000 vacuums? • Man buys DJI robovac • Reverse engineers app w/ Claude • Pulls auth token from server & pings 7000 vacuums • Gets camera access to users & maps of homes • Freaks out & reports to DJI Turns out DJI didn’t verify device ownership

Shyam Sankar: CTO of Palantir The man who made an obscure company into one of largest US defense contractor with a staggering $350 Billion market cap colossus.com/article/the-pa…

Investor Conference #Unplugged Managing Director of Whirlpool India, Narasimhan Eswar serenades investors with a happy tune as revenues are up but profits are down

Noel Tata of Tata Trust, which owns 66% of $100B Tata Sons delayed extension for Chairman, N Chandrasekaran Board concerned over losses in new ventures (Air India, BigBasket) & set 3 conditions: no listing of Tata Sons, stay debt-free, limit risky capex to protect reserves

Indian #Marriage Trends 2016-26 Avg Age to Marry Up 27 to 29y #Caste criteria down 50% 2nd Marriages Not Taboo Double Incomes Expected #Joint family preferred by men>women #Delhi singles prefer same city spouse drive.google.com/file/d/1i-MQoJ…

Mac goes Mass #Apple announces MacBook Neo at $600 Powered by A18 chip from iPhone 16 Pro, 8GB RAM, 256GB Storage & 13” display. It is designed to reach deep inside price sensitive markets like India & acquire more users for Apple Peripherals & Services

Perplexity demolished the entry-barrier to #Bloomberg Terminal Using Perplexity Computer, financial analysts can build a terminal with real-time data using Perplexity Finance and save $30,000 a year on subscriptions

1 week of US-Israel 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 offence against Iran 🇮🇷 #IranIsraelWar #OperationEpicFury

The Iran #Shahed-136 Kamakazi Drone uses a VW 4 cylinder engine to fly low speed loitering missions. It identifies a target and denotes a 40kg chemical warhead

Snowboarding in Saree Urmila Pable, professional Indian Snowboarder 🏂 sliding down the slopes at Gulmarg She won bronze at #KheloIndia winter games

The Prophecy said: AI will eliminate software jobs But Job postings for SW engineers are actually ⬆️ It’s Jevon’s paradox, Efficiency increases Consumption When AI made coding cheaper, companies build a lot more & put software for new applications

Since most top #Hospitals in India are run by Private-equity PE firms, #Healthcare is no longer “care”, it’s purely bottom-line driven

A Chinese student compiled the ‘country of origin’ by scanning 5000 artefacts in the British #Museum 🇬🇧 All items were stolen from 99 countries

Cement Cartel of India #CCI The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said Dalmia, Digvijay & India Cement ran a "cartel" & manipulated prices for 12yrs #ONGC complained when all companies bid exactly Rs 7350 for multi-site procurement contract #coincedence

#BeatleMania hits America in 1960s

#NewYork City is Alive 🗽 Population of New York changes cyclically like a heartbeat ♥️ Around 1.6 million people sleep in #Manhattan but around 2PM every workday, the island is home to about 4 million. Credit: Darkhorse Analytics

Ken Griffin, founder of #Citadel worth $50B, famously quoted "If we're all going to eat, someone has to sell” Business is always selling To employees, vendors, customers And you hear NO a lot Don’t be afraid of NO Expect it, learn from it & keep building

An AI artist named Sienna Rose has 3 songs getting streamed in the #Spotify top 50 Artists like #SelenaGomez have posted her AI songs on their Instagram for the Golden Globes

The Sober Generation 5 top liquor firms (Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Campari, Brown Forman, Remy) have $22bn of aging inventory They saw high drinking trends during COVID & overproduced Now demand tanked 1) Less spending 2) broader health trend 3) Ozempic kills desire to drink

Humans can detect the smell of rain (petrichor) from a mile away, our nose is programmed to detect 5 parts of Geosmin per Trillion It’s even stronger than sharks ability to detect blood in water