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LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

This tale is also a warning that your AI agents can be manipulated in wholly unintended ways.

If you’ve spent any amount of time on Microsoft’s business-focused social media site LinkedIn, you will probably be painfully aware of recruiter spam. Software developer tmuxvim is one unhappy victim, and decided to strike back, or at least extract some amusement from the AIs that relentlessly inform users of irresistible opportunities. They did this via a prompt injection added to their LinkedIn bio...

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u/gurugabrielpradipaka — 6 days ago
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AMD prepares CPPC HighestFreq support to report CPU boost clocks directly to the OS

AMD prepares OS-level boost clock reporting for future CPUs

The original source is Gazlog in Japanese.

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u/gurugabrielpradipaka — 14 days ago

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996

The contented penguin had to be overweight like it had eaten a bucketful of herring, as the only other kind of happy penguin is one that has ‘just gotten laid,’ reasoned the Linux supremo.

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u/gurugabrielpradipaka — 14 days ago

Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026'

Instead of 'flying cars and moon stations' in 2026, we still have Windows 11 using '90s code, admits Mark Russinovich.

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u/gurugabrielpradipaka — 15 days ago