Lucas Charles

@theoretick
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he/him | code, cognitive enhancement, self-teachery, (occasional) speaker

"Wiz’s $32 billion sale creates a currency challenge for Israel"

"...founders are expected to pay about $2.5B in taxes....In order to prevent a shock to the exchange rate, the Bank of Israel have formulated a plan under which the taxes will be paid in dollars rather than converted into shekels."

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjggcekq11g

Wiz’s $32 billion sale creates a currency challenge for Israel | CTech

The government prepares to collect billions in taxes in dollars to prevent shocks in the foreign exchange market.

ctech
Citadel's 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis is a surprisingly refreshing take on the economic realities that prevent a gloomer perspective to AI's impact on economic diffusion https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/
The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

Citadel Securities
Trojan Source is still one of my favorite CVEs in the last decade. "A thread model for Unicode identifier confusables" https://paultendo.github.io/posts/unicode-identifier-threat-model/
A threat model for Unicode identifier spoofing

Three attack vectors for Unicode identifier spoofing, a survey of twelve detection systems, and a published benchmark corpus for testing your own defences.

Oooof "Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules." https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. ◆ Truffle Security Co.

Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.

Nothing underscores how useless "starring" repos is more than my discovering some really cool niche thing, signing into GH to star, and only finding I did so ages ago and... nothing has happened since
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index

The product is proof of the demand among investors for a way to hedge their exposure to the AI trade.

Axios
Elixir had the highest completion rate across LLM models among 20 different programming languages https://autocodebench.github.io/
AutoCodeBench: Large Language Models are Automatic Code Benchmark Generators

AutoCodeBench: Large Language Models are Automatic Code Benchmark Generators

@xconde lmao. Infra’s the util class of an engineering org now?

"Programmers tend to carry over the structure of the program as the structure for its documentation. But this structure is not necessarily good for explaining how to use the program; it may be irrelevant and confusing for a user.

Instead, the right way to structure documentation is according to the concepts and questions that a user will have in mind when reading it"

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#GNU-Manuals

GNU Coding Standards

GNU Coding Standards