HackerNews Summary (2023-06-01 06AM)

Source: Ask HN: Cyber Security folks – what are your biggest pain points?

Summary
A cybersecurity startup is building an automated cyber defense product from scratch for network scale inventory tracking and mitigation. They use a peer-to-peer approach for nodes to detect and quarantine threats, patch vulnerabilities, and share suspicious incidents. The product leverages a mixture of Golang and eBPF for user and kernel space in Linux/BSD/Unizes.

Facts

🤖 The startup is creating an automated cyber defense product from scratch.

🖳 The product focuses on network scale inventory tracking and mitigation.

🙌 The product leverages a peer-to-peer approach for nodes to automatically detect, patch, and share incidents of suspicious activity.

💻 The product uses Golang for user space and eBPF for kernel space.

🐛 The startup’s founder pointed out that log4j’s log4shell 1/2 exposed that most blue teams lacked reliable, accurately indexed inventory tracking.

🔍 The founder is asking professionals if they use a reliable software and network inventory system as well as an SBOM for third party software.

⚠️ The founder is inquiring if antivirus/EDR systems still use signatures or behavioral analysis.

🐧 The founder is asking professionals if they use Linux, and if so, which distributions?

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Source: A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.

Summary
A woman with severe schizophrenia, later identified as an individual with lupus, was awakened after 20 years with targeted treatments. This awakening is transforming care for almost 200 people with autoimmune diseases and fixing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in psychiatry.

Fact

👥 Nearly 200 patients with autoimmune diseases will be helped by the discovery

🧠 Underlying autoimmune and inflammatory processes may be more common in mental illness patients than previously believed

💊 Targeted treatments can bring severely ill patients back to awareness

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Source: Automate the CEOs

Summary
Artificial intelligence can replace executives who have a tendency to spend their days making decisions that could easily be allocated to AI. The development of AI, however, has the potential to make companies more efficient, and these executives’ roles no longer serve a viable purpose.

Fact

💼 Executives are lazy, greedy employees whose jobs are a perfect candidate for replacement by AI.

📈 Tasks such as allocation of capital, creation and execution of market strategy, and selection of candidates for top roles can easily be learned by AI.

🤖 A sophisticated algorithm can make better decisions about what to sell, what to spend, and what to cut than human CEOs.

🚀 Creative class workers have realized that AI can easily replace bosses.

💸 Employers pretend that AI will benefit everyone, but they are instead using the technology to replace labor costs.

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Source: View 3D fossils

Summary
Explore 3D scans of rare and important Australian fossils, including extinct animals, footprints, and teeth, usually kept behind the scenes in museum collections.

Fact

🦕 The 3D scans include fossils from iconic Australian animals such as the Diprotodon, Megalania, and Thylacoleo.

🦶 You can also find 3D scans of fossil footprints, including those of dinosaurs and early mammals.

🦷 The collection includes 3D scans of teeth from ancient sharks, crocodiles, and other fascinating creatures.

🔬 The specimens selected are type specimens, which are incredibly important for understanding the characteristics of a particular species.

⏳ Some 3D scans may take some time to load due to their large file size.

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