@PKGulati

Curious, Opinionated, Maker, Connector, WYSIWYG - finding misfits, going on wild goose chases, learning! SmartStart/TiE/ DFF/TEDSter https://xitter.cf/t.co/ukTDUgPvwX

Dubai, sometimes.
Joined August 2007
On the rocking jets of @Emirates bro!!
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YouTube is becoming the default television network of the internet… Netflix still has incredible shows and enormous cultural reach, but YouTube has something structurally powerful: an effectively infinite content engine, every niche imaginable, creators publishing continuously, and an algorithm that keeps learning what you want to watch… The interesting question is whether traditional streaming can keep competing for time, because that seems to be the metric YouTube is quietly winning
Netflix hit a peak market cap of $569B in June 2025. It’s now down ~50% to $288B while YouTube has completely run away with user viewing time.
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We’ve had AI breakthroughs, quantum breakthroughs, flying cars… But this may be the technology that finally unites humanity
JUST IN: Veradermics announces its experimental hair-loss pill significantly increased hair growth in over 500 men, with no serious side effects reported in a late-stage study.
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Feels like the security debt of the last 20 years is starting to come due… Phones, browsers, certificates, programming languages, IoT… everything is interconnected, and AI is making it much cheaper to probe the weak links at scale… Absolutely bullish that cybersecurity is about to become one of the defining industries of the next decade
In the last 24 hours: 1. iPhone 11 through 16 are apparently vulnerable to remote attacks. 2. SSL certificates are broken until browsers remove eMudhra CA. 3. PHP >9 vulnerability CVE published (tomorrow). The world is about to witness things that have never been seen before.
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The post's iPhone claim is inaccurate; a leaked Cellebrite forensic tool targets a Bluetooth bug patched in iOS 26.5 and does not affect updated devices. The eMudhra CA and PHP issues are real incidents but framed sensationally. justin.sh/blog/2026/10/c… blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/… php.net
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This is the kind of thing that makes me think we’re only at the start of a much bigger cybersecurity reckoning… A few compromised CA keys can undermine trust across huge parts of the internet… And as AI makes finding and exploiting weak infrastructure cheaper, I suspect we’re going to uncover a lot more of these buried fragilities
private keys from 8 intermediate CA certs have been compromised (eMudhra) Happy "Update everything" day to all my pager-carrying friends emudhra.we-have-a-problem.co…
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I find Ray Dalio’s framing much more useful than the usual ā€œAI bubble / no bubbleā€ debate… Even if AI delivers the productivity gains everyone hopes for, that doesn’t automatically make every investment around it rational…capital can still be misallocated, expectations can still get ahead of reality, and great technology can still produce terrible returns for people who paid the wrong price… We’ve seen that movie before…the technology can be transformational and the financial cycle around it can still get messy
Of all the recent arguments I’ve heard for why we might be in an AI bubble, this one from @RayDalio alarmed me the most. Much of the justification for the massive capex is based on the idea it will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity. But he says that even if we do see a productivity miracle, all sorts of other things have to happen to ensure there isn’t a crash. Ray and I went deep on all of the dynamics at play with a potential bubble. I hope you watch and subscribe: youtube.com/watch?v=OAN7gQle…
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Wonderful read… What I found useful is how wide the range still is on something as fundamental as how much revenue all this AI infrastructure actually needs to generate by 2030… Depending on the model, the hurdle is anywhere from roughly $0.5T to almost $3T a year… That spread alone tells you how much uncertainty is still hiding underneath all the confidence around AI capex
Side by side, 2030 AI infrastructure revenue hurdles from Goldman Sachs, Bernstein & Cummings, Van Nieuwerburgh – and our own at @ExponentialView. We explain why our 2030 revenue expectations diverge from consensus here: investmentbrief.ai/p/2030-re…
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If you are going to do one thing today, watch this… Our human centric mind needs a reminder that we are just a part of this world
She left her GoPro unattended at the bottom of the ocean to film a sunset underwater with no human around. [šŸ“¹ divedivelive]
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Been mulling over this a lot, lately… We spent decades designing friction out of life, and I’m increasingly convinced some of that friction was doing useful work for us… Walking to a shop, calling someone instead of messaging, fixing something before replacing it, getting a little lost, waiting, planning, hosting people at home… all of these demanded effort, and that effort often created memory, skill, patience and connection… Maybe a good life needs a little resistance
I'm fascinated by the rise of frictionmaxxing as a response to a frictionless life. We engineer away inconvenience, only to discover that some of the friction we removed was part of what made life feel alive in the first place
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Reddit really does have everything…. Somewhere on there is a person asking whether their sourdough starter is alive, someone identifying a 17-year-old cable from one blurry photo… and apparently someone quietly documenting Theranos before the rest of the world caught on… At this point, I’m convinced every major event has a Reddit post from five years earlier that everyone ignored
Reminder that an anonymous Theranos employee discussed the whole fraud (without naming the company) on a popular subreddit years before the WSJ broke the story
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This may be my favourite AI benchmark yet.. šŸ˜„ 254 million tokens, 9 hours, a swarm of agents… all to reverse engineer Linux source code that is already publicly available… A beautiful reminder that AI can now do extraordinarily complicated things, and we humans can still give it completely unnecessary jobs… The future is here…efficiency may take a little longer
Last night, a swarm of Opus 5.5 agents working for 9 hours and burning 254.2 million output tokens were able to fully reverse engineer and decompile the Linux source code Full source archive available here kernel.org Grab it before they take it down
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This is absolutely wild… We mapped the brain of a fruit fly, turned that wiring into something executable, and now it can navigate worlds that never physically existed… There’s something almost philosophical about that: a tiny biological intelligence, lifted out of nature and dropped into a synthetic universe… The line between neuroscience, simulation and AI is getting very strange, very quickly
We placed the fruit fly brain inside Odyssey-3, a frontier world model. The lil’ guy is now flying around totally imagined, simulated worlds all by itself 🫶
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I think this is where vibe coding gets genuinely exciting… A TV used to be something you bought and mostly accepted as-is…now you can look at an interface you hate and think: I’ll just make my own… That is a pretty profound shift…personal software is starting to escape the laptop and move into the physical objects we already own
vibe coded my first tv launcher. what a time to be alive
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Funny how familiar this pattern is… From horseless carriages to driverless cars, 130 years later a lot changed…yet something are the same… I think we often underestimate how much social adaptation matters in technological change..the machine can be ready before the rules, habits and public comfort around it are…. History keeps rhyming
The year is 1897, horseless carriages are denied permission to be on roads by Washington D.C. The year is 2026, people are trying to deny driverless carriages on the roads of Washington D.C.
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I keep thinking quantum computing is one of those fields where the breakthroughs sound abstract right up until they suddenly don’t… Getting ā€œmagic statesā€ to 99.99% logical fidelity may sound like a niche technical milestone, but ..looks like these states are one of the key ingredients for making useful, fault-tolerant quantum computers practical. Google says the new method cut errors by about 40x on Willow… We are still some distance from large-scale useful quantum machines, but the bottlenecks are getting chipped away one by one
BREAKING: Google, $GOOGL, announced a major quantum computing breakthrough. It achieved a record 99.99% accuracy producing ā€œmagic states,ā€ a key ingredient quantum computers need to run any calculation reliably, per Science. The work was done on Google’s 105-qubit Willow chip.
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I have to admit, flying cars still trigger the child-in-me immediatelyā€¦šŸ˜„ We’ve spent decades being promised that the future would look like this, and most of the time it arrived as better software, faster chips and nicer screens… Seeing an actual car lift off the ground feels delightfully old-school futuristic
Turns out the future does have flying cars
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Geek dreams are made of this!!!!! šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡
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Hmmmm Parry, that was a hard one.... Analogies are good, but putting NFAK and McDonalds as analogous calls for a blasphemy verdict!
ā€œI’m a huge Nusrat Fateh Ali fan. My favourite song is Afreen Afreen", is the musical equivalent of, ā€œI’m a huge foodie. My favourite restaurant is McDonald’s."
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Looks like @elonmusk was inspired by #Bollywood šŸ˜„ – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
How ima pull up on yo girl in a Tesla roadster
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The kind of thing that makes the semiconductor industry feel almost absurdly impressive… We talk about chips as if they’re tiny, invisible pieces of technology…till you remember that making them requires a 180-ton machine, dozens of containers, cargo aircraft, specialist teams and billions in supporting infrastructure… There’s something humbling about how much physical complexity sits underneath the digital world we take for granted
The delivery process for ASML EUV is nuts, too: ā–«ļøEach EUV weighs 180 tons ā–«ļøA disassembled EUV takes up to 40 shipping containers ā–«ļøShipping it (mostly to Asia) takes 20 trucks and 3 Boeing 747s ā–«ļøASML teams must be on-the-ground to maintain them ā–«ļøThe minimum spend to house EUVs is $1B (machine, transportation, ongoing maintenance etc)
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