exited founder/angel prev: fb, amzn, reddit skills: reverse engineering, keygens, bo staff, startups, steak, and tacos. signal: merket.01

Austin/SF
Joined February 2025
Replying to @TechCrunch
@TechCrunch please add the link. Do the right thing. You don't even say how you sourced this. Because I reverse engineered it.
Replying to @TechCrunch
you know what's unoriginal? stealing scoops with no attribution.
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This is why I have always used my real name everywhere. Even on Reddit. Privacy has always been an illusion on the internet! Using your real name means you create less artifacts that can be exploited later on.
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In 2009 I incubated my first startup in the same office as the first company cutting deals to put their chips in TVs to listen/collect data. Their work area They are still around. Raised $40M. This tech is almost 20 years old...
i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?
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I’m going camping. This is nuts.
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Astrolab's FLIP rover will test whether LLMs can make useful decisions on the Moon when help from Earth is delayed. FLIP will carry HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 on NASA's Griffin-1 mission, planned for late 2026. If successful, onboard LLMs could let rovers act autonomously and close the Moon's last-mile gap. runtimewire.com/article/astr…
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BREAKING: DHS bars DeepSeek products and any DeepSeek-powered tools from federal civilian IT systems. Order #2026-01, dated July 24th, was filed Oct 19th for Federal Register publication Oct 20th. The 60-day exception window elapsed; DHS cites China-hosted servers and alleged iOS flaws. runtimewire.com/article/dhs-…
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RuntimeWire flagged DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 refresh about 3 hours before @deepseek_ai announced it. Our report published at 12:08 a.m. CT on October 17th; DeepSeek posted the official release at 3:35:54 a.m. CT. We flagged a dated model label and a possible API refresh before the company confirmed the update. runtimewire.com/article/deep…
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What if Sam ends up buying xAI for Grok's video/image/agentic models, which are clearly better, and let's Elon focus on space/cars/X?
this was a "never deleting this app" moment
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Ryan Merket retweeted
If Musk is so fuking smart why didn’t he factor this in?
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BREAKING: OpenAI adds parallel agents to GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT, letting Pro users follow and inspect delegated tasks in the Chat tab. OpenAI's October 16th X post says the agents run in parallel for Pro users. The post also claims faster responses and better plugin and tool use, but offered no latency figures or examples. runtimewire.com/article/open…
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We just hit 25,000 subscribers on YouTube! Thank you to all our subs, it truly means a lot.
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$100 says Ukraine reverse engineers Starlink and finds a way to mimic speeds between 89-98 to stay under the speed block.
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The same people that fell for Claude's marketing, bought Mac minis for OpenClaw, fell for Grok Bot (anyone could have put LLMs in a chatroom), and are already typing ‘this changes everything’ about a product that hasn’t been announced yet. Are now telling you Reverse Engineer Anything is the next hype. Don't fall for it. You don't need it. You can reverse / crack anything with a frontier model and a misspelled prompt.
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CrowdStrike is in advanced talks to buy ORION for about $500 million. Ctech reports the talks remain unsigned and CrowdStrike has not confirmed; ORION was founded in 2024 and has raised $38 million to date. runtimewire.com/article/crow…
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dont hate the player, hate the game
JUST IN: Man sentenced to 18 months in prison after generating hundreds of thousands of AI songs & using bots to stream them billions of times, outstreaming Taylor Swift & earning $8 million.
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The man was sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He used fake emails and fraudulently obtained debit cards to create the bot accounts used to stream the AI-generated songs billions of times. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… musicbusinessworldwide.com/man-behind-8m-…
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BREAKING: Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. The potential deal would center on Decart's software that helps AI run across different accelerators, making chip-agnostic optimization expensive. runtimewire.com/article/amaz…
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