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Success Is A Lousy Teacher

The other day, I was reading a story that reminded me of the quote from Bill Gates that said, “Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can’t lose.” The story was about an Indian man, Karthik Rajaram, who grew up in Bangalore and completed his graduation from one of the premier colleges, IIT Madras, …

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A Software Engineer “Hacks” An Airline Website To Find His Lost Luggage

What would you do when your luggage gets misplaced and you get no help from the airline or its customer service? I am sure this happens a lot, just that we don’t get to hear it frequently. Well, one incident happened to a 28-year-old software developer, Nandan Kumar, and a network engineer, Raj Shekhar, the …

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Elon Musk Donated Nearly $6 Billion Making It One Of The Biggest Donations Ever

Can a billionaire end world hunger? Can a billionaire end world poverty? These questions have been asked endlessly and discussed heavily on multiple platforms. There has been a lot of debate about whether it will have any impact if a billionaire decides to donate a portion of his wealth to eradicate the problem. On October 30th, 2021, Dr …

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The Vulnerability That Has Rocked The World’s Tech And Cybersecurity Firms

On November 24th, 2021, the security team at Alibaba found a vulnerability in the Log4J library, now known as “Log4Shell”. The security team reported the vulnerability to the Apache Foundation, which monitors the development of the software, after which it was being tracked as CVE-2021–44228 On December 9th, 2021, it was publicly reported about the …

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