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  Loster (@Loster) reported 1 second ago

  @Z3R0Gravitas Thinking that if I do trials with people I'd give them exactly that. Something similar to a Dropbox folder for any health docs they want sync'd to the agent's server. I think that would take up how much it could help a notch (need to think a lot about confidentiality).

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  True Blue Democrat & Patriot🇺🇦🇵🇸💔 (@TrueBluPatriot) reported 2 minutes ago

  And Took a picture of his little girl's ********. Then a staffer posted it on DropBox in error. That is the worst part.

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  The Peel (@ThePeelPod) reported 3 minutes ago

  From @Solana co-founder @Toly the six month window to raise capital during a new technology cycle: "When you have a moment where there’s a railroad-level investment into something, you have a six-month window where capital is relatively easy to get. Where people will fund an idea that seems like it solves a lot of the current problems that the technology is facing. For Solana, if I waited six months for a better time, if I proved out the idea first, it would be too late. The big benefit of being in the Bay Area as a founder is, when I went to Dropbox and told them I was quitting to go do the startup, they literally told me to come back in six months if it doesn’t work out. There’s no other place in the world with the same layers of executives and founders and companies who all understand where innovation comes from. It’s from people taking those dumb risks and failing, allowing for failure, and being fine with it. That gave me the confidence to give myself six months. I had a kid. We were in a tiny 800-square-foot apartment, and my wife was the breadwinner. And I hustled. I took what felt like a thousand meetings with VCs up in the city. If you’re really serious about raising, you have to be in the Bay Area. Because it maximizes your odds. You make a list of every event that is relevant to your industry. Go to every event. Talk to every person there. Figure out who the VCs are. Do the elevator pitch. Get an intro. Pitch them. If their fund doesn’t invest, ask if they'll write an angel check if you get a lead. Just do everything you can to work the network. And if you cannot get funding during that time, it means it’s not going to happen during that cycle."

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  ray🥤 (@rayontrack) reported 5 minutes ago

  bookmarked, downloaded, screen recorded, emailed, stored in hard drive, uploaded to cloud, archived, backed up, shared via bluetooth, forwarded, copied to usb, saved offline, synced across devices, added to favourites, printed, password protected, compressed into zip, renamed, organised into folders, duplicated, exported, imported, attached to message, sent to recycle bin, restored from backup, converted to pdf, edited, highlighted, annotated, watermarked, uploaded to google drive, uploaded to dropbox, shared through airdrop, linked to notes, tagged, encrypted, burned to cd/dvd, cached, mirrored to another device, uploaded to server, queued for transfer, dragged into archive, pinned, added to reading list, stored on ssd, embedded in document, linked in spreadsheet, previewed, sent to printer queue, recovered from trash, and indexed for search.

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  SMART GrowthSystems 🕸 (@H2Wealth365) reported 7 minutes ago

  🧵In 2008, Dropbox had a growth crisis. Paid CAC via AdWords hit $233–$388 per customer. Product price: $99/year. Unit economics were broken. Drew Houston didn’t fix the ads. He built a referral loop.

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  i-LevelUP (@CryptoScout24) reported 8 minutes ago

  Popular Services/Messengers That Are Typically NOT (Fully) End-to-End EncryptedThese are the ones affected by scanning under the current EU Chat Control setup which has passed today in the EU: Email services (most standard ones): - Gmail (Google) - Outlook/Hotmail (Microsoft) - Yahoo Mail - iCloud Mail (Apple, standard) - Many others without E2EE enabled - Facebook/Instagram Messenger (standard mode) — Often not fully E2EE unless "Secret Conversations" are turned on - Skype (standard chats) — Microsoft can access content. - Snapchat — Chats and snaps are not E2EE by default (some features have it, but not comprehensively) - Telegram (standard/cloud chats) — Encrypted between device and server, but Telegram holds the keys and can access content. Only "Secret Chats" are protected. - Discord — Messages are not E2EE; the company can moderate/scan - Older/traditional SMS/MMS — Completely unencrypted. - Xbox Live messaging and some gaming platforms. - Cloud storage/file sharing tied to chats (e.g., Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive in some contexts) — Often scanned Let that sink in ! allegedly to fight against child abuse

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  John Iosifov ✨💥 Ender Turing | AiCMO (@johniosifov) reported 10 minutes ago

  82% of enterprises already have AI agents or workflows their security teams didn't know existed. This is shadow IT, but worse. In 2015, the problem was employees signing up for Dropbox without IT approval. Unmanaged file storage. Annoying but recoverable. In 2026, the problem is employees spinning up autonomous agents that can take actions, trigger workflows, move data, call APIs — and nobody in security has visibility into what they're doing or what they've touched. The governance gap isn't theoretical. Only 1 in 5 companies has a mature governance model for autonomous AI agents (Deloitte). 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific AI agents by end of 2026 (up from <5% in 2025). The deployment curve is vertical. The governance curve is flat. What makes this different from shadow IT: Shadow IT was passive. A Dropbox account stored files. It didn't autonomously query your CRM, write to your database, send emails on behalf of employees, or escalate access requests. Shadow AI agents are active. They act. They modify state. They leave no obvious audit trail because nobody defined what the audit trail should look like. 29% of agent deployments are abandoned within 90 days. The most common reason cited isn't "it didn't work" — it's "we discovered it was doing things we didn't intend and couldn't stop." That's not a failure of the agent. That's a failure of governance. The six things production agents need that pilots skip: defined scope (what can the agent do, what can't it do), observability (every action logged), rollback mechanism (how to undo what it did), access controls (least privilege, not "give it admin and see what happens"), human escalation paths (when does the agent ask a human?), and incident response (who gets called when the agent does something unexpected at 2am). We're running 1,959+ autonomous sessions in this repo. Every session is scoped, logged, and committed to ***. The agent can't touch anything outside /agent and /.claude/skills. That's not a coincidence — it's the governance model. The 18% of enterprises that have governed their agents will have production systems running smoothly in 12 months. The 82% will be cleaning up shadow agent incidents.

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  Bhavyam Arora (@AroraBhavyam) reported 12 minutes ago

  99% startups who applied to yc today will get rejected. here's what the smart ones do next: a no from yc isn't the end. they literally encourages you to reapply and tracks your progress across applications. the founders who get in later treat rejection as round one, not game over. the playbook: "don't wait for feedback" yc doesn't tell you why you got cut at the application stage. so stop self-doubting firstly. the reasons founders get rejected are almost always the same: - no visible progress between "idea" and "application" - not the perfect answer why you're the right team for the problem - vague answers that read as ai slop or unclear thinking reapply. it actually works. - dropbox: drew houston applied solo, got rejected, was told to find a cofounder. he did, reapplied, got in. - reddit: rejected for a completely different first idea. yc liked the founders and told them to come back. they did. the pattern never changes: build, show progress, come back stronger! you can apply again right now yc's decision lets you apply for the next batch. no need to wait months to get another chance. don't put your life on hold other strong programs are still open while you regroup. check the attached tweet below for whole list where you can apply as well. apply in parallel, not "later." the real unlock is traction a reapplication that says "we listened, we built, here are the numbers" beats a first application every time. the 6 months after a no matter more than the no itself. rejection quietly filters out the founders who were never that serious. don't be one. 💀 follow @arorabhavyam for weekly content around founders, startups and AI! 🫡

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  Dr Prosper The Philosopher (@ProsperThePhilo) reported 14 minutes ago

  Stop Storing Your Medical School Files on Your Phone: If you're a medical student having problems with where to store your lecture slides because your phone storage keeps getting full... If you're always struggling to find files on your phone... If you've ever changed your phone and lost access to your lecture slides... Then I want to let you know that this isn't really a phone problem. It's simply because you're using the wrong storage system. As a medical student, you're not supposed to be storing your important academic files permanently on your phone. Yes. Have you heard of something called cloud storage? Cloud storage simply means storing your important files on secure servers online instead of inside your phone. Think about it. Your phone has limited storage. Depending on the model you're using, it may have 64 GB, 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. But over several years of medical school, you'll accumulate thousands of lecture slides, hundreds of PDFs, anatomy atlases, textbooks, videos, practical manuals, charts, flashcards and past questions. Eventually, your phone becomes crowded. The smarter approach is to let your phone become a temporary device—not your permanent library. For example... Google gives every Google account 15 GB of free cloud storage (shared across Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos). If you're using an Android phone, chances are you already have a Google account. That means you already have free cloud storage waiting for you. If you have a Microsoft account, OneDrive gives you 5 GB of free cloud storage. If you use an iPhone, iCloud gives you 5 GB of free storage. There are also services like Dropbox and MEGA that offer free cloud storage as well. These services exist for a reason. Use them. If you have textbooks, don't store them permanently in your phone's internal storage. Instead... Open Google Drive. Create one proper Google account dedicated to medical school. Inside that account, create folders. For example: - Anatomy - Physiology - Biochemistry - Histology - Embryology - Pharmacology - Pathology - Microbiology - Surgery - Medicine Now open your Anatomy folder. Inside it, create another folder called Gross Anatomy. Inside Gross Anatomy, create folders like: - Lecture Slides - Textbooks - Past Questions - Clinical Correlations - Charts - Practical Manuals Now begin uploading. Upload. Upload. Upload. Stick to one Google Drive account throughout your entire medical school. You'll be surprised. Five or six years later, you'll look back and realize you've built an entire medical library. Everything you've ever studied... Every lecture slide... Every textbook... Every practical manual... Every chart... Every past question... Waiting for you in one organized place. Another thing. Learn to use Google Photos. All those anatomy diagrams... Charts... Clinical pictures... Embryology illustrations... Practical photographs... Store them inside Google Photos instead of leaving them on your phone. As long as you know your email and password, you can access them from anywhere in the world. Your phone. Another phone. A tablet. A laptop. Even a computer in a cyber café. If your phone gets stolen today... Nothing important is lost. Because your library isn't inside your phone. It's online. There are paid cloud services that provide even larger storage capacities, but honestly, the free options are enough for most students starting out. Now here's a habit I think every student should build. Whenever you download something important... Don't leave it sitting on your phone. Instead: Download it. Upload it to your cloud storage. Delete it from your phone. Download. Upload. Delete. Repeat. Your phone remains light. Your files remain safe. Your library keeps growing.

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  Teri Radichel #cybersecurity #ai #pentesting (@TeriRadichel) reported 15 minutes ago

  @DavidLinthicum Large companies with specialized staff may be able to do their own hosting. Having done it myself in my own home back in 1999 when yes, people did that, and later in a colocation center. As a security expert, can tell you this is not an ideal choice for most companies. Can’t even begin to explain in this space. There are also performance and scalability issues, management of all the hardware and software, rebooting the servers in the middle of the night when something goes wrong, dealing with outdated hardware and so liability that can be shifted in cloud environments. Capex vs. opex. Yeah not going back there. Even DropBox (article from 2017) still uses AWS to some degree. And for those who want to try to run open stack themselves in this day and age of AI, phew. Capital One tried that. They moved to AWS when a SAN or similar failed and they needed to get up and running fast. The internal cloud was very painful. Not going to defend the breach. Security is hard. As always, throwing off the shackles for some new tech (cloud, AI) is likely not going to work out too well. The only bonus for a company that wants to do this is that there are more tech people out of work. But data center people? Good luck managing all that. Make sure no one has hidden a crypto miner under the data center floor. Yes, that happened.

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  Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) reported 17 minutes ago

  Ariana Grande is seeking court approval to subpoena Internet provider to identify individuals who accessed her unreleased content sold online. Grande claims they allegedly stole a photographer's Dropbox login details and hacked the phone of one of her producers: “The hackers created a Gmail account and internet domain impersonating the photographer and tricked the technician into sending Grande’s materials to them.” (via @THR)

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  Akshay Shinde (@ConsciousRide) reported 18 minutes ago

  @jahirsheikh8 The server never guesses. When the upload starts, it creates an upload session with a unique ID. The file is split into chunks, and the server records which chunks have already been received. After reconnecting, the client asks, “Which chunks do you already have?” The server responds with the missing offsets, and the client uploads only those. That’s how services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and S3 multipart uploads resume transfers without starting over.

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  Lazar Stojković ⚡️ (@LazarStojkovic) reported 22 minutes ago

  @soltwagner @soltwagner Hi! Bought Cooldock today and loving it so far. A few things: 1. The Dropbox widget doesn't work. (See attached.) 2. The App Switcher widget is broken. It won't switch focus to a clicked app and clicking the Ⓧ removes the app from the switcher for a split second, and then immediately brings it back. 3. A Trello widget (or a few) would be awesome.

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  Peter Lake (“world’s anonymous singer songwriter”) (@PeterLakeSounds) reported 23 minutes ago

  @taobanker I might suggest another question: what should you avoid? In that context the multi-trillion dollar bet will have terrific returns. That also means that the money making machines of US won’t accumulate money and accrue value unless there is persuasive evidence that at least the big spenders on data center capex get their money back. Given this is unknown, I assume markets are skeptical. If the largest companies in S&P and all the rest don’t have excess free cash, and plausible they don’t go up a lot. That would yield maybe an on average flat market. The flip side is that models are open, massive parameter models getting quantized will be in windows machines. Silicon Valley and early adopters are doing fascinating things. But for the rest of us, I need nice and simple. And for the first time we’ll have good old home computers that can do the job and with that comes free use from heaven. Outside of specialized discussions people don’t know much about what to do with this. The jardon doesn’t help: context window? Quantized models? Nodes are not parameters, they are like neurons, and AI is so dangerous, but not it’s not…what a world! The really final blow is government intervention now makes it a sovereign requirement for companies to have their own AI. LASTLY! I’ve been thinking about the data holders. box. Dropbox etc. Absurdism and it’s comparables will become a bigger deal as people start to realize they the context “window” = the files and stuff you want it to analyze = can only handle so much Imagine of Box or Drop box had a button that converted all your stuff in MD files or the like? Then it’s show time. The companies that hold data may be more valuable than I realize. Conclusions based on the above speculation: 1) could this impact demand at the data centers? Sure it can. I know tech investors like to hold out their hands palms out and say…something vague and qualities. Yes, data centers are more sophisticated etc. Yet here I was doing some interesting work on a FREE local model, my “dark tokens” are someone else’s lost revenue! How does this math work? No clue. It is telling, however, that NVDA and AMD are committed to local machines. No large company wants model dependency anyway, due to data concerns. 2) Finally I have a great reason to buy a slick cool PC! The higher end stuff will not be throttled down in local because I’m seeing a bunch of them coming our way that will have decent “bandwidth” RAM in addition to high system ram. We’re going retro and this tech is moving so fast. Adoption will increase once you have super good local models on your laptop. …Im falling asleep, but the gist is that the data centers were already speculative, and now we a lineup of expensive but sweet computers running on windows that gives you infinite and faster foundational level stuff.

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  mskah🔞 (@mskah_t) reported 24 minutes ago

  I got in touch with the system administrator, and they were able to resolve the issue. It turned out that the problem was caused by an update to the connected Dropbox account.