/Hive Five #246 · Oct 20, 2025
Just Talk To It
/The Bee's Knees 🐝
The headline picks from this issue. The full issue has more.
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Finding Critical Bugs in Adobe Experience Manager
Security researchers at Assetnote discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), including dispatcher bypasses, SSRF, XXE, and expression language injection that could expose sensitive configuration data.
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Andrej Karpathy explains why AI agents will take a decade to mature, not just a year, due to fundamental limitations in current LLMs like poor continual learning and cognitive gaps. He argues we're building "digital ghosts" through internet imitation rather than true intelligence, while discussing the challenges of deploying AI safely at scale.
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Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office
Security researchers Sam Curry and Shubs Shah discovered a critical vulnerability in ClubWPT Gold's back office system that exposed customer data including driver's licenses, passport numbers, and financial transactions.
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Hustle culture lied to you (here’s a better way)
Matt cut his work schedule from 50+ hours to 25 hours weekly by embracing "slow productivity" - focusing on fewer projects, working at a natural pace, and obsessing over quality instead of hustle culture's endless grind. The counterintuitive result: his best work yet while reclaiming time for health and family, proving that sustainable success comes from intentional focus rather than burnout-inducing volume.
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Andrej Karpathy's nanochat is a complete ChatGPT clone you can train from scratch for just $100 on an 8-GPU node in 4 hours. The minimal, hackable codebase includes everything from tokenization to web serving, producing a 1.9B parameter model that outperforms GPT-2.
Read : pick 5