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I hope Buck sees this and appreciates it.

AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

I bet someone wishes they had checked for an empty value in this code right about now:

The root cause of this issue was …

Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe.

"Hold onto your butts, because one day you might be breathing through them." www.404media.co/breathing-th...

AI-Powered Adversaries Require AI-Driven Defenses OPINION — The use of artificial intelligence by adversaries has been the subject of exhaustive speculation. No one doubts that the technology will be abused by criminals and state actors, but it can b...

An opinion piece I wrote for Cipher Brief on the next wave of AI threats. The speed and scale of this activity will change the nature of cybersecurity. In order to compete with adversary use of this technology we must adopt it wholeheartedly into defense. www.thecipherbrief.com/ai-cyberatta...

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

AI as an Amplifier for Human Tradecraft: how scale can meet sharper intelligence.

What’s New: In their #LABScon 2025 talk, @dreadnode.bsky.social's Brad Palm and @machinavelli.com show how agentic AI can explore every analytical pathway — at speed and scale.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

My whole Threads feed is Takes (tedious, tedious takes) on That Album that I will never listen to by an artist I’ve never expressed any interest in. It’s wild to see how quickly that algorithm changes a feed to be about one thing only.

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...

NEW REPORT: We uncovered a coordinated network of fake X profiles that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in #Iran. We call this network “PRISONBREAK”.

Read the report 👉 citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...

YouTube video by Three Buddy Problem Three Buddy Problem (Episode 66)

We're streaming live to YouTube in ~20 mins. Come hang out with us www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjdh...

RedNovember Targets Government, Defense, and Technology Organizations RedNovember, a likely Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage group, has targeted global government, defense, and tech sectors using advanced tools like Pantegana and Cobalt Strike. Discover the lates...

First public report at Recorded Future by yours truly is out! RedNovember (formerly TAG-100, a.k.a. Storm-2077) is a Chinese state-sponsored threat group focused on intelligence collection, especially on flashpoint issues of strategic interest to China. www.recordedfuture.com/research/red...

Burp Suite is powerful, no doubt. But let’s be real — it’s also a beast to tame. That’s why you need a cheat sheet just as stacked.

More:
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

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These fired DOJ lawyers are finding new ways to make a difference Four prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases have found a way to continue public service after leaving the Justice Department. They're all colleagues again.

Four prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases have found a way to continue public service after leaving the Justice Department. They're all colleagues again.

Your cyber threat intel is part of the North Korean strategy: DPRK operators are abusing CTI platforms to see if they’ve been seen—and moving faster because of it. 👀

Cheryl Biswas: From Political Science Major to Cyber Threat Intelligence - Phillip Wylie About The Guest:Cheryl Biswas is a cybersecurity professional with a background in political science. She currently works in cyber threat intelligence, protecting a big bank against cybercrime and state-sponsored adversaries. Cheryl is passionate about the intersection of politics, economics, and technology in the cybersecurity field. Summary:Cheryl Biswas, a cybersecurity professional with a background in political…

Cheryl Biswas: From Political Science Major to Cyber Threat Intelligence

CYBERWARCON

CYBERWARCON is coming!!! Registration and CFP are now open for this year's #CYBERWARCON! This year's keynote speaker will be @dmitri.silverado.org!!
We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th.

www.cyberwarcon.com

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

'more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses...the investigation—led by US senator @ossoff.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov ...unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees & 18 involving children'- @dell.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/senate...

Enumerating AWS the quiet way: CloudTrail-free discovery with Resource Explorer | Datadog Security Labs Discover how attackers could quietly enumerate AWS resources via Resource Explorer, and how Datadog and AWS worked together to close the visibility gap.

Enumerating AWS the quiet way: CloudTrail-free discovery with Resource Explorer

by @frichetten.com

securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/enu...

Great resource from @eff.org as always

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Yeah, my minor children can use Facebook over my dead body.

a t-shirt featuring a painting of an owl beside the text, "what the fuck was I supposed to be doing?"

you're supposed to be shopping for $13 Effin' Birds tees, before the sale ends on August 13th.
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‎uBlock Origin Lite ‎uBO Lite (uBOL) is a reliable and efficient content blocker. The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset: - uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists - EasyList - EasyPrivacy -...

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari running on iPhone, iPad, and macOS (Mac). It is a free and opensource app to block Ads and other stuff. Give it a try. apps.apple.com/us/app/ubloc...

The new deep state is just Laura Loomer’s Twitter account

WIRED’s new premium subscription is $2 per month and includes exclusive newsletters, video AMAs, and more.

But there’s also access to all of the WIRED Security team’s incredible journalism, from @agreenberg.bsky.social, @lhn.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, (and me).

🧵 Here’s a taster from 2025