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It was DNS

Day trading

s/HAL/Claude/

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod ALT: a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod

Vale, RR.

Solids in kg/g. Distance/length in km/m/cm (and mm for precision). Liquids are in L/mL, unless it’s a flat white and then the correct size is Small.

The only thing that’s sometimes ft/in is the height of people, and this is only because of older generations.

Social media platforms will not be required to prove accuracy of under-16 bans While substantial fines would apply to social media platforms that make no effort to ban under-16s, they would not need to test the age of every user.

"Reasonable steps" doing a lot of heavy lifting in implementing under 16 social media ban with no legal enforcement

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Zhou Shuai - United States Department of State WANTED: ZHOU SHUAI REWARD OF UP TO $2 MILLION Reward Poster in English  [196 KB] Reward Poster in Mandarin   [230 KB] NAME: Zhou Shuai ALIASES: “Coldface’ DOB: July 9, 1979 POB: People’s Republic of C...

KIM used an Ivanti Connect Secure VPN exploit that Intel 471 links to UNC5221.

According to the US DOJ, UNC5221 is aka APT27, aka Shanghai Heiying Information Technology Company, Limited - contractors to MSS, and possible also, DPRK.

www.state.gov/zhou-shuai

The Phrack leak: Examining an APT’s workstation In August 2025, two anonymous researchers released 9 GB of data from a workstation of a likely advanced persistent threat (APT) group. Here’s an analysis of the data by Intel 471’s Cyber Geopolitical ...

Another review/write-up of the APT Down article from Phrack 72, this time from Intel 471.

Re: attribution - CN language, DPRK timezone, does occasional jobs against TW. Has anyone considered that "KIM" might be a CN-based contractor working for DPRK?

www.intel471.com/blog/the-phr...

Hieu Podcast Episode · Darknet Diaries · 05/08/2025 · 1h 34m

Great episode of Darknet Diaries, about how teenager Hieu was drawn into the criminal underground - worth listening all the way to the end!

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...

Great interview! Totally agree about the need to learn the foundations.

Don’t even think about slytherin up to him - he’d probably give you hogwarts

“On The Beach” was filmed in and around my city. My friend’s dad (a Vietnam vet) encouraged us to watch it. Up until 1989 I was sure we would end in a mushroom cloud.

Cyber meets 007 - I love it!

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If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

See you there!

“LLM chatbots are not democratizing knowledge. They're putting ppl who produce knowledge out of business, so companies who run chatbots can sell expensive subscription services once they've captured enough market share to end free access to their products.” - @malwaretech.com

YES!!! This 100%!

Paranoid (2012 Remaster) Black Sabbath · Paranoid · Song · 1970

Turn it up 😢

open.spotify.com/track/2z71jd...

Everyone who has ever worked their way up in a large org knows this.

At some point you look around and realize "wait... this is it?" - then you realize, its the same at every other large org on the planet.

And you realize that all of modern society just keeps working mostly by luck.

Really interesting thread!

a man in a bowling alley says " yeah well that 's just like your opinion man . " ALT: a man in a bowling alley says " yeah well that 's just like your opinion man . "

Not sorry

The fucking Anonymous collective used botnets to transfer 7 petabytes of data.
But we have since watched a YouTube video on cyber security, so it will never happen again.

Thanks whythefuckwasibreached.com

WhatsApp banned on US House of Representatives devices - memo Meta Platforms WhatsApp messaging service has been banned on all U.S. House of Representatives devices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday.

This needed to happen. But, we need a Signal or WhatsApp client that can record messages securely* for the public record.

* not TMSignal

www.reuters.com/world/us/wha...

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation (...) Our findings challenge narratives of imminent labor market transformation due to Generative AI."

www.nber.org/papers/w33777

I heard the word “agentically” for the first time yesterday. There must be some other variations coming, like “agentrified”.

The Decline and Fall of the House of Walmarticus (A little programming note.

"Civilisations mostly collapse like a drunk clown at an open-casket funeral." 🤣🤣🤣

Please @birmo.bsky.social, don't ever stop with the dark humour! (I get that it's serious geopolitical themes, but might as well have a laugh while everything burns.)

From aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-declin...