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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.
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.
"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...
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
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...
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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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.
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“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%!
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!
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
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...
"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
