Brian Honan

Looking Forward to trying this with a bunch of 14 year-olds next time I teach static electricity.

Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA.

We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers

link.europa.eu/bcmC87

Toy Show: This is Child 1

Ireland: I would die for Child 1

Toy Show: Goodbye Child 1. Now welcome Child 2

Ireland: Never mind, Child 1 is dead to me. I love Child 2 now.

#Toyshow #LateLateToyShow

A little boy smiles in awe

I will never not be moved by the look of sheer innocent joy on the face of a child being surprised on the #LateLateToyShow

FIFA peace prize

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Hmmm might be wee bit tipsy tonight... #ToyShowBingo

Garda national security team investigating rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit Move comes as French military opens fire on five suspected drones over nuclear submarine base on Thursday

Garda national security team investigating rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Investigation into drone activity during Zelensky arrival Gardaí have launched an investigation after several drones were spotted operating in a no-fly zone as the Ukrainian president arrived in Dublin earlier this week.

Gardaí have launched an investigation after several drones were spotted operating in a no-fly zone as the Ukrainian president arrived in Dublin earlier this week

Apple sending these notifications is great.

Doing so on a Friday, forcing people who offer support for the affected people to do (often unpaid) work in the weekend, is... less than ideal.

Elon Musk’s X Hit With $140 Million Fine in Europe

And here it is: the EU’s first big fine against X under the Digital Services Act www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

I love how he has an Excel World Championship belt. 🥹

We’re very excited at the DPC for the Late Late Toy Show tonight! 🎄🎁

👀 Keep an eye out for our viral #PauseBeforeYouPost campaign during the ad breaks!

How can we continue to allow him to drive us all into a ditch for no other reason than gutter racism?

This day 10 years ago Teresa Mannion was telling us not to make unnecessary journeys as Storm Desmond hit.

Cloudflare outage: Widespread disruption on a large number of websites Cloudflare experienced an outage on Friday morning, causing widespread disruption on a large number of websites.

Cloudflare outage again. Hitting multiple websites and services.

Imagine an agentic AI near-future where 30% of your day is automated and…

m.independent.ie/business/tec...

So (see @klonick.bsky.social last night) today may be the day that the EU Commission fines X for breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Busy day for me, and I expect many questions if it happens, so here's an explanation thread in advance.

First of all, a reminder of the provisional decision

After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the

Chat Control has seen many different iterations over the years, and now that it’s coming up on final negotiations, what the proposal does and doesn’t protect can be confusing. Here’s what’s going on. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Launching the Hacklore Project! We're live! Welcome to the inaugural hacklore project newsletter! I’m grateful to the roughly 100 security experts who joined me in calling for an end to...

📨 The first Hacklore newsletter is out! 📨

We are taking on outdated cybersecurity advice for everyday people and replacing it with guidance grounded in how attacks actually happen. Join the community that wants to make security common sense.

Read/subscribe here:
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New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Now hearing that TikTok will have a much more positive outcome from their Feb. 2024 investigation by the Commission announced tomorrow, in part because they engaged with the Commission's process.

Not great for the Trump admin's narrative of this being about censorship

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Drones spotted near Zelenskiy’s flight path to Dublin, triggering major security alert Irish navy ship spotted five drones operating near route of the Ukrainian president’s aircraft by Howth coast

Five sophisticated drones flew in the route of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy’s flight path as he arrived in Ireland; had he not arrived slightly early, they would have passed close.
EU and Irish officials are treating it as a Russian hybrid attack
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to...

Ireland to boycott the Eurovision due to Israel’s participation in the competition

Spain and The Netherlands are also withdrawing from the competition for the same reason

www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

A hacker doxxes himself, and social engineering-as-a-service

Terrific to have @rikferguson.com join me on episode 446 of the Smashing Security podcast, where we discussed how a teenage cybercriminal's attempt to mock a sextortion scammer badly backfired, and take a crystal ball look ahead to what 2026 might have in store...

open.spotify.com/episode/0paB...

How Severance, Slow Horses and Pluribus have put Apple TV on top

Apple TV has become the new HBO with the buzziest critically acclaimed TV shows (Slow Horses, Severance, Pluribus etc) — true?

Today’s pod ep (all platforms)

open.spotify.com/episode/0799...

Half of Europeans see Trump as enemy of Europe, survey finds Nine-country poll finds half of people believe risk of war with Russia is high and three-quarters want to stay in EU

Half of Europeans see #Trump as enemy of Europe, survey finds - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... "Nine-country poll finds half of people believe risk of war with Russia is high and three-quarters want to stay in EU" only half?

Eurovision debate on Israel's participation to begin Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest will be debated at a two-day meeting of member broadcasters in Geneva starting today.

Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest will be debated at a two-day meeting of member broadcasters in Geneva starting today

I cheered at the end

Irish Defence Forces in world's largest cyber wargame The Irish Defence Forces are taking part in the world's largest cyber defence training exercise, which is being run by NATO this week.

The Irish Defence Forces are taking part in the world's largest cyber defence training exercise, which is being run by NATO this week.

www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Israel's conduct of war in Gaza 'fundamentally wrong' There was something "fundamentally wrong" with how Israel conducted its military operation in Gaza and there are "strong reasons to believe" that war crimes have been committed, United Nations Secreta...

There was something "fundamentally wrong" with how Israel conducted its military operation in Gaza and there are "strong reasons to believe" that war crimes have been committed, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said

Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store Store employee found masked bandit sleeping off a bender after invading booze store and tippling a tad too much

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Let he who has not passed out drunk next to a toilet cast the first stone.