Alex Pinto

getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive Facebook has retreated from its professed ideals in India under pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

Here we go. Free, no-reg versions of favorite stories from my four years at the Washington Post. First, three pieces from our Pulitzer-finalist series on how India's ruling party coerced U.S. tech giants into violating their own policies. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

Best of luck, brother! See you in RSAC!

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

It’s wild. Guns everywhere. I had watched “Cars” with my 3yo the week before, and decided to check out the next one.

We changed over to something else pretty quickly.

🧵 175,000+ exposed AI hosts. Zero guardrails.

New research from @sentinellabs.bsky.social and @censys.bsky.social reveals a massive, unmanaged layer of open-source AI infrastructure operating in the shadows. s1.ai/si-llama

Here is what you need to know about the "silent" AI network. ⤵️

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Been waiting for this one!

How long did it take for Anthropic’s findings from March 2025 and August 2025 become widespread and commonplace in their systems?

If the Nov 2025 finding is the tip of the pyramid of operational capability, what does the base looks like today?

Cybersecurity 2026 | The Year Ahead in AI, Adversaries, and Global Change Explore SentinelLABS' take on what 2026 may bring for cybersecurity, including emerging trends and actionable insights.

From here: www.sentinelone.com/blog/cyberse...

Excerpt from SentinelOne article about cybersecurity predictions: “The value generated in 2026 and beyond is entirely concentrated in filling that gap between frontier capability and operational deployment.”

I have been thinking a lot about this too @jags.bsky.social

Marks and Spencer’s Profit Drop: The Financial Toll of Cyberattacks - Decipher The financial impacts of cyberattacks are hard to measure - but they lend critical context to conversations around security risk at the boardroom level.

decipher.sc/2025/11/14/m...

I booted up ChatGPT-3 when it came out to see what was it about. Am I a security researcher that utilizes AI?

2026 DBIR sneak peek:

“Water plays an increasingly significant role in [ransomware] attacks. In 2024, 100% of recorded ransomware events were attributed to threat actors that drink water”

Your reading is correct, but there is also a fair bit of “it wasn’t us, it was the algorithm” blame shifting when the models do bad things.

As if it weren’t them choosing the training data / creating the reinforcement learning loop.

Didn’t mean to be disparaging, Cynthia, and I am also aware you probably have no control over the social media post or maybe even the headline.

I do believe it’s important to be a moderating force against hype of things that are not confirmed to exist.

There are enough real threats to worry about.

Thanks for sharing this, this was a very good article.

I haven’t met the other 2 researchers but I am generally a fan of @morecoffeeplz.bsky.social ‘s work.

What is an “AI-enabled Ransomware”?

Glad to know I am not the only one with this problem.

Botei no wishlist. Nada como um bom retrô survival horror.

i'm inventing a new kind of roguelike where instead of poker, slot machines or coin flipping you play as a little guy with a sword

THE MEME IS REAL

From Microsoft's Crisis to Medical Device Revolution: The Evolution of Threat Modeling The year 2002 marked a turning point in cybersecurity history, though few realized it at the time. Microsoft was hemorrhaging customers due to security vulnerabilities, worms were spreading unchecked, and patching costs were mounting. In the midst of this crisis, Bill Gates penned his famous memo on "trustworthy computing," setting the stage for a fundamental transformation in how we approach software security.At the center of this transformation was Adam Shostack, a critic-turned-insider who wo

I did a long, in depth podcast with Shannon Lantzy, you can listen at https://www.shannonlantzy.com/post/from-microsoft-s-crisis-to-medical-device-revolution-the-evolution-of-threat-modeling

Enjoy! It’s a delightful game. The language is fully translatable as well, but that was beyond my reach when I played it.

Oh, man! Really want to hear your thoughts on this one!

Most impactful project I’ve ever been involved with for sure.

The Sony Hack Attribution Generator was a close second.

Am I the jerk? Redditors say yes — but ChatGPT and other bots say no. ChatGPT and other AI bots tell posters from Reddit's "AITA" board that, actually, they're not the jerks.

Putting the whole “chat bots are bad for your psyche” thing aside, this is brilliant experiment design.

www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

Missed you, man.

As a Brazilian-American, my feelings about 9/11 are now very conflicted.