Phil Meyerson (he/him)

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

😱😱😱😱😱 Noooooo

Nice!! Need to look into this..... Currently doing pour over with the pour over cup of thing sitting on top of a Mr coffee carafe and there have been.... Accidents

Coffee things are good things!

#VoteDC

The lack of differentiation between trusted and untrusted state and input is endlessly devilish in trying to secure this technology. It completely violates all security paradigms we've tried to enforce for coming on half a century

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

A screenshot from the article, with the first sentence highlighted: "Only after obtaining pro bono legal representation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Coders' Rights Project did the pair decide to follow through with their plan to speak" about Securam's vulnerabilities at Defcon. Omo and Rowley say they're even now being careful not to disclose enough technical detail to help others replicate their techniques, while still trying to offer a warning to safe owners about two different vulnerabilities that exist in many of their devices.

This is a story EFF was made for.

Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: www.wired.com/story/secur...

We are pleased to announce the final* schedule of talks for the 2025 Symposium on Election Security at the DEF CON Voting Village, August 8-10, in quiet, sleepy Las Vegas.

Hope to see you there!

www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV202...

* -subject to change

The Storm Is Here: Inside the Attack on the Voting Rights Act Our system has checks and balances, but they don’t run on autopilot.

NEW: 60 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, its protections are being gutted.

@staceyabrams.com breaks down how we got here, what’s at stake, and how we fight back.

Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).

Not sure about the broadcast alerts, but I think regular sms is store and forward. Could propagation delay be influenced by # of subscribers on a given tower, anyone know?

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

BREAKING NEWS: every joke Gen Xers have ever made about the kids bringing back Gregorian chants has been completely vindicated because my teenager is loudly listening to Enigma right now

(DCNextGen is for youth 8-18 attending DEF CON) AI Chatbot Hacking! Ready to outsmart an AI and show it who's boss? Our CTF challenge puts your skills to the test as you coax a chatbot into spilling secrets it's sworn to keep. Come crack the code, snag the flags!
@defcon.bsky.social

Same when I was there... 15 years ago? 🤣

A social graphic from the header image of the newsletter linked in my post. With a red color palette and the perspective of looking through a cave, there is a shadow human figure standing on the edge of a mountain cliff on the left appearing to look over the scene below them - a set of 3 volcanoes with something that resembles Sauron's Eye from The Lord of the Rings series in the center of them. All the volcanoes are erupting slowly with lava flowing down the tops. At the top left is the Open Home Foundation name and logo in white. Throw your Rings into the fire, friends.

follow through accomplished 😏

sincerely grateful for your blessing 😊 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/you-dont-own...

Dragos just opened 21 positions in Australia, UK, and US/Canada. Not my team, not the hiring manager, but there is an array of roles

"In his conversation with Senator Van Hollen, Aguilar recalled witnessing a woman dying before his eyes after being hit with a stun grenade fired by an American contractor. He said she died “Not from the IDF, not from starvation, not from trampling because Hamas incited a stampede. We killed her.”

Successfully extracted 15 years of Goodreads data into @zotero.org, so I can now reclaim ownership of they from Amazon…

'Significant evidence' ties air pollution with dementia, study finds British researchers said they've found "significant evidence" of a long-suspected link between air pollution and dementia after studying data from nearly 30 million people across four continents.

www.accuweather.com/en/health-we... 'Significant evidence' ties air pollution with dementia, study finds

40s is me realizing how behind I feel on everything lol

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

My friend and colleague just said to me, "I'm sorry you go to so many inaccessible conferences." But the truth is that they're almost **ALL** inaccessible.
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If you're a meeting planner, please please please hire an inclusion coordinator. Then invite them into planning early AND LISTEN TO THEM.

Mr Burns sounds awesome!

The speakers