Luis Saiz

Google Gemini just started a PhD in econ, apparently. Hang in there, it will get better after the first year. Impostor syndrome will live with you forever though.

Good luck with the SC

Idea: everyone with an email signature with the list at white type 1 font

El banco no tiene acceso a ningún dato biométrico tuyo, se usa la biometría local del móvil (y sólo si tú quieres, aunque es recomendable) para desbloquear una clave que se ha almacenado cifrada (FIDO para el que tenga curiosidad)

New state, local cyber grant rules prohibit spending on MS-ISAC | StateScoop In its final year, the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program bars states from spending their funding on services provided by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

Notable that this prohibits spending on MS-ISAC & EI-ISAC, two entities that have helped to secure our 🇺🇸 elections. 'New state, local cyber grant rules prohibit spending on MS-ISAC,' by @colinwood.me. Conclude what you will. 😶 statescoop.com/state-local-... @gate15.bsky.social #cybersecurity

Luring your agents

"Attractive Metadata Attack (AMA), a black-box in-context learning framework that generates highly attractive but syntactically and semantically valid tool metadata through iterative optimization"

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

De vez en cuando un análisis de cómo vamos no está mal.

No es un meta-análisis para publicar en Science pero es interesante

Mi vara de medir suele ser cómo de complejos han sido los ataques de más impacto y si que creo que correla, si cada vez es más difícil será por algo

Are Cyber Defenders Winning? Attackers in cyberspace have long held system-wide advantages. Fighting back requires measuring progress.

Historically, attackers in cyberspace have held system-wide advantages. Jason Healey and Tarang Jain look at how defenders can gain the upper hand in cyberspace and the importance of accurately measuring whether they’re succeeding. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...

Are Cyber Defenders Winning? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...

Fasten your grids

The bottom line is the Permian-Triassic extinction event that killed around 90% of all life on this planet.

The red line is our current trajectory.

These. Are. Not. Normal. Times.

🚨 UPDATE: OpenAI has changed ChatGPT’s interface in response to some of the privacy concerns I raised yesterday.

Holy shit this is real Soviet/N. Korean style stuff. After the dismal jobs report Trump is going to fire people who compile the data and replace them with hacks. The markets and American people will never be able to trust these numbers again.

TIO is considering the Spanish offer We remain committed to securing the best possible site and will evaluate Spain’s offer thoroughly and promptly.

TIO (Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory): "Spain’s proposal is a positive development for TMT. We are reviewing the proposal details carefully and we look forward to continued dialogue with our Spanish colleagues"
www.tmt.org/news/702

u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]

struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age

great evils, great remedies

If I had to predict the evolution of programming languages as a whole, my guess is that the single defining characteristic of the next generation of languages will be increasingly ubiquitous and integrated support for ancillary metadata.

SUPERMAN IN SPAIN LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

Motherfucking wind farms…

Hay tiempo para comer…

-Aeroflot cancels flights after hack
-Flights also canceled in Luxembourg in separate hack
-Kazakhstan arrests ransomware suspect
-Kyrgyzstan nationalizes internet access
-US seizes Chaos ransomware funds
-Orange got hacked

Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS458/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...

Western Sahara - Wikipedia

Special status from Western Sahara:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western...

😮

a cartoon of bugs bunny in a jail cell holding a hammer and wearing a shirt that says 3 1/2 ALT: a cartoon of bugs bunny in a jail cell holding a hammer and wearing a shirt that says 3 1/2

Pensaba en otra bola

Correct, 8.8 is now the 6th largest quake in recorded history!

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Scientific facts don't change by executive order. Ever.

#AGNTCY is now a #LinuxFoundation project with @cisco.com, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle, RedHat backing it. The complete open source stack for agent collaboration - discovery, identity, messaging, observability - is now community-owned. Why this matters: cs.co/63322fueYo

There’s an excellent piece in today’s @nytimes.com about 1984, about regimes in which fictions are peddled as facts, and access to actual facts is banned.

Was reading that piece and then saw this and, I dunno, they struck me as connected.