Dave Bittner

We've officially hit that time of the year where every event seems like it should be further away than it actually is.

Talk about your crotch-rocket...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUuExL8Cac

Surely someone out there can knit me a scarf modeled after Chewbacca's bandolier?

#starwars

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osAvIsgwIV0

I have another Reddit AMA scheduled! Tell your youts! https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCareerAdvice/s/LQquOxjhjG

A view of the stage at the Cyber Innovation Day in Washington DC, during a session featuring cyber security podcast hosts.

Yesterday's Cyber Innovation Day in Washington DC was a first-class event hosted by Datatribe.
I moderated a panel with my N2K Cyberwire colleague Maria Varmazis @maria and Daniel Whitenack from Practical AI. We'll have that session on an upcoming CyberWire Special edition.

#infosec

Monty Python: Nude organist statue of Terry Jones for home town The designs for the statue of the Python star are revealed for the first time.

Perfect. No notes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77zd6myepro

I've noticed an increased error-rate when typing in the latest iOS, but I chalked it up to my aging fat-fingers.
Turns out it's not just me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

#ios

@vees All of the blood diverted to their flushed, rage-filled faces, no doubt.

What is love?

Love is smiling when your partner lights up at an old favorite song on the radio.

Love is nodding along as they say, “Ah, George Michael! I had this on a twelve-inch single, played it ‘til the needle gave up.”

And love - real love - is quietly resisting the urge to mention that […]

Today is the last day to vote in the SANS Difference Makers awards, for which I have been inexplicably nominated.

https://www.sans.org/about/awards/difference-makers

#infosec

While interviewing a remote guest I noticed he had a model of a Klingon Bird of Prey hanging from his office ceiling.
So naturally, I found a way to work a Kobayashi Maru reference into our conversation, much to his delight.
#infosec

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Thanks to the team at DataBee for inviting me to Comcast Connect in DC.

A new, independent source of news launches tomorrow.

“We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists.

“Our beat will be […]

"Even if these glasses worked as well as Meta suggests they should, there is no way I would buy a pair. You are to tell me that I should strap a legacy of twenty years of privacy violations and user hostility to my face? Oh, please."

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-steak-sauce-demo/

I stand corrected — this is, in fact, a "feature", and — even better! — an AI enabled feature!!!
(Disable "AutoMix" in your App settings to put an end to this madness.)

Happy that Apple, at long last, added cross-fades to the Apple Music app, but my goodness is it ever buggy.

#ios26 #apple #iphone

Dave Bittner stands before a monitor with a DMV Rising event logo.

In DC to emcee the annual DMV Rising event, hosted by Virtru.
#infosec

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

I've always thought that the larger the company, the less important the individual client.

Last evening, a client asked me to supervise a remote connection with one of their software providers - a large company - at 9:30. It was urgent, so I completely rearranged my schedule for today […]

“Garden hoses connect like XLR cables, not BNC cables.”

#geekhome

AI security hypothetical - suppose an organization shares a report under embargo to a media outlet.
If the media outlet uses an online LLM to summarize the report before the release date, have they violated the embargo? (Not publishing anything, just using the LLM as an assistant for internal […]

As expected, iPhone 17 Pro / Max telephoto 8X is crop zoom 4X 100 mm telephoto, and 8X 200 mm "optical quality" crop zoom

Confirmed -
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/as-expected-iphone-17-pro-max-telephoto-8x-is-crop-zoom.2464938/

Tagging @siracusa and @gruber

@q Right? The most jaw-dropping part of the presentation for me.

Screen shot of the iPhone 17 Pro 8x camera system from the Apple event video.

The new 8X zoom on the iPhone 17 Pro claims "optical quality zoom" at 200mm, but seems to indicate only capturing a 12 MP image from a 48 MP sensor. So does that mean it's doing a crop on the sensor? In other words, is "optical quality zoom" just marketing […]

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Happy #909 Day - get your beats on at: https://roland50.studio/

Got my flu and Covid booster shots today.