Mark C

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy.

All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

It did. Very distasteful.

The Conscience of a Hacker, also known as The Hacker Manifesto, turns 40 today!

Written by Loyd "The Mentor" Blankenship, its spirit still resonates with hackers and makers everywhere. A cornerstone of hacker culture.

phrack.org/issues/7/3

#HackThePlanet #HackerManifesto

"Tunbridge Wells is without water..."

Guess that name was a sodding lie, then...

How did the cyber criminal get away? He ran somewhere...

(Gender Norms for brevity only)

I realised, of course kids can understand quantum... Assume ‖Gender‖²; if a kid asks their mum a question, ans yes/no are equally likely. That's superposition. Once they get the answer, it won't change. That's measurement. If they want a different answer, they ask their dad. That's entanglement.

Was this inspired by a monoidal category, or something?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Exclusive: Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with government spyware A developer at Trenchant, a leading Western spyware and zero-day maker, was suspected of leaking company tools and was fired. Weeks later, Apple notified him that his personal iPhone was targeted with...

This story from @lorenzofb.bsky.social is absolutely wild. Totally worth a read!
techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/a...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post: "Quantum Just Drew a Line in the Sand. Google's Willow 105-qubit chip didn't just outperform a supercomputer -- it ended the classical era of computing as we know it."

I guess he's posting from inside his dil fridge.

This is the funniest thing I've seen just before having to take my ibuprofen...

I'm sure this is a totally normal key rotation...

my.f5.com/manage/s/art...

Dis-content creators

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

Goals...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

CCC | Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress! Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.

Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress and please submit! The deadline for all submissions for the stages is October 24. #39C3 will take place from December 27 to 30 www.ccc.de/en/updates/2...

The government bailing out JLR will send a strong signal to e-crime groups to retarget to the UK.

Tired: AI slop from LLMs
Wired: discontent creators

Extremely offended by a spider spinning its web across an abandoned project that I've been planning to work on any day now actually

Welcome!

Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.

A lot of people seem to live by the maxim; "it's not basic if I have complicated feelings about it..."

my mom to my kid: have you ever actually dialed a phone?

my kid: yeah! I did it in a museum 💀

When I was in undergrad our engineering building had old computers set up in a little museum/history section and they included the first Macintosh from 1984

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bofreq-n... 👀👀

We also made @wired.com ! www.wired.com/story/fully-...

Then to wrap up, @largecardinal.bsky.social and his jolly adventures being a diamond consumer that excites things with many legs in order to create a hackable quantum sensing platform based on diamond nitrogen-vacancy centres.

MIND f**ken blown. Badge lyfe isn’t about blinky lights anymore

Call for Challenges The Quantum Capture the Flag (Q-CTF) - NOW AN OFFICIAL DEF CON CONTEST!! This year, Is the International Year of Quantum and our theme is Access All Atoms; from how to hack quantum networks to how ‘t...

Whether your specialty is quantum computing, networking, sensing, cryptography, hardware hacking, reverse engineering, AI + quantum mashups, or just mind‑bending puzzles… we want your best! Please repost for reach!

Submit Here: forms.gle/9zfrQ1FMkDKG...

🚀 Call for Challenges: Quantum Village Q-CTF @ DEF CON 33 ⚛️

Quantum Village is back at DEF CON 33 with our Quantum- Capture the Flag and we’re looking for Quantum Quizmasters! 🔗⤵️

#QuantumVillage #DEFCON33 #QCTF #HackTheQubit

What happens when quantum tech meets 30,000 hackers in Vegas?
🎙️ On the latest Post-Quantum World, host Konstantinos Karagiannis previews DEF CON 33 and the fourth year of Quantum Village with guests Mark Carney & Victoria Kumaran.

#QuantumVillage #DEFCON33 #QuantumTech #PostQuantumWorld