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We have two wolfhounds. Hard enough traveling by car with them. I can’t imagine doing so on an airplane!

Come play in one of the two Kubernetes Capture the Flag events we're facilitating at #DEFCON 33!

Fri – Sun : Learning CTF w/ Walkthrough

Saturday: Competitive CTF

First Place Prize (for a team on-site at DEF CON) is a Bambu Labs A1 Mini 3D printer!

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Americans love technology and absolutely hate science and that’ll always be fucking confusing to me

It’s leaches and colloidal silver for everyone now.

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.

Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

Plato’s cave, 2025 edition

Scientists say they’ve solved the mystery of starfish that turn to goo Sea star wasting disease has killed billions of starfish and destroyed kelp ecosystems. In a study published Monday, researchers say they found the culprit.

Big if it is confirmed. The massive starfish die offs have led to an explosion of sea urchins, which in turn have decimated kelp forests along the West Coast.

Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch The discoveries by an AI-based bug hunter are significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if they still need a human.

NEW: Google announced its AI-powered bug hunter Big Sleep found its first 20 vulnerabilities, mostly in open source projects.

A company executive called it "a new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery." But it's important to note that there was still a human involved, as Google told us.

I got to do something great a week ago: join a 25-year reunion for people who worked at #Napster. While the original experience was rough for most of them, this was a chance to process it with old friends. It remains one of the most remarkable stories of that era. wapo.st/3HdcJhv

Historian here that is the Soviet Lada in this tweet! The big ugly GOP bill is really taking America backwards and making America bankrupt!

Stallman looking much better than I recall.

chart: capital expenditures, quarterly shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/

The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

Growth % quite a bit lower than Azure, or even GCP’s.

Not quite jumping the shark as then not actually defending personal liberties and free markets as they are under attack.

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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

1. Crashed into Frank Langella. Sorry Frank.
2. Almost took out Gwyneth Paltrow. Sorry I missed.
3. Drew Barrymore accused me of stalking her when she was 15 or so.

One night in the 80s/90s a friend & I were listening to the radio in Brooklyn, tuned to 90.3 & heard Flavor Flav & a bunch of ppl just chilling on air. So we drove to the studio in Nassau to say hi. Flav couldn't have been nicer. We all got takeout at White Castle. Dre carried the bags.

Disclaimer: Does not apply to rose water.

Grok is now the only allowed US Gov LLM.

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It’s pretty wild. Their growth is unprecedented.

OpenAI had 20 million paying subscribers in April, with an exponential growth curve. They had 800m monthly users in April, again with an exponential growth curve.

Today, OpenAI is largely a consumer company, with an estimated 75% of revenue coming from consumers, rather than enterprise. So no, it’s not mostly unused enterprise contracts.

Maybe so. But you asked whether people would pay for it if it weren’t forced bundled. Clearly many people are paying at today’s prices without any vendor lock-in.

Anthropic, which no vehicle to force their service onto, was at $2b ARR earlier this year.

OpenAI was at over $12b. Recall Microsoft does not pay OpenAI revenue for use of their technology.

Honestly, not a bad time for Ozzy to disembark this crazy train.

a black and white photo of a man screaming into a microphone with his tongue out . ALT: a black and white photo of a man screaming into a microphone with his tongue out .

RIP Ozzy, you crazy bastard.

Sucker’s tax.