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Delver (n): Someone, putatively human, who only responds in ways indistinguishable from generative models—perhaps because every response is provided by them.

If we're gonna have a cyberpunk dystopia we might as well have fun lingo.

Release v5.0.0 · owasp-amass/amass Changelog e0a6bc2 worked on the store method 1a498a5 v5 updates 963b6a7 upgraded to OAM v0.8.0 and started pruning the client da15f9e upgraded to OAM v0.7.1 55ee563 upgraded to Golang v1.24, OAM v...

Well well well, look who's back! github.com/owasp-ama...

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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Who would have guessed that last month we were getting a preview of what the LA28 fan zones might look like

Map depicting 850mb (lower atmospheric) temperature anomalies for mid-August. Such temperatures are above average across the entire West, including California, during this period.

Looking ahead, it continues to appear that Aug will be much warmer overall in most of CA than Jun or Jul (& anomalously warm overall). That said, there has been tendency for modeling to underestimate magnitude of offshore troughing/cool coastal influence so far this season. #CAwx

Jury finds Meta broke wiretap law by collecting data from period-tracker app Lawyers hail jury’s “clear message” to Big Tech; Meta will fight verdict.

Let this be a warning to all companies (lookin' at you, healthcare) that trackers can be justified in any part of the user experience.

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I'm excited to introduce you to the "Synthwave" genre.

May I also recommend:

- Gunship
- FM-84
- September 87
- Starcadian
- WOLFCLUB
- Ollie Wride
- Sunglasses Kid

The Midnight – Syndicate, out October 3rd https://lnk.to/the-midnight-syndicate Creative Direction by Alex Hooker Follow The Midnight: Spotify: https://found.ee/TheMidnight-Spotify Apple Music: https://found.ee/TheMidnight-AppleMusic YouTube: https://found.ee/TheMidnight-Youtube Bandcamp: https The Midnight - 'Shadowverse' (Official Visualizer)

Hell yeah new Midnight single: www.youtube.com/watc...

So you might be like "This is a local exploit that a dev would run, so no biggie."

Ah but dear reader, if the vibe coder is vibe coding, why would they scrutinize incoming PRs?

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Image Rendering Cursor Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Image Rendering

Another Cursor exploit!

embracethered.com/bl...

I also frankly do not think permanent lunar bases make any kind of sense.

I'm aware the Kilowatt project has been around, but none of those reactors were for 100kWs. I think the design of the existing reactor (liquid sodium turning Stirling engines) has a lot of room for error being launched. I also would prefer we not make more U-235 at all.

New Proxmox is available, but I'd wait until the first point release to upgrade from 8 to 9.

pve.proxmox.com/wiki...

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Heat kills! Know the warning signs to look after yourself and others! #calor #WeFeedYou

Smoke from the #GiffordFire is making LA air noticeably gross. Don't forget to mask up!

DrawAFish.com Postmortem — Aug 3, 2025 Incident A blameful postmortem of how my viral HackerNews project got compromised by legacy passwords, missing auth, and the perils of vibe coding.

I would like to thank Alden for this frank and honest case study on how not to deploy a web app in 2025:

aldenhallak.com/blog...

Kind of important note: the prototype reactors use U-235, the same uranium isotope as used in nuclear weapons. That's distinct from U-238, the more common isotope for power generation.

Fission Surface Power - NASA Currently, NASA is working with the Department of Energy (DOE) and industry on Fission Surface Power, a fission power system that would provide at least 40 kilowatts of power – enough to continuously ...

I guess this plan has been around for a second, in different forms. But tbh the whole thing reads like a jobs program:

www.nasa.gov/space-techno...

While we're at it let's build a new White House on the sun.

No Keith. But I can still remark on the depth of stupidity.

Good lord this is dumb.

100 kilowatts is about what the ISS produces during daylight with its solar arrays. That's the scale we're talking about.

And you want to schlep the materials for fission to the moon for...that?

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The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

Just received the nicest message from a book purchaser.

They wanted to build a homelab as part of starting school. They began with LLMs as a guide, which was disastrous. But after picking up The Homelab Almanac, they're making progress and going through the struggle.

taggartinstitute.org...

For anyone that is on their way to Vegas for Black Hat — if you have respiratory problems, prepare. Wildfires in Santa Barbara have smoke moving through the city. Here is a picture from a hotel room, I could see the mountains clearly yesterday. You see any 🏔️ in this pic?

The Covert Operator's Playbook: Infiltration of Global Telecom Networks Recent activity targeting telecom infrastructure is assessed with high confidence to overlap with Liminal Panda activity. The actors used custom tools, tunneling and OPSEC tactics for stealth. Recent ...

PAM exploits are so hot right now:

unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/infiltration...

This is a particularly gnarly backdoor: www.nextron-systems....

The Taggart Institute: Master Your Craft The Taggart Institute exists to provide low-cost, high-quality technology training to everyone in a welcoming, supportive community.

Just received the nicest message from a book purchaser.

They wanted to build a homelab as part of starting school. They began with LLMs as a guide, which was disastrous. But after picking up The Homelab Almanac, they're making progress and going through the struggle.

taggartinstitute.org...

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

It's very cool and good that the ghouls making these things have no regard for even the most minimal of norms to identify themselves.

Now this right here? This is piracy.

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