BrianKrebs

A picture of Edward Coristine lying bloody on the ground with his shirt off. He has blood on his face chest, hands and pants, and is looking down. A long post from Trump on Truth Social is partially screenshotted next to his picture.

WaPo reports Edward "Big Balls" Coristine was injured in a carjacking. Trump and Musk are using the incident to float the idea of taking federal control over Washington, D.C.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/05/trump-doge-worker-washington-dc-crime/

ArticWolf say they have observed Akira ransomware incidents gaining access via fully patched SonicWall SSL VPN boxes with accounts with MFA enabled, speculate they have another zero day […]

Wrong: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Switzerland." Right: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Americans who buy from Switzerland." Every time you see this mistake, correct it. Every. Time.

if you haven't taught someone who is helplessly addicted to LLMs, LLM brain is _so much worse than you can possibly imagine._ the problems i'm seeing from someone i am currently teaching are indistinguishable from illiteracy - this person literally cannot read single-line, fully descriptive […]

Japan, huh? Smells like Norks to me.

I came across your profile on Github and was impressed by your experience in software development.

My name is Haruto Mizuno, and I’m a senior software engineer based in Japan with over 10 years of experience in web, DevOps, and blockchain development […]

DISGRACED LAW FIRMS Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Willkie Farr & Gallagher Latham & Watkins Milbank Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft A & O Shearman Kirkland & Ellis Simpson Thacher & Bartlett They didn’t stand up to Trump; how can you trust them to stand up for you?

When choosing a law firm, it's important to choose a firm that won't cave to an authoritarian dictator!

#DisgracedLawFirms #ChooseWisely #USPol

In a stunning reversal,
the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal weather forecasters
—just days before it was set to end.

The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at […]

Tweet by mike ginn: “its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further”

#ai #chatgpt

https://xcancel.com/shutupmikeginn/status/1898198950349353154

Dear Journalists:

You keep reporting that Trump "lowered" the tariffs planned for Japan et al to 15 percent (from the announcements of much higher numbers).

When you do, you play into his propagandists' hands.

He RAISED tariffs from ~2% -- that is, more than 7 times the previous level.

misp-galaxy website - Threat-actor galaxy and relationships with other galaxy clusters.

Seeing all the synonyms from a threat-actor on the misp-galaxy.org website

Threat-actor database in MISP

When I added the threat-actor @misp galaxy type on Mar 4, 2016, I didn’t expect that, years later, vendors would still invent new names for already known threat actors, avoid using UUIDs, reuse similar names for different actors, and create confusing names […]

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Your job.

New, from me:

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds […]

a chat gpt conversation logkn Agent casually clicking the “I am not a robot" button image . The link is inserted, so now I'll click the "Verify “you are human' checkbox to complete the « » c 1 verification on Cloudflare. This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot and proceed with the action. @ + A screenshot of ChatGPT Agent clicking through a Cloudflare bot screening test. Credit logkn via Reddit

The constant CAPTCHAs and other "I-am-not-a-robot" tests from websites are annoying enough, without considering the reality that they really don't present much of a challenge for bots anymore. Wait till they have to pass age verification...

"Maybe they […]

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None of this is to say that cars getting jacked because of outdated and insecure-by-design remote keyless entry systems isn't a thing. It very much is, and the Canadians are still really pissed about it.

This from today:

"On July 30, the Quebec Superior Court issued a judgment partially […]

ISPs in Australia just apparently are like “hi your plan is staying the same, but we’re automatically charging less now” and I cannot. Comcast would have never.

Making it easier for Americans to access their own health records is a laudable goal. I am constantly amazed at how difficult it is sometimes to get our own records from healthcare providers -- even when it is a matter of urgency or a critical health issue.

But creating a system where Big Tech […]

ICYMI, these guys have been tearing up NYC area streets, racing high-end (stolen?) sports cars like maniacs at high speed through near standstill traffic, and sometimes crashing. And lots of running from the cops. Incredibly stupid and dangerous behavior, but it makes for compelling video […]

This seems like progress:

"Pakistan’s federal government now mandates licenses for all call centre operations, requiring approval from the NCCIA, PTA, and a security agency. This move accompanies plans to expand Operation Grey to provincial levels under the NCCIA. The strategy is aimed at […]

We didn't have enough medical privacy to begin with, but now the Trump regime, Big Tech (all of it), and Big Medicine are going to utterly shred the last vestiges of privacy.

Because they can. And because big money will be made by screwing the rest of us […]

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and high-quality cycling and walking infrastructure.

See Edinburgh, it can be done...

A tweet by New York Times PR saying “We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.” AB article by the Onion is responding saying “'New York Times' Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths. Published October 10, 2023”

The Onion wins again

Thank you to all who reached out; our team is aware that the new Turkish social media platform Next Sosyal is using Mastodon code without following the terms of the license and we have already reached out to them.

😂

BBC: Warning issued after US energy drink cans accidentally filled with vodka

"US authorities are warning consumers of Celsius energy drinks to check their cans after some were accidently filled with vodka.

The US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) issued the warning for the Astro Vibe Blue […]

How to waste a day debunking someone else's scoop:

Someone forwarded me this recent story from Straight Arrow News (I publication I didn't previously know existed) which rather breathlessly claimed millions of cars were at risk from new custom firmware sold by a Russian hacker that would enable […]

New, from me:

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds […]

I find myself increasingly unwilling to cooperate with anything on the Internet requiring unnecessary logins, and lately, onerous (subjective) cookies requirements.

It seems like, from reading here on the fedi, that lots of people go along with this shit.

I've been active on the Internet since […]

Why it matters who owns a newspaper Foreign states will now be allowed to hold up to a 15% stake in British media.

Why it matters who owns a newspaper
https://theconversation.com/why-it-matters-who-owns-a-newspaper-257785
The House of Lords this week approved government legislation that will allow foreign states to hold up to a 15% stake in British newspaper publishers.

A slightly wobbly MacIntosh motherboard

It's a sign of how utterly fucked my retinas are (they're basically NOT FLAT) that I had to look really hard at this image (h/t to @NanoRaptor) for a long time before I could glimpse even some of the true horror:

A group of goats is standing and resting on large wooden cable spools in a sunny, grassy outdoor field. Some goats are standing atop the spools, while others are lying down or standing nearby. A wooden spool lies on its side in the grass. There is a fenced pasture and trees in the background under clear daylight.

They were there. I was there. I had a camera.

So, goats. #Photography #Goats

I’m pretty sure the last few hours is the longest stretch in weeks I’ve gone without suspending one of those damn mastodon verification scammers. Hopefully that is a sign they’ve given up and moved over to bsky or something