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The billionaire to fascist pipeline is remarkably strong lately.

America.

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One time I asked ChatGPT to generate some code. It gave me complete dogshit which didn't even compile, so I paste just the error message and nothing else. It then responded with an entire paragraph praising "my" code, followed by hyping me up telling me how close I am to getting it perfect.

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

Apologies to whoever owns [email protected], as everytime somebody demands an email address to use their wifi I throw you under the bus. I don't want to put you on those tracking lists but better you than me.

I should be doing art and creating things, but instead I'm just raising truffle pigs and befriending sewer demons and holding the mayors purple shorts for ransom

Exclusive: In a first, US strike in Caribbean leaves survivors, US official says - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

what I meant to say is: god fucking bless @erikahall.bsky.social

can anyone recommend some good cookies to store on my device?

god fucking bless @monteiro.bsky.social www.mulebooks.com/store/car-ma...

Don't threaten me with a good time...

This is hacking: understanding the mechanics of the rules to work around their intent.

This is hacking: understanding the mechanics of the rules to work around the rules.

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New: Prosecutors in Florida have charged voting machine vendor Smartmatic with corruption in an indictment that previously only charged three of the company's former executives. Smartmatic's machines are used in LA County. This is a breaking story so I'll have more later, but here's my initial piece

EFF is suing the Trump administration over the government's use of social media surveillance targeting legal residents and visa-holders. EFF says the program has the "goal of identifying and punishing those who express viewpoints the government doesn't like."

Big thanks to @1password.bsky.social for sponsoring my blog this week! 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. 1password.com/troyhunt

This is really just incredible work from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social + photographer Michelle Groskopf. Come for the cybertruck dogs, stay for the insurrectionist? www.wired.com/story/owning...

Watching elderly and frail politicians freeze and collapse on the job -- whether it's a Democrat or Republican -- because their party doesn't want their seat to be up for grabs is never not going to be disturbing.

NEW: With 157 million users, ByteDance’s Doubao 豆包 has officially surpassed DeepSeek to be the most popular AI app in China. How come? “It's marketed at people who are not the most technologically informed. Some of the earliest Doubao users I heard of were my friends’ grandmothers & aunties.”

The video of @droethlisberger.bsky.social and my @reconmtl.bsky.social 2025 talk, "A Trip to Ancient BABYLON", is now online! It's a fun story about a 2017-era iOS persistence exploit that we found in a Pegasus sample -- on VT (!!)

The govt doesn't track how often immigration agents detain Americans. So @propublica.org created its own count: -170+ citizens -including nearly 20 kids—2 with cancer -50+ held after agents questioned their citizenship—nearly all Latino By @nicolefoy.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/immi...

European Union defence priorities plan upto 2030. The European Drone Defence Initiative, the Eastern Flank Watch (initial capacity by end 2026), the European Air Shield and the European Space Shield

I should note: Leiendecker has said a condition of acquisition was for Dominion to first settle all of its defamation suits against Trump supporters who claimed Dominion rigged 2020 presidential election. But Patrick Byrne former CEO of Overstock and Mike Lindell of MyPillow say they won't settle

The timelines in this CISA directive to patch F5 vulnerabilities are not grounded in the relative risk posed. The required remediation timelines have been artificially extended to ensure there's a possibility for compliance given staff impacted by the shutdowns. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

been a weird week with a variety of angry emails and comments about the word ‘engineer’. take it up with my workplace i guess? it’s in my title lmao

I’m glad to see more about this Dominion story. www.wired.com/story/scott-...

Scott Leiendecker who acquired Dominion Voting Systems last week vows to make the systems 100% domestically programmed. But Dominion has long had programmers in Serbia & Canada. Does this mean he'll rewrite all code written by foreigners? I took a deep dive into implications of the acquisition

To be fair, once the Epstein materials are out, Johnson knows his people won't be able to focus on anything else. Their constituents won't let them.

At @vcfmidwest I found: - ESP32 Lisa hard drive emulator - RP2040 powering iMac display replacement boards - Wisblock chip powering LoRa radio for Commodore 64 - Pi Zero C64 drive emulator - Pi Pico voltage board for AMRAY SEM - Pis running various exhibits...

Ugly end to Kryptos saga. Two people found the solution to the last encrypted portion of famed Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters. They found it in Smithsonian archive. They contacted artist who made sculpture, who is preparing to auction off solution; he threatened to sue them if they reveal it

Who the fuck wants this?

Treat yourself to this incredible photo essay/interview series with Cybertruck owners from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social. Will put my favorite part in a reply below because it is a SPOILER.

"In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?" "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice."

This week the Times reported that in 2020 UK gov classified systems were compromised and reams of sensitive data were stolen by China; a gov coverup prevented public from learning about it. But @ciaranm.bsky.social who was head of UK National Cyber Security Centre at the time says this is bollocks

Open source adoption keeps growing, but many still ask: how do we measure its ROI? LF Research, together with open source projects and communities, is exploring its true business value, from productivity and savings to innovation and collaboration. linuxfoundation.research.net/r/227H5TL #OpenSource