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the youtube algorithm is radicalizing the youth

I was very confused about the situation with the Spain blackout and @natashabernal.bsky.social answered my questions www.wired.com/story/europe...

Someone just did something incredibly thoughtful for my move and things that seem maybe smaller to you can be life changing and huge for someone else.

Sign your names or you're a toaster, American cyber pros. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs

You did good, Canada. Forward.

I'm a staff writer at WIRED, and I'm looking to speak with folks taking compounded GLP-1s and how you're being affected now that the FDA has said compounding of semaglutide and tirzepatide must stop. Feel free to reach out on Signal at emullin.06 or email at [email protected].

How do Spain and Portugal get the power back on? Probably very slowly. @natashabernal.bsky.social reports for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/europe...

Chris Krebs is speaking at the end of a panel at RSA right now and going off on Trump admin cuts to CISA, getting applause: "Right now to see what's happening to the cybersecurity community inside the federal government, we should be outraged. Absolutely outraged....Make CISA great again."

they should invent complex systems that never fail

Just because you type it REALLY LOUDLY doesn't make shaky logic suddenly sound.🤣

Electronic Frontier Foundation and dozens of leading cyber and election security experts have signed an open letter saying they "unequivocally condemn" the Trump order targeting former CISA director Chris Krebs, and demand the order is rescinded.

Back in 2019 when I was a consumer tech reporter I wrote this and, well 😬 www.wired.com/story/privat...

Flaws in Apple's AirPlay protocol for streaming media to speakers, TVs, and set-top boxes have left millions of these devices vulnerable to being hijacked by any hacker on the same Wifi network. Many of these devices never receive patches. www.wired.com/story/airbor...

My honest opinion: Taxpayer money should be spent wisely. That means investing in #opensource software, not expensive proprietary technology. Better value, more transparency, and no vendor lock-in.

NEW: FBI, security agencies using polygraphs for ‘leak’ hunts as part of what current and former officials say is a crackdown that is creating a climate of fear and intimidation -one that jeopardizes national security. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

that post never existed. you made it up.

The park not in RSA is the best part of RSA

due to unforeseen circumstances, the fortune teller is currently unavailable

I tried to set up a new account on my own PDS during the outage and I failed because I didn't follow my own carefully written instructions

when i 1st started in aerospace 3 yrs ago my scary mountain to climb was understanding safety critical networking. now that im moving into the next phase, my scary mountain to climb is literally How Electricity Do Thing

One of the fun parts of parliamentary systems is it’s possible for a potential prime minister to lose up to 3 times per election. The prime minister is an elected representative who the party has also elected to lead their party. If the party win a majority of seats, their leader becomes PM.

I love the neither Bezos or Musk realize how much we genuinely hate them, and think they can make the other one look like the bad guy. Enjoying their attempts to wreck one another, though.

What the heck is going on with tariffs? It seems like the stock market decided they were over, but nobody seems to have informed the administration about it.

Seems like there are "NotFound" errors getting returned in place of some other failure error

might play with making a bsky mini-appview that has no database and just holds as much as it can in-memory - until memory gets full and then oldest records get dropped first (smarter heuristics are possible)

Tricky email comes, Asks for password, seems so real, Do not click the link.

"The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

There are "oopsies" and there are "well, that was a good career while it lasted" mistakes.

Apple sadly has no support for PPS, TGPIO, or any other 'fun' timing-related functionality on macOS / Mac hardware :( Maybe I can hack into an Apple Watch Ultra and get at it's L1/L5 GNSS module. It surely has PPS inside?

My comments in @elpais.com about the power blackout in Spain. Rumors during a crisis aren't helpful. A cyberattack is extremely unlikely and not worth speculating about. elpais.com/sociedad/202...

"Men, isolated by the pandemic, found each other on a public network, Clubhouse, and moved to a dark social platform, Signal, to speak more freely and then spent years radicalizing each other. This is as true for the Silicon Valley dorks as it is for QAnon..." www.garbageday.email/p/democracy-...

And I don’t even blame them. If you’re going to build a password reset flow around one-time codes, you’ve already negotiated your security stance. Everything else is just UX.

For those cases when you need some hallucinations with the legislation you're introducing.

Reality is approaching this absurdity.

Juice jacking is when you plug your phone/computer into a malicious USB charging station that secretly steals data from your device or installs malicious code on it. Security people scoff at this and say it never happens. But we now know that protections Apple/Google put in place for it don't work

Panama🇵🇦 and Spain🇪🇸 dismantle human trafficking network. A joint operation between the Panama Police and Spain’s @policia.es has led to the arrest of six suspects in Madrid. Three human trafficking victims - one Panamanian and two Colombian women - were rescued.

NEW INVESTIGATION: Uyghurs targeted with digital attacks far from #China's borders... Impersonating legit software developers to solicit "feedback" on a language app. Then sending a trojan. Clever + well-informed.. 👇Thread by @citizenlab.ca colleague @pdxbek.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/pdxb...

to those who didn’t play the last of us & are experiencing the story for the first time via TV show… im sorry 😞

Spain and Portugal experienced the largest blackout in history. I wonder…

Illinois had decades of criminal governors. Nice to have one that not only isn’t a piece of shit, but is an example of what the dems should be doing. Bravo!

NEW: Last year, there were 34 recorded zero-days being exploited in real-world attacks, which were attributed to specific groups. Of those, 23 were attributed to government-backed hackers, including spyware makers, which shows that governments are the main users of zero-days.

Also it's not like the Biden administration pushed a big red INFLATION button whereas Trump keeps smashing his TARIFF button with a whak-a-mole hammer.

I'm quite certain Canadians can think of a negative or two (thousand).

#linux

More #defcon33 open call action from the fine folks at the @cryptovillage.bsky.social The Crypto & Privacy Village Call for Papers (CFP) is looking for top-notch presentations, discussions, panels, workshops, show & tell, and other creative online content! cryptovillage.org/cfp/ #defcon

Leavitt: “As Reuters recently wrote, Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.” The printout she holds up is based on an article from 2021 though www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Krebs is beloved with many cyber folks, but though there are some big names here, the industry is really not well represented so far. Contrast with 2021, when Cyberwarcon brought him on stage for a custom "fired by tweet" jacket. Curious if this changes or if most still keep their heads down.

Cyberattack officially ruled out as reason for power outage. Solar power generators were identified as a potential reason.

This is an amazing waste of resources.

That's a ridiculously large badge. Bro, you don't pick the largest size they offer unless you're buying a toy.

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This week: Minecraft Bee Fidget By Tyron_Makes_Stuff makerworld.com/en/models/1279928-minecraft-bee-fidget-1-20th-scale #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/d3QGQdZ2ltI

Is any journalist at the Whatsapp v. NSO trial today? If so, who? I'd love to follow them since it does not look like it's going to be livestreamed.

Excerpt from my book Philosophy of Cybersecurity (CRC), advising healthy skepticism in cases of suspected or reported blackouts caused by cyberattacks.

NEW: A court in India has ordered the block Proton Mail across the whole country as part of a case where a local design firm received obscene emails. As of this writing, Proton Mail is still working, based on our tests. Story by by @journalistjagmeet.com techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/i...

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Tom Brady is finally being made to pay for #deflategate

Russian military intelligence cyber operations targeting French entities. Primarily includes governmental, diplomatic, and research entities, as well as think-tanks.

Good somebody has fun!

The moment power cut out at the Madrid Open while Coco Gauff was being interviewed post-match. x.com/TheTennisLet...

"José Luis Calama, a judge in Spain's national court, has ordered a preliminary investigation into the power blackout to examine if the outage was caused by an act of cyber sabotage against critical infrastructure"

🚀 AI, edge, security, and open networking—open source is moving fast. 🧠 How do you scale AI smarter? 📡 Why are open APIs critical right now? 🔐 What’s the new security signal you should know?

Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/t... #firefox #opensource

The Qwen3 LLM/AI open-weights model has been released. It’s small, runs locally on your device (ensuring 100% privacy), and in benchmarks, it outperforms some of OpenAI’s larger models.

Canada election updates: Polls are closed and Liberals predicted to win - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Illinois had decades of criminal governors. Nice to have one that not only isn’t a piece of shit, but is a beacon of what the dems should be doing.