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One of the reasons I find the “BlueSky bad” takes so self-defeating is that it’s very obvious this administration intends to place all major social media into the hands of friendly owners. www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/t...

Everyone has their own threat models, so I don't want to me broad, recommendations here, but if you use Protonmail to talk to sources, you should read this story. The way Protonmail handled this whole thing is quite bad. No transparency, dismissing the story as being "blown out of proportion.”

The other hill I will die on ever single time is that having lived for extensive periods of time in both the UK and US, the UK has objectively freer speech. Extensive worker rights make it significantly less likely a company will fire you for your views, stronger police oversight minimizes 1/2

I had a Totally Normal encounter with @actionretro.bsky.social at #VCFMW. And got to meet a bunch of other great folks into retro and vintage computers! Can't wait until next year...

The US has this false dichotomy when it comes to free speech where so many people believe that you either have more laws regulating speech and speech is less free, or less laws regulating speech and speech is more free. But what you're seeing right now is just how objectively untrue that is. 🧵 1/3

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a single gene-editing strategy that could rescue multiple unrelated diseases: www.wired.com/story/the-ne...

Gentoo Linux's AI policy forbids any content, including code, created with LLMs, for contributions to official Gentoo projects due to copyright, quality, and ethical concerns. wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project... #AI #LLM

These conservative galaxy brains saying we should just pull American troops out of South Korea so that they're destroyed by North Korea in retribution for sanctions, and think they're brilliant military strategists without considering -what would happen next-… 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🙈🙄

The US is doubling down on murdering people from Venezuela in boats. This is just blatantly illegal activity. nypost.com/2025/09/15/u...

I was invited to be the closing keynote at BSidesRDU this past weekend. Some folk found my presentation there, and the ensuing Q&A, somewhat moving... youtu.be/aUXHItYNKYY ... recording there is 30min talk, 30min discussion. Both were very rewarding. 💚

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"'The goal was to disrupt online voting, particularly in occupied Ukrainian regions,' the source said. Digital services were paralyzed for a period, leaving many Russians unable to vote electronically in mayoral and gubernatorial races, the source claimed."

I recapped all the tech that ICE is using to power its ruthless deportation operations. Hat tip to everyone who's been doing great reporting on these companies and tools. techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/h...

Ever wondered why there's an exclamation mark (!) in the `htop` command on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or Unix operating systems? 🤔 It's not a typo! It's there to protect you 😉 It tells you something! haha!

Something is rotten in Denmark. mastodon.social/@chatcontrol...

A Linux or Unix guru is someone who has made all the mistakes and has the backups to prove it. Not just any data backups but the verified ones that kept on tape. LOL.

"A video from a vigil for Kirk that Sánchez promoted in Huntington Beach, CA on Wednesday shows a group of men chanting: 'White man fight back.' He shared another image of himself speaking at the vigil on his Telegram channel, with the caption: 'DEATH TO THE LEFT.'" www.wired.com/story/extrem...

"Look, we were so into doing some racist shit that we got carried away and pulled you into some racist shit where we put you in a concentration camp. But now we know you're the good non-white people so pretty please come back because I'm being told we don't know how to build this without you."

I regularly get asked by people whether I would go to OWASP Global, Blackhat or Defcon. I would like to, but my threat modeling tells me to stay put. My family would be scared and my wife would go cracy. I would be scared too. It’s going to be Europe for me for the foreseeable feature.

"Just don't report any economic numbers until after the next election."

New by me: A look into UK orgs outsourcing critical business and cyber functions to low cost providers and the fall out. I'll probably get in trouble for writing this one. doublepulsar.com/the-elephant...

A+++ description of the "Hyundai, please come back" statements from the State Department.

A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java. It makes it easy to parse JSON into Java and Kotlin classes github.com/square/moshi

Well deserved. Severance wouldn't be the same without him.

#3Dprinted case for the hallowing! Spikes make it easy to attach to pumpkins! This last minute halloween prop is easy to #3Dprint and stick onto almost any soft surface! Guide: learn.adafruit.com/hallowing-case #3dprinting #adafruit #halloween #electrichalloween youtu.be/PTybQ-mED2M

Spoke w/ @justinhendrix.bsky.social about how fast the Kirk video spread in a post-content moderation world—how platforms are failing to either provide content warnings or define glorified violence, & what the arguments are for allowing violent content to be seen www.techpolicy.press/assessing-te...

NEW: The Israeli government has ordered the seizure of 187 crypto wallets it said belong to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC. Crypto analysis firm Elliptic said the wallets currently hold $1.5 million, but over time have received $1.5 billion. techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/i...

s/career-ending/a crime/ Fixed it for you.

A very good obituary

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What movie are they drawing on my apartment building?

Other than the fact that Kilmeade recommended execution, not euthanasia, this is on point.

79% see Sovereign AI as strategic. 94% say global collaboration + open source are key to secure, culturally aligned systems. 👉 www.linuxfoundation.org/research/sta... #SovereignAI

Hello! 👋 I just got back from a two-week vacation. While I was gone, @cybersecuritydive.bsky.social published four stories that I wrote in advance. Here they are again, in case you missed them...

If we was serious, his lawyer would have sent the threat.

"I'm not touching your food. Totally not. Don't kick me off the bed..."

Screenshot since it won't embed. You can follow this Palestinian journalist on Instagram @nahed_hajjaj99. This is a baby, whose leg was nearly severed in an explosion. There is a graphic video to this too. It's also horrific. It's also shocking and tragic. We're living in a fucking nightmare.

NEW: OpenAI is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids. Great piece from @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/openai...