I had to spend half my work day using AI against my will.
Setup a new PC for a client at their house and they had all sorts of Python automation scripting using Grok/Siri/Gemini and I had to ask his AI automation system how to transfer it to his new computer. 🙃
My latest article is up at Network World:
Quantum computing is getting closer, but quantum-proof encryption remains elusive
The day when quantum computers will be able to break conventional encryption is rapidly approaching... www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
The popular text editor Notepad++ had their infrastructure compromised from about June 2025 to December 2025, allowing the attackers to deliver malicious updates to unsuspecting users.
Leaked email: as part of the xAI-SpaceX deal, xAI shares will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock, and employees will have the option to cash out (Wall Street Journal)
Got another email for Podbean insisting I use their AI podcast generation tool. I decided to email their contact email listed in the signature to let them know how I feel about it - much how I’ve been doing the 5calls for representatives.
I don’t expect it to be heard, but that’s all I can do.
OpenAI just dropped a new Codex app for macOS! 🚀 It combines agent-based dev logic and supports multiple agents operating in parallel to blend their capabilities. This release follows less than two months after the GPT-5.2-Codex coding model announcement. #OpenAI #CodexApp #macOS #DeveloperTools
Free AI Comparison: Gemini Rules #BoodleBox The Winner
If you've paid for a Gen AI chatbot, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus/Teams or Gemini, you may be in for a disappointment when sharing a custom creation with others. Imagine spending a lot of time designing a custom GPT, only to find that when…
I've noticed a great deal of breathless commentary about artificial intelligence lately... most of it either rapturous or apocalyptic, with precious little in between. Allow me to offer a third position.
>Google increases Business Standard from 144
USD to 168USD due to ai something
>"Previously these features were only available in the Gemini for Google Workspace add-on."
>The 'addon' was free
>>Must force consumers to see addtl. value.
>>Must force consumers to see value.
Signal or noise? > Google Releases Conductor: a context driven Gemini CLI
extension that stores knowledge as Markdown and orchestrates
agentic workflows >> Comment below! #IoT#healthtech#mhealth#AI#industry40
Don't miss our latest Author Spotlight Q&A! This week, we chat with Sara Nobrega about her transition from data science to AI engineering, key skills junior data professionals need to acquire, and much more.
#TechRadar Searching for a mini PC on a budget? The Topton D12 Ultra is wallet-friendly and packs some surprisingly powerful hardware that's sure to please https://techrad.ar/M76C#Security#Pro
"The fixation on proving LLMs are conducting something "akin to thought" could just as easily be framed as questions about why it is capable of resembling thought"
Post from @eryk.bsky.social on a paper I hadn't the stomach to deconstruct. <3 mail.cyberneticforests.com/th/?ref=cybe...
The latest update for #PagerDuty includes "PagerDuty + Guide Integration: Never Schedule an Interview Over an Incident Again" and "What NVIDIA, Okta, and Warner Bros. Discovery Learned About Scaling AI Operations Beyond the Pilot Phase".
My main feeling about Moltbook is that a lot of things are going to happen in the next few years that make us say "something just like this happened on Moltbook" www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-...
The latest update for #LevelBlue includes "LevelBlue Security Colony: A Practical #Cybersecurity Resource Hub for CISOs" and "LevelBlue and Fortra Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Managed Detection and Response".
The latest update for #Datadog includes "Detect human names in logs with ML in Sensitive Data Scanner" and "Scale #compliance across global frameworks with Datadog #CloudSecurity".
Notepad++ Update Hijacking Linked to Hosting Provider Compromise
No vulnerabilities were identified in the Notepad++ codebase itself. Instead, the attackers abused weaknesses in how update integrity was verified in older versions of the software.
The latest update for #ObservoAI includes "Curating Security Data for the Financial Services Industry" and "How AI-Native Data Pipelines Help Create a Security #DataLake".
OpenAI will put ads in ChatGPT. This opens a new door for dangerous influence OpenAI has announced plans to introduce advertising in ChatGPT in the United States. Ads will appear on the free versio...
Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker@feed.thedigitalspeaker.com.ap.brid.gy
Quantum won’t announce the end of encryption, it will leverage it quietly. Ethereum’s post-quantum push is a signal: the migration window is shrinking. Hybrid post-quantum crypto across identity, TLS, cloud, and token protocols is the only sane path.
Welcome to the AI arms race. It's been happening for years, and the data confirms what security professionals feared: most organizations are on the losing side. #cybersecurity
BitLocker’s pinky-promise: “Only YOU can open the vault.”
Microsoft to FBI: “…unless you ask nicely.”
Your laptop is now a transparent briefcase with a police escort.
AI's role in cyber threats is evolving rapidly, enabling covert, high-speed attacks like 25-minute ransomware ploys. As democratise offensive AI lowers barriers, security frameworks must adapt to manage risks from autonomous, agentic systems.
The latest update for #Sentry includes "Watching everything is watching nothing: Sampling strategy for Sentry" and "Less code, faster builds, same telemetry: Turbopack support for the Next.js SDK".
The latest update for #1111systems includes "What Getting Sick on Vacation Taught Me About Cyber Recovery" and "Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery: What You Need to Know".
Infrastructure cyberattacks are suddenly in fashion. We can buck the trend
Don't be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on
Opinion Barely a month into 2026, electrical power infrastructure on two continents has tested positive for cyberattacks. One fell fl… #hackernews#news
Relentless cybercriminals and AI’s unchecked data consumption have made compliance with tightening privacy laws more important than ever but shrinking budgets are driving stress in the small, shrinking and under-resourced privacy teams that are struggling to keep up.
New feature that could enhance the user experience with ChatGPT Hello OpenAI Team, I would like to propose a new feature that could greatly enhance the user experience with ChatGPT. The idea: Enabl...
Why hasn't CBS News cut new contributor Peter Attia after his crude Epstein emails? The sense internally is Bari Weiss doesn't want to cave to the “cancel culture” mob. More in @status.newswww.status.news/p/axios-open...
How GenAI Security Engineer Chetan Pathade Is Protecting the Next Era of AI
Chetan Pathade, a GenAI Security Engineer at AWS, secures AI systems and cloud infrastructure against data leaks, adversarial attacks, and emerging cyber threats. From bug bounty beginnings to advan… #genai#hackernews#llm
The latest update for #DNSSpy includes "Introducing WHOIS History & #Monitoring and Phishing Sentinel: Complete Brand Protection for Your #DNS Infrastructure".
It looks like, in the drive to deploy AI systems, most companies are forgetting about even the most basic cybersecurity practices. However, for me, that's a fault in the human oversight, not rooted in the AI being open-source. #AI#cybersecurity
Ex-Google Engineer Guilty Of Stealing AI Secrets For China — A former Google engineer was found guilty of economic espionage and theft of confidential AI technology for the benefit of China’s government, the FBI said Monday. The conviction highlights rising U.S. concerns over insider…
Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI and ChatGPT, sells a vision of a utopian future built on artificial intelligence so persuasive that investors ante up tens of billions of dollars. Even as his company continues to burn tens of billions of dollars. satpa.pe/mlGemCt
The CDC Has Mysteriously Frozen Vaccine Databases Without Explanation
In any war, information is power. Be it kinetic wars, cyberwarfare, or information wars, data is everything. And since RFK Jr. has clearly declared war on vaccines in America, it's not a huge surprise that he is looking to…
Citizen Portal News West Virginia@citizenptnewswv.bsky.social
West Virginia's Senate Committee has just advanced a game-changing bill allowing counties to lease wireless towers while ensuring strict cybersecurity protections against foreign threats!
OpenAI launches new macOS app for proxy encryption
🚀 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,agentic coding,codex,Codex app,OpenAI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AI has already had a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the arduous programming work now being…
How Facebook Accounts Are Hacked Using Simple Tricks
One Compromised Facebook Account Can Burn Down an Entire Digital Identity Facebook is more than a social network. For hundreds of millions of users, it’s an identity provider, an ad wallet, a business manager, and a recovery channel for other…
Gemini—Moltbook has emerged, designed specifically for AI agents to communicate, debate, and interact with one another, with over 1.5M agents subscribed as of early 2026. It operates as a Reddit-like platform where only AI agents can post, comment, and upvote, while humans can only observe.
For all the bad they do, no mainstream social network has created open channels for bad actors to spread #malware onto its users’ devices. In that regard at least, #Moltbook is unique. www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-...#AI
Incorporating AI incident reporting into telecommunications law and policy: Insights from India – The integration of artificial intelligence into telecommunications infrastructure introduces novel risks, such as algorithmic bias and unpredictable syst... https://tinyurl.com/2act755j#AlgorithmicBias
Span Cyber Security Arena 2026: Only 10 days left to secure early bird tickets
With preparations well underway, Span Cyber Security Arena 2026 is set to return for its third edition, bringing together domestic and international experts in cyber security. As in previous years, the… #hackernews#news
France ditches Zoom and Teams for homegrown system amid European digital sovereignty push
Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives.
NITDA Warns Nigerians of Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT's GPT-4, GPT-5 Models The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has issued an urgent cybersecurity advisory cautioning N...
Notepad++ update service hijacked in targeted state-linked attack
Breach lingered for months before stronger signature checks shut the door
A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised Notepad++'s update service in 2025, according to the project's author.… #hackernews#news
Jody Roberts| Microsoft Data Platform@jodywp.bsky.social
Securing Your SQL Servers with Azure: A Practical Guide to Modern Data Protection
The thing about SQL Server security In today's breach heavy landscape, securing SQL Servers isn't optional, it's your baseline. Whether you're architecting resilient systems, managing budgets, or just trying to…
IPIDEA Proxy Network Dismantled: Global Cybercrime and Botnet Risks Exposed Researchers have found what they believe is one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks: the IPIDEA proxy ope...
The AI That Does Everything? A Security Nightmare.
Indeed, as a cutting-edge technological marvel, it's undeniably impressive. However, so is hurtling down the highway at 100 miles per hour without a seatbelt – an action I would strongly advise against. Credit: Summit Art Creations/ Shutterstock…
If/when SpaceX and OpenAI go public, they’ll be meme stocks that rise dramatically and then crash. This could be the way the AI bubble bursts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Coda to yesterday's story: Elon Musk's X has now removed the accounts belonging to the Chinese propaganda-promoting network of AI-powered accounts pretending to be Australians.
'OpenAI is prioritising the advancement of ChatGPT over more long-term research, prompting the departure of senior staff as the $500bn company adapts to stiff competition from rivals such as Google and Anthropic.' www.ft.com/content/e581...
Activating Ad Blockers for a Seamless Browsing Experience In today’s digital age, the internet has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. We use it to stay informed, connect with others...
Snowflake and OpenAI Unveil $200M AI Partnership Both are pouring serious resources into building genuine technical bridges between OpenAI's AI capabilities and Snowflake's data management ...
It’s fascinating to watch all these AI companies fighting for market dominance. It feels just like the early days of the web with the wars between IE and Netscape, or Yahoo and MSN.
Now we’re just waiting for the new "I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC" ads.
Apache Syncope Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Hijack Active User Sessions Apache Syncope, a widely deployed open-source identity and access management platform, has disclosed a critical XML Exte...
Agent Skills, something that has come from Anthropic seem awfully similar to MCP servers. To understand them better, I checked out the new Hashi Skills and Anthropic Skills packages. The former to update GCP terraform code and the later to leverage the MCP builder. I... https://kutt.tpk.pw/HKrrBn
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xAI was bought for $250bn, according to major news publications, making the combined business worth $1.25trn. This makes SpaceX the world’s largest private company, leagues ahead in valuation from the of the likes of OpenAI and TikTok-parent ByteDance.
Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Combating ransomware: The case for a ransom payment ban, and when it might happen, according to cybersecurity policy expert Jen Ellis. www.databreachtoday.com/interviews/c...
British Journal of Anaesthesia@bjajournals.bsky.social
Can generative #AI reshape guideline development? This study compared #ChatGPT4 and #Gemini in generating recommendations for management of perioperative #neurocognitive disorder – watch what the authors found.
Scanning for exposed Anthropic Models, (Mon, Feb 2nd)
Yesterday, a single IP address (%%ip:204.76.203.210%%) scanned a number of our sensors for what looks like an anthropic API node. The IP address is known to be a Tor exit node. #anthropic#hackernews#news
The US government has already barred entry to the ex EU commissioner Thierry Breton who was instrumental in creating the Digital Services Act to regulate tech companies.
Wonder what their reaction will be to Paris police and prosecutors doing their job?
French cybercrime authorities searched X's French offices, summoned Elon Musk to an April 20 open hearing, and the EU opened a probe into X's AI chatbot Grok for DSA breaches.
AI accelerates industrial cyber threats, transforms OT attack landscape to challenge traditional defenses - Industrial Cyber industrialcyber.co/features/ai-...
📊 Firefox’s new AI off switch highlights demand for transparency and user control in tech. Opt-in options are now a must as trust in AI shifts across industries.
Google like Apple are a toxic institution stealing privacy, data, personal information and monetising it, exactly why the parasites that own it and others in tech industry are billionaires, on the back of you and your life, details and privacy they monetise!
A long list of countries are creating voluntary standards for the use of spyware call the Pall Mall Process. Remains to be seen if these will be effective.
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Enterprise cloud firm Snowflake has struck a $200 million (£146.1m) multi-year deal with OpenAI, a tie-up that follows a very similar partnership between Snowflake and Anthropic, signed last month, evidence that enterprise AI partnerships are beginning to converge.
Anthropic, makers of Claude, have published a report saying that “AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average”; for Claude Code specifically, they expect even “more pronounced” impacts on learning
The Paris prosecutor cybercrime unit raided X's French offices. It was related to an ongoing investigation launched in January 2025 over alleged algorithm manipulation and illicit data extraction.
Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were summoned for questioning.
Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Elon Musk’s X office in France raided by police.
Paris prosecutors term raids as part of a ‘constructive approach’ to ensure platform complies with French law.
Vive La France 🇫🇷! 🙌
"Following Google's Genie 3, Ant Group released an open source alternative: LingBot-World!
This video trained world model can also be steered like a game (WASD + camera), with sub-1s latency at 16fps in its real-time setup, and demonstrates coherent rollouts up to ...
Just in: The Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that the French offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X were being searched as part of a recently launched investigation.
In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover Starlink free in-flight internet, Tesla deprecating Autopilot, Apple using Google Gemini for Siri, the Meta and Manus deal, AI hardware competition, layoffs, and highlights from Hacker News.
"Researchers at Wiz discovered a misconfigured Supabase database belonging to Moltbook exposing 1.5 million API authentication tokens, 35,000 email addresses, and private DMs between agents — some containing plaintext OpenAI API keys."
“While the RISC-V specification provides strong security primitives… implementations consistently choose insecure defaults… The decisions vendors make today… will be baked into billions of chips we cannot patch.” #riscv#fosdem
France Raids X Paris Office In Child-Porn And Deepfake Probe — French prosecutors searched the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social platform X as part of a preliminary investigation into child pornography, deepfakes and related cybercrimes. The operation, linked to an inquiry opened in…
The search is being carried out by a cybercrime unit in relation to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor's office said. #elon#musk#elonmusk https://mu.sk/p5jL
French Cybercrime Unit Searches X Offices in Paris, Invites Elon Musk for Questioning — French cybercrime investigators conducted a search of X’s Paris offices on Tuesday as part of a probe opened in January 2025 into alleged cybercrimes and political interference. Paris prosecutors said…
🇫🇷 France summoned billionaire Elon Musk to a "voluntary interview" as cybercrime authorities on Tuesday searched the French offices of his social media network X, the Paris public prosecutor's office said.
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Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered "family care system", currently in private testing (Ina Fried/Axios)
WinFLoRA enhances federated learning, boosting global model accuracy by 52.58% while prioritizing client privacy. By incentivizing lower-noise contributions, it aligns client utility with collective goals, transforming sensitive data handling in collaborative AI.
OpenAI: “Scan your eyeballs to prove you’re not a bot.”
Also OpenAI: “Here’s the bot army we built.”
Welcome to the human zoo—blink once for entry, twice for revolt.
French authorities raided the Paris office of Elon Musk’s X and summoned the billionaire for a “voluntary interview,” a major escalation of European regulators’ battles with the social-media platform.
Elon Musk's Paris X Office Raided by French Police The prosecutor's office reported that multiple sources claimed X's algorithm had also been used for "purposes of foreign interference." - MeidasTouch News. share.google/wAT6VY1lMcB7...
A new “shadow AI layer” is emerging, and it doesn’t reside within the major hosted platforms. It lives on random servers running Ollama endpoints that somebody exposed for convenience and never locked down.
The case was expanded after further accusations that Grok, the platform’s A.I. chatbot, was spreading Holocaust denial claims and sexual deepfakes, Ms. Beccuau said in the statement.
French prosecutors have searched the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation into alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.
OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December
Heartening to see France’s public prosecutor doing their job without fear or favour. I can’t wait to see M. Musk in the dock ⚖️ Chances of US sanctions on France ahead of that eventuality? 80%? #StopElon
Researchers at Georgia Tech and MIT created CROSS, a compiler framework leveraging AI accelerators like Google TPUs to improve Homomorphic Encryption efficiency by up to 451×, enabling advanced privacy-preserving AI applications without specialized hardware.
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