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Someone let the penguins of the Heard and McDonald Islands know that their long ordeal is coming to an end.
If a person checks their watch while you’re talking, it’s probably because they’re timing you and this is a competition. Keep talking. It’s win-time baby. You got this.
Infosec used to be serious
"Breaking the military’s capacity to resist the party’s commands, especially in a crisis, is of utmost importance to Xi—even more so than...combat readiness. His driving concerns about party control of the military ... are existential." www.foreignaffairs.com/china/xi-des...
Hey now, seven outta a hundred ain’t bad.
"Pax Silica builds on a hierarchical model where Washington defines the rules...Some actors are brought in as ‘capability nodes’, while others – notably the EU and Taiwan – are treated more as markets rather than full strategic co-architects." www.iiss.org/online-analy...
Sobering reporting on the risk of Iranian civil war. 'According to multiple accounts, masked men armed with knives killed basijis, the regime’s volunteer vigilantes. “It’s already a civil war,” says a young woman in Mashhad. “We’re just not saying it.”' www.economist.com/middle-east-...
Ironically campaigning against human rights. Inexplicable, but also quirky and bemusing. Definitely not a good enough reason to turn down a paycheck. Apparently.
"Taken together, the Xu and Lin episodes point to the same pattern. Even limited or ‘hedged’ dissent within the PLA has resulted in immediate sidelining, and any perceived challenge at the highest level has provoked decisive purge and persecution." engelsbergideas.com/essays/china...
"There is one message that we should take away from the current round of talks to end the war in Ukraine: Putin does not want the war to end right now." My latest update on war and strategic competition.
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I don’t ask a lot from y’all in exchange for spending thousands of dollars a year to give the public free court records.
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The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs.
FD-1023 SECRET// NOFORN FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CHS REPORTING DOCUMENT OFFICIAL RECORD Check here if additional reporting is in Echo No Source Reporting: (S//NF) On November 27, 2017, Special Agent and Special Agen met with a Confidential Human Source with whom the FBI has recently established a relationship. The CHS reported the following: (S//NF) Jeffrey Epstein ("Epstein") had a compound in New Mexico where he lured and video recorded underage women. He also had a private island. Epstein was President Vladimir Putin's wealth manager, and provided the same service for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Epstein had some connection to rom MIT Media Lab but CHS was unsure of the details. Epstein had dirt on other people. The logs from his flights were made public at some point. Epstein had a mansion on the Upper West Side. Epstein made his money from charging his clients fees to hide their money offshore. Epstein knew former President Bill Clinton, and was very close to current President Donald Trump. In the spring of 2015, President Trump had just been to Epstein's property for lunch. (S//NF) was Epstein's personal hacker. was an Italian citizen born in Calabria who developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments established the Saudi government's cyber surveillance program. sold a zero-day to Hezbollah. was known as the first person to hack and find vulnerabilities in Blackberries and iOS. He was also known for finding Firefox vulnerabilities. surrounded himself with powerful friends like Epstein; he leveraged his connections with his billionaire friends. former company, currently a Vice President there. I was acquired by CrowdStrike in fall 2017, and was had three billionaire backers: provided the company's seed money; , Jeffrey Epstein, and had a Japanese company called (S//NF) was very good at finding vulnerabilities was friends with "old school" European hackers. One "friend" was a hacker named ' (phonetic, "PH")…
FBI document describing “Epstein's personal hacker.
was an Italian citizen born in Calabria who developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments”
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The ability to just create a tool when you need it is amazing. I can’t get over how cool it is to be able to explain what I want and then a little while later I get it. I got a working obsidian plugin in 3 minutes. “I’d like this workflow…” a few minutes later and I have it. It’s game changing
Schumer and Jeffries negotiating to limit the number of journalist arrested by the Department of Justice each year to a maximum of 20.
"In late September, Akhundzada ordered the internet and phones to be shut off, severing Afghanistan from the rest of the world. Three days later the internet was back, with no explanation of why. But what had happened behind the scenes was seismic" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palo Alto Networks patched a high-severity vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to disable firewall protections in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
An absolutely superb podcast from my colleague @tom.risky.biz and @thegrugq.bsky.social featuring Hamid Kashfi discussing the evolution of Iranian APTs. 10/10
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Grok has invaded Poland
Old School US Military: Boring dads (and increasingly moms) who can get a shipping container full of explosives, MREs, & spare parts anywhere in the world in 72 hours with no drama.
Cult of the Operator: Midlife crisis dads (and occasionally moms) who will starve to death w/o the old school types.
My proposal for US-China relations after Trump is to start a direct, uncle-to-uncle cultural exchange program where we being all of the most Dongbei guys over here to meet midwestern dads, and we send southerners over to Sichuan province. I think it can fix things.
I'm not like other girls, I'm a numbers station that's been continuously reciting the digits of pi to the tune of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" since 1953.
Microsoft Outlook is pants at usability and running a fat GUI isn’t great for security. About a year ago I went on a mission to make mutt (the CLI mail client) work in a sandbox so I could read my work Microsoft365 mail nicely and more securely. Here’s how
Pushback to the policy shift announced earlier. “Google DeepMind staff in the UK are seeking to unionise in an effort to challenge the company’s decision to sell its artificial intelligence technologies to defence groups and ties to the Israeli government”
I need time to write a proper skeet for this monster post but if you’re the type to trust me - this is a great read sensepost.com/blog/2025/in...
But we're going to have beautiful empty shelves and it's something I think you'll be seeing very soon. We won't be the country of clutter anymore. [doing accordion hands] it's called minimalism. Ok?
French prosecutors allege that a Le Monde journalist's book on the DGSI, France's domestic intelligence service, led to the arrest and execution of a Syrian agent who was run as part of a Mossad-DGSI operation. www.intelligenceonline.com/government-i...