Gordon Hundley

*No matter how kinky dystopias might seem to the user-base, I'm pretty sure that utopias are even worse, if you'd like to keep your head on your shoulders medium.com/@bruces/utop...

*An AI visual slop-engine will fulfill its prompt, but parts of the image that aren't prioritized will often decay into chaotic rubbish *But an AI chess engine always seems entirely engaged with every piece on the entire board. It's not choosy *Is that so, or does it just look that way to humans

The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!

New blog post: Lynd Ward's Haunted Omnibus

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Why manually check if Chainguard is a CNA every so often when I can just have it on a schedule? https://ischainguardstillacna.rud.is/ (Don't expect this to change anything. The one for Mitch didn’t.)

What an incredible day for democracy. ❤️ Students defeat an EU-backed authoritarian regime in Serbia. 🇷🇸 Lula defeats a far-right nepo baby whose backers interfere with turnout in Brazil. 🇧🇷

“Andy Burnham admitted he is considering allowing freedom of movement… …as pro-EU groups warn Brexit has left a black hole of up to £240bn in economic growth”

‘It’s magic’: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

End of an era. And sadly there’s nothing really in place (or that will launch any time soon) that replicates Swift’s capabilities. science.nasa.gov/missions/swi...

Playing around with a mosaic from early 2025: the region between the California Nebula, in Perseus, and the Pleiades cluster in Taurus. The dark nebula LDN 1472 lies between them. #astrophotography

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

If you happen to find yourself in London over the next few days, you can spy some of the critters from the Discworld Bestiary in the window of Waterstones Piccadilly 🦀🦋

Let me congratulate infosec for really stepping up, this cyber awareness month has been going gangbusters! Let's not let up now, there's still a week of awareness to deliver!

Dónal Lunny has passed away. In terms of Irish music, he was the fulcrum. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. This is one of my favourite as Gaeilge tunes. Donal on vocals & bouzouki, featuring Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh & the late Danny Thompson. #DonalLunnyRIP youtu.be/tmfmLxsVlzk?...

Moving Hearts - McBrides #musicsky #DonalLunnyRIP

May I refer you to Arkell v. Pressdram? Private Eye is 65. To celebrate, we’re taking a peek behind the curtain to explain where some of the Eye’s lore, columns, and in-jokes originate from.

The latest urgent research from the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/p...

"The effort [to thwart PHP vulnerability exploitation] was aided, inadvertently, by the current limits of some widely available AI models, which did not appear to be very helpful at exploiting the vulnerabilities." www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

I remember when I used to bring up the genetically engineered dogs they made in China (IIRC) with increased bone and muscle mass and wonder hopefully whether that was research that could be used to solve the health problems of humans in long-term microgravity.

From FIPS to facepalm; when the chain of trust is compromised, everything that uses certificates for that trust has to be checked and updated – and that means *everything*

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A security vulnerability doesn't require malicious code or a hidden backdoor. Sometimes the vulnerability is the ability to turn the system off. Ukraine just learned that. Every U.S. ally is watching.

Forgot to update PHP, some teenager from Germany now has full control of a bunch of missles.

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a message from the future

The Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, is one of the largest H II regions in the heart of Southern Milky Way, in the Carina constellation. Visible to the unaided eye under the right conditions, it is at a distance of ~ 7,500 ly. science.nasa.gov/image-articl... 🔭🧪⚛️ #galactic

The phenomenon of the horns extending beyond 180° was already noted by Johann Schröter in the late 18th century and was one of the first independent pieces of evidence for the existence of a dense atmosphere around Venus. Striking images like this one make it particularly clear. 🔭🧪⚛️ #sciart

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

But stay, I smell a man of middle-earth.

The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.

The sci-fi inspired “cloaking device” makes invisibility possible Becoming invisible has long be a human aspiration, with Star Trek's "cloaking device" taking it mainstream. The combination of metamaterials and metalenses could soon make it a reality. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics

Edited «AI will fix security» This mistakes a tooling problem for a people problem. The solutions to fixing security defects have existed for decades. The main challenges are liability, pressure to deliver fast, and consequence if something goes wrong, and AI fixes none of them. #ai #appsec #games

Live stacked Saturn from last night. The seeing conditions were horrendous but still got something. #astronomy #astrophotography #space #saturn

Let them have the damn candy

For Carrie Frances: 🎂 ❤️

Sick of paying subscription fees to all the major tech companies for software you don’t even enjoy using? Now’s the perfect time to hunt down alternatives. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

🎵Old Macdonald had a data centre AI AI … oh 🎵

"I Have No Mouth And I'm Ice Cream" -- Ben and Jerry's flavour that tested worst.