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BREAKING: White House is monitoring a suspected plague outbreak in Russia, per Axios

Another AI test gone awry, U.K edition: "An agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code."

UPDATE: The companies did not calm down cyberscoop.com/aisi-openai-...

Poor billionaires

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

A Canadian lawmaker is facing backlash online after delivering a speech in New Brunswick's Legislative Assembly that seemingly included an AI prompt. "I'm Ron Burgundy?" some commenters reacted on Reddit.

Please, please, AppleTV accept the fact that I DO NOT want to watch Ted Lasso. Not on train, in a nook, or while reading a book. Delete, remove, stop showing it it me I don't care...

only Google is better at renaming products nobody wants...

Duh?

...recalling the arguments with leaders about how we needed to tread carefully as costs will inevitably rise as we hook each and every user on these tools. More than one argued with me that the models would get cheaper. I guess when all else fails we can just fire more people?

Exciting come from behind victory by algae.

TeamPCP just did an interview where they were asked what defenders should do to stop supply chain attacks. Their advice: "The company @socket.dev will detect the malware before the package even reaches your machine." So... thanks, I think? We're not putting this on the testimonials page.

Excited to secure the developer endpoint right as everyone is becoming a developer

Per The Register, cybersecurity vendor Arctic Wolf has laid off 250 workers, or ~10% staff, to save money amid an AI push. Arctic Wolf is worth billions of dollars. Will execs take a paycut? Also, it doesn't have any women on its executive leadership team. Shameful. arcticwolf.com/company/comp...

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

buttballs

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Thank God for @thepugdc today and always.

If you've never seen this show: Watch it. Especially anyone who likes the Coen brothers.

For a while, Ring tried to rebrand as the "watch the delivery driver dance" gadget, but its founder is obsessed with crime, threw parties for cops, and its employees wore "FUCK CRIME" shirts to parties

NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social: “I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.” "In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here @districtcon.bsky.social - despite the snow - and we've got some amazing content on deck today INCLUDING a session from @timstarks.bsky.social @kimzetter.bsky.social and Mary Brooks (our DisCo Press Lead) in 5 minutes.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Company creates new metric, announces they are best at that metric. "AI"

“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”

Wow. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid. Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Something positive in all this AI trash.

The thing about dental insurance is that it isn’t really insurance — it’s more like a half-helpful discount plan with a maximum. And once you reach the maximum, you’re on your own, often to the tune of hundreds and thousands of dollars. As though going to the dentist needed to be less fun.

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

Cool...cool...cool... www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now. 🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

From last night.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

How are folks finding what MCP servers are in use in their organizations? Not just remote ones, but local also. There are a ton of places where they are configured that I've seen even for just something like Claude.

Another day, another solidity malware. open-vsx.org/extension/Ju...

incredibly reporting by @kashhill.bsky.social on an impossibly difficult topic, as always

The Wide World of Cyber podcast is back, featuring @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, @stamos.org and yours truly! AUDIO: risky.biz/WWC10/ VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8B7...

Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems. 📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

Motherfucking wind farms…

Kim Zetter's 2014 book 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘋𝘢𝘺 was one of the first inducted into the Canon Hall of Fame 🏆. It unpacks the story of #Stuxnet and a 1st of its kind to turn a real-world cyber espionage operation 🕵‍♀️ into a gripping thriller. Book review: tinyurl.com/mubj2z4n @kimzetter.bsky.social

An AI red-teaming company found that xAI’s Grok 4 is “not suitable for enterprises” without substantial security prompting. cyberscoop.com/grok4-securi...

"You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you."

In the past 24 hours, Hakeem Jeffries has threatened Zohran Mamdani's political allies with primary challenges, but has said nothing about Grok's neo-Nazi outburst. He still uses X. What if Democratic leaders fought against actual antisemitism as hard as they fight against the left?