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Making Awful News Just Bad Since 2001™. Threats, attacks, privacy, incident management and comms. Ex Microsoft (MSRC), Trend, PANW, Avast, Sophos.

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0-Days \ red.anthropic.com

Full research paper here: red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-da...

05.02.2026 22:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing The AI company sees the model's advancements as a major win for cyber defenders in the race against adversarial AI.

I've done some work in the past year with AI security startups focused on leveraging AI to find vulns. Their results were impressive.

This is running out-of-the-box without any add-on knowledge/expertise and is even more impressive in results.

#AI #vulnresearch

www.axios.com/2026/02/05/a...

05.02.2026 22:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
War Games   We're still here
War Games We're still here YouTube video by jkman999

Reports of the demise of humanity at the claws of AI may have been overstated.

We are nearly a week into the existence of OpenClaw and its social networking site Moltbook.

And we're still around. Skynet hasn't awakened (yet).

I think we're gonna make it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5b...

05.02.2026 20:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lily Allen Says She Makes 'More Money' from Selling Feet Photos Than 'Having Nearly 8 Million Listeners on Spotify' Lily Allen revealed on X (formerly Twitter) that she is taking in more money via her OnlyFans account than she is from having 8 million listeners on Spotify.

Spotify is raising rates, again.

No word they're going to pay artists more. Lily Allen has said she makes more money selling pictures of her feet on OnlyFans than she does from her 7,463,186 listeners on Spotify.

If you still have Spotify now is a great time to change.

people.com/lily-allen-m...

15.01.2026 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs Dell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’

Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs. Dell is now shifting it focus this year away from being "all about the AI PC," because consumers aren't interested. A surprisingly honest admission from one of Microsoft's biggest PC partners. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/857723/...

07.01.2026 18:00 👍 201 🔁 33 💬 11 📌 11

Honestly, Firefox has been on its way out for a while I'd argue.

I've tried so many times to love it, or even like it or just use it, but I never could.

16.12.2025 15:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK, I haven't heard of Vivaldi before. I'll check that out, thanks.

16.12.2025 15:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great article, nice work thank you!

05.06.2025 17:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why AI Hallucinations Aren’t Going Away: thoughts from @megmorrone.bsky.social's recent @axios.com article.

tl;dr: we haven't solved this in humans, how are we going to solve it in AI?

christopherbudd.com/why-ai-hallu...

05.06.2025 17:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Transatlantic AI Trust: What US Learns from Europe Uncover crucial lessons for American policymakers and developers in adopting human-centric AI strategies for greater public acceptance.

Recent surveys reveal Europeans are more trusting and optimistic about AI than Americans—here's why that matters.

Read more in my first monthly column for The European Financial Review:

www.europeanfinancialreview.com/surveys-reve...

Would love your thoughts—and suggestions for future columns.

02.06.2025 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Securing the brand: Microsoft surges up annual reputation poll as top-ranked tech company Microsoft was the top-ranked tech company in the Axios Harris Poll, coming in at No. 3 behind Trader Joe's and Patagonia. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)

I analyze Microsoft's best standing ever (#3) in the new Axios Harris poll to argue that the numbers over the past few years show how bad security news over the past couple of years hurt their reputation and that recently doing the right things has helped.

www.geekwire.com/2025/securin...

22.05.2025 15:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LockBit ransomware gang hacked, victim negotiations exposed The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced and replaced with a message linking to a MySQL database dump.

A variation of "who watches the watchers" apparently is "who attacks the attackers".

#lockbit #ransomware #threatactors #irony

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

08.05.2025 15:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Microsoft and Amazon quantum advancements spark questions about the future of encryption Microsoft’s new “Majorana 1” processor is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. (Photo by John Brecher

In case you missed it, happy and proud to be back on the GeekWire contributing writer team once again.

My latest article on the encryption ramifications of the recent quantum chip announcements.

www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...

#encryption #AWS #microsoft #PQC #quantumcomputing

18.03.2025 20:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0