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vox.com
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.
Dental insurance isn’t a scam — but it’s also not insurance
How we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up.
www.vox.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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drewharwell.com
AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
feeney.dev
Cool...cool...cool...

www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...
FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements
The commission’s Republican chair, who voted against the rules in January, calls them ineffective and illegal.
www.cybersecuritydive.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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janus.bsky.social
some minor improvements
October 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 1
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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404media.co
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...
Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade
Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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joemenn.bsky.social
From last night.
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
"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.
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
variety.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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johntuckner.me
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.
September 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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johntuckner.me
Another day, another solidity malware.

open-vsx.org/extension/Ju...
September 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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samleecole.bsky.social
incredibly reporting by @kashhill.bsky.social on an impossibly difficult topic, as always
“Every ideation he has or crazy thought, it supports, it justifies, it asks him to keep exploring it,” Mr. Raine said. And at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in. “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March. “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”
August 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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patrick.risky.biz
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...
Wide World of Cyber: Microsoft's China Entanglement
YouTube video by Risky Business Media
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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datesinmovies.bsky.social
Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a young man in a sleeveless shirt sits in a cluttered room, saying "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." Second, a group of friends gather around a table, one explaining "Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history." Third, the same group listens as another person adds, "Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988."
August 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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cybercanon.org
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
Photo of Kim Zetter's Countdown to Zero Day
July 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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gregotto.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...
Why skipping security prompting on Grok’s newest model is a huge mistake
DEK: An AI red-teaming company found that xAI’s Grok 4 is “not suitable for enterprises” without substantial security prompting.
cyberscoop.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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rgblights.bsky.social
Wow. Spain is putting salt typhoon out of business. They are just going to hand it all to them: Huawei contracted to manage their wiretaps….

therecord.media/spain-awards...
Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps
Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.
therecord.media
July 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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molly.wiki
"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."
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. 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. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
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?
July 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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selenalarson.bsky.social
If you’re still on X it is damaging you in ways you probably do not realize. It is toxic. It is bad. If you’re paying for it you’re investing in this technology. You’re being socially engineered! It’s why I am bothered by infosec people who remain on there. Voluntarily getting brain hacked.
cooperlund.online Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · Jul 8
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
July 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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campuscodi.risky.biz
SecureAnnex found a malicious extension on the OpenVSX marketplace for VSCode extensions that was mostly malicious but nobody bothered to check its source.... and 200,000 installed it!

We love web devs!

secureannex.com/blog/these-v...
These Vibes Are Off
Open VSX offers extensions for AI code editors, but at what cost?
secureannex.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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michaelweinberg.org
Thanks to @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for covering the new GLAM-E Lab report on the impact that bots creating AI training datasets are having on digtial cultural collections (impact: not great)

www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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johntuckner.me
Tired: distributed coin mining in extensions
Wired: distributed AI model training in extensions
June 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ericjgeller.com
Most interesting part of this story: "There’s uncertainty among officials about who was impacted by Salt Typhoon. Various agencies ... are in possession of lists of confirmed or potential victims, but it’s not clear if the tallies are consistent..." www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
US agencies assessed Chinese telecom hackers likely hit data center and residential internet providers
Data center giant Digital Realty and mass media titan Comcast were documented as likely victims of the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage group, people familiar say, marking a potentially major expansion of…
www.nextgov.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM