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Karl

@karlh.bsky.social

Is AI enshitifying things? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

LinkedIn is the fakest platform of them all

It was meant for professionals—but it is filled with chatbots

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

August 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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Raw Story

@rawstory.com

Despite all of tech billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to make his AI chatbot on X give right-wing approved answers, it once again went after President Donald Trump this week, The Daily Beast reported.

Trump nailed as 'most notorious criminal' by Elon Musk's AI chatbot amid DC takeover

Despite all of tech billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to make his AI chatbot on X give right-wing approved answers, it once again went after President Donald Trump this week, The Daily Beast reported.Grok's response came about in response to questioning about Trump's decision to deploy the National Gu...

bit.ly

August 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM

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Bellingcat

@bellingcat.com

We were thrilled that the amazing @gralhix.bsky.social agreed to design a set of challenges for us this month- and what a walk down memory lane! 👣
If you've not had a go at them yet you can find them at: challenge.bellingcat.com

May 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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Bellingcat

@bellingcat.com

You can watch the film in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfV...

Reporting and Satellite Imagery Show Unseen Side of Israel-Hamas Conflict | A Hidden War | Evident

YouTube video by Evident

www.youtube.com

May 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Bellingcat

@bellingcat.com

This week we spoke with @conplnk.bsky.social & @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social on reporting on transnational organised crime and how they found a hidden side to one of Irelands most notorious cartel bosses. On podcast platforms search 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat' to listen back. rss.com/podcasts/bel...

April 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Matt Johansen

@mattjay.com

Who’s the whistleblower?

Daniel Berulis — a senior DevSecOps architect at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), formerly with TS/SCI clearance.

He just told Congress the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pulled off a covert cyber op inside a federal agency.

April 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM

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Joe Ura

@joeura.bsky.social

If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.

April 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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Myrtus

@malwareindepth.com

New timer ;) www.operation-endgame.com

Operation Endgame

Operation endgame

www.operation-endgame.com

April 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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Catalin Cimpanu

@campuscodi.risky.biz

Talks from the 0xCON 2024 security conference, which took place last November, are available on YouTube

Just three now... hoping for more: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

March 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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Jay 🦋

@jay.bsky.team

the feminine urge to

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'

Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

mashable.com

March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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TechCrunch

@techcrunch.com

At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun. At first glance, it might appear as though she’s following the same playbook that so many women in…

tcrn.ch

March 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM

Karl

@karlh.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/cdibona/...

60 Hours a week? How about 4 uninterrupted hours a day?

..or...the AGI meetings will continue until morale improves.

open.substack.com

March 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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Kim Zetter

@kimzetter.bsky.social

Two stories published Friday reporting that Trump admin had ordered US Cyber Command and CISA to "stand down" on their work to detect/counter Russian cyber threats. But new info has come out to contradict them. I dug into what we know and don't know. www.zetter-zeroday.com/did-trump-ad...

Did Trump Admin Order U.S. Cyber Command and CISA to Stand Down on Russia?

Two blockbuster stories published on Friday that appear to confirm what many Americans suspected would occur under the Trump administration – that the new regime is going to be softer on Russia than p...

www.zetter-zeroday.com

March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Karl

@karlh.bsky.social

Interesting research by checkpoint, using VirusTotal to search and pivot research.checkpoint.com/2025/large-s...

Silent Killers: Unmasking a Large-Scale Legacy Driver Exploitation Campaign - Check Point Research

Highlights Introduction While the abuse of vulnerable drivers has been around for a while, those that can terminate arbitrary processes have drawn increasing attention in recent years. As Windows secu...

research.checkpoint.com

February 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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InfoSec

@infosec.skyfleet.blue

Top Polish anti-corruption official resigns amid spyware probe

The head of the Polish government’s anti-corruption bureau resigned under pressure Thursday after officials leading the country’s commission investigating wide-scale spyware abuse criticized her for allegedly withholding information.

therecord.media

February 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM

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Financial Times

@financialtimes.com

Delta Air Lines plane flips over on landing at Toronto airport

https://www.ft.com/content/855bdcb2-aca4-4e4e-8285-0bcb657b72c0

Delta Air Lines plane flips over on landing at Toronto airport

Paramedics treat more than a dozen people at the scene with no fatalities reported

www.ft.com

February 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM

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ex-Lethality Jane

@lethalityjane.bsky.social

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur.bsky.social

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them

The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

www.nbcnews.com

February 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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Lauren Bauer

@laurenhlb.bsky.social

Great reporting from @marychilds.bsky.social about @hamiltonproject.org's federal outlay tracker. Give a listen!

Only quibble is that superstars Noadia Steinmetz-Silber + Riki Matsumoto didn't get their deserved shout-out. So I shout here.

www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...

February 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM