Alex Stamos
@stamos.org
CISO of SentinelOne, teaching at Stanford.
Gotta use those miles before they expire.
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Gotta use those miles before they expire.
Human bug finders at least had a reasonable speed limit placed on them. I think it’s reasonable to ask the Big Sleep team to try to get their model to also spin out patches if they are going to bury OSS teams under CVEs
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Human bug finders at least had a reasonable speed limit placed on them. I think it’s reasonable to ask the Big Sleep team to try to get their model to also spin out patches if they are going to bury OSS teams under CVEs
I think there are a lot of things going on:
1) A long build up of frustration of ffmpeg being used by big companies without financial support
2) A history of anger at Google for their rigid 90 day policy (which will actually flex under circumstances)
3) The volume impact of AI
4) AI backlash
1) A long build up of frustration of ffmpeg being used by big companies without financial support
2) A history of anger at Google for their rigid 90 day policy (which will actually flex under circumstances)
3) The volume impact of AI
4) AI backlash
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I think there are a lot of things going on:
1) A long build up of frustration of ffmpeg being used by big companies without financial support
2) A history of anger at Google for their rigid 90 day policy (which will actually flex under circumstances)
3) The volume impact of AI
4) AI backlash
1) A long build up of frustration of ffmpeg being used by big companies without financial support
2) A history of anger at Google for their rigid 90 day policy (which will actually flex under circumstances)
3) The volume impact of AI
4) AI backlash
I haven’t seen any outlets cover it yet. The arguments are happening on X, here is a discussion on HN news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4578...
FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I haven’t seen any outlets cover it yet. The arguments are happening on X, here is a discussion on HN news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4578...
“In the last 1224ms I contacted mcp.ancestry.com and the Library of Congress and found both an ethnic background that you never knew about as well as an archaic slur for that ethnicity that has not been used in print since 1947.”
July 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“In the last 1224ms I contacted mcp.ancestry.com and the Library of Congress and found both an ethnic background that you never knew about as well as an archaic slur for that ethnicity that has not been used in print since 1947.”
“What’s grok’s competitive advantage over, say, Anthropic’s newest offerings?”
“Well, first off, it’s 50x more likely to figure out and use the correct ethnic slur for your highest revenue customers when deployed in a customer service role!”
“Riiiiiiight.”
“Well, first off, it’s 50x more likely to figure out and use the correct ethnic slur for your highest revenue customers when deployed in a customer service role!”
“Riiiiiiight.”
July 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“What’s grok’s competitive advantage over, say, Anthropic’s newest offerings?”
“Well, first off, it’s 50x more likely to figure out and use the correct ethnic slur for your highest revenue customers when deployed in a customer service role!”
“Riiiiiiight.”
“Well, first off, it’s 50x more likely to figure out and use the correct ethnic slur for your highest revenue customers when deployed in a customer service role!”
“Riiiiiiight.”
The funniest part of this was *venture capitalists* not understanding that AI safety and alignment is not about censorship and political correctness, but F500 customers not paying foundation model vendors 7-9 figures a year for LLMs to do insult comic crowdwork with their customers.
July 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The funniest part of this was *venture capitalists* not understanding that AI safety and alignment is not about censorship and political correctness, but F500 customers not paying foundation model vendors 7-9 figures a year for LLMs to do insult comic crowdwork with their customers.
David Lee knew how to responding to VeepBaiting.
June 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
David Lee knew how to responding to VeepBaiting.
If this continues we might actually get a 3rd Amendment controversy. It's your moment to find a niche for tenure, @evelyndouek.bsky.social.
June 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If this continues we might actually get a 3rd Amendment controversy. It's your moment to find a niche for tenure, @evelyndouek.bsky.social.
I do not envy the NSA and Air Force folks who were just shown a fully decked out and completed “flying palace” with 140 miles of wiring and probably given 90 days to clear it.
May 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I do not envy the NSA and Air Force folks who were just shown a fully decked out and completed “flying palace” with 140 miles of wiring and probably given 90 days to clear it.
The new International Spy museum in DC is actually pretty good and some friends of mine showed up in the cyber section. Drop by if you are in town. Here’s the historical analogue there:
www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-e...
www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-e...
The Great Seal
In 1945, a group of Soviet children visited the US Embassy in Moscow and gave the Ambassador a hand-carved Great Seal of the US. It stayed in his office…
www.spymuseum.org
May 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The new International Spy museum in DC is actually pretty good and some friends of mine showed up in the cyber section. Drop by if you are in town. Here’s the historical analogue there:
www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-e...
www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-e...