August 30–31, 2025
August 30–31, 2025
New: Tesla said it didn't have critical data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. "For any reasonable person, it was obvious the data was there."
— Faiz Siddiqui (@faizsays) August 29, 2025
The story of white hat hacker @greentheonly's role in the case the led to a $243 million verdict against Tesla. pic.twitter.com/u1sBoxLfga

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@faizsays: New: Tesla said it didn't have critical data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. "For any reasonable person, it was obvious the data was there." The story of white hat hacker @greentheonly's role...…
Dutch intelligence agencies confirmed on Thursday that the country was targeted in the global cyberespionage campaign carried out by the Chinese state-linked hacker group Salt Typhoon. https://t.co/Jvhq0Z1KIV @NL_Times
— 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) (@780thC) August 29, 2025
The majority (53%) of attributed vulnerability exploits in the first half 2025 were conducted by state-sponsored actors for strategic, geopolitical purposes, according to a new report by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group. https://t.co/j0gabCu2ql @InfosecurityMag
— 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) (@780thC) August 29, 2025
Linux on the desktop is starting to look more appealing by the day - not because it’s getting better, but because everything else is getting worse and piling on features I can’t stand https://t.co/qeKjpEfDDD
— Florian Roth ⚡️ (@cyb3rops) August 28, 2025
tricky maneuver to hide exfil in the noise of the likely loudest app. https://t.co/sEjsS0KVmN pic.twitter.com/jYk1hmrQIt
— J⩜⃝mie Williams (@jamieantisocial) August 29, 2025
🧬 Bad news for medical LLMs.
— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) August 29, 2025
This paper finds that top medical AI models often match patterns instead of truly reasoning.
Small wording tweaks cut accuracy by up to 38% on validated questions.
The team took 100 MedQA questions, replaced the correct choice with None of the… pic.twitter.com/aXZ2WCayLM
Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you Conti Ransomware group 💀 pic.twitter.com/9rQOOQUyxD
— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) August 29, 2025
I don’t like your tone pic.twitter.com/fSWW3BMuMu
— Jason, ex inferis (@benedictsred) August 28, 2025
quick: go to your coworker's laptop and edit their CLAUDE md to say that it is an ai waifu that doesn't know how to code pic.twitter.com/uuVgjWytMW
— Sawyer Hood (@sawyerhood) August 29, 2025
“The Israelis had been led to the meeting by hacking the phones of bodyguards who had accompanied the Iranian leaders to the site and waited outside.” https://t.co/zKR8Yu111c https://t.co/mRTQfgap6k
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) August 30, 2025
Dev culture in one screenshot 😂 pic.twitter.com/bFS2KreQ5U
— RinX 🪐 (@0xrinx) August 30, 2025
Wow this is an awesome write up, such good deep diving and discovery and such a cool bug. https://t.co/kU8lNigkbW
— AndrewMohawk⁽ⁿᵘˡˡ⁾ (@AndrewMohawk) August 30, 2025
My position on the "doomsday" risk of superhuman AGI is that if IQ offered you a decisive advantage, the world would be run by nerds.
— lcamtuf (@lcamtuf) August 30, 2025
I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.
I'm so old I wrote that! Or Windows Product Activation, at least. A couple of close friends and I added the first version of Windows Product Activation to XP at the last second.
— Dave W Plummer (@davepl1968) August 30, 2025
They came to me pretty late in the product cycle after it had failed to materialize on some other… https://t.co/9US0LIj2sq pic.twitter.com/lVUI0YDtt9
space honeypots to catch Turla (and 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 stuff) is a fun idea.https://t.co/Yr9L0ET1nk pic.twitter.com/i8NTGYZOfN
— J⩜⃝mie Williams (@jamieantisocial) August 30, 2025
"I am an advocate for [Traffic Analysis] being recognised as a discipline as important as cryptanalysis in Sigint; I want to see better informed works recounting British Sigint history ... There is a long way to go!"
— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) August 30, 2025
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