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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."

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

— Faiz Siddiqui (@faizsays) August 29, 2025

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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.

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

— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) August 29, 2025


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.

I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.

— lcamtuf (@lcamtuf) August 30, 2025


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.

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

— Dave W Plummer (@davepl1968) August 30, 2025


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!"
https://t.co/LOJ6CD1cIT

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) August 30, 2025
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