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December 19, 2025

December 19, 2025

December 19, 2025

Interesting case in the UK where RobinAI, which used AI to review legal contracts, is up for a distressed sale just a few months after making the top 10 in a list of fastest-growing tech companies.https://t.co/Pw1j6bCgwP pic.twitter.com/tLuQ4eLWy8

— Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) December 17, 2025


EU is sanctioning multiple influence agents and propaganda networks operating in Europe and elsewhere. Including citizens of U.S. (and Russian; DOUGAN) and Switzerland (Jacques BAUD, former colonel in the Swiss army; former strategic analyst, intelligence and terrorism… pic.twitter.com/QufDkJPGqH

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) December 17, 2025


A bunch of very smart security nerds (and, along for the ride, me) are standing up a conference about AI/security (the intersection of those ideas, not just the security of AI). https://t.co/R82QCfJZTe

— Thomas H. Ptacek (@tqbf) December 17, 2025


https://t.co/wwUJC7KYnn pic.twitter.com/VlOaxKyGFY

— Dave NewBlood (@DaveOshry) December 17, 2025


Pretty neat site that tells you all the public/private cameras and their angle, type, manufacturer and so on. https://t.co/8q9pEGjwio pic.twitter.com/7hYyaN5KmV

— GunShyMartyr (@jimmy_rustlin) December 17, 2025


We investigated the Israeli strikes on nuclear scientists & facilities in Iran to understand the scope of the damage and the effects on its program. This was a dream collaboration with @frontlinepbs @bellingcat & Evident Media. Our film takes you inside the reporting process—both… pic.twitter.com/44fwOtNb6K

— Nilo Tabrizy (@ntabrizy) December 17, 2025


Modern iOS Security Features – A Deep Dive by Moritz Steffin and @naehrdine https://t.co/FRdenEEfqB pic.twitter.com/nrxrvKDb3m

— Alex Plaskett (@alexjplaskett) December 18, 2025


One of these older posts is by @tiraniddo titled “Windows Exploitation Techniques: Winning Race Conditions with Path Lookups” and it features:
“updated analysis to see if it still works on a modern Windows 11 system.”https://t.co/Z19Ok4kxnf https://t.co/ZJR0rrma9W

— 🕳 (@sekurlsa_pw) December 17, 2025


wow. https://t.co/YbQkk9FvUq pic.twitter.com/EmFLrWppcK

— J⩜⃝mie Williams (@jamieantisocial) December 17, 2025


I fell down the Kubernetes security rabbit hole. So I wrote a deep-dive on attack techniques, detection engineering, and scripts to test everything in a lab. Shoutout to @GrahamHelton and @raesene for their previous work!https://t.co/5wlHqIZD8X

— Alexis (@_heilancoos) December 17, 2025


>have a problem in my code
>ask AI, the answer is wrong!
>google
>see Stack Overflow answer, but wrong in the same way!
>AI was clearly trained on it
>who's the author?
>it's me!

So me from almost 10 years ago managed to poison LLM training set with the misinfo!

— Valentin Ignatev (@valigo) December 17, 2025


Network reconnaissance and asset discovery toolhttps://t.co/coauq7X3A6 pic.twitter.com/R89nyuHArv

— Tom Dörr (@tom_doerr) December 18, 2025


The WSJ newsroom agreed to take an AI vending machine. Then they declared psychological warfare on it. pic.twitter.com/Uf0FpQInQn

— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) December 18, 2025

Since this is getting shared and it's uplifting content....please enjoy a free gift link: https://t.co/YDuaH85lG3

— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) December 19, 2025

There's also a delightful YouTube video summarizing the experiment (thank you to the lovely person with the locked account who pointed this out!): https://t.co/rEU6lstlZu

— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) December 19, 2025


Amazon measuring deviations in employee keystroke times from pre-established baselines probably shouldn’t surprise us at this point. Seems on brand, actually.

“Keystroke data from the laptop of a worker who was supposed to be in US should have taken tens of milliseconds to… pic.twitter.com/yf2BTPPCPT

— Nick VanGilder (@nickvangilder) December 19, 2025

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