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February 5, 2024

February 5, 2024

February 5, 2024

Found some interesting bugs in Excalidraw used in @Meta Messenger (w @naglinagli and @0xteknogeek) as well as Microsoft Whiteboard some time ago. Here's the writeup!https://t.co/8cvq1Nw4i6

— spaceraccoon | Eugene Lim (@spaceraccoonsec) February 4, 2024


#ICYMI Director Burns penned an article in Foreign Affairs titled "Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition."

Read it here:https://t.co/7Vx4O9JOk7#ForeignAffairs #Spycraft

— CIA (@CIA) January 31, 2024


Prediction: We will have a "how to visually extract typing data from @Apple Vision Pro using AI" talk in this year's @BlackHatEvents.
The attack will have a stupid name ("eyesdropping"?).
It's inevitable.#VisionPro https://t.co/skzzGGvHjo

— Tal Be'ery (@TalBeerySec) February 4, 2024

Just extracted his password https://t.co/VozWwsziqd

— Tal Be'ery (@TalBeerySec) February 4, 2024

Working in the NYC subway on the go with Apple Vision Pro?! 🤯🤯 pic.twitter.com/iVWiYlxjxP

— Alexxxx (@haig98) February 3, 2024


Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim


pic.twitter.com/8jfCo5ccHn

— Victoria 💙💛 (@Hanasaku_Yuri) February 4, 2024


https://academic.oup.com/isq/article-abstract/68/1/sqad103/7541283


Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN

A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.


DEFCON is canceled. At Caesars.


DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it. - DEF CON Forums

(filedata/fetch?id=248362&d=1707096806) DEF CON was canceled. We un-canceled it. After a great 25 year relationship Caesars abruptly terminated their contract with DEF CON, leaving us with no venue for DC 32, and just about seven months to Con! We don’t know why Caesars canceled us, they won’t say beyond it being

Moved to the Las Vegas Convention Center



Showing the kids Honey I Shrunk the Kids and having to explain which inventions are zany Rick Moranis originals (shrink ray) and which were normal household objects (phone attached to the wall).

— Stephanie Insley Hershinow (@S_Insley_H) February 4, 2024


Want to do vuln research in MikroTik routers? My jailbreak script gets you root on all RouterOS 6.x and 7.x, including the latest 7.14beta9 🤠
Grab it at https://t.co/AT6zjEVSWM
To learn about MikroTik internals check out @Margin_Research blog post: https://t.co/i1Zx70hENQ https://t.co/JYtjPb5CEj

— Pedro Ribeiro (@pedrib1337) February 5, 2024


Exclusive: Putin’s assassination and terrorism squad behind the Skripal poisoning and bombings across Europe has also infiltrated Russian NGOs including @Kasparov63’s, @InsiderEng reveals. GRU Unit 29155 has “illegals” spying within and without Russia: https://t.co/GlK0ZBsNF6

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) February 5, 2024


Join us on Wednesday for the next of our Official History seminars, this time looking at the Special Operations Executive. You can register here: https://t.co/R0b2upKfi1

— FCDO Historians (@FCDOHistorians) February 5, 2024


https://t.co/S4F20iUWc5 -- hat tip to @luko

— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) February 4, 2024

"case studies teach them how to pronounce cleverly on situations they know little about, while analytic techniques give them the impression that they can tackle any problem—no in-depth experience required"@Mintzberg141 on why MBAs as CEOs might be a bad idea https://t.co/PvV7XfwDyV

— Jack's Self Portrait 🪩 (@jacks_crayon) February 5, 2024


funny that we produced exactly one generation of people who can understand computers

— neoludic (@paleoludic) March 28, 2023

we stopped having computer labs in school because "everyone knows how to use the computer now" and suddenly they fucking didnt anymore

— 🏳️‍⚧️ beatrix corey lovelace 🍉 (@GOOPREALM5000) February 3, 2024

Thread by @GOOPREALM5000 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@GOOPREALM5000: we stopped having computer labs in school because "everyone knows how to use the computer now" and suddenly they fucking didnt anymore the introduction of chromebooks into the modern american school ...…


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