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January 11, 2026

January 11, 2026

January 11, 2026

Stefano Marinelli: "A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, act…" - BSD.cafe Mastodon Portal

A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G. I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert. The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving. To make a long story...


Keeping Syria connected during war | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت

A Syria Telecom engineer's account told his story during the war; what was behind internet shut downs? And what happened during students’ exams?


German's foreign intelligence agency BND is looking for CTF players 👀https://t.co/8sk7Q20XOe pic.twitter.com/T6NG4yA7QW

— LiveOverflow 🔴 (@LiveOverflow) January 10, 2026


It’s the wildest thing these LLM pentesting frameworks blindly trust output from systems their testing sent directly back to the LLM supervisor agent.

— Justin Elze (@HackingLZ) January 10, 2026


Satellite Hacking For Beginnershttps://t.co/JDTlmriCa8 pic.twitter.com/Tl5UwX2xB3

— Het Mehta (@hetmehtaa) January 10, 2026


As promised https://t.co/cMancfCmZB https://t.co/VqwjUP86UE

— Wyoming Survival (@wyomingsurvival) January 10, 2026


You might not like it, but this is what peak cyberpunk looks like.
A robot on a busted provincial road. High tech, low life. AI cheaper than asphalt. https://t.co/Ph6NG7sOBf

— Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) (@teortaxesTex) January 10, 2026


Kevin Beaumont: "Despite breathless headlines warning of a robot t…" - Cyberplace

Despite breathless headlines warning of a robot takeover in the workforce, a new research briefing from Oxford Economics casts doubt on the narrative that artificial intelligence is currently causing mass unemployment. According to the firm’s analysis, “firms don’t appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale,” suggesting instead that companies may be using the technology as a cover for routine headcount reductions. https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/ai-layoffs-convenient-corporat...


Whomp whomp pic.twitter.com/ToOPsT0EkP

— Justin Elze (@HackingLZ) January 10, 2026


I ran 18 tests on a prompting technique called Code Field.

The prompt is 4 lines. All negations. No instructions on what to do—only what not to do.

Code generation results:
Assumptions stated went from 0% to 100%. Every response listed its assumptions before writing code. Zero… pic.twitter.com/KfmxppLlcm

— @bluecow 🐮 (@BLUECOW009) January 11, 2026


A 1964 British Government security assessment of Belgium which seems to have been written by someone who did not like Belgians! pic.twitter.com/hwzkZzPwy8

— Sir Humphrey (@pinstripedline) January 10, 2026


it's joever, Linus Torvalds is vibe codinghttps://t.co/hh7f4X0Pcb

— Alula (@__alula) January 10, 2026


If, like me, you've been having fun with the Obsidian+Claude Code combo, you need to take a look at qmd by @tobi.

It's meaningfully improved claude's ability beyond grep/glob to connect the dots and surface connections in my setup. https://t.co/hZ0xXfdrjn

— Eric Hu (@_EricHu) January 11, 2026


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