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July 15, 2025

July 15, 2025

July 15, 2025

grok claims to be mechahitler and they immediately operation paperclip it lol https://t.co/W9E0jtjYQ3

— sam (dependent thinker) (@CobrastanGuy) July 14, 2025


BYOVD is no longer required on modern Windows. a bunch of recent msft kernel patches just shove vulnerable kernel code behind a privilege check. I wonder if we will see threat actors leveraging this like they did BYOVD. no bringing along a driver and loading also means less IOCs

— chompie (@chompie1337) July 15, 2025

yep, here’s one from me and one by @cplearns2h4ck https://t.co/GvpZ2xXjXXhttps://t.co/WFOYGQ0qgx

— chompie (@chompie1337) July 15, 2025


UK launches vulnerability research program for external experts - @billtoulashttps://t.co/Dp60i8tCAAhttps://t.co/Dp60i8tCAA

— BleepingComputer (@BleepinComputer) July 14, 2025


Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, together with BO Team, attacked “Gaskar” group. Linked to Marat Khusnullin (deputy prime minister of russia). We were particularly interested in the company “Gaskar-Integration,” which manufactures drones for the russian army pic.twitter.com/RpQg6QT6NY

— herm1t (@vx_herm1t) July 14, 2025


Bellingcat and @AltNews found evidence of violent assaults by five Indian “animal welfare” groups. Our investigation sheds light on how such groups are part of an informal network carrying out violence against people they accuse of "smuggling" cows. https://t.co/5gIrt1CcCH

— Bellingcat (@bellingcat) July 15, 2025


ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS have built and trained a multilingual LLM on a national supercomputer, using a dataset spanning over 1,500 languages.

It’s open source, Apache licensed, and aligned with both Swiss data law and the EU AI Act. They’re calling it “a language model built…

— Joe Haslam ☘ 🇪🇺 (@joehas) July 15, 2025


The Enshittification of American Power | WIRED

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

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