Some folks on HN were confidently asserting that Apple escrows its encryption keys with Chinese-government owned hosting providers “to facilitate mass surveillance.” This statement is messy because it’s 1/4-true, 1/4-false, 1/2 unknown. https://t.co/0raXRUvKGs

— Matthew Green is on BlueSky (@matthew_d_green) July 29, 2023

The answer is YES! We can teach a small LLM to label many kinds of malicious decompiled functions by fine tuning an Lama2-7B on the task.

I'm looking forward to presenting research+free tool at Sector in October!https://t.co/ZvVhQErTH6

Plenty of work left but big progresss https://t.co/9tK9re7OHr pic.twitter.com/On12eDvC9w

— dyngnosis (@dyngnosis) July 28, 2023

NEW: Elon Musk is the dominant figure in satellite internet, giving him growing geopolitical sway. No company or country comes close to matching what he built with Starlink. From Ukraine to Taiwan, the way he is wielding that power is now raising alarms.https://t.co/qLz3u3JOit

— Adam Satariano (@satariano) July 29, 2023

“People don’t realize that ‘the cloud’ is real...” says Aurora Gómez, ...“People are not aware of the amount of water that goes into watching a kitten meme.”
Meanwhile @JeffDean was mad cause our #Section3 talked about the environmental impacts of LLMs.https://t.co/ymw4mf22at

— @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) (@timnitGebru) July 29, 2023

How do i sue a billionaire? pic.twitter.com/dvc1amjAAQ

— hall of fame internet (@H0FInternet) July 29, 2023

It would be remiss of me to not mention I’ve started writing about how Oppie and Johnny’s tangled relationship shaped the 20th Century… and… https://t.co/o2N5kQLId3 pic.twitter.com/NcrK9KuMms

— Ananyo Bhattacharya (@Ananyo) July 29, 2023

Yesterday, a court ruled that this🌝emoji could constitute securities fraud: pic.twitter.com/QrSlpCBPOd

— Rob Freund (@RobertFreundLaw) July 28, 2023

While everyone on Twitter is saying "patch your systems now!", I get support requests from customers wanting to know if our scanners will run on CentOS 5, of which they still have hundreds of systems running an old and business critical web service pic.twitter.com/4jUjc5poZz

— Florian Roth ⚡️ (@cyb3rops) July 28, 2023

How most ransomware incidents actually work 🔻
Access brokers sell access to compromised networks to ransomware-as-a-service affiliates, who conduct the intrusions.
Ransomware-as-a-service affiliates prioritize targets based on intended impact or perceived profit
Intrusion… pic.twitter.com/HByebHNSgd

— Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) July 26, 2023

a personal favorite https://t.co/seTLyJuUOu pic.twitter.com/3n6cRRSeRm

— grace spelman (@GraceSpelman) July 29, 2023

#Cartographer: A #Ghidra plugin for mapping out code coverage data. Aka #Lighthouse for Ghidra. https://t.co/uVyZe9p9Co

— raptor@infosec.exchange (@0xdea) July 28, 2023

Hartford Insurance on data that was shared with Dan Ariely: "It is clear the data was manipulated inappropriately and supplemented by synthesized or fabricated data."

Full story and statement from Hartford insurance: https://t.co/rJIRDVNBsQ pic.twitter.com/0DQG9wKa6d

— Brian Nosek (@briannosek@nerdculture.de) (@BrianNosek) July 28, 2023

funny how STEM people called it “prompt engineering” though it has nothing to do with engineering and everything to do with creative writing, the part of humanities they seem to despise most

— Seva (@SevaUT) July 29, 2023

Meant to go see Oppenheimer this week but didn't have time so had to find a workaround. Here's my official review pic.twitter.com/aW04QsHQXn

— Sir Michael (@Michael1979) July 29, 2023

Europe is becoming the new center of the global drug trade, with all the corruption and ultra-violence that comes with that designation. The best intro is the story of Ridouan Taghi, the “Scarface” of our time. Check out @mitchprothero in Gateway https://t.co/MiQzW6jgDk

— Bradley Hope (@bradleyhope) June 11, 2023