July 30, 2023
July 30, 2023
https://t.co/gJ46TEoSCi pic.twitter.com/8GuM65O2JX
— historian here, (@kalinah) July 28, 2023
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 (@matthew_d_green) July 29, 2023
Wrote a quick blog post for @Apollo_magazine on Giacometti, Horizon magazine, and post-war European art networks. https://t.co/FLQBUIAdsJ
— James Purdon (@infomodernist) July 28, 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.
— dyngnosis (@dyngnosis) July 28, 2023
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
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.”
— @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@timnitGebru) July 29, 2023
Meanwhile @JeffDean was mad cause our #Section3 talked about the environmental impacts of LLMs.https://t.co/ymw4mf22at
How do i sue a billionaire? pic.twitter.com/dvc1amjAAQ
— X (@x12345678898765) 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 🔻
— Nick Carr (@ItsReallyNick) July 26, 2023
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
a personal favorite https://t.co/seTLyJuUOu pic.twitter.com/3n6cRRSeRm
— grace spelman (@GraceSpelman) July 29, 2023
News and articles on history of natural language processing - IEEE Spectrum
#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."
— Brian Nosek (@briannosek@nerdculture.de) (@BrianNosek) July 28, 2023
Full story and statement from Hartford insurance: https://t.co/rJIRDVNBsQ pic.twitter.com/0DQG9wKa6d
Removing Chinese malware from American critical infrastructure systems https://t.co/VyhstfW6r8
— mark safranski (@zenpundit) July 29, 2023
tfw social mobility is so unimaginable that hereditary status seems like a logical baseline for a story https://t.co/XXwZ5GuTyw
— Ted McCormick (@mccormick_ted) July 29, 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
The Vanishing Profession of Preventing Nuclear War - POLITICO
Tensions among nuclear powers are rising, but decades of peace have resulted in a dearth of people trained to deal with the continuing threat.
[realhackhistory@localhost]#: "The Toledo Blade asks "Are kid #hackers bad or ju…" - chaos.social
Attached: 1 image The Toledo Blade asks "Are kid #hackers bad or just bored" on the 28th of September 1999, cult of the dead cow gets name dropped and we get well and truly dunked into the rage filled world of teenage AOL #hacker d00ds in the tail end of the 90s.
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