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May 4, 2026

May 4, 2026

We have a record of Cleopatra's handrwiting: γινέσθωι "make it happen", appending a tax exemption. https://t.co/X6XNuGauy9 pic.twitter.com/XbDjWQ6Akn

— Benche (@_Benche_) May 3, 2026


Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey, Italy. pic.twitter.com/0zr90RidFL

— DaVinci (@BiancoDavinci) May 1, 2026


"You'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for me."- German teacher with low self esteem.

— Martin Pilgrim (@MartinPilgrim1) May 3, 2026


now that it's easier to find bugs it's becoming harder to find bugs

— JP Aumasson (@veorq) May 3, 2026


RE: https://t.co/Ai1X9Kkk7n : https://t.co/URcuWY0Rmy

— Brad Spengler (@spendergrsec) May 3, 2026

oss-sec: Precise disclosure contents for copyfail (Re: [oss-security] CVE-2026-31431: CopyFail: linux local privilege scalation)


Compilers are deterministic. Give them the same code with the same compiler settings, and you'll always receive the same binary. You can take responsibility for your software at the code level.

LLMs, on the other hand, are stochastic. Even if you set the temperature to zero,… https://t.co/Vj8rvJnUM6

— Ben Dickson (@bendee983) May 3, 2026


I often lament what became of my lovely hacking scene. I did this shit as a teenager purely for the love of the game and it was a beautiful game to play. You got to basically decide you wanted to administrate sections of the internet and the internet was forced to bend to your…

— Nate (@nnwakelam) May 2, 2026


Biggest L take I have seen in a while. If they knew how cracked @gf_256 and team is they would know how embarrassing this take is. https://t.co/8e9xbqP1K3

— LiveOverflow 🔴 (@LiveOverflow) May 2, 2026


This graph shows why it’s so hard to predict what a new technology will mean for jobs.

It would've been natural to predict the decline of bank teller jobs when ATMs came out—which didn’t happen. It would’ve required a larger leap to do so when Apple released the iPhone—which… pic.twitter.com/8b5sgeFXvc

— nxthompson (@nxthompson) May 2, 2026

https://www.ft.com/content/f55c4eba-6e10-4283-8eae-e9f475048b37?syn-25a6b1a6=1


Age verification is going great pic.twitter.com/buol1cOknq

— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 (@senatorshoshana) May 3, 2026


Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots."
There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates.
One trader stops me. "Your storage cost function– you're… https://t.co/yDQIikZwnA

— Steven Liss (@This_Liss) May 2, 2026


Compiler construction is one of the oldest, best understood CS fields. It's decades of work by the brightest minds, and it's grounded in logic, informed by experience and strictly deterministic.

Comparing that with LLM-based coding agents is just wrong.https://t.co/4EVmjMIAwn

— Roland Bouman (@rolandbouman) May 2, 2026


There’s nothing technical stopping you from aliasing sudo to daddy

— rekdt (@rekdt) May 3, 2026


N-Day Research with AI: Using Ollama and n8n - @gh0stbyt3https://t.co/k4dnHAD5cy

— Swissky (@pentest_swissky) May 3, 2026

N-Day Research with AI: Using Ollama and n8n | Nikhil's Cybersec Blog


12 years later, public offensive research is even more critical. With P0 less active, well publicized offensive research against modern systems is harder to find. The complexity, secrecy, and contextual nature of existing mitigations require deep understanding to assess bugs. https://t.co/VnKsfPqhws

— _ZN4DionC1Ev (@justdionysus) May 3, 2026


The more experience you have with export controls the less effective you feel they are... https://t.co/VDyS7HWqTW

— Dave Aitel (@daveaitel) May 3, 2026


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