September 13, 2022
🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.
Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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People will always be like “lmao they actually blocked me” yeah man I pressed two buttons to get rid of a weird guy and I’ll do it again
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Microsoft did a U-turn on the Office macro hardening.
It's rolling back out to Office 365 Current Channel now, enabled by default.
It will go on to Office 365 Semi-Annual etc, then to Office 2013, 2016, 2019 later.
Big security win.
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1/ Welcome to Part 3 of catching the people behind Discord & Twitter NFT phishing scams:
This time we will be covering the scammer known as Two1 who has attacked discords of projects like @OthersideMeta @nansen_ai @cheebsnft & many more for millions of dollars
Let’s dive in
ZachXBT @zachxbt
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Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/-
Called the "capture of the century", it is one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of counterterrorism. Here's how Abimael Guzmán was taken down. THREAD/-
A throwback to 1999 as Star Trek fans taunt Star Wars fans queuing up to get tickets for The Phantom Menace.
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Seeing reports that Azerbaijan is launching some level of military action on its border with Armenia (the two were at war in 2020).
That would make this the first of Russia's 'frozen conflicts' to apparently thaw (into a war).
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Listen to this starling
European starlings are accomplished mimics, this one is imitating human speech
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'Three approaches to the U.S.' — Map published in Fortune magazine, September 1940, presenting three possible invasion routes to the United States.
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EXCLUSIVE: Alex Jones ran a "spy ring" to covertly surveil his ex- and current wife, texts and sources reveal
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So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun.
It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.
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In case you missed it at #BHUSA, check out @tr1ana's Monkey365, a tool for security consultants to easily conduct not only Microsoft 365, but also Azure subscriptions and Azure Active Directory security configuration reviews
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Don’t really understand the HBO controversy. Then again I don’t subscribe to streaming services. I’ve been following the same bug after work for the past week. I place a cup over it when I need to “pause”
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This year, hundreds of Russian tanks have gone missing in Ukraine.
It’s important to find these tanks within the first 48 hours because after that, there’s a 97% chance they’ll be towed away by a Ukrainian farmer
If you have any information, please call 1-800-LMAO-ROFLMAO
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The anonymous phone call in 1995 about my refrigerator running still haunts me. We were both so empty inside, I didn't even try to catch it.
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