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Are AI-enabled hackers really coming for your networks and systems, or is it classic FUD from the cyber security industry?

this is extremely well done

Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He had used promo code ORWELL1984 to get his first month free with BetterHelp

Dell's VP of PCs was already starting to acknowledge this back in May, even though they were still committed to being "all in" on AI. www.itpro.com/hardware/its...

This'll be one of those things where you can't legally label it as "chocolate" anymore because it doesn't have sufficient cocoa, like what happened to Club bars

Really good piece in The Times today from our CEO on the Grok nudification issue.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

I can't quite put my finger on why, but Nadella requesting we stop saying "AI slop" reminds me of Jeb Bush asking the audience to "please clap".

I BOUGHT SOME COCOA POWDER YESTERDAY AND IT COST A BLOODY FORTUNE. More updates in 60 seconds, every 60 seconds, for the foreseeable future.

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.

LOL

Neatly put

2026 is the year of the what? (🐎)

"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend" And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...

No time wasted

Suggesting the existence of improper pigs in blankets

RIP MTV thank you for not pivoting to vertical video

Sir Isaac Newton's treatise "Principia" where he outlined his Three Laws of Motion and the Law of Gravity was almost unpublished, because the Royal Sociey had blown their publishing budget on an Encyclopedia of Fish, which was a financial disaster. Sir Edmond Halley paid for it.

Cat.

Crossed a pedestrian crossing at the same time as Hugh Dennis

My one disagreement with Tom is I don't think it is contempt: I think that a critical mass of people at the top of the Tory party have convinced themselves that they presided over Major's economy and Blair's public services, until the country, for reasons no-one really understands, rejected them.

In 1433, the Duke of Bedford wanted some goods from London for his Calais household. He asked for a customs waiver from the king, and he got it. And what did he need? - 5 casks of porpoise - 2 casks of eels - 98 bows w/ bowstrings 'cause that's how you party. 🗃️🧪

Why do people keep depicting cyclops with a nose under the eye? the olfactory nerves would have to go all the way down and round and up behind the eyeball and get all caught up with the optic nerves. If they had evolved the nostrils would surely be more on the cheeks. Welcome to my TED talk.

1,000,000%

No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions. "He was worried they'd invade Russia." No he wasn't. He just wasn't. That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.

Typical tech bros, they could have saved so much time, money, precious metals and energy if they'd just asked a passer by to kick them in the nuts instead.

You boy, what colour are you?

Boxing Day

This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.

It’s not yet 7.30 and already I’m eating Ferrero Rocher with my tea because there is nobody to stop me. (DW, I also have had a bourbon to dip in my tea. I’m not a monster)

still my favorite christmas post

merry christmas

Need to write one of those hustle day-in-the-life stories from the perspective of my baby. “I start the day at 4am — sleep is for the weak. I don’t do traditional meals. Instead I refuel with a personalised drink developed to fulfil all my needs. And I spend 1-2 hours a day just screaming, yeah.”

Definitive proof that in Sadiq Khan's London, Christmas has been cancelled altogether www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I recently asked ChatGPT about the flying lawnmower that killed a man at a NY Jets game in 1979, which I wrote about in great detail a while back. The LLM cast doubt on the reality of this VERY VERIFIABLE event, and claimed news sources didn't exist that I know for a fact do, and cited in my piece.

And speaking of cats...

Welcome to 60 Minutes. Our top story tonight is Snakes: Nature’s Spaghetti

The cornerstone of every nutritious breakfast

Really struggling with the fact I am the only one in my household who has work tomorrow

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

S16 is such a good album. That’s it, that’s the post.

This post made me realize I never uploaded this here. I love Earthbound Friends

"Okay everybody, normal human faces, this is gonna be the one, I can feel it."

Just seen Avatar Fire and Ash is a 3D film and honestly I thought that fad had died on its arse years ago

Travelex here suggesting that kids can drive cars in safari parks and it will be hi-lar-i-ous