I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...

How a ransomware gang encrypted Nevada government's systems

I need to do stuff but I’m trapped watching the paw twitching and listening to all the little squeaks

I wrote about this a bit here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good God they’re even going for the Commonwealth now. Thought that was the one they liked

Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

That’s rather unedifying

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

More garbage from Grokipedia www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Latest reports I’m hearing are that it was not cyber www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm not sure there's much demand to me live-tweeting reading a report that has already been taken offline. But there are mistakes here that make it really hard for me to wait until I'm done with the report to just summarize it. Here goes:

BREAKING: OpenAI to invest $1trn in new compute so as to be able to calculate accurately how much money it’s losing

A friend told me that her American dad got in touch to talk about some news he'd seen on Facebook: there are riots in England over DEI, and the King dramatically burst into parliament to tell Starmer off, and then Prince William did the same to Sadiq Khan. AI really is inventing bold new universes

The amazing thing about the last few days is that people are not saying openly enough what has happened. The Chinese stared the US down and the US blinked. It could represent the end of an era and former US allies in Asia-Pacific had better watch out.

Ukrainian extradited to US over Conti ransomware involvement

Old threats, new consequences: 90% of cyber claims stem from email and remote access www.csoonline.com/article/4081...

At this rate Ireland v New Zealand will finish tomorrow lunchtime with 11 players on the pitch

‼️ Update: the MIT-linked “AI-powered ransomware” report appears to have been taken offline. We updated our article to include an Internet Archive link to the original paper.

How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet www.theverge.com/podcast/8090...

Some guy got in an argument with me about the impact of AI malware. He cited a MIT paper claiming "80% of ransomware attacks are AI powered". I glanced over it and burst out laughing, but couldn't be bothered to debunk it. My friend on the other hand, could. He roasted it so hard that MIT deleted it

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social spoke with some CyberCorps participants who have had federal agency job and internship offers rescinded this year due to cutbacks. Those who can’t find employment there will see their grants, often reaching six-figure sums, converted into loans after 18 months.

Bylines Scotland Radio. Ronnie Barbour and Professor Sir John Curtice discuss the latest political polling and what it means for Scotland ahead of the Holyrood Elections in May 2026.

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ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Initial reports I’m hearing are it is not cyber www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Initial reports I’m hearing are that it is not cyber www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sure, why require telcos to have cybersecurity plans? www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cyb...

Wrote about the dominance of "victims" in our political discourse, which included this fab chart @owenwntr.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Probably the best overview of LLM history, architecture, and security concerns I've seen.

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Initial reports I’m hearing are that it is not cyber www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

Knew Celtic had been struggling but didn’t think it had been that bad for so long

Ahead of tomorrow’s Dutch elections, I thought it might be helpful/interesting to briefly summarize the main parties’ campaign pledges in English.

Initial reports I’m hearing are that it is not cyber www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...

A cyber work of art from @doublepulsar.com

CIA was making successful cyberoperations/attacks against Venezuelan government (disabling the computer network used by Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s intelligence service). The goal apparently was to "do something". edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

Great spot on the other place from @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social & h/t @shashj.bsky.social "An administration official proposed knocking a hydroelectric dam in Venezuela offline with a cyberattack" “The idea seemed half baked” 😂😂😂 @malwaretech.com @kikta.net @wylienewmark.bsky.social

Initial reports I’m hearing are that it was not cyber www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Initial reports I’m hearing is that it was not cyber www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I explained to my class week that despite all the panic about state actor capabilities: -The biggest threat to electricity is squirrels -Minecraft skids have the best DDoS capabilities -No amount of disruption could ever beat misconfiguration, with DNS at the top of the list

Initial reports I'm hearing is that is wasn't cyber apnews.com/article/runa...

Initial reports I’m hearing are that it was not cyber www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is just golden.

The “cyber statesmen” of both Trump NSCs are people whose actual experience on anything approximating cyber is equivalent to that of LARPers to medieval combat.

Absolutely mad that someone like this was responsible for cyber policy in the trump first term.

Haven’t had a good “cyber big red killer button nonsense” treat for a while - grateful to @kikta.net for delving into the sewer to recover this gem

Amazing that the NSC’s Senior Director for Cyber from the first Trump admin still doesn’t understand cyber operational art Because if you build a truly exquisite capability that could change the outcome of a conflict, you would *definitely* want to use it randomly in advance to warn your opponent?

Happy to offer my services for free to the other side in this case to testify that the 6.5 million coop loyalty card holders very likely suffered little or no harm at all as a result of this incident and that it would be hugely counterproductive to punish the organisation further in this way