Stop Anthropomorphizing Machines 2026 Challenge Difficulty level: I M P O S S I B L E

Look me in the eye and tell me any amount of money—let alone a massive loss—is worth this. This technology is anti-human.

There are no words for how evil this is

Stop Anthropomorphizing Machines 2026 Challenge Difficulty level: I M P O S S I B L E

SQLI in Django. If impacted, please update your apps. Patched Django versions are 5.2.8, 5.1.14, or 4.2.26.

Here we go, new OWASP Web Top 10:

Yeah, this uh, this confirms my long-standing suspicion that the shape of Star Trek ships (especially Starfleet ones) do not really map well onto the Lego form.

I tried all of the major Discord alternatives. Here's what I found:

For totally normal reasons, I now know my daughter likes symph metal. Anyway tooth brushing is pretty epic over here.

New billboards that just went up around LAX 👀

Couple o' things: 1. Lmao @ "sophisticated identity impersonation commonly known as social engineering" 2. The PennKey SSO platform has MFA (Duo verified push) enabled, so this was also a good reminder that MFA will not always save you.

I tried all of the major Discord alternatives. Here's what I found:

It is now morally correct to pirate Star Trek

Whoah insane. You don't fire a leader at this level "for cause" unless there is significant anger and a public statement about that leader's decisions. I bet you we have the Philadelphia Museum of Art back by this time next year.

Uh so this overview of community platforms/alternatives to Discord is creeping up on 3k words.

RCE in the React Native dev server. You just *know* someone is running this as their prod app.

If you lived through the attacks on September 11th and the subsequent fever of nationalism and jingoism, today's a good day to remember how gullible hate makes us, and how those in power will weaponize our basest instincts for their own ends.

just....enjoy this

Made these for a talk I'm giving. Enjoy!

The gutting of Teen Vogue, a publication which dared to treat its readers seriously and with respect, is an especially dispiriting day in old media's long, self-destructive forced march to nowhere

Not like you should trust Teams for anything, but also, it turns out it's less secure even than browsers for cookie storage!

Museums, schools, really anything with a not-for-profit or underfunded state institution behind it. These are the places where "enterprise" cybersecurity does not, cannot exist, and the staff to set things up properly also rarely exist, because those skills command much better pay elsewhere.

Sure, go off with your AI-powered threat detection or whatever. Meanwhile, humans: let's make the password to the Louvre's NVR `Louvre`.

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

The way "new and novel ad formats" is said with excitement here...

Deleted a post about arXiv's new submission policy because I misinterpreted it. New research will still be accepted, just not position and survey papers.

Los Angeles, CA - As hundreds of Dodgers fans watch the game in Echo Park, a vehicle containing LAPD horses drives by to raucous boos from the fans.

On the one hand, this seems really cool, especially in Rust projects. On the other hand, devs will literally invent typed JSON before using XML.

This weekend's project is gonna be writing up my months of research on Discord alternatives for community organizing and collaboration.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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

Got this too. BEC? More?

This is, like, personally offensive to me. Whatever this thing does, it ain't research. openai.com/index/int...

Right so this is the LA Times asking you to get prompt injected for them.

Like two hours renaming and renumbering episodes, but Bluey is now fully operational via Jellyfin. So long, D+

This new analysis from DomainTools on a recent trove of data regarding the Great Firewall is your must-read this week.

Hey friends! What are some examples of very well-run open source organizations/foundations? What makes them good? Doesn't have to be a non-profit. Share counterexamples if you must, but I'm primarily seeking positive sentiment

Would you trust an agentic model to configure your enterprise Linux server? SUSE is betting you will, adding MCP support to SLES 16. We have deterministic tools for establishing and maintaining server state already! This is objectively worse.

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

Would you trust an agentic model to configure your enterprise Linux server? SUSE is betting you will, adding MCP support to SLES 16. We have deterministic tools for establishing and maintaining server state already! This is objectively worse.

This book did permanent psychic damage to me. But I'm glad I read it.

Indirect prompt injection in Claude, which extracts files from the victim user to an attacker's Claude account, because the code sandbox allows network connections to api.anthropic.com. embracethered.com/bl...

This is simply a failure of imagination

got back from a trunk or treat where I heard approximately 7,000 variations of "are youse a k pawp?"

Update: network infra globally impacted

Uhhh Azure *and* AWS?

Indirect prompt injection in Claude, which extracts files from the victim user to an attacker's Claude account, because the code sandbox allows network connections to api.anthropic.com. embracethered.com/bl...

Some new #WTFBins for your entertainment/edification! We now have 50 total in the catalogue! wtfbins.wtf

I can only see two outcomes from the derangement leading to massive layoffs in favor of AI. 1. Catastrophic failure of systems maintained by AI, leading to economic (and some societal) collapse. 2. A complete collapse of the premise of capitalism (compensation for labor) for all but manual work.