Runners looking at their Strava totals this morning "great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced" - all my totals are zero ..

The human body is an amazing thing. Yesterday I couldn't put a new weight on my right knee. It was actually visibly swollen, some ice packs and some deep heat later (any good night sleep) and not only could I walk on it I went for a cycle ride this morning..

2 February 2025: EU AI Act's first bans take effect. Prohibited: social scoring, manipulative AI, public biometric surveillance. The world's first comprehensive AI law is now operational. thecontrollayer.arkava.ai #AIAct #EURegulation #AIGovernance #TechPolicy #AILaw

I find it absolutely hilarious watching YouTube videos of Americans fawning over silenced to shotguns. They all seem to believe that this is totally unique and their gunsmith is the only person who ever thought of it. If you come to the UK they're not exactly uncommon....

Now Idris Elba has a knighthood can we please make him James bond? He already has the knighthood - just make him James bond already

So it's about now we start to think about Goals for 2026. For me they're going to be all sporting again. I want to do a marathon in around 3:15, I would like to run 100 km in one go. I would like to give blood. And I might try and do the summer fan dance in under 4 hours 10 minutes (clean fatigue)

Probably my top highlight of the year was this run. I only started running two years ago so I'm quite happy that I've now managed to get down to 3:30 ! Managed to fall over at 35 km hence hence a little bit slower...If I managed to not fall over I suspect I'd probably could have done just under 3:30

4000km run this year! The last 200 km was very hard as I've been fighting a cold. This morning was meant to be 30 kilometres about 25 kilometers I just have to cut it short as I'd lost my voice and eating oat cakes was hard with my throat. I can rest for the rest of the year now

for me it was my 1st year of road / gravel cycling. I managed to complete the London to Brighton ( and then back again) , dragon ride and the tour de Ricky ( plus a little more). Finishing the dragon ride was the highlight

My attitude to running at the moment :) just have my eyes on the prize - once I get there I can rest - I seem to have distance dysmorphia

patch ye MongoDB, there's an exploit for a vuln which has been in the product for over a decade that allows the remote, unauth read of any memory - which includes plaintext creds. Somebody posted an exploit on Christmas Day, Merry Christmas! doublepulsar.com/merry-christ...

Talk about the Red Menace.

Last week it seems like every third person I met was ill. It finally caught up with me yesterday evening and I've slept for the last 24 hours. Tried to go for a cycle ride this morning and almost collapsed in the garden. I feel as weak as a baby kitten - I have a long run tomorrow morning

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... there is a lesson in this, if you allow in the legal market to run you don't get to dictate how the data gets used. The west should also think hard about this when they privatize certain sensitive databases such as healthcare.

Christmas day parkrun !

Eventually the EU and the UK will end up having to sanction the USA.

A reminder that I wrote about these kinds of risks to #DigitalSovereignty earlier this year www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... wait till their office 365 /.Facebook etc accounts start being closed

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NHS England provider, DXS International, confirms a cyber attack as hackers claim data was stolen. Investigations are underway to determine the extent of the breach. #CyberSecurity #NHS #DataBreach

Curious what this will look like tomorrow

“At least six Canadian children, with birth years ranging from 2009 to 2024, were detained during the period. One Canadian child was held for 51 days — more than twice the 20-day limit set by a long-standing U.S. court-ordered agreement.” Expert warns Canadians to not travel to the US:

but the issue is that we are still paying for it whether we like it or not

I wanted to give a shoutout to the best events I attended in 2025 - and hopefully give you some ideas of what to look out for next year. @bsideslondon.bsky.social @bsidesbirmingham.bsky.social @steelcon.info #bheu2025 @csidesummit.bsky.social wp.me/p2Xih2-8F

Better late than never. Good news!

well i would never have thought that stockpiling DDR5 would have been a good investment - hopefully random old IDE and SCSI cables will suddenly soar in value - if they do i will be rich, rich i tell you

Right, I have decided to write a "guided tour" of the 33-page Trump law suit on BBC. It should be fun. This will be on my Substack later - sign up here: emptycity.substack.com I may re-publish it on my personal blog later, but it will only be on Substack to begin with.

well it was a happy new bike day for me the other day ! a Pinarello Grevil F5 - lovely... mainly chosen as I liked the colour other the higher tier one

Given the BBC is publicly funded, this is Donald Trump suing you & me. It’s a pathetic cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator & an attack on every British person. And our far right politicians & pundits are cheering him on, of course. #r4today

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... I think this one is going to have possibly the same impact as the Ashleigh Madison breach. If the data leaks and then starts getting linked to real people there will be suicides

I just sighed so hard a penguin fell over in Antarctica www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen. Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... I appreciate that the telegraph is trying to push this story as yet another bit of outrage bait but in actual fact I agree with this ban. Sometimes you need to discuss some very depressing things in a bank and I would really like the staff to look professional...

Never clicked a link faster in my life. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I use the bone conduction headphones for running after I had another runner come past me early in the morning and I almost had a heart attack (they meant no harm but they suddenly appeared out of the darkness behind me) . As a cyclist I couldn't imagine cycling on the road with in ear pods...

Congressman August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced a bill this week named the Cyber Deterrence and Response Act that creates a unified federal process to identify, attribute, and sanction state-sponsored cyber actors pfluger.house.gov/news/documen...

For Assured, I've written about AI in cybersecurity, examining the potential positives and pitfalls if deployed in the SOC. One CISO I spoke to noted that if AI replaces all junior security analyst work, then where will the senior analysts of the future come from? assured.co.uk/2025/is-agen...

This is breathtaking.

Full batch baking ! Cheesy soda bread

When your restaurant needs airport style security I am afraid it's not the place for me.

X has a problem with foreign accounts profiting specifically on right wing extremism because it’s really hard to rage bait someone with “everyone should have access to affordable healthcare”

As of today, NOS will no longer post news items on X over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11... some of these councils where have to relatively recently if I recall correctly. The impact on people when their council is compromised is significant especially to those that depend upon their council for basic social services.

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

The state of political discourse on X. A picture is worth a thousand words.

www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/s... Salesforce have a serious issue with 3rd party hacks - I wonder if the problem is always been there but it just now catching up with them? Complexity is the enemy - make something too simple and users don't understand what what the risk is