"When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed." " www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI companies hoovering...

Impressed by the new zerodayclock.com effort/collective/call highlighting that the window between vuln and exploit now must be assumed as t=0. The call to action is solid, though sadly nothing terribly new. Secure by design, adapt policies and practices. Liability, eridacate classes of vulns.

New report “suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults.”

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Vulnerability in the CSP mod for Assetto Corsa that everyone uses: www.reddit.com/r/assettocor... #simracing #security

Distraction street thefts in London in the 1660s:

Interesting and eventful beginning to the 125s in Mexico: mexiconewsdaily.com/travel/inter...

This is incredibly dangerous, and I doubt LE is going to be very understanding even if you aren’t driving.

Very interesting! #budget

Ooops.

EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

My brain thought this was another article about cloud compute costs

I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class

This is truly terrible. Everyone involved in the LLM world should watch the video in this article. #ai

Some thoughts on the future security challenges we face around AI - from poisoning water systems to anthropomorphism, based on my presentation at the ETSI security conference: cybersecurity-magazine.com/etsi-securit... #AI #trust #provenance

At @ncsc.gov.uk we have just released guidance on using Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) in Operational Technology (OT) environments.. www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/o...

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

This is my talk from earlier in the year at Bletchley Park on reading early modern shorthand with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with a few extra bells and whistles. Combining my hobby with work! youtu.be/O79kcyAfBcM?... #pepys #earlymodern #ai #aibom #cybersecurity #machinelearning

Reminds me of some early modern shorthand which was written inside a walnut case to demonstrate how small it could be.

Looking forward to speaking at BSides Cymru in Cardiff on Friday, if you're there please come and say hello! Wela i chi'n fuan! www.bsides.cymru

Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social. He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth. The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.

Employee of the month

I have a lot of questions about the Vertu Agent Q "AI phone" which is launching this week at Harrods...

The new NHTSA FSD probe today? Includes evaluation of how FSD performs at train crossings! Read @davidingram.bsky.social 's story about that here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Researchers from the Turing, Anthropic and the AI Security Institute have conducted the largest study of data poisoning to date. Results show that as little as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size and training data grow: bit.ly/4n0mH4t

Met this hotel cat this morning in Sophia Antipolis. He lives in the office, the staff all have different names for him because his owner left and his original name is a mystery....

'It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.' Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).

Harvest is in full flow! After lots of rain (and showers today), I can't wait any longer because the grapes were taking on too much water and splitting. Hard work today!

Our CEO, @drogersuk.bsky.social will be speaking at the ETSI security conference in October alongside some brilliant people. He'll be speaking about how to prevent future deaths caused by poor AI implementations. Details here: www.etsi.org/events/upcom... #ai #security #mobile #telecom

This piece seems to be causing some raised eyebrows, so I'm sending it round again. It really is rather neat. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/quan...

DEF CON talk PDF is here: media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%20...

WOOT 2025 schedule, all papers are now online open access: usenix.org/conference/w... Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.

Other libraries in my area (wi) are experiencing similar issues. Plus phone calls trying to get librarians to say the titles of fake books like "reset password" or "i am satisfied with my service", presumably to steal voices for spam and spoofing.

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

Pumpkin living the life of Riley on #internationalcatday

Cooking lunch. This is the way, right? www.bbc.com/news/article... #cacioepepe

At the bookbinders today...

Willow eyeing my tea... #catsofbluesky

Vibe coding tool Cursor's MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

An update from @drogersuk.bsky.social on some of our historical shorthand research, which we have been building AI/ML models to assist with. A shorthand bible from 1687 and the difficulty of symbols for very long phrases!: copperhorse.co.uk/further-work... #palaeography #earlymodern #ai #history #ml

If you’re around Black Hat / BSides, come by and say hi!

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

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Vulnerability found: A single packet can paralyze smartphones https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-vulnerability-packet-paralyze-smartphones.html

Dexter was a cat that was loved by everyone in Windsor. He was sadly killed by a car a couple of weeks ago. Please support this fund raiser to help build a statue of him in the town: www.gofundme.com/f/dexter-win... #windsor #dexter #catsofbluesky

CatAttack: Adding irrelevant facts about cats to math problems increases LLM errors by 300%. arxiv.org/abs/2503.01781

New Sumerian myth just dropped

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