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

The UK’s premier InfoSec community event #BSidesLDN2025 needs you! Our Call for Papers, Rookies & Workshops opens this Friday (01/08) until 30/09. This is for the community, by the community, so get involved! Links go live Friday. Be ready! #Security #BSides #London #CFP

“In the world of health and wearable tech, ‘wellness’ is sort of like a ‘get out of jail free’ card.”

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

#Singtel’s coming data centers have presold more than 50% of their capacity. A new subsea cable could improve the network diversity of its data centers and cater to increased AI demand. #telecoms

Veraison begins on one of Pinot Meuniers!

At the back of this Isaac Pitman bible is an interesting piece of history - the Order of Service for Isaac Pitman, held at Bath Abbey. "See end of book" written in the cover...

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Like, laugh out loud incredible www.pcgamer.com/hardware/bri...

At point do you halt a project and decide - that is 20 years out of date and massively insecure? Clearly never in the case of this train company: www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bro...

AI-assistant caused DATA LOSS, destroyed projects, user files and a production database: issued faulty commands, overwriting data; another ignored freeze directives, fabricated test data, and dropped a live database. anuraag2601.github.io/gemini_cli_d... www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/r...

Fitting installation for outside a security meeting. #IETF123

Fitting installation for outside a security meeting. #IETF123

Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis #psychiatry #ADHD #diagnosis #woman #neuro #LivedExperience 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is such a great example of how technology (cough, and also an AI) can facilitate the work of Historians!

But a lot of us work directly on future stuff so we have to design it. I absolutely agree that the consequences of today's companies dumping rubbish into the market are profound and I hope that people and govs wake up to the fact that LLMs are not a magical oracle and reject them.

Can't reply to this, but will try this way. So there are foundational issues with LLMs - but there are plenty of people working on other ML / computer science solutions that are complementary to the work of Historians. Don't just consider the rubbish that is out there today.

My optimistic view is that we end up with better AIs that are able to assist Historians, based on authoritative datasets from institutions that is able to offer contextual nuance. We could provide a more immersive experience of history in the future with the assistance of different AIs.

Madrid

“On Wednesday, OpenAI and edtech company Instructure announced a partnership that brings generative AI into the heart of classroom instruction.” 💀

This title change doesn't appear to substantively change the standing order but it might tell us something about the way counterfeit rhetoric is shaping the way this judge sees these cases. For more on Schedule A & counterfeit rhetoric, see: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of AI voice print fraud. Those bankers should have just been reading my blog back in, checks notes, *2021* keydiscussions.com/2021/12/07/d... finance.yahoo.com/news/openais...

A lot of those vulnerable embedded systems are still being shipped. #2038

Comma butterfly on my vines yesterday

@hollyjackson44433.bsky.social You were excellent on BBC Breakfast!

The death of an IoT company:

Yikes. Turns out you can send a plaintext radio signal to cause any train in the USA to do an emergency break. The original 'security' was just a checksum, no encryption or authentication. Reporting this took them 12 years (!) because the vendor dismissed it initially www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

I think this is an excellent way of educating senior execs about what an LLM is and isn't. The simple message it conveys is easier to explain to people who imagine super powers in these types of AIs

I never understood how leading car makers, with such experience in car design, ergonomics and driving behaviour allowed touchscreens to replace physical buttons. Study after study proves screens and non-physical buttons are dangerous. Shocking stats 👇 www.ft.com/content/b463...

I really appreciate educational content like this that I can send to my non-tech savvy family members in the States to keep them thinking critically about the content they consume on the net.

The only way to solve this one in my view is to have messaging escrow requirements in the same way financial traders do.