Lucky to capture lava glow in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater at Mount Kīlauea on the Island of Hawaiʻi last night. 🌋✨🔭📸

Caught these swimming reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) tonight in Kauna'oa Bay. 🪸🎞️📷

Another beautiful sunset yesterday on the Island of Hawaiʻi. ☀️⛵️📷

Spotted Hawaiian Green sea turtles (Honu) this week in Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park. 🐢📸

Sunset on Mākoleʻā Beach tonight. 🏖️ Vega is out, nice and bright! ✨ 🌴🌴🌴 🔭📷

We're updating our bounty program with the top award now set at $2 million for zero-click remote exploit chains. In addition - there are increased awards for proximate wireless attacks, WebKit, and Gatekeeper security.apple.com/blog/apple...

Still working on processing but wanted to show the beautiful tail of Comet Lemmon from my last session. It's about 100 minutes worth of data here. Hoping to catch it again tonight if the weather allows. #astronomy #astrophotography #space #comet #cometlemmon

My latest 3D printing art installation is called “Transition to Chaos.” It starts with a set of equations that describe a trajectory on an axisymmetric torus.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

An ordinary trip to the post exchange recently ended with a U.S. Army Reserve officer unwrapping one of the rarest treasures in the world of Stars Wars trading cards.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new variant of the XCSSET malware, which is designed to infect Xcode projects, typically used by software developers building Apple or macOS-related applications. msft.it/63320sS0R0

Looking to use Passkeys on Safari? With the latest version of the Pass extension (1.32.7), you can do just that. This version is currently being rolled out, but you can manually update to this release through the App Store.

13 years ago today I got to see Space Shuttle Endeavour flying over Tucson, AZ on its way to its new home in L.A. A few years later I got to visit it in person at the California Science Center.

More office supplies.

As part of the Peaks & Professors program, I hosted a group of USC students on a trip to Sequoia National Park last weekend. Huge trees, amazing views, great night sky, super fun students and pop-tarts for breakfast!!!

Weather forecast 70% favorable for 6:11 p.m. ET Sept. 14 launch of Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to International Space Station. The uncrewed CRS-23 mission will carry supplies weighing 11,000 pounds (on Earth).

Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups. signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups

Microsoft says Azure disrupted by fiber cuts in Red Sea reut.rs/4mecK3m

Cooking up something fun!

The Moon last night was amazing! 📷 Caught this shot of Seattle from Interbay. 🔭🌕

Spotted a humpback whale off the coast of Cambria this week. ☀️ 🐋 Do you see the tail slap? 🔍

🚨 PSA - Zero day in SharePoint on-prem is actively exploited! ◽ Have Defender AV active ◽ Don't disable AMSI integration of SharePoint ◽ Keep an eye out for the alerts outlined in the article ◽ Look for post exploitation with the hunting query msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07...

Japanese police release decryptor for Phobos ransomware after February takedown #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy therecord.media/decr...

Two hours of cat tree building later...

On the right is a bit darker cuz I took a picture at night. Some of my "Reconnect with drawing"

On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS.

L3Harris Technologies has delivered the first overhauled P-8A Poseidon aircraft to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) – a key milestone that supports the U.S. Navy’s readiness goals www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

First rainbow spotting of the year

Happy #StarWarsDay everyone! 🖖🏻 #MayTheFourthBeWithYou 🌌

Super Hornet Assigned to USS Harry S. Truman Lost at Sea - USNI News news.usni.org/2025/04/28/s...

Verification will not drive some of you to complete madness.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases produced only by biological processes reut.rs/43XJ7Oe

Apple Patches Exploited Vulnerability https://isc.sans.edu/diary/31866

thank you @sudojames.com so much 💙 It's such a proud feeling to have my work on someone's wall 🌌✨ happy a nice day 🌌☁️

After weeks at the top of the Sentry list at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer considered a threat to Earth.

Grabbed this lovely shot of Mars last night. 📷 🌌 🔭 ☄️

not sure what all the fuss is about, why would I need an LLM for this

The U.S., France and Japan are preparing for a rare three-carrier exercise this weekend in the Philippine Sea. (from @alexmwilson.bsky.social)

For some reason (probably good) I am seeing a number of cat photos in the feed. No cat will ever surpass Mike the Cat. (RIP) He lived regally every day of his life, into his mid 20s. His working day consisted of sitting on my keyboard and helping me type. www.theatlantic.com/personal/arc...

NOAA Climate Prediction Center has released its February 2025 outlooks for temperature, precipitation, and drought. The influence of #laNina shows up in the cool/wet North vs warm/dry South.

Seems China is building its own version of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), with implications for nuclear weapons design/maintenance and fusion energy. Lasers for inertial confinement fusion, which is to say you blast light at a deuterium-tritium fuel pellet. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

From NWS LA: Extreme fire danger will continue thru Wed. PDS Red Flag Warnings are for the extreme of the extreme fire weather scenarios. In other words, this setup is about as bad as it gets. Stay aware of your surroundings. Be prepared to evacuate. Avoid anything that can spark a fire #cawx

SANS ISC Stormcast, Jan 13, 2025: Defender Updates, Ivanti RCE, Apple USB-C Hack and more https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9276

We are at Cape Canaveral ready for Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch!

The Moon was shining bright this afternoon in Seattle. 🌔✈️ 🔭📷

A sweeping Chinese government hacking campaign against American telecoms firms is “still going on,” Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas said in an interview with NBC News.

EXCLUSIVE: A massive online heist targeting AWS customers during which digital crooks abused misconfigurations in public websites and stole source code, thousands of credentials, and other secrets remains "ongoing to this day," according to breach hunters Noam Rotem and Ran Locar.