Having all these stupid delivery clankers everywhere makes me really understand how in Star Wars everyone was so mean to the robots all the time.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Check out the agenda for [un]prompted . It was incredible to see what folks submitted and I'm excited to see everyone in March https://unpromptedcon.org/

OK so now the former CEO of Tumblr is running the Washington Post. Tumblr. A company whose history is a textbook case study in corporate value destruction.

FWIW - 500 0days in open source is not a huge number. The issue is that patching them without changing the community to an AI drive. Software development lifecycle doesn't really fix the problem . :(

ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... great work

Helio Gracie sounds like a dick and it boggles my mind why you would have a picture of him on the wall to worship like some kind of hero. www.scribd.com/document/325...

Everyone talking about the collapse of AI and AI providing no value is really hilarious after we revolutionize industry after industry. Obviously I can't talk about anything ahead of time, but I think you'll be amazed by the things coming this year in the security space.

Remember those two pentesters who got arrested for breaking into a Dallas County Courthouse in Iowa, even though they were operating under a contract from the state's judiciary to do so? They just settled with the state for $600,000. It took six years, though. www.kcci.com/article/coal...

Editor wants more common names for ants, and it's a real pickle. Most ants are so small that most cultures have no names for them and don't even know they exist, while the ants that are big and common enough to have common names have many, and then we have to pick which cultures we want to elevate.

Weekly summary is out.. ctoatncsc.substack.com/p/cto-at-ncs...

Backlog it is then... 🫡 www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nist-cv...

Makes me think of the “machine elves” people often see on DMT. Or the specific and repeatable archetypes of visions people see during hypnagogic hallucinations (eg The Hag).

New Cisco zero-day, CVE-2026-20045 sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/cen...

We're really excited to present our Sponsors Job Board! If you are in the market for a new role, check out the listings on our page. These roles are curated by our sponsors and they'll be at DistrictCon Year 1 ready to chat about the roles! T-3 days! 😎 www.districtcon.org/job-board

A gallery of social wasps.

The U.S. cyberattack in Caracas, Venezuela, that turned off the power and interfered with its air defense radar demonstrated the Pentagon’s ability to use cyberweapons with powerful and precise effects, according to U.S. officials briefed on the operation.

Great new paper! Many stinging wasps, bees, and ants have controlled the sex of their developing eggs for millions of year using an ancient segment of their genome- always the same segment- but what's weird is, *the exact DNA sequence of that segment doesn't seem to matter*.

bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842... amazing work as always

Discerning a sense of size from macro photographs is hard. Camponotus intrepidus, for example, is one of Australia’s largest sugar ants at slightly under an inch long. But did you see the little Pheidole ant at her heels?

Please take some time to look through some of the discoveries photographed in 2025. It should interest some invertebrate enthusiasts. yes? yes? bit.ly/nickybay2025

Sharks, as an evolutionary pathway, are older than the rings of Saturn.

German energy company Vereinigte Stadtwerke suffered a cyberattack. Supply chain attack: compromise of the company's external IT service provider, then access to breach VS itself. Data leaked from one server. www.vereinigte-stadtwerke.de/presse/cyber...

Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa therecord.media/treasury-san...

I can’t even keep up with this talk, they just showed two different(?) PoCs that spoof perfectly credible signatures from Satoshi and Angela Merkel. The talk started with them booting a spoofed Fedora ISO after checking the signature. 14 vulns, 9 unpatched.

ColdFusion++ Christmas Campaign: Catching a Coordinated Callback Calamity https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2025-12-26-coldfusion/

Christmas Eve miracle: Fortinet admits new exploitation of a 2020 bug www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-b...

Password vaults stolen from LastPass at the end of 2022 were cracked and used to steal cryptocurrency as recently as this year, with the stolen funds being laundered through Russia-based cryptocurrency exchanges www.trmlabs.com/resources/bl...

At Insomni'hack 2025, Christian & Marcel introduced EL3XIR, a framework for fuzzing TrustZone-based TEEs. Get your ticket for 2026 now and gift a spot for those wishing more security innovations: insomnihack.ch?utm_source=b... #InsomniHack #Cybersecurity #Infosec #INSO2026

A group of endangered “galaxy frogs” are missing, presumed dead, after trespassing photographers reportedly destroyed their microhabitats for photos. Melanobatrachus indicus lives under logs in the lush rainforest in Kerala, India. #ClimateChange www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yall it’s not taking you to an ad. It’s taking you to a Consumer Experience

Do you think, if you opened Google Maps and there was a quest marker a mile away, you’d go there

Is nobody even trying things before claiming AI can't do something? One of my main uses for LLMs is analyzing a codebase and telling me about, answering my questions about it, and finding things deep inside big ones that would take forever to find. And they've been good at this for a while now

An absolutely superb podcast from my colleague @tom.risky.biz and @thegrugq.bsky.social featuring Hamid Kashfi discussing the evolution of Iranian APTs. 10/10 risky.biz/BTN148/

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

I don't really understand pepper like black pepper that people put on everything and I'm not sure why. I feel like it's some kind of conspiracy or marketing magical thing

please buy The Originalism Trap--my writing is better, my analysis is sharper, and I have never been professionally or personally involved with RFK Jr bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The names of two partial owners of contractor firms linked to China's Salt Typhoon hacker group also appeared in records for Cisco's "Networking Academy" global training program—years before those hackers targeted Cisco's devices in their sweeping spy campaign. www.wired.com/story/2-men-...

This is where originalism is really spiritually aligned with straussianism—you, the clever contemporary scholar, are capable of uncovering the true hidden meaning that for centuries has eluded all those other chumps