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Randall Munroe
12 days ago
What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoH...
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What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoHYq8VRt0
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XBOW
12 days ago
Find advice from our recent panel discussion at RSAC with Nico Waisman, XBOW CISO; Jason Haddix, Arcanum CEO; Dave Aitel, Technical Staff, OpenAI, below, and get all their insights in our new whitepaper, The Next Six Months of Offensive Security: What CISOs Need to Change Now:
https://bit.ly/4dijSZS
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Andrew Couts
12 days ago
NEW: The (sometimes lucrative) search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly due to AI use, causing the entire system and economics of bug hunting.
@lhn.bsky.social
reports
www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
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The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race
As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race/
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michaeledward
12 days ago
Scientists have discovered a tiny blue octopus lurking beneath the waters near the Galápagos Islands. About the size of a golf ball, the newly identified deep-sea species was found nearly 1,800 meters below the surface during an expedition in the Pacific Ocean.
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Lauren Deschain
13 days ago
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Mary Peltola
17 days ago
David Attenborough has spent years sounding the alarm on trawling, and he’s right: bottom trawling is one of the most destructive practices in our oceans. Alaska needs leaders willing to stand up to the trawling lobby and protect our fisheries before it’s too late.
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Alaska needs leaders willing to stand up to the trawling lobby #davidattenborough #trawling #fish
YouTube video by Mary Peltola
https://youtube.com/shorts/21WI5tI6aa4?feature=share
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Joe Uchill
18 days ago
There was only one way to end THE BOYS properly and that was to tease a sequel series THE BOYS II: MEN.
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DistrictCon
30 days ago
DistrictCon Year 1 Talks are officially live on our YouTube Channel! Check it out:
youtube.com/watch?v=RDqX...
A HUGE shoutout to our incredible speaker line up that came out through the snow to share their amazing content with us.
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Ian Levy (Keynote) : From protecting a country to security guard in a bookshop
YouTube video by DistrictCon
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDqXQ4nCOIE&list=PLILSGbVWGGPwuqdZhFrsf2sjEMPjIlceH
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DistrictCon
30 days ago
Feb. 6-7, 2027 | See you there 🪩✌️
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Alex Wild
about 1 month ago
A gallery of army ants.
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Army Ants and Other Nomads - Alex Wild
Several lineages of ants in the warmer regions of the world have evolved a lifestyle of nomadic predation.
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Making-a-Living/Army-Ants
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Patrick Gray
about 1 month ago
If listening to Niels Provos talk to my colleague
@jameswilson.io
for 90 minutes about orchestrating older LLMs to find 0day as effectively as Mythos can sounds like a good time to you, boy do I have some great news… VIDEO:
youtu.be/ksWbjE9uQyk
AUDIO:
risky.biz/RBFEATURES19/
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Mythos smythos! How to find 0day with lesser models
YouTube video by Risky Business Media
https://youtu.be/ksWbjE9uQyk?si=MgbC7HLnc1GX1vlc
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Alex Wild
about 1 month ago
Date: I thought you said you worked in Finance? What's up with your 15 year old beater car?! Entomologist: Finance? Date: Entomologist: Oh, I see what's happened here.
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Alex Wild
about 1 month ago
There's something reassuring about the fact that one of the oldest ant websites on the internet, the Japanese Ant Image Database, is still online.
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Japanese Ant Image Database
http://ant.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/index.html
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️
about 1 month ago
Gorgeous, Giant Pacific octopus off Vancouver Island:
#AGoodPlace
Source:
www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Alex Blechman
about 2 months ago
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
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Lyle Lewis
2 months ago
“Whales are back” depends on where you look. Some areas are dense. Others—where they used to be common—are now quiet. That’s not recovery. That’s compression into what’s left. We don’t notice absence. We notice what remains. That’s an echo.
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Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing
Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem
https://apple.news/AZ0LYDIoCTMyBF2sqpB8L2A
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evil maid
2 months ago
every day is Autism Awareness Day for people who interact with me.
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Ologies with Alie Ward
2 months ago
GLAMOROUS SEA SLUGS. Let's talk
#Nudibranchology
with
@calacademy.bsky.social
's Dr. Gosliner &
@amnh.org
's Dr. Goodheart about: bunny horns finger backs stolen weaponry buttflowers doomed dates high fashion tiny eyes gender fluidity “Finding Nemo” + much more.
www.alieward.com/ologies/nudi...
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morrismummer
2 months ago
I have just watched 'My Garden of a Thousand Bees', and my mind is blown. Bees. They have personalities. They use sticks. It's changed how I think of insects that's for sure. I can't recommend it enough. On BBC iPlayer. It's wonderful. And you will meet a leafcutter bee called Nicky.
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XBOW
2 months ago
AI found critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software, autonomously. XBOW identified 3 critical RCEs, including one of the most severe issues in March’s Patch Tuesday and two in Bing with potential SYSTEM-level impact. No source code. Real environments. Real CVEs.
https://bit.ly/4bNBgWT
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Chise
2 months ago
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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Tautology
2 months ago
It's time for another LLM image generation thread, because they're humourous. If you just want to see the images and don't care about joining in the snark, you can find this at
tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/03...
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LLM Image Generation: Space – Tautology’s Blog
https://tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/03/30/llm-image-generation-space/
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Acid Rain
3 months ago
A wonderfully weird creature you'll find deep in the endangered Chocó Rainforest of Ecuador. It's a moss-mimic walking stick insect (Trychopeplus laciniatus).
#insect
#camouflage
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David DiMolfetta
3 months ago
At RSAC Conference —> Google’s threat intelligence arm officially launched its anticipated disruptive cyber unit on Monday, which comes as the Trump admin seeks to create a more offensive, proactive US culture against hackers.
www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
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Google launches threat disruption unit, stops short of calling it ‘offensive’
The unit will use legal authorizations and technical capabilities to impede cyber threat groups, though company execs say it will not go so far as to hack into adversaries' systems.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026/03/google-launches-threat-disruption-unit-stops-short-calling-it-offensive/412321/
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Schmidt Ocean Institute
3 months ago
We brake for nautilus! “We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said
#VisioningCoralSea
Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!
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Jeffrey Vagle
3 months ago
Hear, hear. In so many cases, folks who claim they "aren't political" are just saying they're satisfied with the way the status quo is working out for them.
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Joe Slowik
3 months ago
Sucks that he passed at a relatively young age. On the bright side, maybe this will serve as impetus to republish to share this cool story with new generations.
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Jeffrey Vagle
3 months ago
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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Atlanta company fetches nearly $1 million investment to grow pack of robotic security dogs
Investors include Flock Safety, South Downtown, Perennial Properties and Balfour Residential, among others.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/atlanta-company-fetches-nearly-1-million-investment-build-robotic-dogs/6WPS3DHOWFDL7G3IR5XM2KO5EE/
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Cynthia Brumfield
3 months ago
There is no reason anyone in the world should suffer hunger, but it’s vile that the government of the richest country in the world is systematically starving people.
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz
3 months ago
“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention” “Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”
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Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention
Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ms-rachel-ice-detention-children-immigration-dilley-texas-center-rcna263786
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CEO of Beckett Mariner
3 months ago
Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that
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joeymaier 🌊
3 months ago
Industrial whaling reduced the bowhead whale population by 90%. The result is genetic draft and loss of genetic diversity. Genetic diversity continues to decline today, even after most nations have stopped Whailing
www.earth.com/news/centuri...
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Centuries of whaling left lasting genetic scars on Arctic whales
Bowhead whales survived thousands of years of climate change, but human hunting caused damage that still continues today.
https://www.earth.com/news/centuries-of-whaling-left-lasting-genetic-scars-on-arctic-whales/
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Alex Wild
3 months ago
The Trump regime has functionally frozen the National Science Foundation, effectively removing the largest source of funding for scores of scientific fields.
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Dolphin Pilot
3 months ago
ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity
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a Monday morning blogpost for your perusal and enjoyment !
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Why Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST Report
A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives.
https://openai.com/index/why-codex-security-doesnt-include-sast/
3 months ago
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Alex Wild
3 months ago
A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.
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Ars Technica
3 months ago
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Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"
Unsealed messages add wrinkle to trial after US agreed to settle with Live Nation.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/live-nation-director-boasted-of-gouging-ticket-buyers-robbing-them-blind/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social
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There's some ideas in this election projection thing I built up - specifically you get candidate summaries and news on each candidate over time so you can see "who won the day":
elections.cordyceps.systems
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Election Projection 2026
2026 Election Projection — data-driven forecasts for Senate and House races
https://elections.cordyceps.systems/
3 months ago
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I think people really do underestimate time travel debugging
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Right now, if you have ChatGPT Pro, you have access to Codex Security. You should try it and let me know what you think. It's free for a month....
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Keynote for re//verse:
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Re//verse is a great conference. All the right ppl. Great talks. Easy venue.
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Re//verse 2026
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David DiMolfetta
3 months ago
NEW -> Coordinated US–Israel strikes on Iran are spotlighting how Washington integrates offensive cyber into military operations — and whether federal agencies are ready for retaliation at home:
www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...
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Strikes on Iran will test US cyber strategy abroad, and defenses at home
The federal government’s cyber defense agency is short-staffed, and Tehran is known for its retaliatory cyberattacks.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2026/02/strikes-iran-will-test-us-cyber-strategy-abroad-and-defenses-home/411782/
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Ars Technica
3 months ago
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The Air Force's new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put them
There were assumptions that were made in the strategy that obviously didn’t come to fruition."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/the-air-forces-new-icbm-is-nearly-ready-to-fly-but-theres-nowhere-to-put-them/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social
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