Kicking off soon, pals! We are streaming live if you are still in reg or cozy in your own hacker den: www.twitch.tv/kawaiiconnz

Fuck yeah, NYC! Congratulations to you all! Happy for and jealous of you for your amazing Mayor Elect Mamdani!

Are you ans experienced iOS security researcher? If so, you probably already know about the Apple Security Researcher Device Program (security.apple.com/research-dev...). If you’ve been thinking about applying, applications close in a week, on 31 October. Apply before the opportunity 👻s you!

I believe in evolution, in all contexts :) security.apple.com/blog/apple-s...

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Werner Herzog just started an IG account. You’re welcome.

I know it’s hard to find things to be happy about these days, but Zohran Mandani won NYC’s mayoral democratic primary race last right, protesters managed to shut down the ICE office in here in SF yesterday, and S4 of The Bear drops today. Absolutely dining on these morsels of serotonin this morning.

Walking up on a dreary Sunday morning, the apartment is quiet and still, the dog sleeping in his bed. Early, low light filters into the bedroom giving it a low parchment glow. My brain begins to boot into awareness: Steve le- (Wah ahahaha) Le poisson Steve (poisson Steve) It est oraaaaaaannnnnnge

Pegasus spyware maker NSO Group just got publicly rebuffed by the US. They came to DC to get off the US blacklist. It did not work out. You know about the human rights abuses, but let me tell you why NSO is no friend to the United States. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Behold my favorite weird Chrome security bug of 2025 so far! A jaw-dropping URL / omnibox spoof via ligatures, specifically the googlelogo ligature. issues.chromium.org/issues/39178...

Security friends attending RSAC, please attend this session and heckle the fuck out of Kristi Noem.

The pants I am wearing today are cute (subjectively), comfy (objectively), but so noisy. I don’t think I can wear them to the office again. I feel the need to compulsively apologize for being disruptive, as I sound like a sailboat cruising aggressively in blustery conditions just walking about.

So I guess this is the wrong time for my standard takes that CVEs often wielded like infosec Pokémon and CVSS scores are terrible data points for making software update decisions?

Two things I’ve never noticed on previous trips to Vancouver. 1. Some of the freeways have bike lanes, such as the road to the airport. 2. There are tampons and pads sitting out in the restrooms available for free. Two ways America would sadly never.

I’ve been in Vancouver (Canada) since Thursday. This somewhat randomly timed trip could actually not have been better timed. On top of my general long-time love for this city, I am especially daunted leaving tonight and returning to the U.S. and well, everything else.

Chromium now has a patch rewards bounty for fixing some (non-security) bugs! This is very cool and provides an opportunity to contribute to open source and get some 💵 for your efforts!

This is very cool and very excited to see this now live! If you like fixing bugs and have been looking for an excuse to participate more in OSS — here’s your chance and also get some $$$.

In the latest installment of weird startup ads, did you know:

A longer version of the Tufts announcement about the abduction of an international graduate student by federal authorities, circulating on Twitter and Reddit.

Congratulations to person who wrote the final episode of the series One Day, because that was truly the single most saddest and truly devastating 30 minutes of anything I’ve ever seen on a screen.

I need a shock color that’s the opposite of an electric fence. It’s you’re still inside a certain range (like your work office building for example) at a specific time, it starts shocking you with tiny shocks that increase with intensity every five minutes. Does this exist?

Come join my team…literally. Product Security is a small sub-team in Chrome Security. We’re hiring a mid-level Security Engineer to lead wrangling of our security reviews process && pitch in on some other security work. Role is in-office/hybrid, based in SF. www.google.com/about/career...

"We call on the world to stop the injustice & stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people," says Oscar winner Basel Adra to applause from the audience. 'No Other Land' just won the Best Documentary Oscar. Also a fantastic speech from fellow winner Yuval Abraham on "ethnic supremacy".

SEAN BAKER BRETHREN LET’S FUCKING GOOOOO

Watching this Oscars gave me a flashback of having to defend my long-time Conan O’Brien crush to male friends and one particular man I dated. I’m sorry, I’m not wrong.

These jokes were unexpected and I cackled.

I love him

I am leaving work and haven’t seen any news today, but my weather app made sure I knew what’s been going on

RIP to iconic queen Michelle Trachtenberg, deliverer of one of my favorite lines on the small screen. Will also watch some later season Buffy tonight in remembrance.

This is your regular reminder that government mandated backdoors for end-to-end encrypted comms are bullshit, make everyone less safe, and should be resisted at maximum volume.

Exceptionally proud of the game of flight chicken I played today. After three weather delays for my flight from 3:30 to 4:49, to 5:20, to 5:35, I decided to leave our office for Sea-Tac at 4:00, a 48-minute commute (due to heavy traffic). Got here and through security two minutes before boarding. 😅

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

i think kendrick is president now?

Ontario: Chill the fuck out y’all.

Nike hasn’t aired a Super Bowl ad since 1998. For its return to the big game, the company is turning to the meteoric rise of women’s sports—particularly women’s basketball. #WNBA www.wsj.com/business/med...

Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

I’m not okay with Nazi uniforms on my television

"Helly was never cruel."

This was such an amazing show and it enough people know about it.

Super random post because I need an external link for this image, our new(-ish) Chrome VRP mascot, Bug.

Another morning of looking at my feed, heaving out the deep sigh of anxiety and dread.
Except this time, from somewhere deep in my subconscious (because I have no idea where this came from), I muttered to myself, “I just want to swim in the ocean.”
And I’m really not quite sure what I meant by that.

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

For some reason I thought the NSA would be slightly buffered, but I have heard that sweeping anti-DEI mandates have already been issued, such as forcing removal of pronouns from signature blocks. People are being told that should report violations of these new mandates by their colleagues to the IG

This has me so heated and is absolutely absurd.

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

No, I will not read “your substack.” Stop calling your written work by a name that is synonymous with “funds nazi speech.” Because what I read when you say “check out my substack” is “check out how I’m helping fund Nazi speech!” No. I will not do that.