Looks like a significant outage issue with Claude. Downdetector agrees.

I have finally pulled my finger out and started writing. Not the book I was planning (yet) but training I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end

If you are a fan of female-fronted indie/rock, I’d really recommend giving @spaceacreband.bsky.social a listen. Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything. music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...

TIL: I learned where babies come from by watching a sheep give birth, at the age of 6.

Finally a great use for those pesky humans. youtu.be/zdkBUuWCZg4?...

Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the professional, it was never about professionalism.

People want the EU to “unravel” for the same reason people try to get alcoholics to have “just one”. They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.

I just wrote 4000 words about a day in 1989, and I am really proud of it. Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.

Since the early days of the LLM boom, I’ve been trying to help people understand that LLMs “know” precisely nothing. And folks have found that hard to accept. So, this is five years of explanation, condensed into one post: 1/4

We’re entering an era where: Fluency is algorithmic. Confidence has become cheap. Wisdom remains expensive. So discernment becomes the scarce skill. And it matters more than almost any technical ability going forward.

Phones don’t capture reality anymore, they optimize it. That should worry you more. Your camera doesn’t just see, it “fixes”: light, faces, skies, color. It decides what looks better and hands you that. Somehow, we accepted that “better” mattered more than “true.” Reality is now only a suggestion

I drew this. You are welcome.

Just keep seizing. Just keep seizing…

Minneapolis, I ❤️ you!

When both your parents have long hair and want a family selfie…

There’s advertising, there’s devices… It’s almost as if AI is not a product in itself. Who’d have thought? Here comes the pin…

So, it seems I can still get into my Sharnbrook school shirt. Last time I was wearing it was 1986, I was 16! Pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to get into the trousers though 😀 It’s the shirt that I had a whole bunch of lunatics write messages on the the end of term.

One for your hard block list.

The bursting of the AI bubble will be orders of magnitude worse than the dot com bubble. So many individuals have already learned to “unthink”, have voluntarily surrendered their creative and critical faculties, that the solution can only be generational.

“Love Destruction” was equally angry and equally prescient. “Love my hatred, love my treason It's what you wanted and that's my reason Caught you livin' the empty feeling A corporate handout to you is pleasing You love destruction”

The Party from all the way back in 1992. Were you not listening? youtu.be/8snFF8FSTxU?...

Blimey, Camilla Tominey seems to be a fairly awful human #newsnight. Never encountered the lady before this evening, hope to continue in that vein in future.

Oh, and I managed to slam the fingers of my left hand in the armour plating of a tank “window”. I was very accident-prone as a kid.

10 years old I managed to close one of the old “slam-shut” British Rail train doors while one hand was still gripping the door frame (I had to lean out to grab the handle). Right thumb burst like a little tomato and I sat holding the wreckage in a tissue all the way back from London to Three Bridges

“I just want to watch ballet, Let the swans dance.” Just discovered this Russian song from 3 years ago. If only this strength of feeling could be translated into something substantive in that oppressive pit of hopelessness.

I’m beginning to realise nostalgia doesn’t make me happy. The state of humanity in 2025 stains everything, even my own memories, with self-centred, I’m-alright-Jack, wilfully ignorant selfishness. Looking back doesn’t comfort me. It leaves me angry at how easily we were satisfied, how little it took

Time for my semi-regular promotion of TraffickCam, an app which helps to identify locations where abuse & trafficking has occurred. All you need to do is upload pics of your hotel room. traffickcam.com please use and RT.

With the most recent zero day in Google Chrome (466192044), we hit an uncomfortable milestone. 100 zero day vulnerabilities in 2025 so far. Equalling the full year figure for 2024. One more and 2025 becomes the busiest year on record. I don’t think anyone is seriously betting against that outcome.

Who knows the legal outcome, but it’s certainly worth heading over to twitter.new to claim your handle… #BackWithYourEx

Every time I think I have seen the limit of cyber “expert” bios, someone proves me wrong. This is not about gatekeeping. It is about integrity, honesty and transparency in a field where people make decisions that really matter.

Never a dull moment with Mister Cluley, and his Smashing Security podcast ❤️

Winter salad ❤️

Winter salad ❤️

Dear America, I have tried your “chocolate” and it is awful. So bad that I completely fail to grasp why Hallowe’en ever even took off in the US. Do better.

Anthropic’s report is being called the first AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage campaign. For many it’s the moment the alarm bell was finally audible. For me, it’s different: the moment a warning I’ve been giving since 2017 stopped being “nightmare scenario” panel fodder & started leading the news.

Lars Ulrich is definitely one of the drummers of all time.

Xi-phoon or Xi-clone? It’s so difficult to tell them apart. Salt, Volt, Flax, Silk; they all rely on Xiploits. Remember, just because something is not “required” doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it.

TAFKNAP - The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince.

Our team at Forescout has discovered multiple new vulnerabilities in TP-Link routers. You may have noticed an uncredited vulnerability disclosure from TP-Link yesterday, that was us. Several additional vulnerabilities are still in the disclosure process and will be detailed in upcoming publications.

Well this seems pretty huge! www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

AWS

I almost sliced off the tip of my finger with a breadknife the other day. It’s given me a great idea for Hallowe’en canapés though. #finger_food

1981, the year of antmusic, is now as far behind us at 1937 was in 1981… Damn.

PromptLock. Was. An. Academic. PoC. Not. An. AI. Revolution. In. Cybercrime. Stop putting it in your blogs and presentations. Thank you for your attention to this matter ;)

But, will the Conservatives give everyone (except “illegals” fkors) a free puppy “if they win the next election?

If you edit for a security title and you follow me, I’ve a new column looking for a home: Operational Truth. Accuracy is a security property. It’s practical: exposure SLOs, drift measurement and enforced controls. and it has a funky Stranger Things tie-in. Want it as a contributed piece? DM me.

Terminal 2 at Prague airport is currently evacuated

Post you from a different era. Describe that era. Sep 1992, Buckinghamshire. 22 & graduated. In a recession so couldn’t find a job, so I worked in my local boozer and lived up in the roof. Life was very good. After this I went to live in Paris and work in a bookshop.

Hello weekend ❤️

Boarding at Heathrow is still hit and miss after the recent #ransomware attack against Collins Aerospace . Some gates are working. Some gates are still operating manual boarding procedures. Be prepared for delays.