I’d say Elon is now furiously googling SQL but we all know he isn’t.
A) stay classy Elon
B) the government uses SQL
I definitely recommend posting about what is happening in the US on LinkedIn as you will quickly learn many of the largest security vendors are staffed by people who have no interest in protecting people, while posting with their employers names.
Me: posts CTI assessment by an org, which a federal judge has since backed.
Bros at Akamai and other vendors:
A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
Elon Musk has spent the past few years pushing far right nonsense and publicly endorsing in prison hate figure Tommy Robinson and the AfD - very widely considered to be Nazis.
LinkedIn: all autistic people are like this!!1!
Trump proposes Elon Musk buys TikTok, with the US government as 50% co-owner. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-21/trump-says-he-s-open-to-musk-or-ellison-purchasing-tiktok
Killed by the ultimate boss, server crashed.
I'm 6 hours into this Arma match, delivering supplies via truck and now heli. I really need to pee.
Another reminder to uninstall Honey. They’re down 3 million users in the Chrome store, it should be 0 million. https://youtu.be/EAx_RtMKPm8
Mastodon isn't perfect.
But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use,
has no venture capital investors,
has no shareholders to answer to,
has no growth targets,
with a web interface with zero cookies,
and mobile apps with zero trackers at all
with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety
is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in.
Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.
A kinda interesting thing about the BlueSky outage for hours today is it’s supposed to be a decentralised network - but it centrally failed. Try taking down Mastodon. You can’t. It’s actually decentralised.
“Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month.”
Don’t buy Ford cars.
https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising
Apparently Transport for London are dealing with a cyber security incident.
It’s buried on their website, not on the front page or news sections. https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/cyber-security-incident
#threatintel
Since it’s come up again - if you use new Outlook and Mail in Windows 11, it automatically syncs all your email and contacts into Microsoft’s cloud - even if you use a third party mail provider.
There’s no option to decline.
Pretty obviously, consider the risk.
Chair of the Russian Security Council casually threatening George Clooney.
❓ 😅
Okay I knew Opera browser was bad but I had no idea how crazy the situation was until reading this.
nostr:npub1nyqeg55nq5eudx30py8fgff82ensxt9j063w6chkzu4leyfjygwsr3vvvs they just have to absolutely suck less than Bing to stay in business
I ponder if Microsoft's engineers are following the SQLite code of ethics, since they're using it in Windows OS with Copilot+ Recall? :D
