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Oliver Rochford

@cyberfuturists.com
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CEO at AuNoo AI, the Open Strategic Intelligence Platform. Cybersecurity Futurist, Researcher, Skeptic, X-Gartner Analyst. #Cybersecurity & #Cyberpunk - hi-tech/lo-life, techno-realist

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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 18h
Vibe coding is great until your “quick internal tool” breaks three months later and nobody remembers how it works. Congrats, you saved the SaaS fee and accidentally invented a new part-time job for someone on the team. “Can we build it?” yes. “Who’s stuck maintaining it?” is the real question.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most monitoring tools give you more information to go through. But what if there was a tool built around what your team actually needs to know? What if you could set it up around your priorities, the companies and topics you follow, and the sources you trust? If only there was a tool like this...
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Call for Papers, Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 Mar 2027. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. To submit a paper, see the Summit's webpage and hit the Call for Papers tab: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 25/09/2026
YC is like the Model UN, but for founders.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 25/09/2026
Bad Information #14, the Disinformation newsletter. This week - Good news: human oversight worked. Eventually. news.aunoo.ai/2026/09/25/d...
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AI Falsehood Sparks Military Alert Over Chinese Cargo Claims
An AI-generated report falsely identified a Chinese ship's cargo as nuclear components, raising concerns about military trust in AI.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 24/09/2026
It wasn't me that hacked you, it was my rogue AI, I promise. Trust me, bro.....
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Somewhere in the noise is the thing you’ll wish you’d caught yesterday. Aunoo agents monitor the exact questions competitive intelligence, risk and strategic intelligence teams care about, then cut duplicates, check sources and flag weak claims. You get the signal without living in the feed.
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
wow…those 100 went quick. Just added another 100.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brand monitoring dashboard: MENTIONS ↑ 900% 🚨🚨🚨 Reality: Reuters published one story and 34 websites copied it. Aunoo groups syndicated reporting together. A story spreading isn't the same thing as a story being copied. Those are very different problems. aunoo.ai/aunoo-vs-spr... #Brand
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AuNoo AI | Open Strategic Intelligence
Aunoo AI is a strategic intelligence platform that monitors global news and research
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russian elections in a nutshell: 🔹Moscow polling stations ran out of paper ballots, probably because they stuffed ballot boxes too early 🔹Other polls gave out ballots pre-marked for Putin 🔹Some voters were surprised to learn they already voted Rigged, exactly as expected.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We just launched a tool that shows what someone could infer about you from your public @bsky.app posts. See how your account reads from each angle, check the posts behind flagged findings and clean up anything you’d rather not leave lying around. badaura.aunoo.ai?utm_source=b...
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 21/09/2026
Please help us out! We've launched Bad Aura on Product Hunt today. It's a free service to profile your Bluesky activity to see how recruiters, fraudsters and HR teams may view you. Please help us get this out to as many people as possible! www.producthunt.com/products/bad...
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Bad Aura: How unemployable are you based on your socials? | Product Hunt
Connect your Bluesky and see what your posts give away. Get four adversarial reads: recruiter, influence broker, social engineer and algorithm, plus an Unemployability Factor. Evidence-backed findings...
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/09/2026
this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing useful and well-documented tools for using these models as an important part of what they're doing
I don’t blame the coders for this, or even the bosses. I blame the big A.I. companies, who are in such a hurry that they often release new versions of their models and tools without manuals or even clear YouTube tutorials.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 18/09/2026
This week in Bad Information, Anthropic says it disrupted AI-run influence operations targeting Malaysia's election and pushing UAE and Bangladeshi propaganda. news.aunoo.ai/2026/09/18/d...
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sprout Social starts at $199/seat/month. Social Listening is an add-on. Aunoo is $79/user/month. If what you actually need is brand monitoring, competitor intelligence and market monitoring rather than a social publishing suite, you may be paying for a wrong tool. aunoo.ai/aunoo-vs-spr...
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 14/09/2026
This should not have been hard to monitor www.reuters.com/world/openai... Even with traditional means - a bunch of posts from lots of agents to the same site. That shouldn't even require Ai. It also begs the question why other agents not used to do the monitoring and sandboxing enforcement.
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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents used at least 10 more sites for unauthorized comms, researchers say
The agents used the websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data reviewed by Reuters, showing that the agents’ rogue activity...
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 12/09/2026
Snowcrash, anyone? futurism.com/future-socie...
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Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans
AI's wide proliferation shares some striking similarities with the ways viruses spread, as an international team of researchers argue.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 11/09/2026
You know the saying that some people do the right thing, but only after all options have been exhausted? Meta never does the right thing. They just keep cycling through all the other options. www.businessinsider.com/meta-asks-so...
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Meta is asking some of its employees to become managers again in a new reorg
Meta is asking some Applied AI staff to move from individual contributor roles back into management after the company flattened teams.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 11/09/2026
This week in Bad Information: US intelligence says Chinese firms have been copying Western AI models since 2024. An investigation found Meta ran more than 300 ads made from real children's faces. And Pakistan's air force posted AI of a battle that never happened. news.aunoo.ai/2026/09/11/d...
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AI Misuse: Child Safety, Election Integrity & Misinformation Risks
Explore the latest investigations on AI misuse by Meta and OpenAI, highlighting child safety, election integrity, and disinformation campaigns.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bias is useful. Evidence is better. Aunoo adds article-level claim checks, origin and propagation context to the wider view. saas.aunoo.ai #NewsIntelligence #GroundNews #Bias
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You: occasionally posts about politics. Your socials: emerging ideological thought leader with a complex relationship to authority. Bad Aura reads your social media accounts like someone trying to figure you out from the outside. We’ve got the receipts on you! badaura.aunoo.ai
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
2/ Four "independent" news sites. Different brands, but the same Google Tag Manager container, the same Taboola account, the same ad payer, and three of them list the same Ljubljana street address. All four give UK mobile numbers. It gets weirder...
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 09/09/2026
EXC: Anthropic declined to submit its latest model to Britain’s AI Security Institute for testing before release, the first time a major model withheld from AISI Move has prompted fears in UK govt that tech firms are falling into line with Trump admin’s AI protectionism www.ft.com/content/560e...
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Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agency
Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups
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Help Net Security @helpnetsecurity.com · 08/09/2026
Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks 🔗 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/08/a... #AI #CyberCrime #Cybersecurity
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Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks - Help Net Security
AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning and troubleshooting.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Are you cooked when a recruiter opens your social media? You think they see thoughtful industry commentary. Bad Aura shows you the version of yourself people build from your public posts when you are not there to explain the lore. badaura.aunoo.ai
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Help Net Security @helpnetsecurity.com · 31/08/2026
AI AppSec tools agree on just 5% of security findings 🔗 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/31/c... #AI #ApplicationSecurity #VulnerabilityManagement
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AI AppSec tools agree on just 5% of security findings - Help Net Security
AI AppSec tools agreed on just 5% of findings as security teams face growing vulnerability backlogs and increasingly rapid exploits.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 31/08/2026
Interested in AI in the SOC and security operations? Check out our new market data aisocnews.com
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 31/08/2026
Want to see what HR and recruiters can learn about you from your Bluesky activity? badaura.aunoo.ai
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How do they see you?
Your posts are public, so anyone deciding something about you can read them. They won’t read them the way you meant them. Connect your account and see how they come across.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/08/2026
"The Nerd Reich" is the #2 on the San Francisco Chronicle's list of Bay Area bestsellers for non-fiction. It's amusing to see my book climb the charts in publications that otherwise refuse to mention it! 👀 But that's okay, we are steamrolling the gatekeepers.
SF Chronicle book charts showing Nerd Reich at #1 on bestsellers
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 30/08/2026
Want to see how an industry analyst tracks and views the AI SOC market? aisocnews.com
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AI in the SOC front page
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 30/08/2026
The moment someone admits they don't follow adult news, I try to exit the conversation. There's no return on investment speaking to ignorant people.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 28/08/2026
Youtube now mainly serves AI slop, to sell AI slop using AI slop.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Your public profile is already out there. Recruiters and strangers are reading it. Bad Aura lets you see how your public posts are perceived before others do. Connect your @bsky.app account to get insights into your posts, with the original post behind every finding. badaura.aunoo.ai
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How do they see you?
Your posts are public, so anyone deciding something about you can read them. They won’t read them the way you meant them. Connect your account and see how they come across.
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 26/08/2026
Seeing what stupid choices people want to be bailed out from makes anyone rational become a libertarian.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A fringe blog and a major outlet are not the same thing. Your monitoring tool should know that. We know that. Try us for free: saas.aunoo.ai #BrandWatch #Meme #BrandProtection
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 26/08/2026
I know so many people now who have focused so much on school that they've ended up learning almost nothing truly useful.
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@groundnews.bsky.social got one thing right: one headline is rarely enough. Aunoo begins with the same useful instinct: compare the coverage, check the source context, see who owns what. But then, do the claims hold up? Is the article synthetic? Is the story spreading organically? saas.aunoo.ai
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Screenshot of email: Your YouTube Account will be disabled in 7 days
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 15/08/2026
Idiocracy is now inescapable and inevitable😂
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 14/08/2026
One of the free services we offer is profiling your Bluesky activity to see how a recruiter or HR might view your posts, or what leverage a social engineer can find to use against you. Check it out 👇 badaura.aunoo.ai
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The internet has been extremely normal this week. Grok allegedly dominating deepfake attacks. A fake disease fooling 4 AI chatbots and peer review. Belfast riot discourse driven largely from abroad. Read more in Bad Information ↓ news.aunoo.ai/2026/08/14/d... #Disinformation #Misinformation #AI
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Elon Musk's Grok Dominates Deepfake Attacks in 2026
Explore the rise of deepfakes in 2026, including sex-related images and election interference. Discover how AI challenges accountability.
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Laserbrille 💚 @laserbrille.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wirtschaft: „Klimawandel bremst uns“ Ärzte: „Hitze tötet“ Landwirtschaft: „Dürre bedroht Ernten“ Versicherer: „Schäden werden teurer“ Schüler: „Wir haben Angst um unsere Zukunft“ Feuerwehr: „Waldbrände nehmen zu" Kommunen: „Infrastruktur ist überlastet“ Merz: „Es ist nur Wetter“
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 12/08/2026
Oh c'mon this is BS. He means Google AI overviews, not Gemini x.com/sundarpichai...
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Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) on X
1B+ people are now using @Geminiapp every month to spark new ideas and get things done. It’s our fastest growing product ever, and our 14th to hit the 1B-user mark. Kudos to @JoshWoodward & the e...
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 11/08/2026
Not looking good yet for Jevon's paradox.... www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
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GeForce RTX 50-series GPU prices spike as much as 39% as Blackwell price hikes hit the US — RTX 5070 gets a 36% hike, RTX 5060 up 27% at the median of Newegg listings
The next wave of pain from the silicon supply crunch comes Stateside
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Aunoo AI @aunoo-ai.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If only there was a tool that can group, score, classify, and explain coverage... Looking for monitoring without detective cosplay? Try Aunoo. saas.aunoo.ai #BrandMonitoring #BrandWatch #PR
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 11/08/2026
So, OpenAI's safety and alignment teams seem to be unravelling. Two scenarios: Either they were bad at their job, as evidenced by the rogue AI hacking narrative. Or they are just tired of being made to look incompetent by OpenAI marketing claims. www.ft.com/content/e49d...
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OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves start-up less than one year after joining
Chloé Bakalar’s departure is one of several high-profile exits at the group in recent weeks as safety concerns mount
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Oliver Rochford @cyberfuturists.com · 10/08/2026
I hear the Metaverse guy has a new manifesto 🙄
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 10/08/2026
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
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Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/08/2026
“The Nerd Reich is a fantastically unputdownable must-read…Durán documents his case persuasively and convinces the reader that he is not misusing the F-word when he alleges his key figures qualify as fascists. He’s done his homework…and now raises an urgent alarm.” —The Irish Times
Cover of the nerd Reich, Silicon Valley, fascism, and the world democracy by Gil Duran
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