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Dave Aitel

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gordon Ramsay: "Wow, nothing but maggoty bread? You think of Orcish cuisine, you think fresh, vibrant. It's like the chef has just given up, where's the passion, the anger? A taste of Mordor this isn't. What a shame. There isn't even any meat on this menu."
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Vern McCandlish @malanalysis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Wow www.dragos.com/blog/dragos-...
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Meeting the Market and Mission Moment with a Multi-Billion Dollar xOT Cybersecurity Platform and Team
Robert M. Lee on Dragos's agreement with Accenture, what it means for customers, and why the OT cybersecurity mission stays independent.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 18/06/2026
Microsoft has discovered a cryptocurrency clipper that is being spread via an USB worm and has a Tor-based C2 This is either an overengineered tool or North Korea www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/05/2026
What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! 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?
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XBOW @xbow.com · 26/05/2026
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: bit.ly/4dijSZS
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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...
wired.com
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.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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 @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 21/05/2026
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
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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 @districtcon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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
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DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Feb. 6-7, 2027 | See you there 🪩✌️
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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.
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Patrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz · 08/05/2026
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
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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.
Fine ants, six of them, the very best Crematogaster, in dorsal view feeding from a bright orange tropical flower.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Gorgeous, Giant Pacific octopus off Vancouver Island: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“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
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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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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a close up of a sea slug with the words viralhog written on the bottom
Alt: a close up of a black and white spotted sea slug (Bornella anguilla) with projections that look like flames, wavering in the currents on a piece of sea grass
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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 @xbow.com · 02/04/2026
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. bit.ly/4bNBgWT
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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026
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... 1/35
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LLM Image Generation: Space – Tautology’s Blog
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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 #rainforest
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David DiMolfetta @ddimolfetta.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
nextgov.com
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.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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 @jvagle.me · 23/03/2026
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 @pylos.co · 22/03/2026
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 @jvagle.me · 21/03/2026
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
wsbtv.com
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.
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 21/03/2026
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 @igallupd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“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.
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CEO of Beckett Mariner @kariizumi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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...
earth.com
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.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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 @theamitie.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
openai.com/index/why-co... 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.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.
Macro photograph of a pearly white to rose colored leaf beetle with a metallic green head, pronotum, and various lines and blobs on its back, standing on a grean leaf with a number of flower buds at upper left.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12/03/2026
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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.
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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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
elections.cordyceps.systems
Election Projection 2026
2026 Election Projection — data-driven forecasts for Senate and House races
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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A fantastic talk from markus at re//verse:
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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I think people really do underestimate time travel debugging
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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Re//verse is a great conference. All the right ppl. Great talks. Easy venue.
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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Re//verse 2026
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Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
openai.com/index/codex-...
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