Reposted by Dave AitelCasey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Gordon 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." 322364423
Reposted by Dave AitelVern McCandlish @malanalysis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Wow www.dragos.com/blog/dragos-...dragos.comMeeting the Market and Mission Moment with a Multi-Billion Dollar xOT Cybersecurity Platform and TeamRobert M. Lee on Dragos's agreement with Accenture, what it means for customers, and why the OT cybersecurity mission stays independent. 021
Reposted by Dave AitelCatalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 18/06/2026Microsoft 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... 095
Reposted by Dave AitelRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/05/2026What 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...youtube.comWhat if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?YouTube video by xkcd's What If? 371452260
Reposted by Dave AitelXBOW @xbow.com · 26/05/2026Find 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 021
Reposted by Dave AitelAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026NEW: 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.comThe AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms RaceAs attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly. 1115
Reposted by Dave Aitelmichaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Scientists 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. 27866261380
Reposted by Dave AitelLauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜 277189385173
Reposted by Dave AitelMary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 21/05/2026David 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.youtube.comAlaska needs leaders willing to stand up to the trawling lobby #davidattenborough #trawling #fishYouTube video by Mary Peltola 402041745
Reposted by Dave AitelJoe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 21/05/2026There was only one way to end THE BOYS properly and that was to tease a sequel series THE BOYS II: MEN. 1172
Reposted by Dave AitelDistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026DistrictCon 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.youtube.comIan Levy (Keynote) : From protecting a country to security guard in a bookshopYouTube video by DistrictCon 0410
Reposted by Dave AitelDistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Feb. 6-7, 2027 | See you there 🪩✌️ 1147
Reposted by Dave AitelAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A gallery of army ants.alexanderwild.comArmy Ants and Other Nomads - Alex WildSeveral lineages of ants in the warmer regions of the world have evolved a lifestyle of nomadic predation. 2349
Reposted by Dave AitelPatrick Gray @patrick.risky.biz · 08/05/2026If 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/youtu.beMythos smythos! How to find 0day with lesser modelsYouTube video by Risky Business Media 3207
Reposted by Dave AitelAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Date: 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. 1531262
Reposted by Dave AitelAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/04/2026There's something reassuring about the fact that one of the oldest ant websites on the internet, the Japanese Ant Image Database, is still online.ant.miyakyo-u.ac.jpJapanese Ant Image Database 48019
Reposted by Dave AitelMichelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Gorgeous, Giant Pacific octopus off Vancouver Island: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu... 18731117
Reposted by Dave AitelAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It’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 96155273054
Reposted by Dave AitelLyle 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.apple.newsAntarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishingHuge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem 20695271
Reposted by Dave AitelOlogies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 03/04/2026GLAMOROUS 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...media.tenor.coma close up of a sea slug with the words viralhog written on the bottomAlt: 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 1117330
Reposted by Dave Aitelmorrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I 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. 1225238
Reposted by Dave AitelXBOW @xbow.com · 02/04/2026AI 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 012
Reposted by Dave AitelTautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026It'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... 1/35tautology.org.ukLLM Image Generation: Space – Tautology’s Blog 143
Reposted by Dave AitelAcid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026A 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 31739135
Reposted by Dave AitelDavid DiMolfetta @ddimolfetta.bsky.social · 24/03/2026At 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.comGoogle 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. 166
Reposted by Dave AitelSchmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 23/03/2026We 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! 191434363
Reposted by Dave AitelJeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 23/03/2026Hear, 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. 0153
Reposted by Dave AitelJoe Slowik @pylos.co · 22/03/2026Sucks 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. 161
Reposted by Dave AitelJeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 21/03/2026Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...wsbtv.comAtlanta company fetches nearly $1 million investment to grow pack of robotic security dogsInvestors include Flock Safety, South Downtown, Perennial Properties and Balfour Residential, among others. 061
Reposted by Dave AitelCynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 21/03/2026There 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. 032
Reposted by Dave AitelIgnacio 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.”nbcnews.comChildren's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detentionWearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating. 172178659
Reposted by Dave AitelCEO of Beckett Mariner @kariizumi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that 61214875233
Reposted by Dave Aiteljoeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Industrial 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.comCenturies of whaling left lasting genetic scars on Arctic whalesBowhead whales survived thousands of years of climate change, but human hunting caused damage that still continues today. 33815325
Reposted by Dave AitelAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The Trump regime has functionally frozen the National Science Foundation, effectively removing the largest source of funding for scores of scientific fields. 310349
Reposted by Dave AitelDolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 16/03/2026ChatGPT: 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 353814720
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026openai.com/index/why-co... a Monday morning blogpost for your perusal and enjoyment !openai.comWhy Codex Security Doesn’t Include a SAST ReportA 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. 021
Reposted by Dave AitelAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/03/2026A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas. 11547119
Reposted by Dave AitelArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 12/03/2026arstechnica.comLive Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"Unsealed messages add wrinkle to trial after US agreed to settle with Live Nation. 05818
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026There'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.systemselections.cordyceps.systemsElection Projection 20262026 Election Projection — data-driven forecasts for Senate and House races 112
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I think people really do underestimate time travel debugging 150
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Right 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.... 161
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Re//verse is a great conference. All the right ppl. Great talks. Easy venue. 040