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Dean Pierce

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Security Research in Portland, Oregon #HackThePlanet 🧑‍💻🌎🌍🌏

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8h
Getting Signal up and running on your phone only takes a couple minutes. If you've already got it set up, take a minute to help your friends, too. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...
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404 Media @404media.co · 9h
Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.
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Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds
Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.
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Dean Pierce @deanpierce.net · 9h
Finally. cc: @peterwatts.bsky.social www.techtimes.com/articles/324...
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World's First Brain-Cell Server Rack Opens in Singapore: Neurons Expire in Six Months
Wetware computing reaches a commercial data center for the first time: Singapore’s first biological server rack opened August 17, running on 16 million living human neurons across 20 Cortical Labs CL1...
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 29/09/2026
I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic.
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nyx @nyx.ms · 30/09/2026
getting the robot to golf my resume PDF into as few bytes as possible
big wall of screenshot text from the LLM coding harness, describing what it stripped out of the PDF, then its explanation that the contents plus embedded font are ~8.5KB and we can't get much smaller without degrading the font, to which i reply

"degrading the font... tell me more 🫦"

afterwards, the bot is Thinking
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h
This isn’t a joke, by the way. You can see the misspelling of United States on the document Trump pushed out on Truth Social:
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Truth Social
Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.
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Oregon Plates @plat.es · 28/09/2026
The Custom Oregon Plate ERROR was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=cu… #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #ERROR
Oregon Standard Tree license plate displaying the text "ERROR".
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Nurse Ratched @nurseratched64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 27/09/2026
JADEPUFFEr, the AI-powered ransomware group, is destroying Azure environments as part of its extortion campaigns, most likely to put pressure on victims www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
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Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft details JADEPUFFER-linked Azure reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access using compromised service principals, identifying the activity as associated with Storm-3168 and prov...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 27/09/2026
Single attacker steals $2.25 million from three crypto projects in the "Artificial Superintelligence Alliance" September 20, 2026 www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=fetcha…
Single attacker steals $2.25 million from three crypto projects in the "Artificial Superintelligence Alliance"
One attacker stole crypto tokens from three cryptocurrency projects that are part of what's called the "Artificial Superintelligence Alliance" — a group of crypto projects "dedicated to decentralized Artificial General Intelligence". The attack occurred within just one day, netting around $2.25 million in actual profits, though the stolen tokens were notionally priced considerably higher.
Most of the profits came from stolen FET tokens, which are linked to Fetch.ai. The attacker was also able to perform unauthorized mints of various tokens, crashing their prices but earning the attacker little in the way of profits. Security researchers noticed that attackers stole assets from sixteen wallets spanning the three companies, suggesting they had significant access to all three companies' systems. Almost $290,000 was taken from a contract used for company payroll.
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Hoosier Homer is reading With Zeal & With Bayonet Only by Spring @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
gallon of pcp is mandatory
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Gallon Of Pcp Wkuk
ALT: Gallon Of Pcp Wkuk
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/09/2026
Oops. www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exp...
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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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Aleks @fuzzyaleks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You bet it’s an stm32 clone!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
“Based on location coordinates from Flock’s own database, the map shows more than 170,000 cameras, plus more than 130,000 accompanying gadgets that play a part in the company’s expansive American surveillance network.”
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Flock Wants The Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants it taken down.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump is consider building Chinese EVs in US, per NBC
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/09/2026
🤘🌐 “Everybody! Everybody!” Homestar Runner has barely changed! Launched in 2000, the beloved web cartoon site has kept its decidedly retro look, so today’s homepage could easily be mistaken for a page from the Flash era. Explore web history with the Wayback Machine ➡️ web.archive.org
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" then "HOMESTARRUNNER.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Homestar Runner web page from October 15, 2000, and September 13, 2026.
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DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All systems are go for DEF CON Singapore 2! We’re excited to announce our return to Singapore 4-6 March, 2027. We’ll be opening online registration soon. Please save the date and follow us here and at defcon.social for all the latest news. See you soon. #defcon #defconsingapore #DCSG2
DEF CON Singapore 2
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/09/2026
“I think everybody knows that a free press is kind of vital to democracy, right? Don't you think?” **applause** Watch @johncusack.bsky.social highlight the importance of freedom of the press on The Tonight Show Starring @jimmyfallon.bsky.social.
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Radicle @radicle.dev · 24/09/2026
Bad news. We have to inform you about security vulnerabilities in the network protocol that Radicle nodes use to communicate amongst each other. radicle.dev/2026/09/23/d...
radicle.dev
Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 24/09/2026
The OpenAI hack of Australia's Medicare is a watershed moment in the history of the internet and the perfect time to improve your sales strategies! Here's 10 ways you can do it (1/11)
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Dean Pierce @deanpierce.net · 23/09/2026
Happy Fall everyone 🍂
Just a another peaceful day in the fall. Also witnessing societal collapse.
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hailey @hailey.at · 23/09/2026
P(doom) - Nightcore Remix
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 23/09/2026
For years, Signal has required a phone number to register for an account. That’s all changing. You can now pay a small fee for an account with no phone number. Read about it in our digital security newsletter, and subscribe.
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Signal introduces registration without a phone number
One of Signal’s most sought-after features is now available to Android beta users
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Dean Pierce @deanpierce.net · 23/09/2026
Love this, overview of the Barrow Scale, a sort of inverse of the Kardashev Scale. What do civilizations start to look like as they increase their mastery over the very small? youtu.be/QW_jlUn4gA8
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This Is What a Godlike Civilization Would Look Like
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. Here's what we learned: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...
404media.co
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/09/2026
“Why is Trump in such a huge hurry to turn the White House and Washington DC into a fortress optimized for murdering people in the vicinity?” is one of those questions that answers itself with just the briefest moment of reflection.
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Dean Pierce @deanpierce.net · 20/09/2026
In a not too distant possible future, the machines are instrumenting and training humans to maximize alignment, and sterilizing deviant bloodlines that misbehave.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is the AI in the room with us now? All joking aside, this is terrifying. Every "school shooting prevented by AI" means some number of other children not planning school shootings targeted by AI who were also traumatized by the FBI.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 20/09/2026
Ax: a Kubernetes-like orchestrator for agents, from Google why something new? because agents have unique demands. They’re stateful, long lived, don’t necessarily have a result (like jobs), need reliably low latency, and often need to be paused & later resumed github.com/google/ax
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GitHub - google/ax: Google's open agentic orchestrator
Google's open agentic orchestrator. Contribute to google/ax development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Particle board, particle board There’s a big pile on the office floor What in the world are we saving it for? Nobody knows Particle board
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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 18/09/2026
Vanadium version 153.0.8010.52.0 released: github.com/GrapheneOS/V... See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread: discuss.grapheneos.org/d/42105-vana... #GrapheneOS #privacy #security
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Release 153.0.8010.52.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium
Changes in version 153.0.8010.52.0: update to Chromium 153.0.8010.52 A full list of changes from the previous release (version 153.0.8010.47.0) is available through the Git commit log between the...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/09/2026
With Rayhunter, we can find out how cell site simulators are being used, and protect ourselves and our communities from this form of surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators
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Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca · 18/09/2026
Screenshots of the Philip Morris website. (reminder: they're a leading cigarette company) It's a good calibration point for how good modern marketing is at dressing up pretty much any corporate (or, for that matter, government) behavior and making it sound responsible and safe.
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Eris @isolyth.dev · 16/09/2026
You can now buy a signal account with no phone #! It's just 3 dollars! This is great for agents and stuff since now you don't have to try and get a phone number just so your agent can text you on signal :D
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Beta feedback for the upcoming Android 8.28 release
We’re releasing the Signal 8.28 beta soon. If you’re interested in participating, join the beta group here. Share your feedback on the latest changes: Now you can optionally register for Signal wit...
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chrisb @boscolo.co · 17/09/2026
Good to see Signal decouple from phone numbers. Is a one time fee of $3 enough to prevent spammers from registering Signal accounts? 👀
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...
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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...
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Oregon Plates @plat.es · 17/09/2026
The Custom Oregon Plate UNSENT was available, but is now reserved. dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=cu… #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #UNSENT
Oregon Standard Tree license plate displaying the text "UNSENT".
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Reporters were barred from recording video” — Um What? PSA: The moment you obeyed that command you stopped being “reporters” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
blog post from deepseek kernel engineer mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zk0KxuLzhm...
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runZero (Official Account) @runzero.com · 14/09/2026
Missed the runZero & GigaOm discussion on hardening OT defenses? 🎥 Catch the recording to learn how to secure converged IT/OT surfaces and see every asset, every exposure, and every attack path without crashing sensitive #OT hardware. 👉️ Watch here: www.runzero.com/resources/se...
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Dean Pierce @deanpierce.net · 14/09/2026
Man looks like Burning Man was wild this year 🔥
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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy @emma.best · 14/09/2026
Chidi from the Good Place with his pot of chili. The caption says "mental health crises are like tigers, they are bad"
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 12/09/2026
NEW: 56 public figures & content creators with a combined follower count of over 46 Million demand that Lowe’s Home Improvement & Home Depot terminate contracts with Flock Safety & remove all ALPR cameras from store locations.
Black graphic with text that reads ‘influencers tell Lowe and Home Depot : drop flock! ‘It is absolutely unacceptable for hardware stores like yours to profit daily off of immigrant day laborers while allowing their data to be shared with hostile organizations that want to cause them harm. The letter reads. There is a blurred bavkground showing a white page with yellow font that’s large above text that says ‘the letter’
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Oregon Plates @plat.es · 12/09/2026
The Custom Oregon Plate FROGS was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=cu… #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #FROGS
Oregon Standard Tree license plate displaying the text "FROGS".
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 12/09/2026
• NVIDIA DGX Spark (AI-focused PC) • Gemini Spark (AI agent) • Meta Muse Spark (LLM) can someone please inform these companies that there is more than one noun available to them
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/09/2026
Semaphore xkcd.com/3295/
Comic. [Two identical machines face each other with a gap between them. Each is mounted on a box with a cable connecting it off-panel, webcams pointed at each other, and two flags at different angles that can move.] [caption] Networking tip: Separate sensitive components with a semaphore gap.
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Dean Pierce @deanpierce.net · 10/09/2026
Love this so much 😆
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