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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 26/09/2026

Saw Fanta’s AI slop advert at the cinema, booooooooooo It’s laughably bad.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 13/09/2026

there's a 10% chance if you read this you will die in life buy my skeets

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 09/09/2026

I’ve used BBC News as my primary news source my entire life, but the absolute deluge of GenAI stories sourced from a small number of companies is turning me away. Today we’ve had 3 different YouTube videos, a headline news story, TV reports and at one stage recently every single technology story.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 27/08/2026

The very companies most likely to financially benefit from AI hype are hyping AI to line their pockets, day 1500.

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IWGB @iwgbunion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Don’t boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it: youtube.com/shorts/hhIES... T-shirt preorders open now! All proceeds from the t-shirts, which are ethically made and designed by us, will go towards the fired Rockstar workers’ legal funds. bit.ly/4xLc4IP

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Don't Boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it.

YouTube video by IWGB Union

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 17/08/2026

I just opened Twitter for the first time in several years and the thing I see is a full screen 'you must pay us' banner, lol

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

So, @annijyn.com just reminded me of the end of Labyrinth, and how politically/socially formative it was for me. Reject the patriarchy! Do not go with the charismatic man leader! Embrace the collective and your community of weirdos! Turn wrong uns into owls!

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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com · 13/08/2026

And now, a lesson on CEO-ing from Matthew Karch, CEO of Saber Interactive:

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Twitch - the popular gaming and IRL streaming platform - has announced it'll start training generative AI models on those livestreaming on the platform. bit.ly/4wYjQyQ

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 13/08/2026

Saber Interactive has been caught out using Generative AI in game production without disclosing so.. and then its CEO issued this unhinged statement to media going after the whistleblower. I'd recommend blocking Saber Interactive on Steam until the board fire this dude.

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Felicia Day @felicia.day · 12/08/2026

Only Nine More Days for The Guild Kickstarter! Trying to make the best 20th anniversary movie we can and get this awkward-ass group back together again. Your support at any $ level is appreciated! Can't wait to get to MAKING THIS MOVIE!!! watchtheguild.com

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Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oof, old supply chain attack from March resulting in cred compromise, but apparently the entire DB surfaced. Hope teams have completed remediation. Good luck to comms teams and *ISOs as some big names got dropped. @doublepulsar.com has a thread over on Mastodon. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...

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Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)

Attached: 1 image Massive leak of credentials and secrets at thousands of orgs where developers executed LiveLLM, terabytes of creds are circulating online now. Root cause = orgs adopting GenAI solu...

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

so im hearing asha sharma watched someone play TES 6 while a giant inflatable rat ran amok on the lawn outside

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NEW: CWA union members have inflated a giant rat and deployed a wall of red flags representing laid off Xbox workers outside the Bethesda office in Rockville. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who is apparently at the studio today.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 10/08/2026

Two things at play - ClickFix (website asks user to press Windows key + R, run a command) is *incredibly successful*, and just phoning the helpdesk and asking for password reset. The GenAI research stuff being pushed out by security and AI vendors is completely absent in the real world trenches.

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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s crazy to think this little girl’s dream was to log into Microsoft Authenticator 20 times a day and answer whether she’s “enjoying” outlook and would recommend it to friends Living the dream

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 07/08/2026

By me, at this.weekinsecurity.com: Microsoft wins "lamest vendor response" award at this year's Pwnie Awards, for publishing a blog post earlier this year threatening security researchers with legal action if they published zero-days. Also: Meta wins "epic fail" award after its Meta AI hijack bug.

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Microsoft wins 'lamest vendor' at Pwnie Awards 2026 for threatening security researchers with legal action

"This is a shame award. Don't forget to feel that shame."

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/08/2026

wait til you hear about industrial control systems and critical infrastructure

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 05/08/2026

OpenAI did a talk today at BlackHat about how important they are for being negligent without consequence essentially.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 04/08/2026

By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.

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Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 04/08/2026

If you're feeling bad about missing Blackhat or whatever cybersecurity convention is on the go, know I've never been to one, and it's essentially had zero relevance to me.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!

Sarah Kendzior making obvious points about authoritarian kleptocracy in the US under Trump on MSNBC in Nov 2016

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 31/07/2026

Only about 3 years to go until the future of gaming is here, folks! Gotta get my web3 NFT blockchain apes ready. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 30/07/2026

Brutal truth - US cybersecurity of essential services fucking sucks. There's water treatment centers etc all over Shodan, just search celluar phone network ranges. SCADA systems with WinVNC, you name it. Most of these providers have 2 IT people and no budget.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 30/07/2026

I uncovered incredibly widely used Adform embed was hacked and used to steal cryptocurrency via their customer’s websites. Adform still hasn’t told customers. doublepulsar.com/adform-compr...

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Adform compromised to serve crypto stealer via supply chain attack

Large web advertising firm serving crypto wallet stealer and C2 beacon traffic.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 30/07/2026

This is some good digging of Microsoft's financials by Paul - I didn't know MS were doing this. One of my old employers (not Microsoft) did extending depreciation on prior Capexs as they needed to invest but couldn't afford to. It was a major red flag and where things started to go wrong.

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Rachel Tobac @racheltobac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The new “⚠️Seems like AI slop” button on LinkedIn is sending me into orbit lmao

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 30/07/2026

A good AI control to prevent this kind of thing is law enforcement looking at OpenAI's actions with this incident. Giving every AI firm a blank cheque against the law is part of the problem.

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Interesting that almost all analysis of Xbox in freefall completely ignores an organized boycott intended to harm the company financially. Meanwhile, multiple news stories on the home page all month about PlayStation boycotts that haven't even happened yet.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 29/07/2026

Sense check for people working in cybersecurity in operations roles in the trenches: I’m not finding or seeing cyber incidents off the back of Generative AI still. Are you? Not ones you’ve read about online - I mean ones you’ve actually dealt with.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 29/07/2026

I still use Microsoft Recall. I think I might be the only person as it frequently breaks, the UI refuses to work, the snapshots break... today we have (another) model update where it stops taking snapshots until you happen to notice it and manually fix it. It's a very weird and unfinished product.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 29/07/2026

The business model of cybersecurity vendors has always been to fail up... but OpenAI have taken it a step further with 'we're criminals, hire us lols' as their (accepted, too) sales pitch.

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$ex Toilet the Ying Yang Man @redicnomad.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When I post anything online

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Everyone loves the cyclops Polyphemus and his famous defining feature: two eyes

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Amazing scene from The Odyssey recreated with AI.

The monster is speared in eye and looks incredible.

Scene shows a giant with two eyes

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 31/01/2026

Remember that time I ended up in court with Elon Musk after he bet me the cave diver was a pedo? Anyway, here’s Elon begging Jeffrey Epstein for crazy parties on his private island, several years after Epstein was convicted of sex trafficking girls.

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El Jefe Gone Dark Security @eljefe.social · 23/07/2026

People who say the model went rogue are playing into the narrative that openai was innocent in all this, and it is very telling what they think is safe & responsible AI It's sad, really, that we celebrate machines the pretend to think and sus of humans who still dare to try.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 23/07/2026

OpenAI are criminally negligent when it comes to cybersecurity, and are very good at viral marketing to executives via poor and uncritical media coverage.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 22/07/2026

GenAI is basically a bunch of companies in a circle wanking each other off

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 20/07/2026

Microsoft should really stop letting OEMs abuse automatic Windows Update driver installs like this. LG is now auto installing some crapware that shows a McAfee pop up 😵 www.theverge.com/tech/967983/...