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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 19h
Found a fossil in the wild.
Boarding gateZooming in and finding Windows XP.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 17h
Why isn’t this illegal?
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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lazarusholic @lazarusholic.bsky.social · 17h
"August 2026 Threat Trend Report on APT Attacks (South Korea)" published by Ahnlab. #Kimsuky, #Phishing, #LNK, #GitHub, #AutoIt, #XenoRAT, #Hangul, #PubNub asec.ahnlab.com/en/95649
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August 2026 Threat Trend Report on APT Attacks (South Korea)
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 17h
-Two UK telcos under investigation for renting numbers to scammers -US Air Force members sentenced to prison for scams: -Vietnamese charged for pig-butchering scams -npm malware adds users to WhatsApp channels -New batch of malicious Chrome extensions -Ransomware sees dip during Xmas
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 17h
-Sanctions impact TLS certs in Iran, Russia -ShinyHunters member arrested in the Netherlands -Apple fixes iOS zero-day found by Meta -Citrix zero-days see mass exploitation within hours -Hackers exploit security product in Bitget hack P: risky.biz/RBNEWS617/ N: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excited to be chosen as Leader of the @greens.org.au, together with @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social as Deputy Leader. Now is the time to build the Greens as the home for all who want climate action, a fair return on our resources, a secure home and income, and to not sell out to the US or the 1%.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 29/09/2026
If you're still running iOS, iPadOS, or macOS 26 (which is still the majority of Apple users!) then update today: Apple says hackers may be abusing a bug to target some users' devices. Bypass for ad-block users: web.archive.org/web/20260929...
techcrunch.com
Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs for this urgent security fix | TechCrunch
Apple says the bug was used to attack "specific targeted individuals" running iOS 26, which the majority of Apple customers are still using.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Australian government's defence of the social media ban in the high court revealed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australian government concedes no scientific consensus on social media harms for teenagers – but ‘credible risks’ justify ban
Commonwealth tells high court its proposed laws to let users opt out of algorithms would ultimately have the same effect as the ban
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
what they don't say is that our noble cyber warfighters, oh whoops sorry i mean "cyber defenders", could also just use these same open models to report vulnerabilities without Anthropic gatekeeping everything for their own financial gain
In the first of these sessions, a researcher used GLM-5.3 on a sandboxed machine with a local Linux build of a popular web browser. Over the course of a day (and with limited human attention), GLM-5.3 found several previously unknown vulnerabilities in the browser’s JavaScript engine, and chained them together into a working exploit: a webpage that, when visited, reads arbitrary files from the visitor’s computer (shown in Figure 3). This exploit targets the Linux build of
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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 29/09/2026
...so basically what's happened previously, but now with MAXIMUM LETHALITY or some nonsense
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 29/09/2026
Meta pulled down Brazilian President Lula's Facebook page and blocked his campaign from running political ads but allows paid ads calling for a military coup It also didn't take down any of the right-wing disinformation campaigns reported in August novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/f...
novaramedia.com
Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Just Days Before Brazil Election
Meta briefly disabled ads on the Facebook page of Brazil’s leftwing president on Friday – just days before he faces a far-right challenger in national elections.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quick question: do you think the government has yanked the files they claimed they didn’t want OpenAI’s agents accessing that were sitting on the forward facing server of the health data portal yet? Or…?
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Cin (they/them) @skyalin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not a chance. Hasn't been time for CAB to meet 😒
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 29/09/2026
Two days until everyone becomes hyper aware of cybersecurity
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 29/09/2026
📢 The senior web developer for the premier’s department has appealed against the decision to suspend him without pay.
smh.com.au
Public servant faces sack over fake timesheets and porn allegations
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sensitive data on all FBI employees included in hack www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
nytimes.com
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
Hey everyone remember how I was saying the AI X-risk criti-hype is a targeted project designed to kill regulations and further ensure an impatient rush on data centre contsruction www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say
Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
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Ryan Roat @ryanroat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am married to a public school classroom teacher. She's been doing this for nearly 35 years. Yes, she is extraordinary.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The war you supported
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀 PS. Are you a technology worker in Australia who's struggling to find a job? If you're interested in sharing your experience, or just want to vent, drop me a line by secure email: tomwilliams.contact@protonmail.com
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a juicy story
theage.com.au
NGV’s former IT chief accused of $8 million fraud from gallery
The National Gallery of Victoria’s former head of IT is accused of issuing hundreds of fake invoices over a number of years to steal $8 million from the institution.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 28/09/2026
-Intel ends paid bug bounties -OpenAI agents probed dozens of organizations -Fraudsters use AI to scam €95m from an Italian bank -Bitget hacked for $350m -Hackers breach Poland's Medyc platform -Data breach at the Pentagon DMDC N: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet... P: risky.biz/RBNEWS616/
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scoop: A controversial Sydney data centre project that was proposed to be built 20 metres from houses has been withdrawn by its developer, citing "changes in the regulatory environment." with Ange Lavoipierre www.abc.net.au/news/...
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Australian Government gonna use AI to write legislation? Have some self-respect.
screenshot of a contract notice listed on AusTender that shows Office of Parliamentary Counsel paying $44,000 to Larrison Pty Ltd for "in-house Legislative Drafting Tool Proof of Concept"
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 27/09/2026
Good thing all this unauthorized computer access is somehow not illegal and magically nobody is criminally liable for it or it would be really expensive and professionally damaging! www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-ant…
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026
Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.
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Faav @faav.net · 25/09/2026
How I Could've Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records blog.faav.net/how-i-couldv... :)
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How I Could’ve Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records
How one unchecked login token put 17 trillion rows in a Microsoft internal analytics service within reach.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can't wait to see this.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It feels as though Jacinta Allan’s unwavering support for data centre expansion was the nail in the coffin that ended her political career. And community voices were key www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Victoria was ‘ruthless’ in its quest to become the datacentre capital of Australia. Why has it hit the brakes?
With community concerns about datacentres becoming impossible to ignore, the state Labor government has changed course
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This man has gotten more done in 9 months in office than most politicians achieve in their ENTIRE CAREERS all with that extreme good-muppet energy and that's why everybody else can't stand him because he gets it done, has receipts to back his words, and then just moves on to the next.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 26/09/2026
The only moat remaining is integrity.
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 26/09/2026
The first ‘Copilot’ got coded by a guy at GitHub. Then he got handcuffed by cops for strangling a woman Turns out she wasn’t the first he dated and strangled. Others posted their experience Alex Graveley is his name. He now works at UFO.ai See (1) his face (2) arrest warrant (3) thread on Copilot
Mugshot of Alex (Balabhadra) GraveleyArrest Warrant for Assault Strangulation. 

Here is the graphic description:

Balabhadra pushed [] onto the bed and she stated that she was on her back and Balabhadra got on top of her with his knees holding down her shoulders.
[] said that Balabhadra was squeezing her neck with both of his hands and causing her pain. [] said that the pressured used by Balabhadra was impairing her breathing and she could not breathe for a couple of seconds. [] told officers that she was able to get Balabhadra off of her by hitting and scratching him.

[] stated that after she broke free from Balabhadra they began arguing again in the hallway and Balabhadra grabbed her throat again with both hands and he began squeezing. [] told officers that they were facing each other and the pressure that Balabhadra was applying to her neck was hurting her and making it difficult to breathe. [] was eventually able to break free and she ran into a room downstairs.

When [] went into the downstairs bedroom Balabhadra followed her like before and he used his knees to hold her shoulders down. Balabhadra started to squeeze []’s neck again with both hands, and she was crying. Balabhadra eventually stoped and left the house. 

[] told officers she has pain on her throat, jaw, and shoulders. A thread on YCombinator.com on Alex Graveley’s early work on Copilot. 

My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot
(twitter.com/alexgraveley)

180 points by FlamingMoe on June 20, 2023 | 180 comments

pleonasticity on June 20, 2023 | 
I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself. Just because he contributed to the first prototype does not entitle him to claim creation. He wasn't even the first person inside Microsoft to use LLMs in an IDE completion experience. The work from prototype to product is an order of magnitude more than prototype alone.

orph on June 20, 2023 |
Orilly? We had no PM, EM, or designer: I played all those roles for 1.5 years.
I was one of the first to touch the OAI code model. Me and Albert developed the in-the-wild testing harness still in use today. We pulled all nighters to get GitHub approved for participation in the MSFT-OpenAl deal using those test results.
Existing Microsoft AI teams worked to halt our work, pushing their own small, worse models instead of OpenAl's.
I protoyped and lobbied for creation of the VScode extension. I invented and hacked the ghost text prototype into VScode, I invented the block based termination and implemented all the tree-sitter based logic needed to do it. Then I had to lobby up to Satya to get Scode to implement proper support in less than 6 months.
I named it Copilot.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
“The CEO of Mistral AI believes American tech giants are using [AI-apocalypse] rhetoric to control and close off the market to their advantage.” lol, I rest my case.
lemonde.fr
Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled'
Mistral AI's co-founder believes the sector's American giants are manipulating the discourse around the technology's risks. He also defended his strategy, as critics are accusing his company of fallin...
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 26/09/2026
Citrix NetScaler and ADC customers the last 12ish hours:
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Michael Scott's 'Everybody Stay Calm' Moment
ALT: Michael Scott's 'Everybody Stay Calm' Moment
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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 26/09/2026
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful and angry after 'dangerous' data breach. I've spoken to current/ former FBI agents who have expressed shock, fear and anger following a hack that appears to have exposed the private and personal information of the agency's entire workforce. "This is really bad..
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Asked Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince if he would still make the decision stop being in business with Daily Stormer and Kiwi Farms today. (Among many many other deep questions about the web.) www.theverge.com/podcast/1000...
It’s 2026. The valence of speech on the internet has changed. If you had to make the Kiwi Farms, Daily Stormer, decisions again today, would you make them the same way?

Each of those things is a moment in time, and I think there are puts and takes under all those things. At some level, at the time, when we made the decision around the Daily Stormer, no one knew what Cloudflare was, and we were seeing a bunch of regulation that was happening online that really could have been a real threat to the underlying way the internet worked, regulating key protocols like DNS and TLS. And we were nervous about that. And so, the question was, how did you make that point?

And so, one of the real rationales of kicking Daily Stormer off, and then writing about it, talking about it, going on the news about it, writing another Wall Street Journal editorial about it, was because it helped us then frame the right policy decision that was out there.

We talked about Rawls last time. I’ll talk about Kant this time. We very much offended Kant in that. We were using this site as a means to an end that was not into itself.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 26/09/2026
That Reddit rumor about Citrix notifying customers to take Netscaler servers offline because of actively exploited zero-days is apparently real: www.reddit.com/r/Citrix/com... Confirmation 1: mastodon.social/@GossiTheDog... Confirmation 2: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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From the Citrix community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Citrix community
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 26/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Robert Kraft’s Gillette stadium canceled hours before showtime
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Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Robert Kraft’s Gillette stadium canceled
The shows were scheduled for Friday and Saturday evening following major controversy surrounding Sheeran’s tour
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In every community, there are predators. And how that community deals with high-status predators says a lot about them. nypost.com/2026/09/24/t...
nypost.com
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100’ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 26/09/2026
“It’s Friday & I got solo walkies with my dad & we went to the Arboretum let’s goooo!!!” 🧵
Indy the caramel and cream border collie mix is grinning her biggest floofy grin next to a pond full of orange leaves and reflecting tall evergreens
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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lazarusholic @lazarusholic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"XCTDH Adopts Hash Hiding" published by RansomISAC. #OmniStealer, #NullReceiver, #HashHiding ransom-isac.org/blog/xctdh-adopts-h…
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