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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Rules on media coverage during by-elections: During an election period, political parties and independent candidates must be given due weight across a broadcaster’s TV and radio coverage. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

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Holding broadcasters to account during upcoming elections: what you need to know

Here we set out some of the broadcasting rules and process that we follow during upcoming elections.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Was not expecting that last sentence.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Piece on the future for MySQL here: www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/m... Could be forks, or could be Oracle supporting more community involvement. Expect more developments at #FOSDEM

theregister.com

Devs assessing options for MySQL's future beyond Oracle

: As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today is a "I'm going to eat the crisps and there's nothing you can do about it world" kind of day. Ready salted, if you are wondering.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I recently joined Sysdig's What The Hack show in this episode examining Deepfake executive fraud, discussing why it has become such an issue and how to prevent it. (Also, you can nose at the LEGO sets behind me.) Thanks to @maliciarogue.bsky.social for having me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKq...

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S2 E5: Deepfake Executive Fraud

YouTube video by What The Hack Show

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So this is taking place today - will be interesting to see how the conversation develops this afternoon.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

For journalists and PRs, directly after a successful conversation with an interesting spokesperson that has taken weeks to arrange: "When's copy approval due?"

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The military ceremony for Donald Trump is on in the background. I thought they were playing the theme tune to Monty Python's Flying Circus ...

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement

b/w photo of an absolutely huge bloke in a huge fur coat (polar bear, apparently, which he shot himself) next to a diminutive woman in a hat (his wife Dagmar Cohn)

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

1) Would this be useful? 2) Is there an initiative like this already that Jess could contribute to, or does she need to create one? 3) would anyone want to get involved or support this?

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Me, an enterprise B2B IT PR person running a podcast on cloud security for a client: ... You, Spotify account manager: Hey, have you considered some back to school marketing campaigns?

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

And you can sing the title to an Aerosmith chorus. Kuber- net- es at the edge!

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Always fun when you see a massive organisation in the data and analysis business, that actively wants you to share its data, and then they go through a big website refresh that breaks all their links.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Cats totally would carry out multiple rug pulls ... or as they term it, "making cyber biscuits"

Display of joke cyber threat group called Toxic Arctic Fox, a Saudi Arabia-based serial crypto rug-pulling cat collective. The name is automatically generated by the Cyber Threaterator site. And cats would definitely pull all the rugs until they were threadbare.

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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 03/07/2025

An initial release of Cyberthreaterator 2.0 is now up and running: falling-anvil.com/cyberthreate...? Any suggestions for additional threat types will glady be accepted.

falling-anvil.com

CyberThreaterator

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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

As the head of new threat group 'Vicious Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse', I intend to monetise my Ransomeware campaigns where I overwrite critical business documents with excerpts of Swallows and Amazons.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

FREE STORY ALERT The whole of my short story "The Black Line" is now up on Authory for free. If you want an urban fantasy tale about identity, loneliness, trains and someone just doing the right thing, then give it five minutes of your time. If you enjoy it, please quote post and pass it on!

authory.com

The Black Line

A short story about trains, loneliness and identity beneath the streets of London.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/04/2025

I need your help. I need you to vote for Better Offline for the best individual business podcast in the Webbys. go here, register and vote for Better Offline. Every vote gets a free picture of one of my cats with proof. Please win this for me. Open till April 17. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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Vote for the best of the internet

I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The Spectrum / Amstrad game for Dan Dare in the 1980s was banging. Recently got one of the old strips out as a collected edition from our local library. It held up pretty well.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

SINGS: On my way to KubeCon / On my way to KubeCon / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) Developing cloud-native / Containers de-mon-strat-ive / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) My cloud it will be sovereign / Even if it leads to some pain / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) ETC. might see you there

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Noah AbraAAAUGHHhhhh... @nabrahams.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I haven't seen a lot of people mentioning this, but if you are going to #Kubecon and you have a US passport (among many others) you need to get the Electronic Travel Authorization before you go to the UK. It can take up to 3 business days, though mine took 15 minutes. www.gov.uk/guidance/app...

gov.uk

Apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA)

What an ETA is, who can get one and how to apply before coming to the UK.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Sharing this as a lovely piece of writing around open tech, taking a stance and being willing to work on things: ratfactor.com/tech-nope

ratfactor.com

I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The direct line from military marching band instrument design, to the sax line in Ace of Base, All That She Wants.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Email from publisher on Friday: Please click through on this link for an RFP Me, separately to publisher contact email account: Is this legit? Email account: Yes, completely above board Me: Hmmmm. Not clicking on that Email from publisher on Monday: We were hacked Me: Knew it

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Piece on how to use both internal information and external data as part of your security approach. Comes after the launch of the Cyber Monitoring Centre earlier this month.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

How much can we save by divesting ourselves from gold braid?

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Tired: Client announces customer Wired: Customer announces they are a client. Aston Villa FC announces the club is using eSentire for security: www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/fe...

avfc.co.uk

Aston Villa Football Club announces eSentire as the club's Official Cybersecurity Partner

Find more information on our new partnership

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Session on open source in the public sector within the Global South - Paula Hunter of Mojaloop Foundation on where funding comes from, how open source development model is understood, and the future for folding this back into the wider open source community - digital and data sovereignty #soocon25

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Emily Middleton, DSIT at #soocon25 - launch for new digital services earlier in 2025. New suite of AI tools nicknamed Humphrey. Reports on issues around Gov digital approach - too much reliance on old legacy tech and not enough people. Too difficult to collaborate around public data.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Open source and forking - what does the data tell us? @geekygirldawn.bsky.social of CHAOSS provides an overview of the impact that a fork has had on three projects - ElasticSearch / OpenSearch; Terraform / OpenTofu; Redis / Valkey. Full data is at github.com/chaoss/wg-da... #soocon25

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wg-data-science/dataset/license-changes/fork-case-study at main · chaoss/wg-data-science

CHAOSS Data Science Working Group: collaborate and improve open source project health using data science-based approaches - chaoss/wg-data-science

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Linux Magazine @linux-magazine.com · 03/02/2025

We are honored to be a media partner for @openuk.bsky.social #SOOCon25. Be sure to stop by the job board from partner @opensourcejobhub.com and sponsored by G-Research. Browse #SOOCon jobs now on #OSJH opensourcejobhub.com/categories/s... #events #career #community #OpenSource #FOSS #AI

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So much going on today - geopolitics, code support and what people think collide, with much bigger consequences for tech.

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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Digital skills are at the centre of much of our work at OpenUK and CEO @amandabrock.bsky.social commented to the BBC on the value of open source in developing these and stemming talent flight buff.ly/4jDtEIw #opensource #openuk

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Future Media Day - AI is a core area of focus for spending in 2025. Real ROI is the goal, with returns expected this year according to @rorybathgate.bsky.social DeepSeek Klaxon goes off after fifteen minutes.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

At the Future Focus Media Day this morning - top three topics for investment will be AI, cybersecurity, automation. Cloud still in the top ten, but more about hybrid and private cloud. Common link to all priorities? Data. @itpro.com

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Problem in the cloud? Who you gonna (sys)call? @sbisson.com covers the launch of Stratoshark here, and why this level of detail is needed for troubleshooting around the cloud: www.infoworld.com/article/3808...

infoworld.com

Stratoshark analyzes cloud applications at a syscall level

Capture and analyze the system call and log activity of your cloud-based Linux containers using a new tool based on the familiar Wireshark.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The Open Weight Definition has launched courtesy of the Open Source Alliance. Adrian Bridgwater has the overview at Forbes, with @samj.net and @amandabrock.bsky.social - www.forbes.com/sites/adrian...

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Wireshark told you what was going on in your network. Stratoshark lets you troubleshoot what is going on in your cloud. If you want to investigate cloud activities with system calls, then Stratoshark is your flying carcharadon of choice.

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Surely this will ingratiate him more effectively. "Hey guys, I'm just like you!"

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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Interesting research from Qualys here where they found a botnet that’s infected vulnerable AVTECH cameras and Huawei routers. 1500 IP addresses found to be in the bot army used to carry out further attacks. blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilit...

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Mass Campaign of Murdoc Botnet Mirai: A New Variant of Corona Mirai | Qualys Security Blog

The Qualys Threat Research Unit has uncovered a large-scale, ongoing operation within the Mirai campaign, dubbed Murdoc Botnet. This variant exploits vulnerabilities targeting AVTECH Cameras and…

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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Session tracks on open source, security, finance and telecoms are in place, and the plenaries are looking 🔥🔥🔥 Press passes available if you are interested.

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