Reposted by Victoria WalbergJanet Sternberg @janetphd.bsky.social · 14hProving once again that spell check is no substitute for proofreading. 2492
Reposted by Victoria WalbergNit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Historic England was spending six figures to wrap photographs the taxpayer had already paid for. Then the wrapper died, and the public cannot see them at all." 2358
Reposted by Victoria WalbergBSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026🚌 4 DAYS TO GO! 🐻 The #BSidesLDN2026 CFP is rapidly approaching its final stop! Got an idea, some research or an experience worth sharing with the security community? Get it submitted! ⏰CFP closes midnight 30 September bsides.london/cfp2026 #Security #BSides #London #CFP 012
Reposted by Victoria WalbergCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843131180
Reposted by Victoria WalbergRachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hahaha, absolutely the fuck not Instagram 282
Reposted by Victoria WalbergRiana @riana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comYes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi 48136
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@blowdart.me Is this you? mastodon.social/@fesshole/11...mastodon.socialFesshole 🧻 (@fesshole@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Add your fess: http://b3ta.com/addfess 000
Reposted by Victoria WalbergTom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From Sweden Longitudinal epigenetic rewiring in lung immune cells in patients with post COVID-19 condition link.springer.com/article/10.1... s4me.info/threads/long... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #COVIDLung #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 2116
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Turnitin contract cancelled, and to be phased out this academic year at Southampton. meshed.cloud/@webmink/117...meshed.cloudSimon Phipps (@webmink@meshed.cloud)University of #Southampton cancels contract and scraps assignment management tool over vendor plan to train #AI on student assignments - bravo! https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/26558627.southampton-... 110
Reposted by Victoria Walbergjack @jackalltogether.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I would love an ibreakit dot com that showed you how to physically clip the cameras, mics and outbound telematics out of all sorts of things like TV’s and cars 17711
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Watching live TV for the first time in a while - Celebrity Masterchef Final time. 010
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@paperghost.bsky.social Had to send you this from @kevsoft.net lnkd.in/p/eZp2JPWNlnkd.inSame Finances, Different Letterhead - Our UK Partner Visa Experience | Kevin Smith𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗨𝗞 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗮, 𝘀𝗼 𝗜 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴. They sent 41 pages. ▪️ A page of asylum acronyms that don't apply to us ▪️ A copy of our own application, hande... 110
Reposted by Victoria WalbergKenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026TL;DR: using compression before encryption is much weaker than we thought. Tiny length differences can be amplified - almost without limit - and noise-based or bucketization countermeasures are then easy to bypass. Joint work with @prefix-free.bsky.social and Lenka Mareková, to appear at CCS 2026. 12415
Reposted by Victoria WalbergNitro Nine Milkshake @adamclegg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So I think someone may have fiddled around with the TV in the Travelodge I stayed in last night. 615833
Reposted by Victoria WalbergPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Number crunching: Graduate vacancies From the new Private Eye, out now. 822358
Reposted by Victoria WalbergAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I feel terribly sad for all those old-school Economy 7 teleswitch meters still out there, listening for a radio signal to switch them into off-peak mode that will never ever come now that they've switched off BBC Long Wave. Like V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. 101168
Reposted by Victoria WalbergZack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal. 27992354
Reposted by Victoria WalbergBertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Also bizarre that those people who profess to feeling so threatened by hijabs and burkhas are so comfortable wearing balaclavas. 17411
Reposted by Victoria WalbergThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034391274
Reposted by Victoria WalbergCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton 994988866
Reposted by Victoria WalbergChris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin. 06032950
Reposted by Victoria WalbergSam Stepanyan @securestep9.bsky.social · 02/09/2026#JFrog #Artifactory: Attackers are already exploiting critical auth bypass CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS 9.8) to mint admin tokens. Compromising your organisation's artifact repository could poison builds and trigger #SoftwareSupplyChain attacks - patch now! 👇csoonline.comExploited JFrog Artifactory bug puts software supply chain on alertThe bug is already being exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to generate admin tokens and gain access to Artifactory, the platform that powers many organization’s software supply chains. 122
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026There's nothing like Celebrity Masterchef (or anything) to make you feel old. 010
Reposted by Victoria Walberg✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices 41952551
Reposted by Victoria WalbergDaragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 18/08/2026So, this is another reason companies need to think about their data and records in liquidations: all data has value to someone, but your customers might never have anticipated who or why. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...theregister.comAre we human? 032
Reposted by Victoria WalbergJonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Are you in the UK? Are you running android? Did you receive several emergency alerts yesterday? Could you run `adb shell content query --uri content://cellbroadcasts` and send me the output? 135630
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026@mandree.bsky.social Will there be an EN version of the book? Thanks 100
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Dutch study retracted. bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/3/... The author's reactions are interesting.bmjpublichealth.bmj.comRETRACTION: Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022This article1 is retracted by the journal. 000
Reposted by Victoria WalbergMarco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Very happy with this result. Combination of #eclipse images (time lapse) with 35 mm lens, one image per 5 minutes, from #Leiden, the Netherlands. Old Leiden Observatory bottom right. 382582501
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Oof, 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...cyberplace.socialKevin 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... 0107
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It looks like German media is more interested in @countbinface.bsky.social than Russian drones. 000
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It seems the way to promote a book these days (released in February, zero reviews on Amazon), is to write a rage-bait opinion piece in @theguardian.com and let the internet do its thing. I am sick of the sight of an airpod on a purple background in my timeline. 000
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Dear @bsky.app please develop the ability to turn off re-posts from people you follow. I have had to mute an account in its entirety due to the extent of their re-posts. 000
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Wellness Ping for folks, by @micr0.dev wetdry.world/@micr0/11703...wetdry.worldMicr0byte (@micr0@wetdry.world)A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. v2.0 is now out. It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, bo... 010
Reposted by Victoria WalbergInfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 04/08/2026SharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland’s Federal IT Agencysecurityaffairs.comSharePoint Flaws Used to Hack Switzerland's Federal IT AgencySwiss Federal IT Agency FOITT says attackers exploited SharePoint flaws to compromise about 200 accounts. Investigation is ongoing. 012
Reposted by Victoria WalbergStefano Zanero @raistolo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Cyber insurer (Chatham house forbids me from saying who) at BH CISO summit: “so far this year 0 payouts for claims even remotely connected to a AI-driven breach, 85% of payouts related to social engineering”. Sobering statistic. 36431
Reposted by Victoria Walbergmichael veale @michae.lv · 03/08/2026You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law... 55940
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Does a happy dance at all the 🌧️ Humidity just increased by 20% 😓 011
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Yesterday I passed my GIAC GCIL, today involved a trip to the German Consulate in Amsterdam. Wandered past some of the Pride setup and the Rijksmuseum, then a late lunch with a refreshing margarita. 061
Reposted by Victoria WalbergSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026And good luck finding businesses to offer meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of 14 and 15 year olds. As ever a failure to acknowledge that our big challenge with vocational ed is our labour market. 51529110
Reposted by Victoria WalbergAndres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Before 2022, the Internet was routed, hosted, and operated in Tiny Courier Protocol / Invisible Pixies (TCP/IP) facilities. These were hidden in invisible groves and powered entirely by pixie dust. Data centres replaced these magical facilities on November 30, 2022. 1427
Victoria Walberg @vickyjo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"This is not a software business that happens to own servers. It is a real estate business that happens to compute. Real estate cycles break the same way every single time. Not when demand collapses - it rarely does - but when the rate of demand growth decelerates..." 000
Reposted by Victoria WalbergWhitney Champion 🍪 @whit.zip · 22/07/2026gonna tell the girls this was AI when i was little 1386
Reposted by Victoria WalbergChris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/07/2026we can move further and faster than the US by, wait up a second let me check my notes here, adopting a lot of US AI tech and then putting it into all of the below 56222
Reposted by Victoria WalbergFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 21/07/2026Passkeys can be stored just like password hashes! I'm proposing an interoperable $webauthn$v=1$… format, and a Go API that uses these passkey records for authentication. I'm looking for feedback before proposing this as crypto/passkey for Go 1.28!words.filippo.ioOpaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them. 519741
Reposted by Victoria WalbergSharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 20/07/2026Walking through the Pride Zero Flags Project on Museumplein. Each flag marks one of the countries where homosexuality is still criminalised, every pole ribboned in mourning, every plinth naming the penalty. A sobering reminder that for too many worldwide, the fight for rights remains existential. 02519