Heather Post

Cyber security specialist, software engineer, New Jersey native, and stand up comedy enthusiast.

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

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[Shruti Kapoor @shrutikapoor08]

When you forget the sequence of git
#DevJoke

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Amazon released “Bedrock”, a generative AI toolkit for chat, text and image.

It has access to foundational models from AI21 (Jurassic-2), Anthropic (Claude), Stability AI (Stable Diffusion) and Amazon (Titan).

Amazon (10.1k) actually has more AI employees than Microsoft (7.3k), Meta (5.6k), Google (5.3k) or Apple (4.8k).

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

The open sourced Twitter algorithm has been assigned its first CVE: CVE-2023-29218.

tl;dr denial of service via reduction of reputation score

Intel via @Ax_Sharma

More information: https://t.co/Ms88cuO6mk

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Tech layoffs in 2023 have now surpassed the entire total from 2022, per LayoffFYI.

[PR @frostshoxx]

@spacemuleinc The power of StackOverflow is peer review. Some people will go out of their way to make sure the information shown on the posts are correct.

ChatGPT slaps in language model engine that makes paragraphs look trustworthy, but there is no guarantee that the info had been vetted.

[The Associated Press @AP]

The Danish parliament on Tuesday urged lawmakers and employees with the 179-member assembly against having TikTok on work phones as a cybersecurity measure, saying "there is a risk of espionage." https://t.co/GuNDb9dkWW

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

@amayegatalawar9 Just because we doesn’t mean we should 🥴

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

Thoughts?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is training its AI technology to do software engineering.

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

@tedneward @Grady_Booch I fully agree with you there!

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Only 9% of Americans think AI development will do more good than harm, per CNBC.

[Mick Douglas 🇺🇦🌻 @bettersafetynet]

VLANs are not network firewalls.

They do help organize traffic, but they (by themselves) are not security boundaries.

[BleepingComputer @BleepinComputer]

Critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerability targeted by destructive attacks - @LawrenceAbrams
https://t.co/geIuLmt2KD

[Rapid @Rapid_API]

Here is a summary of best practices for GraphQL.

A thread 🧵👇🏼

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

@ladyleet Yes🙌🏼

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

Wearing a hoodie to work because you’re an engineer and it’s just expected of you >>>

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

@johannablalock_ 😭😭😭😭

[Hannah Murphy @MsHannahMurphy]

For this week's FT Magazine cover, @kiranstacey and i spoke with 30+ insiders on the rise and fall of Facebook's cryptocurrency Diem

A tale of money and hubris, 3 years in the making & the longest I've ever written by far

Here's some of what we learned🧵
https://t.co/nvePVqzfcW

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

Bessemer has a new fund for people working in decentralized tech 💸

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

VC firm Bessemer announces $250 million fund for decentralized tech, launches DAO
https://t.co/vZXSAfKZQP

[Heather Post @HeatherPostCS]

@iamsegunajibola Comment your code

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Russian customs officials said they had detained a star American basketball player after finding hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow. The Russian news agency TASS has identified the player as Brittney Griner. https://t.co/7rJaQqNyJK