PSA: This week was kind of a turning point for AI and cybersecurity. Please take this weekend to do some simple cleanup for your family. Some suggestions:
- Set up a password manager like 1Password and give your spouse or partner access to a shared vault. Teach them how to use it.
- Update your passwords for critical stuff - your email account, your bank or financial stuff, etc. Store in your password manager and use the strongest password you can.
- Use two factor auth for everything you can. SMS is not ideal although better than nothing. Google Authenticator or a passkey is better. Hardware key is safest.)
- Add a sim pin to your phone. Makes it harder to sim jack.
- Update your phone and your computer to the newest releases. Turn auto-updates on.
- Freeze your credit - takes 5 minutes.
- Get an IRS Identity Protection PIN.
- If you’re using claude code or have AI agents that browse the web, they’re probably using Node.js. It’s also vulnerable. Update claude code, update node on your machine.
- If you’re building stuff on your computer, ask claude or grokbot (which is connected to twitter and likely has the most current info) to audit any of your repos for vulnerabilities. Ask grok to make it a scheduled task so it can do this daily - things are moving very quickly in the space right now.
- Consider some light resiliency stuff. This probably sounds silly, but it sounded silly at the beginning of covid too. Having printed out copies of important stuff - especially financial accounts. Having some cash on hand. Having some shelf-stable food and clean water or a water filter. Having a map. Having a generator that can at least power your fridge or some devices. Cheap insurance.
Again, I don’t want to alarm people, but I was taught that you should have a Secure plan, a Comfortable plan, and a Wealthy plan. And it seems pretty clear the secure plan needs to now factor cybersecurity risk as a legit threat. Take a weekend and shore yourself up.
Work to clear the rubble is ongoing at the site of a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Pryluky. As of now, 18 people have been reported killed, four of them children: Oleksandr, Kyrylo, and Serhii, who were only one year old, and eight-year-old Maksym. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. Dozens of people were injured, including seven children. All emergency services are involved and working at the site. Fifteen people were rescued, including one child. There are still people who have not yet been accounted for.
The Russians know very well that they are striking ordinary cities, ordinary life. And the continued use of missiles against Ukraine, against our people, our children, is an absolutely deliberate choice of terror. This is what Moscow chooses – despite all our efforts with partners to bring peace closer. And this is a clear reason why more pressure on Russia is needed and why Ukraine needs more defense packages. It is important that leaders understand this. It is important that the world not remain silent today.
❗️The undermining of the Kakhovska HPP dam is not only one of the biggest ecological and humanitarian disasters in the east of Europe that led to the flooding of vast territories and many settlements, but is in fact the biggest crime against food security in the world.
The Kakhov reservoir was the heart of one of the largest irrigation systems in Europe. It was the southern regions of Ukraine that supplied the countries of the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe with wheat, corn, sunflower and sunflower oil, soybeans and soybean meal.
We call on everyone who cares about the fate of our planet and the environment, who declares their status as environmentalists and defines nature protection activities as their goals — to take all possible measures in order to record these violations, bring the culprits to justice, and make it impossible to commit such barbarism in the future.
@IUCN@ConservationOrg@nature_org@FoEint@earthwatch_org@TheWSC@SierraClub@EnvDefenseFund@NRDC@globalwild_cc@WorldResources@conservationall@CenterForBioDiv@ifawglobal@earthjustice@UCSUSA@savingoceans@earthisland@intlrivers@oceana@FaunaFloraInt@EIA_News@theGEF@wspa@UNESCO
The world and our planet will face catastrophic consequences if you choose inaction!
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After refusing to submit to Russian brutality and uttering the phrase "Slava Ukraini," a Ukrainian prisoner of war is being brutally killed.
Even in the twenty-first century, horrible war crimes are still committed, and those who break all the rules still go unpunished.
These people were having a regular weekend in their homes, despite everyday war, families and children thought they were safe. They wanted to feel safe. But you are never safe with a terrorist neighbor. Ukraine needs weapons. To fight, to defend. To avoid such horrible deaths.
A little Ukrainian girl gathering debris from the ruined building in Dnipro after today’s russian missile attack. A lot of other people are helping the rescuers. Russia will not win over this nation.
russia chose mass terror again as a response to its faults on the front. They keep hitting Zaporizhzhia’s residential buildings at night and kill civilians, innocent families with kids. More war crimes from terrorist. They need to be treated accordingly.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
To consider regarding nuclear blackmail: when you give in to it, you empower dictators to do it again, encourage worldwide nuclear proliferation, and make nuclear war much, much more likely.
@elonmusk Everyone mistakes, I get it. Mister @elonmusk please educate yourself in history. There is a nice course from @TimothyDSnyder to help you with it
Russian troops are hastily leaving Kharkiv region! - that’s been the best news we got since the war has started. Praying for Ukrainian forces and for every hero that’s fighting for freedom and sovereignty in Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Russia-backed separatists alleged that 40 prisoners-of-war had been killed and injured 75 others, in a rocket strike on the prison camp in Olenivka.
This prison has been used to house many of the Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol two months ago
@Parveen_Khan10 I believe the absence of Production issues is the illusion :) At the end of the day the most important is the user experience (aka business value) software gives. For improving user experience We (internal dev team) build internal means/tools/metrics constantly
Kyiv TV tower, which has just been hit by a Russian missile, is situated on the territory of Babyn Yar. On September 29-30, 1941, Nazis killed over 33 thousand Jews here. 80 years later, Russian Nazis strike this same land to exterminate Ukrainians. Evil and barbaric.