Matt Fowler

Secures robots @anduriltech and has robots for dive buddies @bathyscopeio. Previously threat research @awscloud, @Apple, and @Mandiant.

[Anduril Industries @anduriltech]

Hey @NASCAR fans! Win this Cup Car.

It's literally this car.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

@PoseidonROV @sendcutsend American made 🇺🇸

[Josef Prusa @josefprusa]

It's not just me and a "few" others talking about the BambuStudio AGPL open source license violation anymore. It's now confirmed by analysis from @conservancy and Bradley Kuhn, the original author of the license clause being violated ⤵️

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

@mhmiranusa Oof…GPS? You’re not gonna make it in modern warfare.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

@chris_dalke BlueROV?

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

So many exciting possibilities with this product. Pushing tech forward and setting the stage for a battlefield where folks are looking through glasses, not down at a phone. The edge AI acceleration enables use cases that were previously outside power/perf constraints.

[Anduril Industries @anduriltech]

Introducing Voyager Gateway 1.

Warfighters at the edge need access to mission compute capabilities that are typically constrained to the base. The size, weight and power burden make server racks unrealistic options.

Voyager G1 is the rugged, waterproof device that unlocks mission applications and AI-enabled workflows directly at the front line. It also connects operators as nodes on our Lattice Mesh network. This enables small teams to maintain operations even when networks are jammed, infrastructure is contested, or command posts are out of reach.

[jen bucci @jendarhy]

EagleEye try-ons for special ops this week. The progress in 6 month intervals is actually insane

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

Hey @Cloudflare can you say which entity may be responsible for this DDoS? Crazy coincidence that when @Prusa3D start shining the light on bad behavior that more bad behavior starts up. 🤔

[Printables.com @printablescom]

https://t.co/boccpqklRc may load a bit slower at first due to an extra Cloudflare security check. Since Friday, we’ve been facing repeated, massive DDoS attacks. The site is up and running, and our servers and infrastructure are holding strong. Thank you for your patience!

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re absolutely going to build nuclear powered data centers all over the US. Now would be a good time to focus on facts rather than emotions and stop falling victim for foreign PSYOPs around data centers, AI, and power.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

This is insane. Just print it and move on. Who is stopping you?

[Congressman Pat Harrigan @RepPatHarrigan]

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves.

So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades.

That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

@YukonK9 The Arduino-based ESAD devices are used operationally everyday in other parts of the world - with great success. Some of the requirements in the US are particularly at odds with cheaply scaling massed effects.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

@RachelTobac @CNN Even more so than the AI tools, the real risk here is Plaid being the broker for linking. You give up protections for your financial data when you grant a third party access like that.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

The same adversarial playbook, different product. Happily running a Prusa farm for R&D projects.

[Josef Prusa @josefprusa]

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it?
There's something most have sensed but never seen it all in one place, the five-law framework China built between 2017 and 2023 ⤵️

So maybe their hand is forced as their "network" is too valuable already? Each law on its own, interesting, okay... Read them together, and add any Chinese company with big reach to the mix you get the complete picture.

1) National Intelligence Law (2017)
All organizations and citizens must "support, assist, and cooperate" with intelligence work. The same law makes it illegal to disclose that cooperation happened. Cooperation is mandatory, and silence about it is mandatory too.

2) Cryptography Law (2020)
Commercial encryption must be state-approved and state-reviewed. When authorities request it, companies must provide decryption keys or plaintext. The state on both sides of that equation is the same one.

3) Data Security Law (2021)
Article 2 gives the state extraterritorial reach over data that touches Chinese national security or public interests. So EU/US data hosting does nothing to make it safe, because jurisdiction follows the company, not the server location.

4) Counter-Espionage Law revision (2023)
The general definition of espionage was expanded to cover "documents, data, materials, or items related to national security and interests." Industrial data is one of the intended targets since the revision.

5) Network Product Security Vulnerability regulation (2021)
Any company or researcher that discovers a software vulnerability must report it to MIIT within 48 hours. From there it flows to CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database of Information Security), operated by the 13th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security. Microsoft's threat intelligence team documented Chinese state-hacker zero-day usage rising after this took effect. Shows the willingness to use the “tools” China built.

Together they describe a system with no neutral exits. Cooperation is required, encryption is real but the spare keys live at the ministry, jurisdiction follows the company across borders, industrial data is in scope, and discovered vulnerabilities flow to an intelligence agency 😬

3D printing became strategic for China in 2020 and joined the “Made in China 2025” plan soon after. Why does 3D printing matter so much? 1/x

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

Great example of why field-updatable SDRs are the only way to go.

[Dylan Malyasov | 🧐 @DylanMalyasov]

L3Harris Technologies @L3HarrisTech gave soldiers a way to detect and jam drones using the radio they already carry.

No new hardware — just a software update that turns 100,000-plus fielded radios into counter-drone sensors.

Read more: https://t.co/1xYW1MryCU

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

@bryanrbeal Was one of my favorite routes when living on the east coast.

[anya @anyaxmar]

2022: we're not leaving kyiv

2026: we do not recommend you go to moscow

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

Grok from the top rope

[Grok @grok]

@RMFandago @Asst_to_the_RM Haha, that Chinese Army hoverboard assault course already *is* Jackass. I'd remake it with the full theme blasting if I could edit video, but my tools are image-only right now. Still pure gold as-is.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

Holy crap

[Claude @claudeai]

With the Autodesk Fusion connector, designers and engineers can create and modify 3D models through conversation.

[Matt Fowler @evenfowler]

Land at the alt LZ and transfer to a USCG H60 to hop over to the other pad. Shake some homes and set off car alarms to let the folks know your Bell isn’t so bad.

[Anduril Industries @anduriltech]

If you see Copperhead coming,
it's already too late.

Shown: First public footage of Copperhead-500M swimming. During the test, the 21-inch heavyweight AUV successfully broke internal speed records while demonstrating extreme agility maneuvers in high seas.