Brendan Jamieson

Staff Security Engineer @Google. All views are my own.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Celebrating the milestone of a massive 150+ million downloads of Gemma 4 with the release of the new Gemma 4 12B model! It's incredibly powerful for such a small model and it’s tiny enough to run locally on a laptop with just 16GB VRAM. Apache 2.0 license - happy building!

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

Meet Gemma 4 12B!

A unified, encoder-free multimodal model designed to bring high-performance intelligence directly to your laptop, and released under an Apache 2.0 license.

Bridging the gap between edge efficiency and advanced reasoning. Here is what’s new with Gemma 4 12B: 👇

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Gemini 3.5 Flash is amazing!

- Performs better than 3.1 Pro on coding & agentic tasks
- 4x faster than other frontier models
- 12x faster in @antigravity - 800 tokens/sec!
- Often at less than half the cost

And Pro to come…

Try it in @antigravity, @GeminiApp & more - enjoy!

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Welcome to Gemini 3.5 Flash, our most powerful model to date. It pushes the frontier of intelligence, speed, and cost putting 3.5 Flash in a class of its own.

We spent the last 6 months making sure Flash is great for real world use cases. It's available everywhere now!

[Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est @argvee]

I'd prefer to say every vulnerability is knowable. This isn't the same thing as one person or method being able to find every vulnerability (interesting thoughts on that from Lukasz here). My point being: stop tying yourself into knots figuring out if that CVSS 5.4 is exploitable in your WIDGETFOO environment, and also findable by someone else. Just go fix it.

[Unprompted AU @UnpromptedAU]

The https://t.co/NSdktUM8QC CFP is officially OPEN! If you are doing cool stuff with AI in offense, defense, or working on core AI tech (from frontier models to open source LLMs), we'd love to hear from you! Submit here: https://t.co/d9C6yxxZbi

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

We just shipped Webhooks in the Gemini API :)

This is a big step towards making the DevX for long running tasks (batch, agents, GenMedia, etc) way better.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

TPU 8t, optimized for training and TPU 8i, optimized for inference.

Looking good!

[Google @Google]

The next evolution of our autonomous research agent is here. Today, we’re introducing Deep Research and Deep Research Max via the Gemini API.

Powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro, you can now trigger comprehensive research workflows with unprecedented control and transparency, featuring:

🔌 Arbitrary MCP support
📊 Native infographic & chart generation
🌐 Fully cited reports grounded in the open web + your own files and data

All from a single API call. Meet the new agent 🧵↓

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: we proved it could be done. I used an AI replica of my voice to break into my bank account. The AI tricked the bank into thinking it was talking to me. Could access my balances, transactions, etc. Shatters the idea that voice biometrics are foolproof https://t.co/YO6m8DIpqR

[Shane Huntley @ShaneHuntley]

"Fog of War: How the Ukraine conflict Transformed the Cyber Threat Landscape"

TAG's biggest ever report. Along with @Mandiant and others from @Google we outline insights into changes in the cyber threat landscape triggered by the war.

https://t.co/INBnokgcPp 1/7

[billy leonard @billyleonard]

Really excited to see the culmination of some amazing work from some amazing people get released today. A report from @Google TAG, with contributions from friends at @Mandiant, on cyber activity related to the war in Ukraine.

@t_gidwani @ShaneHuntley

https://t.co/hsY2xUg9CX

[Brendan Jamieson @hyprwired]

So happy to see this - security keys remain one of the best ways to mitigate credential phishing - and if you aren’t yet using security keys yourself, I’d really urge you to consider it https://t.co/iyynrHnN2R

[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

Life is really short. Spend time with people that make you happy. On activities that make you happy. And try to work on things that make you happy or proud, if you have the privilege to choose that.

[Brendan Jamieson @hyprwired]

So good to see Apple launching security key support for Apple ID! https://t.co/N2HMQsRPpv

[Dino A. Dai Zovi @dinodaizovi]

This is a great example of how and why volume of lines written, changed, or deleted does not strictly correlate with impact.

Imagine amount of expertise and time required to identify this vulnerability, evaluate its risk, and then identify right fix. Implementing fix is easy.

[Brendan Jamieson @hyprwired]

The events of the last few weeks serve as a timely reminder of the importance of having a dedicated Minister for Cyber Security as we have in AU (@ClareONeilMP) - it’d be great to see the NZ gov establish this cabinet position too!

[Brendan Jamieson @hyprwired]

Really impressed by some of the leadership on display from the AU federal gov on this issue - publicly “releasing the hounds” (as @riskybusiness calls it).

[Insiders ABC @InsidersABC]

"We are going to find these people, hunt them down and debilitate them before they can attack our country."

Clare O'Neil says a new taskforce to stop cyberattacks will "offensively" attack cyber criminals #Insiders #auspol

[Brendan Jamieson @hyprwired]

Verifying that I’m also on Mastodon - @[email protected]

[bogan @bogan]

I'm doing an online presso (2nd Nov) with @nzpolice, @netsafeNZ, Love Assist Associates and @CERTNZ about online scams, with a special focus on advice for mature audiences. Pass the following link onto anyone you think may need some help in this area. https://t.co/HVFV6vGCeV