Petri Alariesto

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Skynet becomes self-aware today

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Years of training just for a bee to fuck it all up 😭😭

[Laura Halminen @LauraHuu]

Moikka Helsingin kaupunki, minun kotikaupunkini. Minusta on tullut iän myötä aika kärsivällinen ja harvemmin enää suutun niin, että tuntuu siltä että näen punaista. Mutta nyt on se hetki. Tämä ketju on teille. 🧵

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

tl;dr Microsoft introduces 24/7 surveillance functionality for the NSA and/or CIA but markets it as a feature that you'll like

[Lapin poliisilaitos @PoliisiLappi]

#NordicResponse24 -harjoituksen marssiosastot eri puolilta Suomea kulkevat nyt kohti Lappia.

Liikkeellä on paljon raskasta erityiskalustoa 29.2.–5.3.2024 sekä 14.–17.3.2024.

#MalttiaLiikenteeseen toivoo #poliisi.

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

SumoLogic had their AWS creds stolen

They're suggesting all customers rotate a bunch of secrets:

[Dark Web Intelligence @DailyDarkWeb]

NSA and CISA Red and Blue Teams Share Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations - by @CISAgov

https://t.co/QoRdDP72Ie

#cybersecurity #infosec

[Stas Olenchenko @StasOlenchenko]

As a Ukrainian person looking at everything that’s been happening in the world lately, here’s what I really, REALLY need people living in liberal democracies to understand as soon as possible.

This isn’t a pleasant conversation.

A thread.
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[Katleena Kortesuo @katleena]

👉Viikon tietoturvavinkki👈

Sovi perheesi kanssa kaksi turvalauseketta, joita käytätte poikkeustilanteissa varmistamaan toistenne henkilöllisyyden.

Varmistustilanteessa toinen siis kysyy sovitusti vaikkapa ”kumikampelan edut?”

Ja toinen vastaa sovittuun tapaan esim ”hapankaali kainalossa”.

Tällä torjutte kaikki ne helkutin whatsapp-huijaukset, joissa ”lapsi” muka on rikkonut puhelimen ja kerjää vanhemmiltaan rahaa.

Tällä saa torjuttua myös mahdolliset tekoälyllä tehtävät puhelinhuijaukset, joissa perheenjäsenen äänimalli on livahtanut rikollisen tahon käyttöön. (Nämä tulevat lisääntymään.)

Pidä turvalausekkeet tiukasti vain ydinperheen tiedossa. Vaihda lausekkeet kerran vuodessa sekä silloin, jos joku perheestä on joutunut esittämään alkupuolikkaan huijarille.

PS. Älä säilytä näitä puhelimessa, koska muuten puhelinvaras voi käyttää tietoa hyväkseen. Turvalausekkeet pitää muistaa ulkoa.

👉Viikon tietoturvavinkki päättyy tähän. Pistä jakoon ja ota käyttöön erityisesti iäkkäiden vanhempien kanssa.👈

[ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ 🛡️ @DanielMiessler]

🪳👀🚨DEVELOPING: A potential data exposure issue within ServiceNow's built-in capability has been identified. This could allow unauthenticated users to extract data from records.

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

Word is out: Microsoft is plunging ahead on nuclear energy.

They want a fleet of reactors powering new data centers. And now they're hiring people from the traditional nuclear industry to get it done.

Why?

Lack of stable long-term power, whether clean or dirty, is constraining Microsoft's growth. They need to build big data centers that consume electricity all the time and the old assumption that somebody else's reliable plants will always be around to firm up your wind and solar is falling apart.

It certainly helps that founder Bill Gates was one of the earliest big business converts to nuclear energy, investing his own money to develop new reactors.

But Microsoft, like many companies, was held back by what we might consider "Enron-ism" infecting its energy thinking: renewable energy credits plus markets plus cute little lies to the public about how electricity works. Greenwashed fossil/hydro/nuclear with the ESG stamp of approval.

The problem? Eventually you run out of other people's cheap firm power.

So Microsoft has recently become a leader in openly asserting that nuclear energy counts as clean energy, as opposed to the ongoing cowardice we see from the other big tech companies who lie to the public about being "100% renewable powered."

Sure, the lawyers said it was okay to lie, but the lie doesn't give you a permanent supply of cheap reliable energy. That comes from nuclear.

A world is coming where only the tech companies willing to become nuclear power developers may get to keep expanding their cloud businesses, and only countries open to new reactors get to host this expansion.

A world where tech companies with 50% margins become the only survival hope for traditional industrial concerns with 5% margins who need someone else to bootstrap a proper electricity supply.

Where diesel backup generators are replaced with microreactors reliable enough to be trusted to keep a cluster of facilities secure in the case of public grid failure.

The race is on.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

We're not really a religious bunch of nerds, but we'd like to take a moment and pray for Microsoft.

- July, 2023: Microsoft is compromised by Threat Group "Storm-0324", also sometimes referred to as "TA543". The Threat Group stole signing keys which they abused to forge authentication tokens - granting them access to inboxes of individuals working for the United States government. Microsoft believes this threat group to be of Chinese origin.

- September, 2023: Nicknamed, "Bloody Tokens", Microsoft misconfigured an azure storage bucket exposing over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages and 38TB of private AI research data

- September 2023: Microsoft v FTC court case accidentally leaks highly confidential and unredacted data. A court case file was accidentally marked as public. The court case file unveiled Microsoft's plans for Elder Scrolls: Oblivion remaster, Doom Year Zero, Fallout 3 remastered, Dishonored 3, an Indiana Jones game, Project Kestrel, Project Platinum, their new New Gen console scheduled for 2028, new Xbox controller schematics named "Sebile", and more...

Attached images are from the Microsoft v FTC court case leak.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike.

Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

🚨 Woah. An intentional backdoor discovered in encrypted radio comms used globally for over 25 years.

Buckle up!

[Wiz @wiz_io]

⚡️💻 BREAKING: Wiz Research reveals surprising elements of the recent Microsoft Storm-0558 incident — it's much bigger than you thought!

Here's what you need to know:

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week:

July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F
July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F
July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F
July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F
July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F
July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F
July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

🌍🌡📈🔥
Global air temperatures just keep going up!

[STT uutiset @STTuutiset]

Tämän viikon maanantai oli kuumin päivä maailman mittaushistoriassa. Yhdysvaltalaisten meteorologien mukaan maailman keskilämpötila ylitti ensimmäisen kerran 17 celsiusastetta. Mittauksen teki Yhdysvaltain liittovaltion sää- ja valtamerentutkimusorganisaatio NOAA.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

My new favourite climate graphic

From Jane Morton @SafeClimate's excellent free booklet 'Don't Mention the Emergency?'