📢 LOOKING FOR A +2650 ELO GM! 📢
My team, Stadium Casablanca, is looking for a +2650 player for the Spanish Team Championship! 🇪🇸♟️🗓️ Nov 20–26📍Marbella, Spain. Interested or know someone? Send me a DM or answer this post! 📩 RTs appreciated to reach the right GMs! 🙏
🎉 Happy 34th birthday to World No. 2 GM Fabiano Caruana! 🎂♟️
One of the strongest players of his generation, Fabiano became a grandmaster at the age of 14, was the World Championship challenger in 2018, and reached a career-high rating of 2844 - the third-highest rating in chess history.
Wishing @FabianoCaruana a fantastic birthday and a year filled with happiness, success, and many more brilliant games! 🥳♟️
📷 Michal Walusza/FIDE
Yesterday was my last day at @GitHub and in the wider @Microsoft family. I'm actually closing three main chapters of my life at the same time.
Cybersecurity after 8 years.
London after 12 years.
GitHub after 5 years.
Among the many successes and lessons learnt, what made the difference was public speaking and content creation. Every month, for five years, I walked onto at least one stage. 80 sessions. 25 countries. More than 25,000 devs and security experts. That is over 300 people per session. The hands-on training I created "Secure Code Game" has helped more than 10,000 professionals grow their security skills, across enterprise, academia and open source. I was involved, directly or indirectly, in hundreds of other activities that mattered for open source.
None of this was solo work. The team spent these years working to drastically improve the security of the open source software we all rely on. With the Secure Open Source Fund, we built a community that helps maintainers prevent the next big breach, and the international headlines that follow. We tried to leave the world better than we found it, and I think we did.
I am proud of the GitHub Security Lab. The work it does for open source matters. It will keep mattering long after I am gone. The Lab will always feel like home, and it will always be the home of open source security. They say once in security, always in security. Deep down, I'm two things: First a developer, and then a cybersecurity specialist.
To everyone I met and worked beside over these five years, Thank You. You made these my best and most productive years. It is not close.
To my manager Xavier René-Corail, THANK YOU for the trust, the freedom to build, the openness to my direct and honest feedback, the backing when it mattered, the humor, ALL! I could not have asked for better.
GitHub and Microsoft, Thank You for all of it.
I, personally, look forward to the 220-team World Cup presented by Blackrock, hosted exclusively in the United States every six months and powered by Polymarket.
Alan Ritchson says Hollywood action space needs more everyday protagonists like Indiana Jones who was a professor not just military or ex-military heroes.
Alan Ritchson: One thing I'm trying to do is hark back to the '90s, when you would get protagonists like Indiana Jones, who was a professor and an archaeologist. This was not a government-trained CIA operative.
My production company has deals split across town, and we're working hand in hand with a lot of studios to develop the future action space. Weirdly across the board, everybody is making content where the main character is former military or current military.
I want to tell stories with protagonists who are more on their heels, less invincible, and less trained. It'll create a whole new sea of content where audiences can see themselves on screen.
We need stories where protagonists are everyday people like plumbers or electricians caught up in extraordinary circumstances, but not necessarily prepared for it.
Maria Sten: Totally agree. Excellent.