rydalch

Infosec / cybersecurity risk management
(profile pic credit: @StartVisiting)

[Andrew Case @attrc]

This is an incredible, must read article from @KimZetter.

Be sure to read the source blog post:
- https://t.co/H6lID11AY9

And listen to the Three Buddy Problem episode with Mike Horka on the attacks: https://t.co/XGZPlj750V

[Ken LaCorte @KenLaCorte]

They're one of the most mocked religions around.

But Mormons live longer, healthier, wealthier lives than the rest of us.

Why does this religion that seems so odd ... work so well?

[rydalch @rydalch]

Public and Private Medical Community Targeted by China-Nexus Threat Actor Pursuing Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, Medical, and National Defense Research @googlecloud https://t.co/xOz1p6Gnvd

[Stephanie Baker @StephaniBaker]

The Kremlin’s cognitive warfare is evolving. Leaked documents from Russia’s Social Design Agency reveal efforts to move beyond planting fabricated stories on social media. Now Russian influence operators are trying to create Wikipedia clones and fake think tanks to shape the information powering search engines and AI chatbots. https://t.co/R1NqMxyJjr

[Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch]

“The resistance says that it now enforces an absolute ban on children taking part. Dmytro, from the Kherson brigade, explained that “it’s not just about the risk to the kids. It’s about the risk to the whole unit.” The death of a child at Russian hands can devastate morale. Andriushchenko described the case of two teenage boys from Melitopol who had been interrogated by Russia’s security service. Their bodies were never returned, almost certainly because of how badly the boys had been tortured. “Their deaths hit us hard,” he said. “What they did to them.”

[Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch]

“In the early months of the occupation, children played a role in the resistance. They slipped through checkpoints easily, took instantly to encrypted apps, and were extraordinarily brave. But the risks they took were no less grave than those faced by adults. An errant social-media post—or simply “liking” content supportive of Ukraine—was enough to get a child hauled in for interrogation. Those sessions could involve unspeakable violence, especially for girls. I interviewed one who was only 11 when her village near Kherson had been occupied. Implicated in “resistance” activities, she was dragged from her home. As we began our conversation, she apologized for her stutter. “I did not used to have this problem,” she told me, “until the Russians took me to the basement.”

https://t.co/scTLKWNO79

[Polymarket Intel @PolymarketIntel]

Putin on Armenia:

Everything has to be calculated. Look carefully and make a decision.

The crisis in Ukraine started with the attempts of Ukraine to join the EU.

[Ebo @EBoKnowss]

Luke Nichols from the Outdoor Boys was a guest speaker at George Mason's Law School commencement this year.

Here's his full speech, which I think is worth watching if you're a 2026 college graduate

[rydalch @rydalch]

@jeremyminer @DadsClub99 https://t.co/vQij4Ki5co

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Cloudflare's security team spent the last few weeks testing Anthropic's Mythos against fifty of our own repositories. What we learned about offensive AI, why faster patching is the wrong reaction, and what the architecture around vulnerabilities has to look like next. https://t.co/RSrRtIhgaV

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

There will be no AI jobpocalypse.

The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI — like any other technology — does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of large-scale unemployment is irresponsible and damaging. Let’s put a stop to it.

I’ve expressed skepticism about the jobpocalypse in previous posts. I’m glad to see that the popular press is now pushing back on this narrative. The image below features some recent headlines.

Software engineering is the sector most affected by AI tools, as coding agents race ahead. Yet hiring of software engineers remains strong! So while there are examples of AI taking away jobs, the trends strongly suggest the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology. Further, despite all the exciting progress in AI, the U.S. unemployment rate remains a healthy 4.3%.

Why is the AI jobpocalypse narrative so popular? For one thing, frontier AI labs have a strong incentive to tell stories that make AI technology sound more powerful. At their most extreme, they promote science-fiction scenarios of AI “taking over” and causing human extinction. If a technology can replace many employees, surely that technology must be very valuable!

Also, a lot of SaaS software companies charge around $100-$1000 per user/year. But if an AI company can replace an employee who makes $100,000 — or make them 50% more productive — then charging even $10,000 starts to look reasonable. By anchoring not to typical SaaS prices but to salaries of employees, AI companies can charge a lot more.

Additionally, businesses have a strong incentive to talk about layoffs as if they were caused by AI. After all, talking about how they’re using AI to be far more productive with fewer staff makes them look smart. This is a better message than admitting they overhired during the pandemic when capital was abundant due to low interest rates and a massive government financial stimulus.

To be clear, I recognize that AI is causing a lot of people’s work to change. This is hard. This is stressful. (And to some, it can be fun.) I empathize with everyone affected. At the same time, this is very different from predicting a collapse of the job market.

Societies are capable of telling themselves stories for years that have little basis in reality and lead to poor society-wide decision making. For example, fears over nuclear plant safety led to under-investment in nuclear power. Fears of the “population bomb” in the 1960s led countries to implement harsh policies to reduce their populations. And worries about dietary fat led governments to promote unhealthy high-sugar diets for decades.

Now that mainstream media is openly skeptical about the jobpocalypse, I hope these stories will start to lose their teeth (much like fears of AI-driven human extinction have).

Contrary to the predictions of an AI jobpocalypse, I predict the opposite: There will be an AI jobapalooza! AI will lead to a lot more good AI engineering jobs, and I’m also optimistic about the future of the overall job market. What AI engineers do will be different from traditional software engineering, and many of these jobs will be in businesses other than traditional large employers of developers. In non-AI roles, too, the skills needed will change because of AI. That makes this a good time to encourage more people to become proficient in AI, and make sure they’re ready for the different but plentiful jobs of the future!

[Original text in The Batch newsletter.]

[Bloomberg @business]

Chinese hackers breached the Cuba’s embassy in Washington to spy on communications of dozens of diplomats as the island nation stared down a US naval blockade, according to findings from the cyber firm Gambit Security https://t.co/aZNvAVIuLl

[Bloomberg Originals @bbgoriginals]

On this episode of Bloomberg Investigates, we take a look at how Russia is using social media to try and interfere in foreign elections https://t.co/jWlcCTJvGh

[McKinsey Global Institute @McKinsey_MGI]

Progress has expanded the global economy dramatically over the past century. We can do it again.

We imagine that by 2100, the poorest country in the world is as rich as Switzerland is today. That’s the floor, everyone else is above it. The global economy would be 8.5x larger.
Is this possible? How do we make it probable?

A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come examines what it would take to achieve very high living standards for all, everywhere.

Discover more: https://t.co/yHKukpPVZh

#CenturyofPlenty

[Bloomberg @business]

Russia's stealth disinformation weapon — Storm-1516 — uses fabricated videos, phony websites and anonymous influencers to sow doubt and bend reality. Read The Big Take ⤵️ https://t.co/SV3osTifqe

[National Security Division, U.S. Dept of Justice @DOJNatSec]

Xu Zewei (徐泽伟), 34, of the People’s Republic of China was extradited to the United States this weekend and appeared today in U.S. District Court in Houston on a nine-count indictment related to his involvement in computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021.

🔗: https://t.co/c69f66ocRP

[Jarom Jordan @jaromjordan]

AJ Dybantsa's thank you to BYU is tremendous, via LinkedIn.

[rydalch @rydalch]

@browseros_ai actually works pretty well.
Used it to automate form completion, compiling research, and data pulls... Let's you use whatever model and provider you choose including @OpenRouter

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has arrived in Kyiv.

She announced a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as discussions on Ukraine's defense, preparations for winter, EU accession, and G7 loans.

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

Pretty explosive. "ByteDance..parent company of..TikTok, found that employees tracked... journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees"