Michelle 🇺🇸

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[Michelle 🇺🇸 @tinymwriter]

The @IBMSecurity Intelligence publication was closed earlier this year. I didn't lose all my hard work thanks to @Authory 💾

Sadly, I have worked for a lot of brand publications that were shuttered without warning.

https://t.co/gnF410kGC0

[Benj Edwards @benjedwards]

Hi I'm Benj! I'm looking for a full-time job after doing consulting work for most of this year

I know firsthand about AI's promise and hazards, and I can help your company handle them in writing, herding AI agents, comms, or technical docs

https://t.co/yTru3yYQfq

DMs open

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Check your children's candy carefully this year... you never know.

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

I asked 50 Japanese people, ages 9 to 91, one question.

"What do you admire most about Americans?"

Here are the top answers.

10. "They clap when the plane lands." (Office worker, 34)

9. "They say 'I love you' every time they hang up the phone. Even men. Even to other men." (Taxi driver, 61)

8. "A stranger told me she liked my shoes. Then she just walked away. She didn't want anything." (High school girl, 16)

7. "They thank the bus driver when they get off." (Bus driver, 55. He got emotional saying this.)

6. "They tell you their whole life story in the grocery line. I know about one man's divorce, his boat, and his knee surgery. We knew each other for four minutes." (My mother, 64)

5. "They stand for the anthem at a children's baseball game." (Little League coach, 47)

4. "When they lose, they shake hands and say 'good game.' And they mean it." (Sota, 12)

3. "They fly the flag on a regular Tuesday. No holiday. Just because." (Nurse, 28)

2. "They help a stranger push a car out of the snow, then leave without saying their name." (My cousin's husband, 52, who got stuck in Colorado once)

And the number one answer came from the oldest person I asked. My grandfather. He's 91.

He thought about it for a long time.

Then he said:

"They still believe tomorrow will be better than today."

I asked him what he meant.

"In 1946, we had nothing," he said. "The American soldiers I met were young and far from home. But they acted like the future was coming, and it was going to be good. After a while, we started to believe them."

I asked him if he thought Americans still believe that.

He nodded slowly.

"Tell them," he said, "not to stop."

[Michelle 🇺🇸 @tinymwriter]

sounds greedy

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says having RAM in personal computers is an inefficient use of the world’s limited DRAM supply, arguing it would be better allocated to data centers, per Tom’s Hardware

[Michelle 🇺🇸 @tinymwriter]

Great advice except the phone is required for multi-factor-authentication to login to work things #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Habits from the habits guy.

“Habits that have a high rate of return in life:

– sleeping 8+ hours each day
– lifting weights 3x week
– going for a walk each day
– saving at least 10 percent of your income
– reading every day
– drinking more water and less of everything else
– leaving your phone in another room while you work” - James Clear

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

Google says your Gmail, Drive, and Photos data could influence the ads you see.

The catch? This can happen when you opt to share that data with AI-powered Search features.

Google's updated privacy policy spells out the trade-off.

Here's what you need to know: https://t.co/35Eufqf8sj

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🚨 UPDATE: Railway says hackers targeted AI API keys to carry out model distillation attacks.

Up to 100,000 workspaces may have been exposed.

Attackers allegedly used uncensored AI models and massive compute resources to breach its infrastructure.

What we know: https://t.co/om4EQe9Q3q

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Wow the Palo Duro Canyon here in Texas. The second largest canyon in the US after the Grand Canyon. What a view!

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

I asked 30 Japanese 12-year-olds one question.

"What do you think of when you hear 'America'?"

(My nephew's teacher let me visit his class. I was not prepared.)

"Hamburgers the size of my head."

"Everything is big. Even the milk."

"Cowboys." Then a boy asked me, "Do cowboys still exist?"
I said yes.
The whole class cheered.

"They went to the moon."
I told them only Americans have ever walked on it.
The room went completely silent. Respect.

"The best baseball in the world. Even Ohtani had to go there."

"Superheroes. They all live in New York."

Then a quiet girl in the back raised her hand.

"My grandma says when the tsunami came, American soldiers came to help her town. She still has a photo with them on her fridge."

Nobody said anything for a while.

Then the teacher asked, "Who wants to go to America someday?"

Every hand went up.

Including the teacher's.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Quest Diagnostics has been hacked. Patient data was exposed. They serve roughly half of U.S. hospitals and physicians. Investigation ongoing.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules. https://t.co/DusKs8P0Em

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Quest Diagnostics reports a cybersecurity breach potentially exposing sensitive patient records, with the number of affected patients still unknown.

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic. https://t.co/vtvzhm4fCL

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, per Axios

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, & other major banks have reportedly detected unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A casino got hacked through a fish tank.

It has sensors. automated feeding, temperature control, remote monitoring.
connected to the internet. isolated on its own VPN. segregated from everything else.

Hackers still found it anyway, compromised it, pivoted to the main network.

started pulling data.

nobody monitors fish tank outbound traffic, why would they it's a fish tank.

Darktrace caught it, anomalous transfers to an external destination nobody in the building had ever talked to.

the casino had done everything right. separate network. isolated device. proper segmentation.

Still didn't matter.

The fish tank was still online, still running software, still had an attack surface.

Every device you connect is a door you didn't know you opened.

[Dark Reading @DarkReading]

Fake Claude, ChatGPT Attacks Surge, Putting Developers at Risk https://t.co/Ul0hKpcEMF By Rob Wright #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth. #CyberMonth

[Kim Zetter @KimZetter]

Wild story from @briankrebs: 1) Dubrovsky, the arrested ransomware negotiator, knew ShinyHunters stole FBI data but never told FBI; 2) an exec from another large US negotiating firm played an active role operating ShinyHunters' victim extortion website
https://t.co/7n1XwibyBC

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

New: The FBI believes an exec at a prestigious U.S. consulting firm (1,000+ associates) helped run Shinywire, the ShinyHunters site used to extort nearly 100 victims.

The people victims hire to negotiate with hackers may have been on the other side of the table.

- Dutch police raided ShinyHunters suspect Pepijn van der Stap with flash-bangs while he was logged into Signal
- His chats showed frequent contact with ransom negotiators in the U.S. and Canada
- Those negotiators often knew about new victims before the victims knew they'd been breached
- Per sources, Edward Dubrovsky, a Canadian negotiation exec charged earlier this month, knew ShinyHunters had the FBI's personnel files and never told the FBI
- Dubrovsky's other firm, CyberSteward, helped PowerSchool pay its ~$2.85M ransom

Meanwhile ShinyHunters was griping on Telegram that Coveware kept telling victims not to pay and it was wrecking their conversion rate.

[Michelle 🇺🇸 @tinymwriter]

More evidence these should not be built anywhere near residential areas.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: AI data centers could soon require blast-resistant concrete, anti-drone defenses, & missile protection as attacks on computing infrastructure escalate worldwide. — Financial Times