Wishing painful hand cramps and tinnitus on all executives who applaud their own statements, while wearing lapel microphones.

Good

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith. This week, her sermon got her kicked off a flight and clips of her removal racked up millions of views on social media. She called the situation “spiritual warfare.”

I've spent the last thirty-odd years convincing my mother that the job I do in security is, indeed, legal, and now I have to spend the next several convincing AI of the same?

The Register@theregister.com · last wk.

Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug

The void is unusually busy right now. Your scream will be ignored in the order it was received. For a more immediate response, have you considered our abyss-staring video chat?

An LLM is going to see "exploiting flaws in the tests used to validate the response" as an equally valid way of solving the problem you've asked it to solve.

No surprise - when you press the button to ask Amazon how the price of an item has changed over the last few days, they choose to open a query to an LLM and burn a rainforest, rather than just do a simple database query to get the information.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.

AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...

I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive.

I love this video, for many reasons, but just want to highlight that it shows how someone implemented a security system they couldn't think their way around, someone else came and poked it to show how easy it is to break, and now the defenders are going to have to do a ton of work to try and fix it.

That Anonymous Coward@thatac.bsky.social · last wk.

Security is my passion...

I will not spoil this book by revealing which dog gets shot at the end of the story.

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 2w ago

lol this sucks www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...

If your AI "goes rogue" and hacks my systems (especially if it causes an outage while doing so), why isn't that illegal?

That sounds ominously threatening.

So, I'm with you to the point of agreeing that golden eggs don't lay golden eggs, but surely the shit that goes on in agriculture should show that the greatest value isn't in the goose that lays the golden eggs, but in the goose that lays the eggs from which a golden-egg-laying goose may hatch...

GenAI companies are largely operating on the mass theft of intellectual property. It isn’t China you should be worried about, it’s America.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w ago

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

If anyone asks how serious the ransomware situation is, ask them if they've seen the Hasbro web site over the last few months. Because Hasbro hasn't seen it for that long, either.

I loathe this artificial distinction between "production" and "non-production". The number of services/tools that are too expensive to host more than one of, it's inevitable that there's a short chain of operations from non-prod to prod.

"Entertainment"

I'm pretty sure that a good thing for a planet that's getting way too hot is not to artificially redirect more of the hot-making rays onto it.

Deleted the private key for an enterprise deployment of laptop encryption on my last day with the company.

Soatok@soatok.bsky.social · 4w ago

Drop the deep lore What's the worst mistake you've made in your career? :P

British politics has reached the silly season.

There was ever a cheap smartphone?

The Register@theregister.com · 4w ago

DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Getting my order in for Hercule Poirot books before the 250% tariff hits.

Looking at you, FOSS

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4w ago

One of my hardest-won political lessons is that it’s never, ever worth it to treat ppl as ~indispensable no matter what they do~ —bc we *see* the contributions & potential of the abusive men & we don’t get to see that in the women they drive out. We never actually get to know what we’ve squandered

OK, so yeah, you're right, the company can't _always_ be "experiencing higher than average call volumes". However... you're more likely to be calling during times when they are.

Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it

Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it

Companies are realizing artificial intelligence can't do everything after all, prompting them to rehire employees to grow their businesses

cnb.cx

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix

theregister.com

Why risk analysis is so hard whenever human behaviour is involved - it's "those other idiots" who make all the mistakes. "We", on the other hand, are not that stupid. Yes, you are capable of that stupidity, unless you've taken steps not to do so. Safety is not achieved by accident.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · last mo.

Every year, people are betrayed by their optimism. "Fireworks have exploded in other people's hands, but surely they will not explode in mine. My hands are different."

This should be a "fire the CEO" moment, or at least the CTO. You put your company's future at existential jeopardy for the sake of an untested technology, and the promise of fairy magic failed spectacularly.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

I enjoyed watching this video. "This is not the AI we were promised" from the Royal Society Michael Faraday award.

Remember that a ruler is nothing more than a straight edge that's graduated.