The new “⚠️Seems like AI slop” button on LinkedIn is sending me into orbit lmao
Gerald Benischke
@beny23.github.io
Maker, breaker and fixer of software. Adventures in #appsec and #agile: beny23.github.io he/him
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · last wk.Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m just a simple Internet user, but it seems to me that the UK government shouldn’t use this man’s website for official communications, I dunno.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoHere is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.
I’m glad I don’t live in Penis Lancs. I mean Pennine Lancs. 🤦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Potential names of Lancashire's four new councils revealed
The county's existing 15 councils will be replaced by four unitary authorities in 2028.
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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
I loved @witchofthetest.bsky.social ‘s keynote at Agile on the Beach it had everything. Humour, a serious topic, no AI, Dutch Viking ax fighting arias. beny23.github.io/posts/aotb_2... #AgileOnTheBeach2026
Agile on the Beach 2026: Field of princes
This is a post about my travel to Cornwall for Agile on the Beach, a fantastic conference. So why do I talk about fields of princes? You’re going to have to bear with me. But this will involve big que...
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@witchofthetest.bsky.social doesn’t want to talk about AI for her closing keynote of #AgileOnTheBeach2026 1/n
Francesca starts off with a truth bomb about AI in product at the #AgileOnTheBeach2026 Friday opening keynote 1/n
@nativewired.com are doing the last teams track talk is talking about the F word: feelings! Fucking feelings… 1/n
@tdpauw.bsky.social is next up at #AgileOnTheBeach2026 talking about non blocking code reviews. Why are we doing it anyway? 1/n
Chris is giving an AI-less (bravo) security talk at #AgileOnTheBeach2026 - telling us about how to improve a slow security process in a bank. 1/n
Agile on the beach is kicking off by Steve giving us the annual reminder he’s not allowed to talk to the WiFi team. #AgileOnTheBeach2026
I used to think number of app downloads was the most useless vanity metric until token maxxing.
Turns out FIFA is as good at security as they are at peace prizes… bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack
I Could've Rickrolled the Entire FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID.
How I found that anyone could register on FIFA's public Agent Platform, gain access to the Football Data Platform's Streaming Management panel, and get RTMP ingest URLs and stream keys for every live ...
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Creating policies on tech to be banned for politicians from the spring. Details below. Policy being described as “Reality -“ and will also include a curfew for MPs from talking to the press after their first drink.
Joe Tidy BBC News@joetidy.bsky.social · 2mo agoSocial media to be banned for under 16s in the UK from the spring then. Details below in the main piece being updated as we get more info. Policy being described as 'Australia +' as it will also include curfew on scrolling for 16s/17s. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wearing 2 T-shirts at @bsidesleeds.bsky.social today. Pink one for being a first time goon and a blue one for being a last minute speaker. #BSidesLeeds2026
Fabled model stays mythical as Uncle Sam pulls the plug. I thought short selling only works after a company goes public… www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
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I had some fun linking together Meta's support AI fail, Microsoft's criminalisation fail, Google's account disablement fail and Zuck's being a human being fail. #WeaklyLink beny23.github.io/posts/weakly...
Weakly Link 26/21: Control Failures
Apologies for the tardiness, when I started this set of posts, I squarely aimed to do this once a week. Of course, I never fully committed to that, it was more of a weakly held belief that I would hol...
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A reminder for anybody surprised Meta's AI allowed anybody to change anybody else's Instagram account login of this headline a few months ago:
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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I've written something about Microsoft's apparent stance that not following made up responsible disclosure frameworks is criminal activity. doublepulsar.com/microsofts-s...
Microsoft’s stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making
Nightmare Eclipse vs Microsoft risks turning into a wildfire of corporate protect over cyber defence.
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It's a day ending in y, so must be time for another npm supply chain attack: www.stepsecurity.io/blog/multipl...
Multiple redhat-cloud-services npm Packages compromised - StepSecurity
Several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope were found to carry malicious payloads that fire via a preinstall hook on every npm install. The affected versions span multiple packages acros...
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