Typically speaking, when the accountants start hiding spending across business units it's because things are going ~very well~
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2d agoMicrosoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
The people running this know it is bad, but they need to exit their investment first at any cost (to the rest of us).
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3d agoBill Gates says tech executives are privately "very worried" about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs (Karen Weise/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Hey @michaelastackpole.bsky.social did they give Phelan and Australian accent in the Audible production or am I dreaming?
Great read on SharpViewStateKing, a persistent challenge for any security team responsible for monitoring Microsoft IIS servers. www.cyber.gc.ca/en/news-even...
SharpViewStateKing: The stealthy implant framework - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
SharpViewStateKing: The stealthy implant framework
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I wrote in an internal memo some months ago that I thought security and productivity will never be compatible when it comes to LLMs because a properly constrained LLM will not offer any productivity gain over a human equivalent. I think that assessment will remain true for a long time.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3mo agoCybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting "innocuous tasks" like reading blog posts or performing code reviews (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
What an amazing conference #PIVOTCon was! The talks were of exceptional quality and ranged well between technical and contextual. Best of all, not a single talk slot wasted on AI! A genuine privilege to see so many high caliber researchers and analysts in action. Bravo @pivotcon.bsky.social !
The Timberwolf is my all time favorite 'mech going way back to the mid 1990s. It's aesthetically perfect and the chassis is highly optimized. The Prime is far from perfect, but the LRM20s give it some dangerous burst damage. The A config is a deadly Warhammer clone. #battletech
I have mine, just waiting for the right conference presentation to wear it.
da share z0ne@dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 6mo agoNOBODY!!!!! GET SHIRT OF THIS AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
Just realized I can easily order paperback books here (EU rather than AU) so it's time for some catch up on the Battletech reading list! Fox Tales ✅ Without Question ✅ A Question Of Survival ✅ The Longest Day ✅ (How did I miss new content set in 3050!?)
I love this snippet from the Oxide blog on LLM use because it neatly encapsulates something I had trouble expressing regarding the constant and increasing pressure to do more cyber threat intelligence with LLMs: How can anybody value analysis that takes more effort to read than to write?
Jumped on the Adversary Universe podcast to discuss threat hunting at CrowdStrike. We touched on handling scale and new hunting domains, the F3EAD loop, FAMOUS CHOLLIMA, OPERATOR PANDA and an interesting cold case you won't hear about anywhere else: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U3A...
Interview with a Threat Hunter: Brody Nisbet, Sr. Director of CrowdStrike OverWatch
YouTube video by CrowdStrike
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Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886 for a months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Writers who use AI are not real writers. terribleminds.com/ramble/2026/...
Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …
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HackingLZ, Flangvik and Fabian describing CrowdStrike with OverWatch as "an S-tier pain in the ass for sure" is a nice endorsement :) Also today I discovered offsec has twitch streams!
@davidaeubanks.bsky.social I've tracked you all the way down here to say I read Life Artificial many years ago and loved it. Changed the way I thought about science fiction and I think it turns out you were ahead of the times when it comes to envisioning AI. That's all, just wanted to share.
Begging the Author's most exquisite indulgence but @annleckie.com how much fun, exactly, did you have writing the character(s) of Presger Translator Dlique.. or is it Zeiat?
Got a good game in yesterday, our last for some time as I will be relocating away for a while. Stinger, Centurion, Catapult, Awesome (4,000 BV) came off worse against a highly spec'd Griffin, Wolverine, and Warhammer (5,200 BV). Plenty of fun included DFA, melee, and surprise gyro hits.
I am 2/3 through the Imperial Radch series by @annleckie.com and loving it. The Presger translators must have been a lot of fun to write, because I'm thoroughly enjoying them whenever they appear. "Don't dismember your sister!" "Not a drink? But it's a liquid!?" "Why do the fish... do this?" 10/10