Would you buy it? Or at least pick it up and read the blurb? I’d record the audiobook myself :)
Rik Ferguson
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Immigrant. VP Security Intelligence @Forescout, Co-founder @RespectInSec. Board @vaultree, Cybersecurity Futurist, Researcher, Award-winning writer/producer. He/Him. Pussy in bio. Substack - Ferguson.ink Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Is it just me, or has the #HuggingFace incident ended up giving OpenAI exactly the kind of “our models are terrifyingly capable” narrative that Anthropic has been owning recently?
Why? Why would we do this? Outsourcing the most precious moments in parenting? Handing off the love, trust and emotional bedrock of childhood to tech? So we can do more what? Work? TV? TikTok? Doomscrolling? Anyone who uses this needs their head examined.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago“The feature uses a combination of bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations along with scheduling and customization options accessible only to adults.”
Love you @shadowserver.bsky.social
The Shadowserver Foundation@shadowserver.bsky.social · 4mo agoHeads up! New report going out daily: the Initial Access Broker Report shadowserver.org/what-we-do/n... on compromised hosts likely under control of IABs Data thanks to collaboration with anonymous researchers & SpyCloud - thank you! Check your free daily reports from us!
This idea started at a panel in 2017. Today it’s a doctrine. Meet Assume Autonomy: a new approach to cybersecurity for the autonomous era. Operationalised in a way Assume Breach never was. Proud of this one.
Assume Autonomy Whitepaper
Assume Autonomy is Forescout's security governance and architecture doctrine for defending against AI attacks and other autonomous systems.
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A project I had never envisaged is becoming real. 4 chapters into my memoir. 101 book-sized pages, & I’m still only 11. Summer holidays have ended, when I wake up, it’ll be day 1 at comp. Amazed I’ve found so many stories. It’s an incredible exercise I feel like I am really capturing the 70s/80s.
Scotland once again appearing to demonstrate they are the only home nation without a giant population of Brexiteering, bigoted, brainwashed. Lang may yer lum reek
Lots of biased media reporting in favour of reform as usual today Reform did, sadly, win a lot of council seats BUT they do not control those councils. In many regions there is now no overall majority on a council but it is not the case that Reform have control.
I can’t take anyone seriously in politics when insists on calling us ‘Briddish’
I spoke on a panel at a Gigamon event in the National Portrait Gallery today. This was on the screen behind me. Apparently I have missed my era.
Not only will I absolutely be riding this incredible train to the mountains, but at the beginning of the video you get some glimpses of my beautiful, secret, incomparable, home city of Warszawa. If you have never been, do yourself a favour this summer!
doc7austin 🇳🇱@doc7austin.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew Video: We are riding Poland's First "Unhurried" Train - IC Nieśpieszny" - from Warsaw to Zakopane. link to full video: youtu.be/LqfYds71Qqc
TIL I once stripped off during a gig at Uni. I have no memory of this at all.
New research: a year ago 55% of AI models failed basic vulnerability research and 93% failed exploit development. Today, all tested models complete VR, half generate working exploits autonomously, and the most capable can chain vulnerabilities into multi-stage compromises without complex prompting.
AI Security Testing: Agents Leap From Assistants to Autonomous Hackers
AI is finding bugs humans missed for decades. Forescout's new AI security research reveals the urgent new reality of vulnerability discovery.
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10 years ago, I discovered the five reasons why Poland is actually Middle Earth: 1. They address each other as "Lord" or "Lady". 2. They pay for things with "Golds" 3. "Second breakfast" is a real meal. 4. There's a place called The Crooked Forest. 5. Sauron holds power to the east.
Looks like a significant outage issue with Claude. Downdetector agrees.
I have finally pulled my finger out and started writing. Not the book I was planning (yet) but training I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end
If you are a fan of female-fronted indie/rock, I’d really recommend giving @spaceacreband.bsky.social a listen. Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything. music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...
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Listen to music by SpaceAcre on Apple Music.
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TIL: I learned where babies come from by watching a sheep give birth, at the age of 6.
Finally a great use for those pesky humans. youtu.be/zdkBUuWCZg4?...
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Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the professional, it was never about professionalism.
This is How I Do Business | Rik Ferguson
Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the profes...
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People want the EU to “unravel” for the same reason people try to get alcoholics to have “just one”. They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 7mo agoThe EU is in peril. Can it survive the Trump years, rising nationalism at home and the weight of its own poor decision-making?
I just wrote 4000 words about a day in 1989, and I am really proud of it. Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.
Since the early days of the LLM boom, I’ve been trying to help people understand that LLMs “know” precisely nothing. And folks have found that hard to accept. So, this is five years of explanation, condensed into one post: 1/4
We’re entering an era where: Fluency is algorithmic. Confidence has become cheap. Wisdom remains expensive. So discernment becomes the scarce skill. And it matters more than almost any technical ability going forward.
Phones don’t capture reality anymore, they optimize it. That should worry you more. Your camera doesn’t just see, it “fixes”: light, faces, skies, color. It decides what looks better and hands you that. Somehow, we accepted that “better” mattered more than “true.” Reality is now only a suggestion
Just keep seizing. Just keep seizing…
Kremlin threatens to deploy navy if Europe seizes more Russian shadow fleet vessels
Presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev called the European raids on shadow fleet ships "piracy," and expressed concern that the next step would be a full-fledged blockade.
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