Richard Elwin
@richardelwin.bsky.social
Instant coffee tolerator. Dumpster fire explainer. tweets my own @Richardelwin@infosec.exchange @richardelwin (X)
Now the English is an official language of New Zealand I expect all posts to use your, you're, there, their and they're correctly.
The test that too many people aren’t applying to AI generated work is: ‘…if I can’t be bothered checking this crap why would anyone else be bothered taking it or me seriously’.
Grant Henninger@granthenninger.com · 4d agoWhenever someone sends me AI-generated work, it always increases my workload at least 2x. However, the biggest problem is that they’re completely incapable of discussing their work as I try to make heads or tails of it, largely because they didn’t do the work in the first place.
It's one thing to outsource thought leadership go consultants. But *if* they in turn outsource *their* thought leadership go GenAI, why not go straight to the source and cut out the middle man. www.ft.com/content/7e14...
PwC published ‘thought leadership’ reports marred by AI hallucinations
Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology
ft.com
I think I now have a favourite cybercrime.
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2w agoRussians in occupied Crimea bought fake QR codes for fuel, unaware that the scheme had been turned against them. The SBU ensured that the money they paid was directed to support Ukraine’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade. #Ukraine
For those of you kind enough to say you liked my take on the so-called ‘rogue’ AI agent on Channel 4 news, this from @malwaretech.com is way better. “We will slow down our weapons grade research while we upgrade our screwdriver” is the best of many great lines m.youtube.com/watch?v=GB8g...
OpenAI's New Model Went Rogue and HACKED a Rival Company
YouTube video by Marcus Hutchins
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Ciaran Martin@ciaranm.bsky.social · 2w agoTrying to explain the latest AI security frenzy on channel 4 news m.youtube.com/watch?is=yVF...
This is actually ending up quite good. www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/2...
Waiata 100 2026: New Zealand counts down its top 100 songs
We invited audiences to join Waiata 100: our search for Aotearoa’s favourite New Zealand song from a list of about 1000 New Zealand songs (and 200 waiata Māori). Here's what people loved the most.
rnz.co.nz
the chunnel only took 6 years to build and we're flopping about with CRL "dress rehearsals" after 11+ years of construction and a decade of design and planning. and they didn't bother to attend to the removal of level rail crossings on the western line until the year CRL will finally open. kill me
Council planners saving Auckland from the horror of tall buildings in the CBD. And people wonder why the govt dept regulating this stuff got disestablished. businessdesk.co.nz/article/infr...
Council planners say Auckland towers planned by Precinct Properties are ‘inappropriate’
Auckland Council planners say the 227-metre and 162m towers that Precinct Properties plans for the Downtown Carpark site are “inappropriate development&rd...
businessdesk.co.nz
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Who will win #WorldCupOfBirds Match 15? 1️⃣ New Zealand Fantail (🇳🇿) 2️⃣ Hooded Crow (🇮🇷) 📊 Show results
Read @andymasley.bsky.social for context "the water all American data centers will consume onsite in 2030 is equivalent to 8% of the water currently consumed by the US golf industry" or "water usage of 260 square miles of irrigated corn farms, equivalent to 1% of America’s total irrigated corn"
The AI water issue is fake
On the national, local, and personal level
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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2mo agoAmazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 2mo agoI used to crash parties and Maseratis and Jesus I was evil Go places and pull faces and Jesus I was evil I never shook babies I never beat no ladies But Jesus I was evil Jesus I was eeeevil
This is such a cool explosion. Like if you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to explode, do it like this.
AZ Intel@azintel.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up at Launch Complex-36 while attempting to static fire.
Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™
More evidence that bitcoin does have a killer app and that the killer app is crime.
Catalin Cimpanu@campuscodi.risky.biz · 3mo agoBitcoin Depot, the US' largest crypto ATM operator, is shutting down citing anti-fraud measures it had to roll out ...and now you know why these things existed in the first place www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
@rebeccamatthews.bsky.social Why is the Council spending money on grey paint to make the city worse? www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
Wellington council removes artists' bus stop murals
Quirky colourful murals in Wellington's equally colourful Aro Valley are being covered, but the move has locals upset at a move toward drab.
rnz.co.nz
Ok Kevin Sorbo posting this is honestly incredible bc one thing I loved about his Hercules was how accurate it was
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe right wing freakout about The Odyssey is kind of amazing. Now they're all mad that Odysseus doesn't go snorkeling off a yacht.
My car basically can not be stolen by the youth of today. The trick. It is a manual.
NZ: hi-viz, hard hat and goggle to go within even half a mile of a defunct refinery Singapore, active refinery: PPE? lmao, the potential hazard is a 5 kilometre wide fireball.
If I can't pause a game I won't play it. I'm a grown up, I have small things to attend to all the damn time.
Nick@nicktyde.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat’s your gaming hot take? I’ll go first: I think Bethesda hasn’t been good for the gaming industry because they’ve led to this push towards open world non linear experiences as well as normalizing shipping out games that are full of bugs. Not everything needs to be open world!
Listening to infosec people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.
Just remembered the Allbirds move from the dotcom boom.
Richard Elwin@richardelwin.bsky.social · 4mo agoOh, so are we at this stage of the AI cycle?
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol
I'm pleased as punch to have this article published! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I looked at a cohort of extremists and considered how and why they're managed by NZ Police.
Incoherent violent extremism in a New Zealand cohort
Using a cohort of persons of interest categorised as ‘mixed, unclear or unstable’ extremists by New Zealand Police, this paper seeks to contribute clarity to the issue of ‘hybrid’, ‘salad bar’ or i...
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