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• Post #4502058

  @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange This screencap of a Facebook post is making the rounds, alleging that returning DEFCON attendees used a WiFi Pineapple to de-auth and spoof the in-flight Wi-Fi and harvest creds.

• Post #4410468

  @Viss@mastodon.social LLMs are already basically compression. Discussion in videos from 3blue1brown: https://youtu.be/l6DKRf-fAAM https://youtu.be/GlYgs6v2YfU As far as shrinking the models themselves, Google is investing a lot in this space. They really want to sell you Android phones that can do at least some of the GenAI processing on the device itself, rather than shoveling everything up to a bunch of expensive datacenters. Gemma 4 has a bunch of tweaks that are beyond my understanding t...

• Post #4400586

  @Viss@mastodon.social @jfslowik@infosec.exchange The cynical and unfortunately likely accurate answer here is that you probably can't convict an LLM of a crime because you can't establish intent for an entity that simply doesn't have any. And you probably can't convict an LLM's owners or operators unless they were dumb enough to include that intent in their prompt. At most it's probably a civil issue, and even then there are challenges because of a narrowing of damage...

• Post #4360193

  @subtetralectic@defcon.social @bruces@mastodon.social Thank you!

• Post #4221780

  @Viss@mastodon.social Sure, why not? Most of their customers are only calling them after they tried and failed to use AI chatbots to fix their plumbing issues.

• Post #4202881

  NYT: Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums Joke's on Trump, my mom already died after being denied hospital admission during his mismanaged COVID pandemic, so she doesn't need Medicare drugs anymore. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/medicare-drug-subsidies-part-d.html #medicare #uspol #healthcare

• Post #4179336

  All of Virginia is under a drought warning, and residents are being urged to conserve water. "The utility says the guidance only applies to non-essential residential usage, not businesses or industries." So I assume this means Virginia datacenters are free to continue to waste drinking water, got it. https://www.alxnow.com/2026/07/28/alexandrias-drinking-water-utility-calls-for-voluntary-water-conservation-amid-drought/

• Post #4166729

  I accidentally walked out of Aldi with a carton of "half & half" that I belatedly realized was fat-free. What the hell is "fat-free half & half"? Is it just "& half"? #aldi #dairy

• Post #4164192

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116997393121679066 "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."

• Post #4144411

  It's absolutely wild to me that our society's choices seem to be one of the following, depending almost entirely on which stakeholders offer the best bribes to the President of the United States and his family: 1) US Government-enforced AI moat, forcing all of us to use one of a handful of regime-approved GenAI models hosted behind rent-seeking American hosting companies ruining our environment, while immiserating most of the world's population. 2) Collapse of America's scam-ba...

• Post #4143942

  TIL: The town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania bought a dead body purely for marketing reasons. The town paid his widow a bunch of money for his remains and the right to rename their town after him to boost tourism. Jim Thorpe never set foot in Jim Thorpe, PA, and had no connections to the town while alive. But his body is there. For marketing reasons.

• Post #4074538

  AI is going great. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/massive-disconnect-power-roiled-largest-us-electric-grid-2026-07-22/

• Post #4069093

  @Viss@mastodon.social Oh, I absolutely believe you that it's running on a shitty K8s cluster on Azure. I just don't know that this specific incident requires a container breakout rather than a much more pedestrian "we fucked up the isolation of our agent-based system's test harness because we're vibecoding everything and we don't know how to sysadmin jack shit."

• Post #4067104

  @Viss@mastodon.social @scottwilson@infosec.exchange Looks like Google added a backup/export feature to their Authenticator app sometime around 2020. That feature would've been nice to have pre-2020 when I switched phones and had to spend hours deprovisioning and reprovisioning 2FA on all my accounts. Not that I'm still bitter or anything.

• Post #4060483

  @Viss@mastodon.social @scottwilson@infosec.exchange Just make darned sure that whatever 2FA they use has a backup. Some TOTP apps are better than others at this, but they all need to be paired with some sort of online cloud backup, and the key for that needs to be secured somewhere they can find it. Some TOTP apps will randomly fuck you over. Same with passkeys. If they're going to be stored on yubikeys then you're gonna wanna make sure they have all their accounts provisioned on at l...

• Post #4015302

  The venality of the GenAI firms is breathtaking to behold. They insist that their widespread theft of intellectual property to train their models should be treated as transformative fair use, but that model distillation attacks by overseas competitors are somehow crossing a line. And their proposed solution to this made-up problem is lobbying the Trump regime for Juche-inspired isolationism. Which, you know, has been working out swell for North Koreans. All of this while their models churn o...

• Post #3996238

  One of the most frustrating discoveries over the last couple years is how much of our critical small tech and open source technologies are apparently run by breathtakingly amoral or outright fascist leaders. Between Mullvad, Brave, Firefox, Kagi, and Proton, it's hard to find alternatives to big tech that we can trust to keep us safe against rising mass surveillance and authoritarianism. I'm certain these projects are staffed by exceptionally talented and earnest individuals working in...

• Post #3965489

  RE: https://chaos.social/@vogelchr/116953057618621110 A shocking development in transportation and energy sector security.

• Post #3962218

  Gas prices are high. Our economy is suffering from stagflation. We've threatened and alienated all our allies. Our military is losing a half-assed war with Iran, occupying American cities, accomplishing almost nothing against the still-in-power Chavistas in Venezuela, committing war crimes on the high seas, and obsessing over the testosterone levels of whatever straight white male remnant is allowed to continue to serve. The White House hasn't experienced this much destruction since the...

• Post #3959344

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116952188109570838 Fam, is it a good sign when you have to hide casualties from the public in your big beautiful perfect war that we won in the first few hours?

• Post #3957134

  The FDA's cyclospora test of Taylor Farms was apparently a false positive. So, are we back to square one with finding the source of the cyclospora diarrhea outbreak? https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-says-taylor-farms-cyclospora-finding-was-false-positive-2026-07-20/ #publichealth #cyclospora #diarrhea #trumporrhea

• Post #3885911

  Golly gee willikers, with all of these threats to our vulnerable election systems, it sure would be nice if we had a functioning CISA election integrity effort and a fully staffed EAC. #uspol #elections

• Post #3884218

  The air is chewy. I don't like it when the air is chewy.

• Post #3871590

  This sequel to "101 Dalmatians" is so weird. I'm 50 pages in and there's no plot, and not even a single mention of any dogs. #croatia #dalmatia #hrvatska

• Post #3860458

  Is there any sort of standard/recommended way to hook up a small solar panel to a 12V car battery? My car is new enough that the 12V DC cigarette lighter plug is automatically disabled a few minutes after the car is turned off. I don't always drive it enough to keep it topped off, and I feel like a solar panel left on the dash would be a good option if it is easy to wire. Most of the consumer panels seem to either use a cigarette lighter (which I think won't work for my situation) or ass...

• Post #3795013

  The US Department of Defense is suspending CMMC Phase II, effective immediately. https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4542329/forging-the-arsenal-of-freedom-department-of-war-suspends-cmmc-phase-ii-require/ #infosec #cmmc

• Post #3658237

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116880801917181549 The ceasefire is going great.

• Post #3651056

  Can anyone recommend resources for Croatian language grammar? Ideally I'm looking for something like tables for common verbs and their conugations, as well as tables for common declensions for nouns, adjectives, and articles based on case, gender, count, etc. Free printable tables would be ideal, although I wouldn't mind paying for something. I am heading to Croatia later this year on vacation. I'm trying to learn a little bit of the language using a free subscription to Mango Langu...

• Post #3639514

  I'm a big fan of forgiveness and redemption. But we don't have to elect the people we've forgiven to the United States Senate.

• Post #3611662

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116869115101331694 These corrupt assholes truly deserve each other.