Mastodawn

Was just looking for something on our local Bargains Hunt style auction shop, and noticed a link on the nav menu: "AI videos". Well, I had to look, didn't I... These are TOTALLY NOT FREAKY at all, there is something wrong with your head if you think otherwise... Brainworms, probably.

https://www.mewsauctions.co.uk/ai-videos/

#FreakyAI #nightmarefuel #BargainHunt

AI Videos | MewsAuctions

AI used to showcase some of our lots! See how our lots have been transformed through the power of AI.

BibbleCo Mar 14

Knot Feed Mar 14

News from occupied Ukraine: Russia confiscating homes in Mariupol, continuing forced passportization, restriction of reproductive rights

This weekly update from the Kyiv Independent aims to shed light on the situation facing Ukrainians living under Russian occupation and the tight control of information imposed by the Kremlin.

Photo: Vladimir Aleksandrov/Anadolu via Getty Images

🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/what-happened-in-russian-occupied-ukraine-over-week-or-russian-occupied-ukraine-update/

BibbleCo Mar 14

mhoye Mar 13

Two posts in my feed today. In the first, what looks like four air-defense interceptors - Patriots, maybe? - missing an incoming Iranian missile.

In the second, the Ukranian military celebrating a soldier with a record six Shahed interceptions in one day.

I know they're not the same, I get it but Patriot missiles cost $4,000,000 each. Just for the missile, not the platform/deployment.

Those Sting FPV interceptors cost $700.

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116218693871247871

https://cosocial.ca/@VitalisViVa@mastodon.social/116223393028053334

nullagent (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video The US base in Fujairah, UAE was seen being struck around 1am on March 11th, which has become routine. Video filmed by sailors showed 4-6 US missile interceptors missing the incoming Iranian missile before it struck the base. Costing a minimum of $16M in failed interceptors. #US #UAE #EpicFury #EpicFail #Iran #Israel

PartyOn

BibbleCo Mar 14

(Via @ollie_whitehouse )

Why o why did I surrender to curiosity and peek? ... It seems that five years metaphorically lying down in a darkened room isn't long enough for the fundamental impossibility of #infosec to change or evolve.

"This paper provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented analysis of the Bill's provisions, their practical implications, and the steps organisations must take to achieve compliance. "
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07861

"Must" is doing an awful lot of structural load bearing there. Put another way: what a waste of time and electrons.

PS the non-word "cyber" still hasn't laid down & died, see. Too much to hope for, eh.

The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: A Practitioner's Guide to Legislative Reform, Compliance, and Organisational Readiness

The Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, introduced to Parliament in November 2025, represents the most significant reform of UK cyber security legislation in nearly a decade. This paper provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented analysis of the Bill's provisions, their practical implications, and the steps organisations must take to achieve compliance. It examines the expanded regulatory scope covering managed service providers, data centres, and designated critical suppliers; the enhanced 24/72-hour incident reporting regime; the strengthened enforcement architecture including penalties of up to \pounds17 million or 4\% of worldwide turnover; and the Secretary of State's new executive powers. The paper compares the Bill with the EU's NIS2 Directive and DORA, proposing a practical dual-compliance framework for financial services firms. It explains how Zero Trust Architecture principles can serve as a foundation for meeting the Bill's requirements, and how the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework v4.0 provides the assurance pathway. Four detailed appendices provide entity-specific compliance roadmaps, worked case studies mapping real UK incidents to Bill provisions, sector-specific action plans for financial services, energy, health, and MSPs, and a complete gap analysis and self-assessment tool mapped to CAF v4.0 and the Bill's requirements.

arXiv.org

BibbleCo Mar 14

Yet another example of the endless, ever-descending spiral stairs to hell that is #infosec...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/14/confidential-health-records-exposed-online-uk-biobank

#infosecrefugee

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times

The Guardian

BibbleCo Mar 14

Five, maybe ten years too late, but full marks to the Grauniad for spotting the early trickles of fine sands and tiny pebbles starting to accumulate at the foot of the mountain of conflict, I mean the mountain of ""#AI"" hype. Haven't seen any sign of other professional news organisations working it out, yet, but it'll come.

The G doesn't seem to be comfortable with the main problem - the gulf between the general notion of what it is, and what it can actually do - but that's OK. Another couple of years of practical demonstrations, a few hundred deaths, some organisations collapsing and the penny will drop. Maybe a global equities correction and a three year recession, too, just for fun?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/14/datacentre-boom-is-uk-ai-bubble-about-to-burst

Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?

Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposed

The Guardian

BibbleCo Feb 28

"major combat operations".

Dubya used that phrase in his speech at the infamous "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" event vis-a-vis the Iraq war being over after a couple of weeks.

#StrongMessageHere

BibbleCo Feb 28

Baldur Bjarnason Feb 28

“Five Things: February 27, 2026 | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/02/27/five-things-february-27-2026/

All five links are interesting reads.

Five Things: February 27, 2026 | As in guillotine...

Yes, there's a theme here... So many of y'all think you're becoming Cyborgs when you're actually just batteries. #cmonson

As in guillotine...

BibbleCo Feb 28

Regime change, you say? I am reminded of Malcolm Tucker's bon mot to the American citizen who objected to him swearing in a public space.

The "best", the least-terrible possible outcome for the US that I can conceive, is that Trump manages to kill some of the senior government / state figures, and a lot of IRGC / Basij thugs and quotidian forces of oppression. But regime change via an air campaign? Never happened before, and I see no reason it could happen now.

Quite possibly his intended exit is a Venezuela outcome, where some second tier stooge gets to be a public figurehead and Trump (likely personally) gets to steal their oil. Basically, he's doing his best to act out a scenario that, say, a naive young anti-Iraq war protester in 2003 thought the Dubya loons were doing.

In short: he's an idiot, with no real grasp of what he's doing or why he's doing it; and he's going to cause the deaths of thousands, possibly tens of thousands, basically so he can look good on TV.

#Trump #Iran #airstrikes #regime_change #evilfuckwitsoftheworld

BibbleCo Feb 28

That doesn't sound at all sinister.

"...Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has declared a "special and permanent state of emergency" "

(BBC live blog on Parent Israeli preemptive (?) attack on Iran, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t )

How nice of them to time it just as I woke up and checked the apocalypse updates you puny earthlings call 'news'

Trump says 'there will likely be more' US deaths as Iran strikes to continue until 'all' goals achieved

Three American service members have been killed and casualties are reported in the UAE, Israel and Kuwait as Israel and Iran continue to trade strikes.

BBC News