Mastodawn

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

Natanael ⚠️Apr 16

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LR Apr 15

my impression so far is that a lot of infrastructurd is being built on top the assumption that transformer llm's will eventually be replaced by something that actually works and learns. all of this has tech demo quality. i feel sorry for everyone forced by their boss to argue with the machine like they are in a douglas adams novel.

Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.

Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(

I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.

Natanael ⚠️Mar 31

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 11

Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/think-twice-buying-or-using-metas-ray-bans

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But in the past year, products like Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Oakley’s Meta Glasses have gone from a curious niche to...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Natanael ⚠️Mar 11

Tuta Mar 11

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116130138605094270

Today the EU Parliament said NO. ❌

Voluntary scanning by Outlook, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc. might come to an end on April 6 in the EU. Keep pushing everyone! 👏🥳

Natanael ⚠️Mar 11

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Glyph Mar 11

@miss_rodent I am a graduate of the University of Debian-Legal myself (go fightin' sea-lions!), so I realize it is from my tenuous perch on the parapet of a glass house that I am hurling this particular stone, but what a lot of open source programmer / amateur legal analysts get wrong is that the MAIN risk of any copyright issue is the presence of a MOTIVATED COUNTERPARTY WITH A CAUSE OF ACTION, way more than any specific legal risk that you might be able to anticipate

Natanael ⚠️Mar 11

"GrapheneOS doesn’t see Unified Attestation as a solution, but just adds another new gatekeeper, replacing Google controls with a vendor-managed list.

The main argument made is that companies that sell phones should not be deciding which operating systems are allowed to run apps."

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/03/10/grapheneos-calls-on-privacy-focused-app-developers-to-boycott-european-unified-attestation/

GrapheneOS boycotts EU Unified Attestation, asks developers to help

In an official statement on X, GrapheneOS has completely rejected the new Unified Attestation initiative from the EU.

PiunikaWeb

UPDATE: They pulled the story, but I had it up and had SingleFile in my browser, so: https://mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack.

Ars Technica

Natanael ⚠️Feb 14

Taggart

Feb 13

What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.

UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

Natanael ⚠️Feb 12

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Matt Blaze Feb 12

The fact that CBP shot down party balloons is getting attention because it’s kind of funny and embarrassing, but it shouldn’t overshadow the bigger question of whether these weapons are being safely tested and deployed in areas with commercial traffic.

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