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Security professional with healthy skepticism and snake oil allergies

Universal masking and social distancing at the start of the pandemic were so effective that they eliminated a strain of flu, and now annual flu vaccines have been redesigned because that strain no longer needs to be included in the shot. Amazing.

Story: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/17/nx-s1-5155104/flu-shot-vaccine-b-yamagata-extinct

Give this man a Nobel Prize!
NEWS! Man decides to keep box of cables he's had since 2002 for another year https://buff.ly/3BNC4eG
Man decides to keep box of cables he’s had since 2002 for another year

A man has looked at the box of cables he’s had for more than twenty years and decided to hang on to them. The cables, which have lived under his desk since he put them there in 2002, might come in …

NewsThump
I want to call out @wendynather for something incredible. She was part of substantial layoff Cisco undertook last week. She’s active on LinkedIn recently not searching for another job for herself, but rather highlighting/spotlighting her co-workers that were also laid off to help them get jobs.

You don't need to do vishing and smishing "simulations" with your employees.

Since we can all agree you're going to get victims (and they ARE being emotionally victimized, make no mistake about it), redirect that energy to hardening your defenses against the inevitable failures.

Let's stop using the term, "ai art," and start saying, "ai content."

They want us to call our work, "content," and they want us to call their junk, "art." No.
#aiart
My daughter: "Everyone's so amazed that every snowflake's different, but no one cares that every potato is different."

Adobe details Project Res-Up, an experimental AI upscaling tool to improve the quality of low-res GIFs and video; a 1947 movie went from 480x360 to 1280x960 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/11/23912480/adobe-max-sneak-project-resup-ai-video-upscaling-preview
http://www.techmeme.com/231011/p22#a231011p22

Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh

Blur-be-gone! It’s only a tech demo, but impressive regardless.

The Verge

Utah sues TikTok, accusing it of getting kids hooked through "algorithms and manipulative design features", following similar lawsuits by Indiana and Arkansas (David Shepardson/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/utah-sues-tiktok-over-impact-app-children-2023-10-10/
http://www.techmeme.com/231010/p32#a231010p32

Utah sues TikTok, claiming app has harmful impact on children

Utah sued Chinese-owned app TikTok on Tuesday, accusing it of harming children by intentionally keeping young users spending unhealthy amounts of time on the short-video sharing platform.

Reuters
Addressing results of a paid, formal network security audit including our Windows GPO.
Their default recommendation materials almost wholly align with the Windows Security Baselines. For good reason.
Don't think defense is exclusive or obscure, it's not!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55319
Download Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit 1.0 from Official Microsoft Download Center

This set of tools allows enterprise security administrators to download, analyze, test, edit and store Microsoft-recommended security configuration baselines for Windows and other Microsoft products, while comparing them against other security configurations.  

Microsoft Store - Download Center