Do you like video? No? Me neither. But I'm told I should make videos for marketing, and I really want to get the word out about this free threat modeling training for displaced federal workers. So maybe just let it play on silent in the background and then click like, m'kay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfHNe4exXRk

If you want to skip the video, chck out the content at https://shostack.org/blog/threat-modeling-training-for-federal-workers/

Fedi computer and network-touchers:

I’m hiring!

Looking for a senior-level linux and network type person in the Melbourne, Australia area.

Hit me up if you or anyone you know are interested.

Boosts appreciated!

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.

Sometimes I love living in #SanFrancisco :

I get to armchair visit the most exotic places!

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Folks, there is 0 evidence that Steam passwords have been breached. Unless and until credible evidence occurs, please do NOT urge people to change their login credentials and please do NOT boost other people's toots doing the same. Creating unjustified anxiety about a non event does a disservice to us all.

Please boost for visibility.

Just spoke with my CDC sources:

They said a domestic cat in Idaho infected with H5N1 has developed mutations that could enable the virus to infect mammals, including humans.

These mutations echo past jumps.

My CDC sources warn the virus is silently evolving. If this continues, it could lead to H-to-H transmission.

I report on Bird Flu, COVID-19, Measles, and Other Infectious diseases straight forward from my CDC sources.

I need your support. Please Follow my page and spread the word.

The European Commission is trying to woo American researchers with a new €500 million program (with France contributing another €100 million) called “Choose Europe for Science.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-emmanuel-macron-choose-europe-against-us-donald-trump-war-university-gigantic-miscalculation/