Neil Batchelor

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Over 75% of the world’s food crops need pollinators.

Yet, bee populations have dropped globally over recent decades due to:

🔸 habitat loss
🔸 climate change
🔸 excessive use of pesticides

Our fertiliser plan promotes healthier ecosystems, which are essential for bees’ survival.

On this #WorldBeeDay, we urge governments, organisations and citizens to help save these precious creatures.

We need to keep our bees busy and well!

The #Bioshock vibes are real at this abandoned conference venue in Germany. While modern, the location features Art Deco-style architecture and decor. These double bass doors lead straight into the former café.

All we need now is a banner saying "Welcome to Rapture".

#AbandonedPlaces #Germany #Architecture #ArtDeco #Blue #Brass #Photography

Listening to Radio 4 whilst dropping 19 to work this morning and there was an article about social media damaging relationships and our ability to form connections with other people - making us lonelier and less connected. And the whole time I was thinking..... that's not social media you're describing. It is Instagram. It has not been my experience of Fedi, at all. Which continues to be a source of connection and conversation and friendship.

New, by me: CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/

You've been visited by the giant alleyway gull

The familiar background noise of idle chatter and clanking cutlery filled the Fortinet staff cafeteria.

But then, a sound that was anything but familiar. It started as a rumble. Folks stopped talking and began to pay attention.

The rumble grew into a fizzling sound, followed by a pop.

An acrid smoke floated in from the lab across the hall from the cafeteria.

The door flung open. An engineer, with a face covered in soot, panting, struggled to emerge.

A coworker ran to help.

“What happened?!” She asked.

“We er…we ran Mythos on the code base to look for security problems….and er…it was just too much for it to handle.”

Linux kernel security list is drowning in duplicate AI-flagged bugs; same issues, with same tools, but different names of human submitters. Maintainers have now formalized the obvious - AI-found bugs are public by definition. New docs define 5 failure modes for AI-assisted reports: too long, Markdown-heavy, threat model-ignorant, reproducer-free, patch-free. Non-compliant reports risk being ignored. Most AI-flagged issues aren’t even real vulnerabilities anyway. 500 submitters, 1 CVE, 0 patches?

And the latest edition of my newsletter ~ this week in security ~ is out: Canvas software maker Instructure paid the hackers who catastrophished it, while Grafana did not. A million more IDs leak online. Trump and Xinping chat cyber, AI, and spying during state visit. And a decades-old nuclear sabotage secret is uncovered. 🐈‍⬛

Read online: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/this-week-in-security-may-17-2026-edition/

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this week in security — may 17 2026 edition

Instructure pays hackers' ransom, Trump and Xinping chat cyber in China, a million more IDs leak online, a ransomware gang gets hacked, Cisco's layoffs and a new zero-day, a decades-old Iranian nuclear malware mystery is solved, and more.

~this week in security~