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"AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say" - Guardian

The "research paper" was a tweet by an AI company

The "experiment" was asking the LLM to shut down

A model is ~not~ shutdown ~ever~ by asking a model to shut itself down

*The only possible response is a hallucination*

You shut down a model by turning off the deterministic software running it; so works every time w/o fail

Yet Guardian's shill tech writers just report AI industry tweets as if it was fact

This kind of shit fills me with hope for the future of this thing we call cybersecurity.

In addition to formal government institutions, Musk is also trying to tear apart Wikipedia

That is almost certainly, as this analysis notes, because Wikipedia is "a last bastion of shared reality" ...

... and Musk, in contrast, only wants online sources that repeat his sort of conspiratorial blather

The piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/1mjMq

Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia

Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

The Atlantic
Added Ruby 3.4 to the CI (closes #81). · ronin-rb/ronin-db@5246902

A common database library for managing and querying security data - Added Ruby 3.4 to the CI (closes #81). · ronin-rb/ronin-db@5246902

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You heard it here first! 32x33 Institute is on a mission to help you host your own shit. I mean, stuff. Tell your friends! #homelab #selfhost https://32x33.institute/host-your-stuff-part-i/
Host Your Stuff - Part I

This is part 1 of the 32x33 Institute's Host Your Stuff series. In this post, we figure out how to domain name.

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I’m not going to be drawn into time wasting arguments with strangers on social media. I will however, be doing what I’ve always done- attending school board meetings and borough meetings and city council meetings, being where my elected officials are, and where my neighbors in need are.

Demand accountability and help whoever you can. Show up.

2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware

CreditRiskMonitor.com have filed an 8-K with the SEC for a cyber incident, where they are offering free credit risk monitoring for their staff after being breached. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/315958/000114036124043034/ef20036707_8k.htm

#threatintel

Check it out! A new article by Scarlett Cavendish just came out. https://32x33.institute/ransomware-is-a-business-decision/
Ransomware is a business decision.

Depending on who you ask, bouncing back from ransomware attacks will cost organizations anywhere from 5 to 20 million US dollars. That's not loose change, but that's nothing that will make a dent on the bottom line of a significant number of organizations. If you do a back-of-the-envelope calculation, it's

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OTD 2000: #SunMicrosystems acquires Cobalt Networks for a cool 2 Billion dollars. Dot com craziness combined with strategic flip-flopping regarding Linux and x86 made this Sun's worst acquisition ever. I loved the Cobalt Qube for its simplicity and elegance - I have a thread on the bird site about hacking on them: https://x.com/aka_pugs/status/1434577007254261766 https://money.cnn.com/2000/09/19/deals/sun/index.htm #Suntember
𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝙇𝙮𝙤𝙣 ⛔ → @[email protected] (@aka_pugs) on X

More basement bingo: The Cobalt Qube2. When I was at Cisco, vesting-in-peace, I was researching architectures for many tiny processors acting as accelerators for the main CPU. \

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