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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑💻
for May 12th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- Robot lawnmowers with hardcoded passwords allow remote control
- Canvas education platform ransom hack brought colleges worldwide to a standstill (except one)
- Microsoft goes on firing spree in rare stand against Palestine surveillance
- Low water pressure revealed a Georgia data center used nearly 30 million gallons of water through unaccounted-for connections
- Google fails reCAPTCHAs on phones not using Play Services
- Kickstarter enacts extreme ban on sex-related fundraisers (but not AI slop)
...and much more.
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No.
Correcting for inflation, by the end of 2026, we will have spent more on AI than we spent building the entire Interstate Highway System and the transcontinental railroads (all four of them) combined.
At some point, society needs to be asking what the benefit-to-cost value is to all this, because we could just tax all this money from billionaires and do stuff with it that’s actually useful.
Radiohead - Kid A
The question was, obviously, what the hell do you do after releasing OK Computer? If you keep going down that path, it's a long slide to irrelevance, and given their restlessness, boredom.
So, *hard* pivot, more studios, picking up on the extant electronica trend, but making it theirs.
On release I was pretty shocked & disappointed, and it took a while to embrace, but embrace it I have. Mingus-like, indeed.
Meta's own terms indicate its services aren't for children under 13.
Yet Meta is failing to keep them off Instagram and Facebook.
We've found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act.
ℹ️ link.europa.eu/yPBWgY