Ray—Golden Retriever Whisperer—🔝Insights

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if you think azure is bad now, or ms products are bad now, imagine what happens when all the elder god types still there, who are barely keeping the ship afloat, all take this deal and bounce

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-plans-first-voluntary-retirement-program-for-us-employees.html

Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage

Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.

Ars Technica
so I get my Fediverse notifications in my VM/CMS reader queue... all apparently 700+ of them from the last post lol
a lil preview for those that followed me to see an ancient datacenter:

here's the last of the System/370s, actually a System/390 G3 that can perform a 370 IPL (load)

I just messed up and somehow ordered £959 worth of Imodium online by mistake.

I'm not shitting again until 2036

Anthropic’s Claude Is Pumping Out Vulnerable Code, Cyber Experts Warn

Anthropic’s latest Claude models are introducing serious security issues into code, cyber experts say. The company is yet to officially explain why.

Forbes

I spent nearly 4 months investigating the inner workings of a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group. Here's what I found:

- The group used generative AI tools to aid in almost every part of their operations.

- They exfiltrated 26,584 cryptocurrency wallets from victim systems, with a combined value totaling as much $12 million dollars.

- In several cases, the threat actors set up entire front companies to lure in developers via fake job posting, then infected them with malware.

- The threat actors successfully pulled off a supply-chain attack by compromising a VS Code extension developer's system.

🔗 Full article: https://expel.com/blog/inside-lazarus-how-north-korea-uses-ai-to-industrialize-attacks-on-developers/

big announcement for Friday: I have acquired a datacenter that has not been touched since approximately 2002, and is FULL of old 80s/90s/2000s IBM mainframe equipment. mainframes, disk arrays, tape drive strings, network processor boxes, and more!

all will be photographed (and posted here), also videographed!

the equipment is being moved to my place, where pubvm.org will be ran on an actual IBM System/370 mainframe!!!!

this is a six-sigma event, this is unfathomable rarity omg
Bloomberg report some kids on Discord have had access to Mythos for several weeks due to Anthropic’s shit cybersecurity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/anthropic-s-mythos-model-is-being-accessed-by-unauthorized-users
As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: https://theintercept.com/2026/04/20/lapd-skydio-drone-surveillance-no-kings-protest-ice/
LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest

Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

The Intercept