David Meyer

Tech journalist and presenter of Tech Gets Real. Covers digital sovereignty quite a lot these days. Sings and plays guitar in a band called The Board. Signal: superglaze.66

Sherif EA

@sherif.eurosky.social

It looks like Claude Mythos security capabilities weren’t hype, which isn’t surprising given the trajectory.

3 years ago it may have been a valid position to dismiss LLMs as stochastic parrots, today it’s not.

blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-s...

Screenshot from Mozilla blog referenced in the post. The text reads:

Elite security researchers find bugs that fuzzers can't largely by reasoning through the source code. This is effective, but time-consuming and bottlenecked on scarce human expertise. Computers were completely incapable of doing this a fow months ago, and now they excel at it. We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world's best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't.

This can feel terrifying in the immediate term, but it's ultimately great news for defenders. A gap between machine-discoverable and human-discoverable bugs favors the attacker, who can concentrate many months of costly human effort to find a single bug.

Closing this gap erodes the attacker's long-term advantage by making all discoveries cheap.

David Meyer

@superglaze.eurosky.social

42m

I'm on the brink of unfollowing some of the hardcore anti-AI people I follow on here. Not because I disagree with them as such - there's a reason I follow them - but because it feels like they have become cultish, somewhat ironically.

Royce Kurmelovs

@roycerk2.bsky.social

An Egyptian funery technician cuts a few corners to save on costs and 1600 years later they're finally getting exposed as a shoddy operator, except everyone thinks it's really cool.

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

independent.co.uk

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Eurosky Social

@eurosky.social

Over 450 people and 10% of our target. Thank you so much to each and every one. With that amount we can already start on the first components for a fully independent app.

Screenshot of Eurosky crowdfunder showing €10,010 raised out of a target of €100,000 from the contributions of 462 supporters

Saul Staniforth

@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

Adam Weinstein

@adamweinstein.bsky.social

18h

Every sailor or Marine who has ever done sea time knows intimately how stupid this is

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Make this make sense.

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m
The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force.
We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

David Meyer

@superglaze.eurosky.social

18h

It's very weird, as the scion of a German Jew who fled in the 30s, to be sitting here in Berlin and thinking "yes well it's good now"

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com

Has it been good when this happened in the past

Screenshot of a WSJ headline: "Germany Is Reinventing Itself as a Weapons Factory"

Jakub Jaraczewski

@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social

23h

CJEU finding something contrary to the very identity of the EU and its common values is a very Lenaerts sentence, but it also raises fascinating questions - what exactly is that identity and what else would be contrary to it? A constitutional moment for the EU, no doubt.

Jakub Jaraczewski

@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social

24h

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.

Jessica Elgot

@jessicaelgot.bsky.social

22h

Yes, this is one of the most pervasive myths of the whole business, that it was to appease Trump. Total bollocks.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social

The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was:

1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee
2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was

Owen Bennett

@owbennett.bsky.social

23h

Online safety enforcement klaxon: Ofcom has opened an investigation into Telegram, alleging the service has failed to adequately manage the risk of CSAM being shared among users.

Note that unlike the DSA, there is no carve-out in the UK rules for messaging apps.

www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Ofcom has launched an investigation into Telegram under the UK’s Online Safety Act, to determine whether it is doing enough to prevent child sexual abuse material being shared.

ofcom.org.uk

Ofcom investigates Telegram and teen chat sites

Henry Mance

@henrymance.ft.com

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Liam Kirkaldy

@liamkirkaldy.bsky.social

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

Simonetta Vezzoso

@wavesblog.eurosky.social

"aimed at decentralized social networking services, the attacks can cause instability and outages, but not everyone is taken offline.In Bluesky’s case, for instance, those who had moved their account to other providers..which run on the same protocol and interoperate with Bluesky, were not impacted"

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

techcrunch.com

Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack | TechCrunch

European Space Agency

@esa.int

🆕 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a renewed view of the Trifid Nebula, a scene it first observed in 1997.

🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

@science.esa.int @stsci.edu

Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

The Onion @theonion.com

https://www.theonion.info/

Charlie Stross

@cstross.bsky.social

It's time to smaxxdown the maxxmaxxmaxxdown!

Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social

Can we please stop maxxing everything

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This is part of a broader push the Trump admin began in term one (that Biden didn't roll back in any way). First each visa applicant had to disclose your social media handles. Now under Trump 2, the U.S. government demands that you make your social media accounts public so they can scan 'em.

Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski

Interesting Instagram post from the IS Embassy Bangkok

Bangkok
usembassybkk •
Follow
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Effective immediately,
all individuals applying for an
A-3, C-3 (if a domestic worker), G-5, H-3 and their H-4 dependents, K-1, K-2, K-3, Q, R-1, R-2, S, T, and
U nonimmigrant visa are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to "public" to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the
United States.

Ed Hagen

@edhagen.net

16. In summary, academics rue our dependence on Elsevier et al., and we're desperate for something better. Bluesky probably can't survive as a microblogging platform, but it could thrive if it helps create a new open scientific publishing platform and integrates it into the social media mix.

Melanie Sauter

@melinscribe.bsky.social

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend