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"My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts": https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

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Just for kicks, I asked OpenAI's chatbot to write a Python implementation of a C++ program that unpacks some weird binary format into JSON. Didn't really expect a meaningful result but at least the answers were funny. First answer - a Python script that calls the compiled C++ program. Well […]

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My country has been cleared to enter the Eurozone - that is, to replace its currency with the euro. Many people here aren't happy about it and demand a referendum. Of course, that is never going to happen. As Mark Twain reportedly said, "if voting could change anything, they wouldn't let us do […]

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On June 25, at 12:00 UTC, I'll be giving a lecture "Should Paying Off Ransomware Be Illegal" - both physically and via Zoom. The lecture will be in English. Physically, it will be in room 172 of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Attending via […]

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"How the Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Are Hurting U.S. Manufacturing": https://www.uschamber.com/international/how-the-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-are-hurting-u-s-manufacturing I'd wager a guess that the Senior Vice President, Head of International, U.S. Chamber of Commerce knows what he's […]

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"Chinese couple charged with smuggling a biological pathogen into the U.S.": https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/chinese-couple-charged-smuggling-biological-pathogen-us-rcna208658

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The peace negotioans between Russia and Ukraine have collapsed, to nobody's surprise. I can't find a clear English version of what Russia asked for, so I have to translate from a Bulgarian source. Most of the demands are perfectly reasonable but some are not and are, in fact, completely wild […]

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The right-wing Dutch government has collapsed for not being right-wing enough: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/03/europe/netherlands-government-collapse-geert-wilders-intl

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Ha, this is actually a pretty good idea. They should do it. I am all for harming the enemy without killing anyone...

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CNN: "A man reportedly set people on fire in Boulder, Colorado, leaving multiple individuals injured" https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/01/us/boulder-colorado-attack Fox News: "Suspect in Boulder terror attack determined to be Egyptian man in US illegally: FBI" […]

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"Conservative historian wins Polish presidential vote": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27897vedno Sadly, I don't think that this amounts to much. The government is still left-wing and while a right-wing President could occasionally put spikes in their wheels by vetoing the most outrageous […]

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"Playing with Fire": https://scottritter.substack.com/p/playing-with-fire

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Just curious - what would have Nixon done if, during the Vietnam war, Vietnamese operatives with or without the help of Soviet intelligence, had blown up one-third of the US strategic bomber fleet?

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Google has released an Android app for downloading and running LLMs locally on an Android device. (Only LLMs that are available for download, of course.) https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery

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"Business Insider goes 'all-in on AI,' laying off 21% of staff": https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/business-insider-ai-laying-off-staff-20353086.php What could possibly go wrong?

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"Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds": https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

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"Stealth Syscall Execution: Bypassing ETW, Sysmon, and EDR Detection": https://www.darkrelay.com/post/stealth-syscall-execution-bypass-edr-detection

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I normally don't post links to The Register because it find it to be a low-quality clickbait farm - but this article is quite good: "Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves": https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/

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You can believe that humanity needs to reduce CO2 emissions in order to fight climate change, or you can believe that NATO must re-arm itself to fight the threat from Russia and the US lack of support - but it is illogical to believe both of these things simultaneously. "Revealed: Nato […]

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My laptop has a single WiFi "card". Windows shows a particular MAC address for this card. My router shows a completely different MAC address of the device (my computer) that is connected to it. Any ideas why? Restarting the computer or the router doesn't […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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"Precise geolocation data trade prohibited in Oregon": https://www.scworld.com/brief/precise-geolocation-data-trade-prohibited-in-oregon Now do it everywhere.

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"Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now": https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/blocked-trump-tariffs-trade-court-appeal.html

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"US corporate profits decrease sharply in first quarter": https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-corporate-profits-decrease-sharply-first-quarter-2025-05-29/ Any ideas what might be causing it?

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"2 laws Trump could use to reimpose his tariffs (and why he might use both)": https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2-laws-trump-could-use-to-reimpose-his-tariffs-and-why-he-might-use-both-162942332.html

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