Mission Control Checks: Artemis II Toilet Availability Confirmed
watching the Artemis II live stream, mission control just asked them to confirm "toilet is available?"
General Counsel Sighs at Endless Legal Workload
Every time you talk to General Counsel you get the understanding they have enormous experience with doing an exasperated sigh in how much work this is gonna be
In Adulthood, You Alone Carry the Torch of Belief
One of the most clarifying moments of transition into adulthood is that no one believes in doctrine. Except you. Only you bear the torch. Only you carry it into boundless night. Villages burn, but the stars always did.
Sandfly Secures Heterogeneous Enterprise Linux Without Outbound Telemetry
So I'm not sure how to put this, but Sandfly is the real deal on protecting enterprise Linux. It absolutely cooks everything else in a heterogenous chaotic client base.
First Internet Worm Redefined Cybersecurity Forever
In 1988, two men sit in a room. One of them is cryptographer Bob Morris, the father of Robert Morris, who had just released the first Internet worm. "A line had been crossed and the world we inhabited had changed." (@johnmccumber, Assessing&Managing...
Bitcoin Needs AI Power, Not Wasteful Mining
Would've been so dope if Bitcoin was based on godlike AI compute instead of literally pouring endless human industrial capability into a blackhole of zero productive consequence
Wi‑Fi Home Phone Brings Messenger Calls to Living Rooms
Playboy, November 2006 Uniden home phone with Windows Live Messenger audio call features over WiFi https://t.co/kOaod9OHpb
AI Vendor Reply Undermines Massive Human Effort
Got an AI-written reply from a vendor we pay tens of millions of dollars a year to, and it doesn't feel good. Three people spent enormous deliberative effort for a whole day in very expensive company time to make every word of...
M&A Promises Efficiency, yet Costs Millions with No Results
It's actually quite shocking how mergers and acquisitions – which in theory are "press button to win" operational efficiency gains – immediately go titsup after spending hundreds of millions of magic money, and nothing happens to anyone involved
Expensive Workstation’s CPU Boost Failure Highlights Hands‑On Diagnostics
>user performance issues on $ 6k machine >no one can explain >spend 20 min getting feel for machine >feels wrong >CPU is not boosting clock correctly Working in a call center where I would just walk to peoples computers and sit there and agree something...
State-Level Attackers Demand Radically Different Security Assumptions
Fun fact: Computer security has a famous 2014 paper on how dramatically different assumptions and practices must be when dealing with the most motivated attacker in the world, who is after -YOU-. This is, -literally-, known "Mossad vs not-Mossad." Note the phone...
Teams Outage Marks Historic Intelligence Breakthrough
The loss of access to Microsoft Teams is gonna go down in history as one of the most consequential intelligence actions of all time
Cutting Iran's Remote Work: Teams Access Blocked
The most important strategic strike on Iran was denying them access to seamless remote work with Microsoft Teams
HTTPS Login Alone Doesn't Protect Session Tokens
The other wild thing was only using HTTPS on the login screen, so you could just steal their session tokens instead over HTTP 😱
Grammarly’s DLL Injection Caused Recurring Computer Crashes
Fun fact I had a senior Director of a facility complain about computer crashing. I would reimage their machine and it would be fine and then it broke again. They kept installing Grammarly which was doing DLL injection into every process.
Email: From Simple File Sharing to Chaos
Email probably started off as a guy just trying to send himself a file, and then it got completely out of control