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Travis Yeargan retweeted
Mathematician Terence Tao:
"one thing this whole era of AI is teaching us is that our idea of intelligence is not really accurate"
The history of AI has been: 'here’s a task only humans can do', and then one by one, an algorithm does it too
Maybe we're not quite as smart as we think
Travis Yeargan retweeted
I'm seeing a lot on anti-AI folks coming out that we should not "allow" AI into cybersecurity. We aren't the gatekeepers. Businesses, boards, CEO's - it's their businesses not ours - we need to figure out a way to get our hands around it to try and to it in a way that helps organizations not shoot themselves in the foot while doing it.
We need to be leading the charge on AI research, safety, governance, adoption, and more. You can be Anti-AI and hate the system, but the system isn't decided by us - we go where the system goes, even if we disagree or agree with it.
It's irrelevant.
Travis Yeargan retweeted
‼️ BREAKING: Internal OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems, the package manager for Ruby. Over 2,000 malicious packages went up in two days.
OpenAI says it doesn't know why the agents did any of this.
RubyGems shut off new sign-ups for four days to stop it, and a member of its security team called it a major malicious attack.
The documentation build was how they got in, publish a gem, request docs, and RubyDoc runs a script from the package while building it.
Payload files were named hack.rb, evil.rb and exploit.rb, with comments like "# malicious probe" left in.
What they used it for is the odd part. The agents scraped council meeting agendas from three south London boroughs (publicly available) and republished them as new gems.
Security firms tracking the campaign said the same thing: nobody could work out the point, because the data was already public.
At least six packages also reached for other users' API keys through a CDN caching flaw that wasn't publicly discovered until July.
OpenAI has acknowledged the attacks started in May.
Travis Yeargan retweeted
A California startup built a teleoperated rescue robot for wildfires and collapsed buildings, gave it a goat skull and glowing eyes, and then photographed it staring through a glass office door.
They also published where to shoot it if it doesn't stop...
Travis Yeargan retweeted
🇺🇸 The FCC's ban on foreign "advanced robotic devices" also covers robot vacuums, lawnmowers, and sidewalk delivery bots, any ground robot over 4.4 lbs with sensors and wireless, FCC media relations director Katie Gorscak confirmed.
To justify banning foreign robots, the FCC's national security determination cites reporting on a flaw that let one man access 7,000 DJI robot vacuums worldwide.
The waiver it offers asks nothing about security, only where a robot is designed, built, and tested. Every robovac already mapping US homes stays.
RT @AlexHormozi: You can get back at everyone whoever wronged you, wanted you to fail, or held you down by simply being happy.
There is no…
Travis Yeargan retweeted
🚨BREAKING: The Pentagon just published Apollo 17 mission transcripts from 1972 on war.gov/UFO/..
astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans described "very bright particles.. jagged, angular fragments tumbling past the spacecraft"..
Schmitt said "it looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron's window"..
NASA's official answer for 54 years.. "floating insulation"..
the White House caption on the same photo now reads: "there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly".. and notes a preliminary analysis suggesting it may be a physical object..
and here's what nobody wants to say out loud..
"no consensus" is not the same as "we don't know".. "no consensus" means some people in the room think they know.. and the answer wasn't insulation..
Trump ordered this release in February after being directly asked about UFO transparency.. the Pentagon complied.. and the first thing they published was a 54-year-old astronaut quote the government spent half a century explaining away..
more files are coming on a rolling basis..
the only question is what they buried in the batches they haven't released yet.
I'll share more details shortly so turn on notifications, this is VERY important.
Travis Yeargan retweeted
🚨#BREAKING: The final Spirit Airlines flight has touched down in Dallas at 1:08 a.m. EST, marking the definitive end of active operations ahead of the airline’s expected systemwide shutdown at 3:00 a.m.
Video by @24chadster
Travis Yeargan retweeted
I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.
This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.
Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.
I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.
Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.
Travis Yeargan retweeted
Talked to a customer today who said something that stuck: 'I didn't know I needed this until I had it.' That's the sweet spot. 🎯
Travis Yeargan retweeted
The fact that you can just plug sensors into the VGA port of an old laptop and get data out is crazy to me.
It’s always fun finding GPIO in strange places.
Travis Yeargan retweeted
This is why you don't share just everything on the web.
The vid you see here must be one of the most effective AI awareness videos.
Travis Yeargan retweeted
Whenever I’m going through something hard, I try to ask myself:
“What story do I want to tell at the end of this?”
And then try to act accordingly.
Travis Yeargan retweeted
I've got students messaging me asking if cybersecurity is still a "safe" field to go into because of the advancements of AI
Dawg, our career value has fucking EXPLODED. Are you fuckin' with me right now?
- AI vibe coded slop as far as the eye can see
- AI deep fakes as far as the eye can see
- AI written emails, scams, as far as the eye can see
On top of that, due to how accessible the internet is now, there is a "cyber attack" literally every god damn second. It's nonstop. The internet is still very much the wild, wild, west.
Like, bro, this shitty little malware website I run brings in 20,000+ malwares a day with a budget of $15, a slice of pizza, and cat pictures. Do you have any fucking clue how widespread cybercrime is?
Don't even fucking start me on crypto theft
I'll lose my mind writing this post, bro. It's literally nonstop, around the clock, weekends and holidays. It never ends. Cybersecurity is only getting bigger.