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For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
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Trump’s Investigation Miscalculation thebulwark.com/trumps-invest… via @BulwarkOnline by @RosenzweigP
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As air travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, COVID has added new compliance and concerns for airport security. @AlertEnterprise joined the SecurityInformed.com Expert Panel Roundtable to answer: Which technologies are transforming airport security? securityinformed.com/insight…
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A quick thread on intelligence analysis in the context of cyber threat intelligence. I see a number of CTI analysts get into near analysis paralysis phases for over thinking their assessments or over obsessing about if they might be wrong. (1/x)
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This story is the result of six hours on-the-record with Nikki Haley and 70 interviews with people who know her. A wealth of original reporting that is intimate and shocking and deeply revealing.
Please do not just browse the Twitter highlights. Read it.
politico.com/interactives/20…
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Florida local officials say hacker tried to dump caustic lye in a 15k-person city's water via access to the water plant's TeamViewer software. A rare public announcement of an industrial control system breach intended to have catastrophic consequences. wired.com/story/oldsmar-flor…
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I’ve had a few folks reach out to me because of some of my employees’ comments in the media and on their social media apparently expecting me to censor them or take some action. Some general end of day stressed thoughts: (1/x)
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Oooof. Was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I've experienced to date. Here were the steps:
1) "Hi, this is your bank. There was an attempt to use your card in Miami, Florida. Was this you?"
Me: no.
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In general, users don’t care if your product uses AI, ML, blockchain, or other fancy technology that they likely don’t fully understand
They only care if the end product is something they want
Don’t upsell your technology as a main value prop
Build something people want
mark weatherford retweeted
Needed to recharge the batteries, 30 mins of #aerobatics and now back to 100%.. #flying #PittsSpecial #KLVK #IAC38 #Onwards!
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The wider your view of #cybersecurity, the less you need to code. If you narrow your view to essentially security engineering, then coding is much more important. My view is that, as a "wicked problem," security is way more than a technical issue, therefore requiring a wide view.
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2AM thought:
For the last 4 years my family and I have intentionally and with purpose brought chaos to our lives. We became foster parents. For as crazy, heartbreaking, frustrating and fulfilling it has been for us, we could never imagine the outcome we have had this past week
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I’m proud to announce that @DragosInc has acquired @NexDefense and today makes their professional product Integrity (previously Sophia) free to the community. We’re also releasing CyberLens. Learn about these tools and the history in our blog here: dragos.com/blog/industry-new…
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We're coming up on the 10-year anniversary of @assante_michael's CIP-002 letter to industry. What has industry learned and applied since then? Has it made meaningful progress?
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Fresh U.S presidential candidate @BetoORourke was a member of the country’s oldest hacking group, which has kept his role a secret for decades – until now. My story is up on Reuters at reuters.com/investigates/spe…, but let me say a little more in this thread. (1/10)
