Markus Kuhn (@mgk25) profile picture
Cambridge
Joined March 2009
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Markus Kuhn retweeted
It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.
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Why is suddenly every second video that 𝕏 shows me in the newsfeed pornographic? – at Cambridge, England
The 𝕏 platform reached another all-time high of usage this week!
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Campaign to bring “overmorrow” back into the English language, to mean “the day after tomorrow” Great word.
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Markus Kuhn retweeted
Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Nice #aurora over Cambridge, UK (Google Pixel 3, Night Sight mode)
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise openwall.com/lists/oss-secur…
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Replying to @rossjanderson
@rossjanderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.
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I'm pretty sure the tray into which this mouse places objects contains food, because when we kept wood mice as pets, they regularly showed exactly the same behaviour: covering food sources with objects, presumably to hide that food from competitors. theguardian.com/world/2024/j… – at Cambridge, England
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Jet washing a stencil onto a pavement
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I will never recover from this student email.
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Markus Kuhn retweeted
Rishi Sunak's account has just tweeted and deleted a video hailing his list of achievements from his first year in office. Included this gem:
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As the busiest cycle path in the Netherlands, Utrecht's Vredenburg must be seen to be believed! Private cars are not allowed. 📹Harri Vaarala
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The main downside of working in AI is having to constantly fight off assassination attempts from random time travelers
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