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Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 2h

The Wired piece by @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social on this just dropped, and the research by Heninger et al is stunning:
“sensitive [sat] traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, corp, gov't, and…private citizens’ voice calls & SMS". 🧵

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 3h

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 4h

So I knew potatoes were a South American import to global cuisine, but never would have guessed so was the entire capsicum family (peppers, chili 🌶️).

No wonder the Portuguese were infamous on the world trading scene. Who was going to say no to goods like *that*?

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly? Same.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

“It’s like holding penalties in football. If you get caught, you’re going to get penalized. But a lot of it doesn’t get caught…A lot of what AI produces sounds good, and people I think get lulled into believing it must be right.”

Fake AI citations get Maryland lawyer called out in court

Adam Hyman, a family law attorney in Bel Air, submitted a brief that he was unaware contained citations that artificial intelligence made up.

www.thebanner.com

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 5h

This should be a war crime and I am not joking. There are a number of decisions that should never be made by a machine and who to kill is absolutely one of them.

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 7h

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 7h

New case example for “test your shit before dropping it in production” just dropped.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 7h

The automaker pushed out a telematics update that evidently wasn't ready, resulting in cars losing power while driving and then becoming stranded.

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.

arstechnica.com

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 7h

I did not know how bad I needed a Bautista Wildcat until this moment.

Really hope it is pure heresy. The man walks up to a project & prints his bosses money.

Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 9h

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10h

"Geoengineering is inevitable; we better start preparing for it" and "AI is inevitable, we better start preparing for it" seem to both have extremely similar vibes.

In both cases, it *does not matter* whether something is inevitable. What matters is how its controlled, minimised and regulated

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InfoSecSherpa @infosecsherpa.bsky.social · 14h

I paid attention to the #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news over the weekend so you wouldn't have to.

Read, "What'd I Miss? InfoSec Weekend News Roundup for October 10-12, 2025."
sherpaintelligence.substack.com/p/whatd-i-mi...

Curated by Sherpa Intelligence: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information.

What'd I Miss? Sherpa Intelligence Weekend News Roundup.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Canada Thanksgiving! 🍁 Thankful for so many things, including that I live in Canada, my family, my work, and of course this gal right here.

Tabby cat belly up next to a book and closed tablet, looking for more attention.

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JJ @jaynegallaghe20.bsky.social · 2d

"What is at stake is more than your privacy. It is your mind, what is inside of it, and your agency to form your own authentic decisions and actions."

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2d

The increasing use of AI to surveil people’s emotions endangers not only privacy but also personal autonomy—the bedrock of democracy, writes Oznur Uguz. Newly emerging AI laws fail to provide adequate safeguards, she says.

How AI-Powered Emotional Surveillance Can Threaten Personal Autonomy and Democracy | TechPolicy.Press

If we do not regulate emotional AI surveillance now, we might soon have to fake how we feel to protect our privacy, writes Oznur Uguz.

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Theo Priestley @tprstly.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

We don’t pay speakers.

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New LMS platform adopted

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 2d

I'm sure this would be "digitally sovereign" much in the way all the grapes at Loblaws are "grown in Peru."

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Yep.

And that’s so insanely terrifying.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Vintage also typically has better quality fabric. Shirts bought today new don’t have half the life of shirts made a few decades ago.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Brainwashing with a monthly subscription fee.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

With Sora, you can do exactly that, in 10-second increments. Soon, your phone might be filled with hundreds of fond memories of things that never happened and places you never went, moments you can sit back and “relive” when there’s nobody else around except your AI pals.

Generative AI already has the power to put us in little boxes, isolated from one another. Why wait for a friend to answer your text when ChatGPT will cheerfully answer right away? Why go through the trouble of making a new friend when you can turn to digital companions embedded in apps like Instagram or X?
These new forms of entertainment are becoming the lake to our Narcissus: You can gaze into your phone and see yourself staring back, having all kinds of thrills, spills and chills.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Sudden urge to catch up because it clicked watching RRR most of my knowledge on historical India is post East India Trade Company & British occupation.

Which is to say do I really know the history at all? Suddenly feeling a need to fix that.

Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient & pre-middle age India a major export of culture & luxury (and religion, explicitly Buddhism) but making sure records beyond the Vedas, the Mahabharata, & the Ramayana…. not so much.

My own understanding of the history through the Mahabharata actually not that uncommon.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Andrew Robinson’s “India, a Short History” and he’ll go from providing a few prevalent hypothesis of eras to naming a person and events, emphasizing we know this “because they WROTE IT DOWN”…

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Oh ouch, I feel this! 😨

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

“[CEO] had some feedback” can be nightmare fuel. Esp. right before finalizing a draft.

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 1d

Tempted to also put PIPEDA or HIPAA there.

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