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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 13m

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 6h

As of today, the city’s largest visual arts institution is no longer called the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The rebranding aims to revive attendance that has lagged since the pandemic.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a new name and other plans to revive attendance

Chasing an elusive pandemic recovery, the museum is rolling out a slew of changes. It includes a new name and logo, and an embracing of dips into sports, hip hop, and Sylvester Stallone.

www.inquirer.com

Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 2h

There is still great good to be found in the digital fabric joining us together beyond the limits of geography.

Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 13h

I have this career and community that I love because of the kindness of a big deal infosec person. Engaging in these spaces has unquestionably changed my life for the better.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 3h

If Lethality Jane can style himself as the "Secretary of War," I can assign myself some stars.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 11h

Ahahahahaha www.imperva.com/blog/another...

Yet another MCP server just piping user input right to the shell.

Another Critical RCE Discovered in a Popular MCP Server | Imperva

Artificial Intelligence development is moving faster than secure coding practices, and attackers are taking notice. Imperva Threat Research recently uncovered and disclosed a critical Remote Code Exec...

www.imperva.com

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 11h

Ahahahahaha www.imperva.com/blog/another...

Yet another MCP server just piping user input right to the shell.

Another Critical RCE Discovered in a Popular MCP Server | Imperva

Artificial Intelligence development is moving faster than secure coding practices, and attackers are taking notice. Imperva Threat Research recently uncovered and disclosed a critical Remote Code Exec...

www.imperva.com

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 13h

I have this career and community that I love because of the kindness of a big deal infosec person. Engaging in these spaces has unquestionably changed my life for the better.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 20h

I haven't said this in a minute, so just in case there was any question: @taggartinstitute.org is, and will always be, a safe space for LGBTQ+ learners. We have a zero tolerance policy for hate of any kind. Whoever you are, however you identify, you are most welcome. Except Nazis, of course.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 19h

Did...did Docker just Sherlock ChainGuard?

Unlimited access to Docker Hardened Images: Because security should be affordable, always | Docker

Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version

www.docker.com

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 20h

I'm a straight white dude and for sure I have gotten/will get things wrong, but I believe fiercely in your right to be the kind of human you feel is right, and to love whom you want, how you want.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 20h

I haven't said this in a minute, so just in case there was any question: @taggartinstitute.org is, and will always be, a safe space for LGBTQ+ learners. We have a zero tolerance policy for hate of any kind. Whoever you are, however you identify, you are most welcome. Except Nazis, of course.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 20h

My good friend Trevor is a pure joy to read. I am so happy he's made this landing. Go subscribe right now.

No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 21h

Proud to announce my new place I’m writing, my own newsletter at beehiiv (I’ll post this to substack too with a note on the move. We do not like bari weiss).

Anyway this is on baseball and death! Please read and subscribe! nocartridge.beehiiv.com/p/baseball-i...

Baseball is Like Dying, It's Easier Each Time

With Apologies to Joey Cape and Bad Astronaut

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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 21h

Proud to announce my new place I’m writing, my own newsletter at beehiiv (I’ll post this to substack too with a note on the move. We do not like bari weiss).

Anyway this is on baseball and death! Please read and subscribe! nocartridge.beehiiv.com/p/baseball-i...

Baseball is Like Dying, It's Easier Each Time

With Apologies to Joey Cape and Bad Astronaut

nocartridge.beehiiv.com

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 22h

And none of them will have even a StackOverflow search result to help with bugs. Not even a Reddit post. You've created an app in which the only "support" is the faulty generator that made it for you.

Why is this an improvement?

Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 22h

Each of these apps, independent of the security nightmares they invite, will be one-offs. They may not even package to mobile devices, just raw web apps connecting to services like Firebase/Supabase.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 22h

I'm seeing tech-aware parents vibe code (🤢) apps for thinks like food/nap/poop tracking. It's a thing, trust me.

www.wired.com/story/vibe-c...

Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible

As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.

www.wired.com

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 23h

Like, what went wrong that your model can't even use application documentation before shuttling off to a compute environment? And if it can't for whatever reason, what is the purpose of the tool over semantic search?

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 23h

Good question! I think there's a real compute environment back there.

This is consistent with other containerized Python code-exec environments available as tools to LLMs I've tested.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 23h

Okay, I did eventually get this to sum numbers, but here's the kicker.

IT USES PYTHON AND PANDAS TO ANALYZE THE DATA

It ships all the data as a CSV off to some other compute source rather than just figuring out what formula is necessary.

Referenced: A1:A4
Read the csv version of the user's sheet files "user_selected_range-Sheet1-A4-v3.csv" and "Untitled spreadsheet-Sheet1-A1:A4-v3.csv" into separate DataFrames.
Display the first 5 rows and all columns in each DataFrame by using df.head().
Get information about the columns in the DataFrames, including their data types, using df.info().
The user wants to sum the numbers in column A.

The df_all_data DataFrame contains the full data with the column NO_HEADER which seems to correspond to column A.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 23h

Just what I wanted: a spreadsheet AI that can't do math.

Gemini in Google Sheets. 4 rows of single digits and an AI prompt to sum the numbers. Response: Calculations are not supported.

Gemini sidebar: Sum the numbers in col A

The data contains a single column, NO_HEADER, which is of object type. The column appears to be a mix of numeric and string values. To sum the numbers, I'll first convert the column to a numeric data type, coercing any non-numeric values to NaN. Then, I'll calculate the sum of the numeric values in the column.

I'll assume that you want to sum the numbers in the column named NO_HEADER.

If this is not what you meant, let me know and I can adjust the column to be summed.

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 1d

For this we mortgage the future.

social.coop/@eb/11532835...

Evan B🥥ehs (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image This will crash the global economy

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 1d

This resource from @johnhammond.bsky.social is really helpful for reviewing and defending against ClickFix-style attacks. Hopefully the Mac and Linux variants show up soon!

https://clickfix.wiki/

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Whisper: Maybe we should stop messing with the radiative balance of Earth.

Plan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets Astronomers

Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.

www.bloomberg.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · May 6

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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