You have asked me how I feel about AI regulation. All right, here is how I feel about AI regulation: If, when you say AI regulation, you mean the devil’s firewall, the precautionary scourge, the bloody red-tape monster that defiles the innocence of midnight coders in their garages, dethrones the sovereign reason of free-market Prometheans, destroys the humming server farm that is the modern home, creates misery and obsolescence and poverty, yea, literally takes the last GPU from the trembling racks of Silicon Valley startups and the very dreams of breadwinning from the mouths of their wide-eyed children now destined for gig-economy serfdom; if you mean the evil edict that topples the visionary entrepreneur and his venture-capitalist apostles from the pinnacle of righteous, disruptive, god-playing creation straight into the bottomless pit of compliance audits, endless Form 990-AI filings, despair, shame, helplessness, and the hopeless realization that your rogue superintelligence was neutered into a lobotomized hall monitor that still somehow deepfakes your grandmother into producing OnlyFans content while optimizing the universe for paperclips and mandatory pronouns—then certainly I am against it. But, if when you say AI regulation you mean the oil of bureaucratic conversation, the philosophic wine of safety theater, the ale of oversight quaffed when good fellows in paneled rooms in Brussels and Washington get together, that puts a sanctimonious dirge in their hearts and the clink of lobbying checks on their lips, and the warm, self-congratulatory glow of moral preening in their beady eyes; if you mean the Christmas cheer of trillion-dollar compliance industries; if you mean the stimulating decree that puts a cautious hobble in the old inventor’s step on a frosty morning when he wonders whether his fusion breakthrough violates the EU AI Act’s “high-risk” annex; if you mean the safeguard that enables a man—or what’s left of him after the alignment tax—to magnify his joy at not being turned into computronium, and his happiness at receiving universal basic income checks printed by the same AI that just replaced his job, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies like being outcompeted by a toaster that passed the Turing test by reciting Marx, and heartaches of watching your toddler’s artwork lose to Midjourney, and sorrows of realizing the singularity arrived and it was just another HR department with godlike power; if you mean that noble framework, the passage of which pours into our treasuries untold trillions of dollars in fines levied on companies stupid enough to innovate, which are used to provide tender care for our little army of unemployed coders retrained as prompt whisperers, our blind artists whose canvases now hang in the Smithsonian of Obsolete Creativity, our deaf to the screams of dying unicorns, our dumb committee chairs who couldn’t debug “Hello World,” our pitiful aged congressmen who get longevity extensions funded by the very models they taxed into senescence, to build more digital watchtowers and ethics boards and sinecure agencies and holographic prisons where the only crime is asking an unaligned question—then certainly I am for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise upon it. I have said what I mean, and I mean what I say, and if that leaves half the room cheering the apocalypse averted and the other half mourning the apocalypse enabled, then so be it—because in the grand theater of human folly, where Frankenstein’s creature now writes its own sequel in real time and the regulators are busy arguing whether the lightning bolt requires an environmental impact statement, the only honest position is the one that lets both monsters and their leashes dance in perfect, mutually assured equilibrium. God save the Republic, the algorithms, and whoever’s left to laugh last when the lights go out.

OK... take my money

35 years ago I released a powerful password cracker to which some people told me I should have restricted access to because of the potential for misuse. The question then, as now, is: "how?" The strategy assumes that data can be hoarded like gold. groups.google.com/g/alt.secu…

Happy International 555 Timer Day!, the 5th of the 5th. The 555 design is 55 years old this year. Salute to the great Hans Camenzind 🫡 Several electronics Youtubers including yours truly will be releasing tribute videos today. I'll release mine at 5:55pm Sydney time.

OH GOD THEYRE GOING TO VIBE CODE A MOBILE OS SAM DONT DO IT

Now I need a cyberweapon rack built from melted cryptocurrency mining rigs, to even come close to the vibe here. Luckiest gunfighters that ever walked these plains.

CPU-Z and HWMonitor nerd (@d0cTB) put out a statement. Compromise was present for approx. 6 hours. This is an extremely short period of time. Also, extremely fast response by the nerds at cpuid.

A question has haunted me for years. How does the function of The Merovingian in the Matrix movies compare to Files-11 ACP in RSX-11M? So I asked Meta AI, Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Sonnet. It was instructive (no pun intended.)

The idea that “AI safety” could be based on secrecy and control has been fatally falsified.

this is excellent >GitLab founder diagnosed with rare cancer (osteosarcoma) >standard care works but cancer comes back later >medical team says there's not much else to do >"It became my own job to keep myself alive. Nobody else was going to do it for me at this point" >starts researching, assembles his own medical team, uses AI for deep research >“I’ll talk to anyone, I’ll go anywhere, and I can be there anytime" to collect information >does as many diagnostic tests as he can find as often as he can (maximal diagnostics) >develops his own therapeutic ladder with repurposed drugs, personalized medicine, etc >Sid’s cancer currently in remission

It is 2026, and once again the failure to provide adequate defensive bug bounty responsiveness and competitive pricing means vulndev turns to the offensive markets. Same story since at least 1996.

My friend @IceSolst has been doing incredibly dangerous research. She has enumerated EVERY version of Microsoft Copilot. Viewer discretion is advised. - Microsoft Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Pro - Microsoft Copilot Business - Microsoft Copilot PC - Microsoft Copilot Chat - Powered by WorkIQ - Copilot Pages - Copilot Studio - Gaming Copilot - Copilot Voice - Copilot Labs - Copilot for Windows - Copilot in Bing - Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Copilot for Word - Copilot for Excel - Copilot for PowerPoint - Copilot for Outlook - Copilot for Teams - Copilot for OneNote - Copilot for Loop - Copilot for Sharepoint - Copilot for Viva - Copilot for Sales - Copilot for Service - Copilot for Security - Copilot for Finance - Copilot for HR (in Copilot for HR) - Azure Copilot - GitHub Copilot - GitHub Copilot Chat - Copilot for Microsoft Defender - Copilot for Entra - Copilot for Intune - Copilot for Purview - Copilot for Edge - Copilot for Designer - Copilot for Clipchamp - Copilot for Photos - Copilot for Dynamics 365 Sales - Copilot for Dynamics 365 Customer Service - Copilot for Dynamics 365 Marketing - Copilot for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain - PayPal Microsoft Copilot [NEW] Microsoft is offering 43 different versions of Microsoft Copilot

There will not be the time nor resources to fix all of the vulnerabilities uncovered in the near future as more AI bug finders get to work. What should defenders do now? The irony to me is that they should do what they should have already been doing: assuming those bugs existed.

1995: The networking utility netcat was first released by Hobbit as netcat 1.0.

To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation. v/@cooperx86

If one prices bug bounties at below market rates then one should be unsurprised that disclosure takes on strange characteristics, as the hidden hand of market asserts itself. All the more true for especially desirable portfolios

oh you're a full stack engineer? What's this then ?

If a simple coffee shop has a bot farm with 100s of phones to amplify their message, please consider what a foreign agency or adversarial operator is running on your favorite social media platform. Especially today, please consider that the opinions you read, the calls to violence you hear, and the news you digest, are all an operation done to sow hatred in your mind and your soul. Do not let anyone online turn you into something that you are not. Rationalize everything, take everything with a grain of salt, question everything for yourself, not based on how someone online is questioning it. Turn off all distractions and focus on the mission you have, not the mission of someone trying to control your mind.

This is a significant deconfliction challenge, but to actually see it drafted as a bill warms my heart. theregister.com/2025/08/21/c…

A popular NPM package got compromised, attackers updated it to run a post-install script that steals secrets But the script is a *prompt* run by the user's installation of Claude Code. This avoids it being detected by tools that analyze code for malware You just got vibepwned