1998: The group Hacking for Girlies hacked The New York Times website, defacing it and posting a diatribe supporting imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick.

Working backwards from the goal states (e.g. end of funnel) is more efficient than working forwards from the initial states (e.g. beginning of funnel) because many paths from initial states converge.

A reminder: cynicism is related to lower intelligence.

Computing should be anonymous by default.

What are you doing for Hack the Planet Day? I’m starting with a trip to the MIT Flea Market and ending with a 35mm screening of “Hackers” at the Somerville Theatre with some of the people I watched it with 29 years ago. Who knows what will happen in between.

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Apple is expected to sell about 90 million AirPods this year. That would generate more than $20 billion in revenue for the company. These were some of the headlines when the AirPods were first unveiled 8 years ago.

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Rest in peace to vocalist and guitarist Tito Jackson, of the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons. Tito sang backup on everything from "I Want You Back" to "I'll Be There," and released two solo albums in the last ten years: 'Tito Time' and 'Under Your Spell.'

TamaGo Allows Executing Go Language Code Bare Metal On ARM/RISC-V SoCs phoronix.com/news/TamaGo-Ba…

i'm excited to introduce Mainframe we're building a future operating system with AI as the default

Banning TikTok for “privacy” doesn’t solve the problem if you don’t make efforts to change or regulate the ecosystem. The mobile app ecosystem encourages data collection and tracking. Pass a strong federal privacy law.

Well worth a listen:

NEW: fresh 🇺🇸US sanctions dropping on mercenary spyware industry. Biden administration just fired a 2nd salvo against the #Intellexa consortium, which sells #Predator spyware. The spyware is linked to human rights abuses around the globe & was used to target US officials. 1/

The fun thing about LLM approaches to vulnerability research is that it's real easy to prove your approach to the world: you just do what fuzzers did, and find a fuckload of CVEs.

That time Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted about cybersecurity on her Instagram

For anyone not aware, Apple’s A18 Pro chip in their PHONE has more powerful CPU cores than a literal i9-14900K desktop-class processor running at 6Ghz. Apple doesn’t get enough credit for their incredible silicon team.

This is a great way to make it easier and faster to try Thistle's tools out!

No joke, I physically bought the tabloid with this article in it at the grocery store forever ago and xerox'd this story to put on my wall in high school (I think? Maybe college).