Elizabeth Anscombe on the reception of her campaign against Truman's honorary degree among the different Oxford colleges (2/3) (which occasioned the infamous comment that "the women are up to something"):

In 2025, boards need to focus on tech modernization and defensive controls like #MFA and #Segmentation to stay ahead of evolving threats. Phil Venables, CISO at Google Cloud, outlines key areas organizations should prioritize. 🔍 Get the full forecast: bit.ly/40xsXI0

On this day in 1776, Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a monumental work he would complete in six volumes by 1788. If you haven’t read all six (which I highly recommend you do), here are the main things you need to know! 🧵

Really proud of this great piece of work by my team on the state of cyber security in adult social care: gov.uk/government/pub…

Privileged Access Workstations or 🐾 impose material cost and complexity on adversaries. We have published a new set of principles for PAWs. ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/intr…

reuters.com/world/us/cyber…

The older I get the more I realize: • Silence is a response • Being unbothered is a skill • No is a full sentence • Most "urgent" things can wait • Respect > Attention • Apologies are empty without change • Movement is medicine • You're not for everyone, and that's fine

America’s crisis is the UK’s opportunity. My ⁦The New Statesman⁩ piece on why Keir Starmer should open the doors to the best and the brightest fleeing Donald Trump’s America. newstatesman.com/comment/2025/0…

In cybersecurity, measuring what works is tough. But measuring what doesn’t work? That’s even tougher. Many vendors, and analysts, rely upon this fact.

Security vendors produce software like any other software company. It’s just that their products are often on privilege boundaries. Ask them if they have taken the Secure by Design pledge.

🗓️ Scam Survivor Day is just around the corner on 8 May 2025! More than half of scam targets report stress or trauma. 👉 Learn more: BBB.org/ScamSurvivorDay BBB Institute for Marketplace Trust #BBB #Scam #Fraud #ScamSurvivorDay #ScamAwareness #FraudPrevention #ConsumerProtection

Government defences have not kept up with the severe and rapidly evolving cyber threat We've published our report into the Government's resilience against a cyberattack ⚠️ Read more 👇

I published an open letter to NHS suppliers introducing our cyber security charter for suppliers to the NHS: digital.nhs.uk/cyber-and-data… Lots of work to come to embed these expectations across contractural terms, assurance processes and regulatory obligations.

It's #Eurovision today! But - song contest aside - #Eurovision itself was a pioneering (and often chaotic!) attempt to collaborate on new technology across Europe. And it only happened because of Queen Elizabeth ll. Let's look back at the birth of European broadcasting...

Current vibes #Eurovision #ESC2025

Gustav Klimt and his cat

matangitonga.to/2025/06/20/ran… “I had a talk with our lady in the ICT department and she cried, I think she blamed herself and was afraid of the doctors. I assured her that this issue was bigger than us,” Dr ‘Akau’ola said. This quote feels very authentic.

This is insane. AI capex might account for a larger share of GDP than basically any technology since the railroad. Basically it’s a mini-wartime economy, but the guns are chips and the tanks are databases