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Posts by Rik Ferguson

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AI Security Testing: Agents Leap From Assistants to Autonomous Hackers AI is finding bugs humans missed for decades. Forescout's new AI security research reveals the urgent new reality of vulnerability discovery.

New research: a year ago 55% of AI models failed basic vulnerability research and 93% failed exploit development. Today, all tested models complete VR, half generate working exploits autonomously, and the most capable can chain vulnerabilities into multi-stage compromises without complex prompting.

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10 years ago, I discovered the five reasons why Poland is actually Middle Earth:

1. They address each other as "Lord" or "Lady".
2. They pay for things with "Golds"
3. "Second breakfast" is a real meal.
4. There's a place called The Crooked Forest.
5. Sauron holds power to the east.

4 days ago 7 1 0 0

That’s no moon!

1 week ago 5 0 0 0

Looks like a significant outage issue with Claude. Downdetector agrees.

3 weeks ago 3 0 0 0

I have finally pulled my finger out and started writing. Not the book I was planning (yet) but training

I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people

I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end

1 month ago 4 1 0 0
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SpaceAcre on Apple Music Listen to music by SpaceAcre on Apple Music.

If you are a fan of female-fronted indie/rock, I’d really recommend giving @spaceacreband.bsky.social a listen.
Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything.

music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

Shit. Never thought of that. No idea.

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A Jack Russell Terrier looking ridiculously stupid.

A Jack Russell Terrier looking ridiculously stupid.

Clara gets to go on the £50 that you pull out of the ATM when you’re already hammered.

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TIL: I learned where babies come from by watching a sheep give birth, at the age of 6.

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That was fun, challenging fun. Thanks for the airport distraction :)

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⚡️💪Energym⚡️💪
⚡️💪Energym⚡️💪 YouTube video by Comptoir IA

Finally a great use for those pesky humans.

youtu.be/zdkBUuWCZg4?...

1 month ago 3 2 0 0

But, but, godson of the modfather!

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

Well
Shit!

That whole thing was utterly phenomenal. Thank you.

1 month ago 1 0 1 0
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This is How I Do Business | Rik Ferguson Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the profes...

Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the professional, it was never about professionalism.

1 month ago 9 1 2 0
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Whereas Khameni Chameleon was, of course, Culture Club.

1 month ago 2 0 0 0

Isn’t this just another way of saying “eat shit and die”?

1 month ago 14 2 1 0

People want the EU to “unravel” for the same reason people try to get alcoholics to have “just one”.

They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.

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I just wrote 4000 words about a day in 1989, and I am really proud of it.
Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.

1 month ago 3 0 1 0

Melania?

1 month ago 2 0 2 0

Thank you :)

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Truth sometimes emerges because:
- Correct patterns are common in training data.
- Not because the system knows they are correct.
- Or indeed knows anything.

The sophistication lies in scale and architecture, not in subjective cognition, wisdom, or grounded knowledge. 4/4

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- The statistical structure of language encodes recurring patterns of human reasoning.
- Those patterns can be reproduced without consciousness, intent, or understanding.
- Those patterns cannot be relied upon to produce truth, and may tend toward sycophancy. 3/4

1 month ago 6 2 1 0
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Whether you are developer or consumer, *always* remember:

When next-token generative language models (LLMs) produces coherent analysis, it is because: 2/4

1 month ago 2 0 1 0

Since the early days of the LLM boom, I’ve been trying to help people understand that LLMs “know” precisely nothing. And folks have found that hard to accept. So, this is five years of explanation, condensed into one post: 1/4

1 month ago 11 3 2 0

We’re entering an era where:
Fluency is algorithmic.
Confidence has become cheap.
Wisdom remains expensive.
So discernment becomes the scarce skill.

And it matters more than almost any technical ability going forward.

1 month ago 3 1 1 0

To be clear, your phone is doing all this automatically, as soon as you hit the shutter button. Your photos are no longer historical documents They are averaged out, AI-mediated, attempts to please.

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Phones don’t capture reality anymore, they optimize it. That should worry you more.

Your camera doesn’t just see, it “fixes”: light, faces, skies, color. It decides what looks better and hands you that.

Somehow, we accepted that “better” mattered more than “true.”

Reality is now only a suggestion

1 month ago 11 6 2 0

Majestic.

2 months ago 1 0 0 0
A big-eared bastard of an Indian elephant wearing a crown.

A big-eared bastard of an Indian elephant wearing a crown.

I drew this. You are welcome.

2 months ago 1 0 1 0
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