Each year we do "Cybersecurity training" that's always focused on social engineering, I feel like there should be a toast to Kevin Mitnick. And watch the movie Hackers, which was based on his hacking as a teen. Even more so since he passed a couple years ago.

The Internet runs on garbage code

Anthropic accidentally released their Claude source code.1 There are humans checking out this code and upset about how the terrible nature. I'm 27 years into working in IT. I've seen open source programming code and proprietary programming. Sometimes it's…

FBI confirms hack of Director Patel's personal email inbox The Handala hackers associated with Iran have breached the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel and published photos and documents.

Iranian hackers trolled the director of the FBI. A competent director would before even going through the nomination process would lock that shit down.

Cat wants to sleep on me, but I am sweating from mowing the yard. She's 😠 about this situation.

Techbros: AI is going to take over the world.

Me to AI: Go back one chapter. (In chapter 12)

AI: chapter 8.

Me: Go to chapter 11.

AI: chapter 10.

Me: Next chapter.

AI: chapter 12.

I went and used a non-AI method.

Archaeologist may have uncovered the remains of D’Artagnan, the famed French musketeer | CNN An archaeologist has found remains he believes belong to the famed French musketeer D’Artagnan at a church in the Netherlands, potentially solving the mystery of the hero’s final resting place more than three centuries after he died.

As a technocrat, I'm not surprised it took that long. www.cnn.com/2026/03/...
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"Dijkman, the former Maastricht city archaeologist, told CNN that he had been petitioning church officials to let him carry out excavations at the property since meeting French historian Odile Bordaz, a specialist in D’Artagnan, some 25 years ago."
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She's not sold that Daddy is Maui.... #Moana Wait till she hears the rumor that her daddy is also The Rock.... #Moana #YoureWelcome

Is his daughter not believing he played Maui the reason why we are getting a live action Moana movie?

How hacked surveillance cameras are fueling assassinations in Iran Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security researchers say the underlying vulnerabilities cover the planet and are easy to exploit

Seems like a nightmare for DoD and DHS and FBI counterterrorism that the US has so many insecure security cameras everywhere (Flock, Ring) should a foreign power attack here.

"A NM jury determined Tue that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms, signaling a changing tide against tech companies and the government’s willingness to crack down." www.fastcompany.com/...

Seems more and more I find medical offices have patients electronically sign forms. Without providing the text. I guess until a patient wins a case where that signature wasn't binding because they can't agree to something they didn't read, it will continue.

43-year-long Study Found Coffee Was Associated with 18% Lower Risk of Dementia They also reported lower rates of subjective cognitive decline (7.8% versus 9.5%) and performed better on certain objective cognitive tests.

This will make my wife happy.

'Call a Boomer' Payphone Instantly Connects Youth with Seniors to Tackle Loneliness Across Generations In a video that garnered 18 million views on the page's Instagram, April the Boomer picks up the phone and connects with Charlotte the Zoomer. 

May not work when GenX hit retirement communities?

Amazed when people write: "check out our social media" but don't have a hyperlink to their social media. They expect someone to retype it. I guess that's someone who is serious about checking it out? If I go to the effort of searching on a user, definitely following them.

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission Researchers discovered that an AI agent roamed beyond its parameters, creating backdoors in IT infrastructure.

Of course one did

Platypuses share a surprising fur feature with birds Platypuses are the first mammals known to have hollow melanosomes, pigment-bearing structures found in the hair of many animals.

My replacement spirit animal is the platypus.

Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.

The lack of surprise about quid pro quo from Lewandowski raises my "don't have confirmation bias" hackles, but... there's so much history of questionable behavior that it's hard to justify agreeing it's actual bias.

Reading on AI project failures & thought: "if you remove AI from claim, this all sounds like the reasons why most software projects fail." Dev only one who knows how to use it. Operations can't maintain what Architect built. No one asked the users, so it's not useful.

We May Not Be Limited to the Senses We’re Born With. This Hidden Superpower Is Proof. Researchers are already helping people hone this sixth sense.

Wait... Doesn't EVERYONE know that water sounds different when poured at different temperatures?

Not surprised I tested as an "Analyst" instead of an "Accommodator" or "Assertive." Because as someone who wields pattern recognition, I know exactly where it's going almost immediately and get the result I want.

AI really likes using nuclear weapons in simulated war scenarios. Here's why The study comes as the U.S. military has been working through how to implement AI systems for potential use.

Something to consider as the Dept of "War" uses AI to facilitate their fighting.

Always a little strange when someone wants to tell you a story involving what their spouse said about you when... you don't know their spouse.

Coworkers don't bank on having to work with me challenging them to work through math problem. Asked one for the circumference of his tire. Asked him what Saturday's date? Pi Day! Which is... 3.14. Asked him what's the diameter of the tire? So flustered for no reason. He laughed.

Wait, wait, wait... The spelling checker knows AHSOKA but not "generic." I... I.... Erg.

The path for output is "incoming." Sure, that's not going to be confusing AT ALL.

Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center Amazon's cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily after objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire.

I subscribe to a vendor's status page which interestingly noted an outage for their stuff hosted by AWS in the Middle East. (Ours shouldn't be there, so this was curiosity.) So, I tracked down an article.

No better self-awareness practice than heckling your boss giving a presentation.

How often do people buy the alternative reader version of audiobooks they already bought?

Too short; had to read too much

The incident management system has a nice feature where when changes happen on a ticket, it puts something in a notification pull down where I can easily go to see what's new. My only problem is the listing basically says "Follow Update - CMP-INC1..." for…

Multiple meetings haven't given me the customary 15 minutes advance notice. I am far too reliant on my software telling me.