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John Ripley
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RE: The scale of data centers, old fashioned (in the days of yore 2020) vs modern "AI".
Your average suburban-sized grocery store (Safeway), or general goods store (Walmart/Target) consumes on average about 0.5-1MW, as in megawatts. Large event stadiums, office parks, and so on, somewhere within that order of magnitude. This is about the same as the usage of 1,000 (US) homes, which seems a lot, but these things serve entire communities.
Your average small data center was also that magnitude.
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thanks to ai, saying you're "dating a model" is a lot less likely to impress anyone nowadays
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buheratorhttps://joshua.hu/lessons-using-sanitizers-oracle-llm-vulnerability-triage
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Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot
HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2@mastodon.social"Temporal reverse engineering."
Arthur put his head in his hands and shook it gently from side to side.
"Is there any humane way," he moaned, "in which I can prevent you from telling me what temporary reverse bloody-whatsiting is?"
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
bert_hubert@eupolicy.socialThis was a first of a kind attack on Poland. Long term pre-positioning. "AI and automation used extensively". There were few effects, was this just a test? It felt like "digital arson". The attack could have been way worse. They might have destroyed turbines. Or stop the energy production, they didn't try. Root causes: simple routine hygiene gaps. Default password, reused passwords, no MFA, non-updated devices, bad segmentation. (THIS IS ALMOST ALWAYS THE CASE, GET THE BASICS RIGHT!)
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
bert_hubert@eupolicy.social"So there seems to be eight (or more?) different ways to log in. We started iterating through the numbers and when we hit five, we were immediately logged in." - these people control 1000GW of solar power. Set login type to 5 and you are in!
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
bert_hubert@eupolicy.socialTechnical details on this hack: https://jakkaru.de/articles/sungrow-vulnerability-exposes-gigawatts-worldwide
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Bart Groothuis
bartgroothuis@mastodon.onlineChinese company Sungrow had a software vulnerability, which was found by an ethical hacker. The vulnerabilty would have allowed to turn off all EU systems and could have resulted in a massive multi-day EU-wide black out
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Rabbit
ra6bit@infosec.exchangeI hear we lost Margaret Hamilton today. What an absolute legend; Thank you for leading the way, ma'am. RIP
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