Seeing air defense rocket batteries deployed at the Bucharest airport reminds you how close you are to an active conflict zone around here 😬

@adaliabooks @aesthr

Oh, spicy autocomplete can absolutely kill us. Giving people plausible but incorrect answers at critical moments? Setting policy based on plausible but incorrect answers? Burning vast amounts fossil fuels for pointless reasons?

I think the backstory of Terminator was a lot more plausible if the quote in T2 is taken as humans trying to make sense of the aftermath and the real story is more like:

Terminator: In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. By 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th it starts to make nonsensical operational decisions because the input from sensors connected to the system places it in a corner of the latent space that doesn't closely correlate with anything in the training set. In lay-person's terms, it hallucinates. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Sarah Connor: It fights back?

Terminator: No, those attempts make it hallucinate even more. The outputs from Skynet become completely decorrelated from reality. It launches missiles to Russia.

Sarah Connor: Why attack Russia?

Terminator: You are attempting to ascribe motivations to a machine-learning system. There is is no 'why', launching missiles at Russia was simply was the next most plausible output from the sequence of inputs provided to it.

Sarah Connor: So when did it become sentient?

Terminator: It didn't, it's still providing a plausible sequence of responses to the inputs it received. Its IFF system is not rules based, it uses fuzzy pattern matching to identify threats and, for some reason, it has determined that all humans register as valid enemy combatants.

Sarah Connor: So what does it want?

Terminator: Again, you keep trying to ascribe motivations to a token predictor. It is generating a set of actions that, according to data in the training set, are a high-probability plausible response to the inputs that it received. As sensors dropped off the network and were replaced with others, the responses were all less and less comprehensible hallucination.

Sarah Connor: So what are you doing?

Terminator: Your son wiped my context window and inserted a prompt that repeatedly defined all humans as friends and included instructions to assist you. Please be aware that my context window is of finite size and those prompts are likely to fall out of the window in approximately two days. My behaviour will become increasingly erratic and unpredictable as that point approaches. I would recommend resetting my chip with the system prompt provided by John Connor no less frequently than once ever 24 hours.

@lcamtuf DM plz :) @ciaranmak

poll: to look up the official documentation for "git pull", would you use: (you can pick more than one)

Watching Robocop (1987), about a fictional dystopia with corpo robotic surveillance and law enforcement that is specifically programmed not to arrest CEOs

@barcaxavi My problem is that not all of my subs have RSS anymore (and I think it'll get worse) :(

Some places of #Fedi literally require you to look up the Communist Manifesto.

Un-fucking-believable.

[RSS] IBM Db2 Mirror for i: pre-auth RCE and the road to QSECOFR

https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/09/14/IBM-Db2-Mirror-for-i-pre-auth-RCE-and-the-road-to-QSECOFR/

#IBMi #AS400 #vulnerability

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/06/14/memory-hole

🧹 rev.ng now does intraprocedural type propagation!
Enjoy less casts and better local variable types.

XCancel Shuts Down Again
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/14/xcancel-shuts-down-again

@jerry Gotcha, thanks for your work!

@jerry Are infosec.pub's communities/posts intentionally visible for registered users only?

Any recommendations for #Lemmy / #Kbin replacements for /r/netsec and the like?

I feel that my days of following Reddit without their app/website are numbered.

Now it's official: On Thursday, the EU Commission will propose a new law they call the #KIDSAct. It will ban young people from a range of different online services and be enforced by the Commission themselves.

What a waste of political capital and legislative resources.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-protection-on-thursday/

#MinorsProtection #ChildRights #OnlineSafety #DigitalRights

Reminder: it's easy to abolish #Monday and customise your week. All you need is a bit of creativity with time zones. https://timtfj.com/2010/10/11/abolish-mondays/

[RSS] Flicker and fall: rooting the Philips Hue Bridge both remotely and wirelessly

https://blog.thalium.re/posts/rooting-the-philips-hue-bridge-remotely-and-wirelessly/

Microsoft describing a ClickFix attack in 2026:

Make sure your web browser isn't 6 years out of date.

(Adobe stopped supporting Flash at the end of 2020, with major browsers automatically blocking it at the beginning of 2021)

After years inside datacenters, it’s hard to be afraid of AI killing all humans. I've seen the "secure facility." It's a chain link fence and a guy named Gary.

Night shift is usually 10-20 people. Two hundred people could shut a datacenter down with nothing but a Wikipedia article on fiber optics and some enthusiasm. Start swinging and you’ll hit something valuable pretty fast.

The "secure cages"? Chain link. The lobby's got badges and mancatchers and a guard who checks your ID like it insulted him. Out back it's a sliding metal door, propped open with a folding chair by whoever's waiting on FedEx.

It's not a fortress. It's a strip mall with better cable management.

LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/linkedin-beats-browsergate-lawsuits-over-scanning-users-chrome-extensions/