Eldritch kcarruthers
kcarruthers@infosec.exchange
<p>Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat😷🌻💙💛❤️💚🍉<br />Working at the intersection of data analytics, AI, ML, privacy, data protection, cyber & info sec. <br />Wide-ranging interests including ethics, law, politics, history, anthropology, science, & MrMaxi. Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 </p><p>Just for the record my pronouns are she/her although I don’t object to they/them either. </p>
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Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference in Brexit: diplomat’ who launched ‘Conservative Friends of Russia’ group now identified as Russian intelligence officer involved in a European disinformation campaign https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/the-conviction-of-estonias-lord-haw-haw-links-russian-intelligence-to-moscows-interference-on-brexit/
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lol Putin obvs hasn’t read Bombing to Win yet 🤣: Putin hopes hardship will force Ukrainians to sue for peace – polling suggests it won’t work #Russia #Ukraine https://theconversation.com/putin-hopes-hardship-will-force-ukrainians-to-sue-for-peace-polling-suggests-it-wont-work-294619
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This is amazing #brazil #lula #election
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It sounds like they’re using some kind of dystopian novel as a playbook: Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/heat-ray-weapon-dhs-pentagon
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The Israel lobby is at it again. The Israel-supporting council in Barnet UK, long an epicentre of the antisemitism scam, has approved a motion declaring anti-Zionism to be antisemitism. The motion targets the Green party’s landmark declaration that Zionism is racism. https://skwawkbox.org/2026/10/24/labour-council-declares-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/117498383020366748 Might be prudent to have a bit of cash 💰 on hand TBH
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Good morning from MrMaxi #dofsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi
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RE: https://mastodon.ellipsis.fi/@mijutu/117496187089998762 This 👇👇👇👇💯
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LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute info-stealer malware #cybersecurity https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/litellm-release-pipeline-hacked-to-distribute-info-stealer-malware/
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All the ROFLs 🤣: OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks” ht @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/openai-says-it-will-no-longer-train-its-ai-models-on-the-live-internet-citing-significant-risks/
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Uh oh: ⚠️ Brotli is a widely used compression library from Google. On Wednesday, October 21st NodeJS disclosed CVE-2026-111497, dubbed “node2shell,” wherein a Node.js process that decompresses attacker-controlled Brotli data can be made to leak memory or run arbitrary code. On Thursday, Python disclosed that Python packages were vulnerable to CVE-2026-111497 as well. ht @jerry@infosec.exchange https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers/117494333791069530 I think he learned this hard stare from my cousin's border collies whom we visited with recently
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lol this is MrMaxi attempting the ‘hard eye’ to bend me to his will
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@the_pigtailed_girl/117490965459845668 I believe that this might be the fourth Arday has been cleared of these allegations 👀
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US executives quit $25bn Alaska gas venture over claims of secret Russian control Former CEO of Polar Train LNG tells FT that energy giant Novatek financed and held reins of strategic Alaska project without Washington’s approval https://www.ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a-4303-aebb-20d59319ef1b?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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MrMaxi knows how to Saturday
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Former Tory election candidate & current CEO Turning Point UK suspended over contract killing claims: Jack Ross was filmed allegedly discussing with an undercover reporter violent options to deal with enemies #rightwing https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/21/former-tory-election-candidate-suspended-over-contract-killing-claims
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Age of miracles: A world-first mRNA cancer vaccine has dramatically cut the risk of melanoma recurrence and death in a landmark large-scale trial that signals a new era in personalised cancer medicine. The Australian Prof Georgina Long led Phase 3 trial found that adding a tailor-made cancer vaccine reduced the risk of the recurrence of melanoma or death by 42 per cent, compared with patients who were only given the immunotherapy drug, pembrolizumab (sold as Keytruda). https://www.smh.com.au/n...
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@slothrop@chaos.social yup and pretty sure we’ve seen how that goes 🤦♀️
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East India style private corporate armies coming soon I think: Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/7/31/latin-america-is-becoming-a-laboratory-for-tech-supremacism
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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
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AI is changing the tempo of cybersecurity (or are we all going to die from overwork?) AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, but finding flaws is only the start. Recent vulnerabilities discovered expose the real challenge: can organisations fix problems fast enough? https://katecarruthers.com/ai-is-changing-the-tempo-of-cybersecurity/
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Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’ Backed by Reform UK megadonor Ben Delo, the Committee for Academic Freedom defended Arday’s accusers & has now commissioned a report into his appointment by Cambridge University https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/jason-arday-again-cleared-of-plagiarism-as-his-attackers-launch-an-independent-inquiry/
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Might as well those producers in mid east will be out for a while: Commercial helium production planned for the Yorke Peninsula https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-21/commercial-helium-yorke-peninsula-gold-hydrogen/107291760
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One in 11 Australians support political violence in some circumstances: The number of threats against parliamentarians is up fourfold since 2020, amid repeated warnings from the Australian Federal Police about a rise in politically motivated violence. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-21/helen-haines-attack-threats-to-politicians/107286670
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AI is getting smarter, but is it becoming intelligent? OpenAI’s Chief Scientist warns that we are building increasingly capable AI systems we cannot fully explain or reliably monitor. Yann LeCun argues that language fluency is not intelligence. Both may be right, and that is where the future gets interesting. https://katecarruthers.com/ai-is-getting-smarter-but-is-it-becoming-intelligent/
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AI in schools: Australia should choose learning before automation AI is already entering Australian classrooms. The question is whether it will support learning, or allow students to outsource their thinking. https://katecarruthers.com/ai-in-schools-australia-should-choose-learning-before-automation/
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RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@irix/117477305487313289 This is heartwarming 👇👇👇🐶
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Go-to info on the manosphere: Introducing ManoWhisper... again... and little bit different this time 😅 | Nick Ruest https://ruebot.net/post/manowhisper-webapp/
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Mysterious UK Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity ‘Transparency’ Won’t Say Who Runs or Funds It: A group with no legal status & using fake names for the authors of its 1st report, has won widespread media coverage, despite refusing to say who is behind it https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/19/mysterious-right-wing-think-tank-demanding-charity-transparency-wont-say-who-runs-or-funds-it/