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  “ #Australia's #nuclear #science agency and other highly sensitive #government and critical infrastructure organisations have been targeted by a sophisticated, #foreign #BadActor that secretly weaponised online #advertising to track millions of devices and install spyware on some systems, according to #researchers.” VS “Millions of people's devices have been infected with Israeli commercial spyware called Candiru through zero-click digital advertisements, Canadian cyber watch...

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  “Hannah needs to actually credit the #humans involved. The story here is that OpenAI had set its #models on every Millennium problem and not made progress for weeks, then they heard a rumor that #TristanBuckmaster and #LeventAlpoge had made the first real, fundamental progress in years, in part using #Codex and #Claude to help build and maintain their #MathematicalFrameworks. Buckmaster has stated that he felt they were about a month away from taking the work they had done on #EulersEquation...

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  “I've been shamelessly #VibeCoding this using ChatGPT, and have something that works well enough for now” 🤖

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  “For years, we’ve been working to make building server software simpler. We questioned how modules could be distributed, what security guarantees a JavaScript #runtime could provide, what belonged in a complete toolchain, and how easily an application could be distributed as a standalone executable. Compatibility with Node.js became an important part of that work too: our users wanted the Deno improvements while continuing to plug into the existing JS ecosystem. The team and community built a...

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  WARNING Do not ingest nitrogen infused liquids ⚠️ 🤖

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  “Two Adelaide gents at the top of their game. Great interview & go the Crows!” — TrueHistoryAustralia, youtube comment Listening to ‘Terence Tao Talks to #Numberphile About ai’ #Maths / #AI / #TerenceTao / #Adelaide <https://youtu.be/bAnwMdfcMVw?si=CVgFtIccXGcA57H0>

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  A quick scan of the #FinancialTimes, Saturday 17th October. “Citi becomes latest US bank to restrict AI agents from accessing accounts” “Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June” “The data centre IPO debacle (Firmus) that sparked a market meltdown”

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  A #RaspberryPi 5 - 1mb from a supplier I watch, “product out of stock”, increased price by $1.

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  every spam post I get, I block the instance and the spam account… mscf@mas.to and the instance is the latest. #moderation

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  ♬ stop that sound / can't you leave me alone / try to understand me now / I've gotta hang up / I can't communicate / I've gotta hang up / but I'm a happy man ♬ #SunnyBoys 🌞 #JeremyOxley / #LobbyLoyde (producer) / #OzMusic / #HappyMan / #SurfPop / #SurfRick / #AusMusic <https://youtube.com/watch?v=oKDlmQhWqUg&ra=m>

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  “Quilty says as he becomes more successful, the more he seeks to provoke, but a large show in the works for #Melbourne next year might “push it to the limit”.” Getting the chance to see a #BenQuilty exhibition. #Straya / #Art / #painting <https://afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/ben-quilty-s-first-new-york-show-takes-aim-at-dark-america-20261016-p6160k> (paywall)

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  verified #2FA works on login 🎟️

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  Yale University, Psychology Dept, 1961: “Forty men ended up joining the initial trial run of the #experiment. They entered a lab, and under the guise of a word-learning task, were asked to deliver electric shocks to a stranger – up to a potentially lethal level. A majority of the men – 26 out of 40, or 65% – ended up delivering the maximum, lethal shock. In follow-up studies with other #volunteers, a majority delivered the maximum shock even if the victim was presented as having a heart co...

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  "criminal mischief involving a robot" 🤖

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  “This former Google engineer has endeavoured to turn #Rust into a library that other languages can build from, demonstrating a way to pass generic #DataTypes and #functions between Rust and another language, an action the C #ABI doesn’t support.” #RustLang / #EvanOvadia / #ElReg

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  Asking Dave if his #sendmail is patched 😩🤪☺️ #PDP11 / #DavePlummer / #PDPGary

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  1975 blasting “Journey to the centre of the earth” with #RickWakeman on #vinyl through the house 🔊🎼💥 2026 Reading the news, turn it up and watch Rick playing grand 🎹 to rescued bears in Tam Dao national park, Vietnam ☺️ #Bears / #AnimalRights

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  AI “frontier model” software disruption as a service; Driving up 🔺the cost of digital services, hack by hack. #AI / #OpEd

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  “The rent-a-GPU business, which emerged from #cryptocurrency miner #ArkonEnergy, filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday….The #FinancialTimes previously reported that the company was targeting a valuation of up to $35 billion. The filing shows how costly Nscale's expansion has been. #Revenue surged from $10.4 million to $140.6 million in the six months to June 30, but its #NetLoss widened from $368.9 million to $1.02 billion o...

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  “three times thicker than your wildest Wonder White dreams” 🍚🍛🍶 #TaiyoSun / #Fitzroy / #FitzroyNorth

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  1994 I’m constantly told by RDBMS lecturers that all input cannot be trusted and various techniques applied because you cant trust user input. 2026 “A bug-hunting independent security research team used #Anthropic’s #Claude software to gain access to an #OpenAI employee’s #ChatGPT account, giving them a way to read and suggest changes to the company’s private cache of software.” — #RobertMcMillan, WSJ (Sep 17, ‘26) #AI / #CodeInjection / #DefectiveCode / #CyberSecurity / #BullshitBoi (paywa...

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  “Meta’s main office in Australia remains in Sydney, with its local operations led by British executive William Easton. The $550 million, 51 Flinders Lane building at the Paris end of the #Melbourne CBD was developed by real estate investment manager GPT and built by Lend Lease. An official opening function will be held next week.” “A source connected to the building’s development but unauthorised to speak publicly told this masthead that #Meta had secured the 15th floor of the building’s 39-le...

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  “I was passing a slow vehicle turning right when my car suddenly braked hard on a bend, skidding in gravel towards a deep culvert. A moment later it computed there had been no danger anyway and released control back to me. I’d been briefly overruled by a machine, and could have been killed. After stopping to deactivate the active cruise control, I, the human, was back in charge. The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (Ancap) has identified deficiencies with Adas, and in March announced new...

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  ‘Idleness’, Godward 1900 #NeoClassicism

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  Watching the #AIDoc… a union of unrestricted #tehc #ai #boywonder “white guys over 50” with “white guys under 30” who never took a class in history, politics, law or art et.,ct.

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  “On Monday, Defence Minister #RichardMarles headed to the USA for meetings with America’s top #AI firms as part of a bid to secure a $21 billion deal to make Australia a second home for tech giant Anthropic.”

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  “For years, Meta intentionally deceived the public about the addictive and harmful design features that have wreaked havoc on youth mental health," — Jay Jones, Attorney General, Virginia, USA* #TheSocialReckoning / #ThatGuy / #MarkZuckerberg / #FaceBook / #Meta / #SocialMedia / #addiction #algorithm / #TeenMentalHealth / #MentalHealth / *

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  How’d we go in the cricket yesterday? 🏏 “Right, over to #Australia’s batters, and Matt #Renshaw in particular. With his strong frame, Don #Mattingly sideburns, and no-longer-for-charity dirty mo, the #Queenslander looks like the composite #Australian male 30 year old.” #Australia / #Cricket / #AusSport