Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v.FB

I wonder how many Georgians know about the election audits?

Georgia officials kicked off an audit of this month’s election. What does that actually entail? - The Current Georgia officials have kicked off a statewide risk-limiting audit to verify the accuracy of the May 19 election results, using a random sample of ballots and a 10-sided die to ensure transparency and integrity.

Hackers used social engineering approaches to trick Meta's AI Support to hijack Instagram accounts.

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

Why? Thy.

I knew galaxies merged. I assumed ours previously had with others and will eventually with the Andromeda galaxy. Finding stars that came from another long ago seems pretty neat.

The Milky Way may have devoured another galaxy named Loki, and astronomers think they've found its remains "We might have detected one of the various small systems that contributed to form our Milky Way."

The cause of much of my headache over the past few weeks.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview Uncovers 10,000+ 0-Days in Project Glasswing Anthropic has revealed the staggering initial results of Project Glasswing, a collaborative cybersecurity initiative designed to secure critical infrastructure using advanced AI before malicious actors can exploit it.

AI is at peak buzz

At two parties the weekend, people learned I work in IT and wanted to talk about AI. When non-IT people found out I work in IT and asked me about making a website, buying tech stocks, social media, podcasts, or cryptocurrency, those technologies were at peak buzz. People for who this stuff is hitting the layperson zeitgeist my benchmark for the peak buzz in the Gartner Hype Cycle. Specifically the "Peak of Inflated Expectations." Early publicity produces a number of success stories — often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not....

AI is at peak buzz At two parties the weekend, people learned I work in IT and wanted to talk about AI. When non-IT people found out I work in IT and asked me about making a website, buying tech stocks, social media,…

Is Zero-Day the word of 2026?

Google Alarmed by Formidable AI-Powered Zero-Day Cyberattack Google researchers said that the hacker used AI to discover a powerful vulnerability that wasn't previously known.

Feed algorithm unreliability

I keep seeing where people will post on social media about an event happening now to within hours, but it doesn't appear for me until after the event even days later. It's not that I wasn't checking. It's that the algorithm didn't present it to me until that point. Back when I had the energy, I would fight against the algorithm to have a chronological feed because I'd see that kind of thing. It's frustrating that the "social" media resources prevent us from connecting in person because they don't prioritize recognition of something as timely and pushing them to where audiences see them in time....

Feed algorithm unreliability I keep seeing where people will post on social media about an event happening now to within hours, but it doesn’t appear for me until after the event even days later. It’s not that I wa…

QotD: May the Fourth Be With You

From Screenage Wasteland: May the 4th be with you, screenagers! It’s Star Wars Day, and while we do have a new list (or three) in the works for the franchise, they won’t be ready until The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters later this month. Instead, we thought we’d throw out a real softball of a question to get some discussion going about the future of Star Wars. So, the question I ask today is: if you were Dave Filoni, head of Lucasfilm, which Star Wars project would you instantly greenlight? The Adventures of Lando Calrissian starring Donald Glover. Continue where the Solo movie left off.

QotD: May the Fourth Be With You From Screenage Wasteland: May the 4th be with you, screenagers! It’s Star Wars Day, and while we do have a new list (or three) in the works for the franchise, they won’t be ready until The Mandalor…

Bring back the goblins!

ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene The company says attempts to make a ‘nerdy’ personality for the bot led to odd word choices.