AV MSP/Colin Birney

arstechnica.comThe Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certsIntermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

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Nerd Inferno

@nerdinferno.com

Here's a clever thing - Tiny Little Office - a minimalist office suite which encodes documents as URL fragments. The fragments are not sent to the server (unless the URLs are shortened/previewed) and can be shared as links that are rendered locally. Hat tip to @masnick.com tinylittleoffice.com

tinylittleoffice.comTiny Little Office: the link is the documentA tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.

These sentiments are great and all, but the internet in the 90s was full of corporate websites and misinformation. When I was 10, I got way into conspiracy theories thanks to web rings. Web search is the issue now, but you've always had to be discerning online. You can't just "browse"..

Aaron HM@aaronhm.bsky.social

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Even back then, you didn't just go online and wander around safely. You found good websites from trusted sources. This isn't downplaying that the web is getting useless websites at an alarming rate, but nobody but a search engine is recommending them. You need new trusted sources.

Once again, Apple releases something that's already been done, acting like it's novel. When you're behind Facebook/Meta, you're not late to the party, party is over and everyone has gone home.

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Retailers have lied about shoplifting for years to justify all sorts of miserable practices. I'm not buying this.

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karlbode.comMeta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious MessAuthoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

If I find out your using one of these to talk to me, I'm coming for you. And it'll be easy since they'll just tell me where you live.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Oregon 🕎🎲

@oregonthedm.bsky.social

That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...

cmarmitage.substack.comBig Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six StatesFired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.

I'm out at BSides #Albuquerque today and tomorrow. Come say hi, come see me talk tomorrow at 9:50am about, you guessed it, audio visual.

20 Sept

Come join AV in the AM, a weekly conversation between me and Chris because nobody in AV is brave enough to come hang out on BlueSky.

Chris Neto CTS@chrisneto.bsky.social

Today's #AVintheAm topic "People Person" #AVtweeps

nytimes.comOpinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

19 Sept

I feel like we've forgotten the amount of damage a human can do when given escalated privileges on a system they don't understand. If you let a computer engage in that behavior automatically, powered by the stupid things you can find on the internet, it's going to replicate that activity.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

19 Sept

Being honest, I've cratered more than one Linux install because I still struggle with permissions, c&p commands I don't fully understand in an attempt to fix an issue. A machine using that kind of process and logic is going to be far more destructive than I can be (because I eventually give up).

abc.net.auDoctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugsArtificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.

17 Sept

I do not understand using LLMs, that are designed to summarize and rephrase, for something that requires transcription. Transcription is secure, mature, and accurate these days. It can run locally in a computer.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

17 Sept

I went to a medical tech conference and most exhibitors were LLM AI. I saw a transcribing company I know. They told me they're recording medical terminology in a bunch of accents and languages, because that's what is required for them to serve the medical field. They don't mess around.

16 Sept

Glad to see more apps scanning for Meta glasses, but s/o to @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social for being possibly the first with an app and it's free, unlike the $25 price tag of the pro zuckoff app. Download nearby glasses, it's on Yves' account, pinned.

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7 Sept

Haunting

Shodan Safari@shodansafari.lol

ASN: AS6167 Location: Raleigh, US Added: 2026-09-06T05:27 #shodansafari #infosec

techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

3 Sept

This is why any sane person is fighting age verification laws.

Techdirt@techdirt.com

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

kotaku.comOh Hell Yes, We're Getting A Lego City Builder GameLego Skylines was announced at Gamescom ONL

25 Aug

We already have Minecraft and isn't the point of Legos the physical act of putting them together? Maybe stop making a simple set $55 and people won't have to buy a game to pretend they own them.

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Oh, Hell Yes, We're Getting A Lego City Builder Game

404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

I learned about the burning of The Library of Alexandria by Julius Caesar as a kid and, being a book kid, thinking it was one of the most despicable things ever done. I thought about all the things that would never be read and it made me sad. It's happening again now and it's no less despicable.

404 Media@404media.co

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

I also do recognize that there is a lot of not so great stuff in print. It's like the groups that restore movies - they long for the day that they won't be restoring a low-effort western. But it doesn't mean it's not worth preserving something in limited supply.

Especially considering what AI promises to bring us, the worst written book or badly made film deserves a place above whatever an LLM is "creating."

404 Media@404media.co

To be clear, these companies could absolutely release these books for the public to research from and enjoy. They won't. It's their "competitive advantage" now.

15 Aug

"I've been fascinated and repulsed by this device ever since." is one of the best device reviews. Kind of sums up what happens every time I buy some cheap, strange knock off device from aliexpress.

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9 Aug

Yet another way LLMs are making lives worse. You can't just sit down and write with whatever tools you prefer, you have to create a forensic trail and guard against accusations of using AI. Lovely.

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arstechnica.comMicrosoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on WindowsApp is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.

1 Aug

Want.

Rocketengine@rocketengine.bsky.social

Casio F-B100W 歩数計、Bluetooth搭載、8000円あんまりチープじゃないチープカシオ新作 www.casio.com/jp/watches/c...

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Ars Technica

@arstechnica.com

23 July

18 July

This is for your coworker who uses Copilot to summarize their emails.

Dr. Alex Parker @alexparker.bsky.social

Perhaps, for reasons, you would like to make text you write more expensive for any LLM to ingest. May I introduce adversarial tokenmaxxing: alex-parker.github.io/tokenmaxxer/ Increase the tokens needed to represent any text by 3-6 times. It seems that l33t may have been ahead of its time.

12 July

Messi is what we in the US call a "ball hog"

avsuperfriends.comavsuperfriends.com

6 July

They took the brushes away! We demand brushes! This is why the AV industry is dying, fewer brushes. This is what industry consolidate gets you - consolidating brushes out of existence. Follow me for more hot takes on topics I know nothing about. #avsf #avmsp #avtweeps

AV SuperFriends@avsuperfriends.bsky.social

Bigger sensor PTZ cameras? Smooth brushless movement? 12G-SDI, HDMI, NDI, and onboard recording? 📹🔥 Telycam’s Explorer lineup and Mix One controller gave Jamie a whole new pile of camera toys to obsess over. 🎛️😎 www.avsuperfriends.com/episodes/per... #AVSF #avtweeps #edtech #higheredav

4 July

This is bleak and is probably just the start of these kinds of gifts. Generative AI and crypto are the two latest hyped up tech fads and seem to only serve as tools to steal from everyday folks in more and more creative ways.

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arstechnica.comExec blames malware threat for Amazon blocking sideloading on new Fire SticksNew Fire Stick OS helps Amazon block third-party homepage launchers, ad blockers.

30 June

Ah yes, ads, famously never the source of malware.

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30 June

Well. There goes my "best VPN" recommendation.

woob@woob.zone

NOT FUCKING MULLVAD GOD DAMN IT www.tumblr.com/3liza/820613... circumstances.run/@davidgerard...

29 June

Happy Monday.

kc green@kcg.bsky.social

Listen up, brain lords;

11 June

I'm not sure I want this to become *that* kind of social media.

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avsuperfriends.comInfoComm 2026 — AV SuperFriendsThe AV SuperFriends are back at InfoComm, and we’ve packed the week with live shows, conversations, events, tours, and just enough bad decisions to keep things interesting.

11 June

Lots of great things coming from AV SuperFriends at InfoComm! Check out the events and go spend some time with them. #avtweeps #infocomm2026 #ic26 #avmsp #avtrust

AV SuperFriends@avsuperfriends.bsky.social

AVSF + Q-SYS + higher ed AV + game show format = probably fine. 🎮😬 We need your survey answers for High Score Hangout at InfoComm. Help us build the board, then come watch the nonsense. Survey/details here: www.avsuperfriends.com/infocomm2026 #AVSF #InfoComm2026 #avtweeps #edtech #higheredav

404media.coMicrosoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini UsersMicrosoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.

8 June

Highly unusual, but I bet it's going to happen more frequently. @microsoft.com pulls 70 or so githib repost due to malicious code that will activate when you vibe code.. www.404media.co/microsoft-ha...

@michaelwhelan.bsky.social

27 Mar

Haunting.

Shodan Safari@shodansafari.lol

ASN: AS6327 Location: Vancouver, CA Added: 2026-03-26T12:07 #shodansafari #infosec

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Michael Whelan

26 Mar

The push for age verification requirements for operating systems is bullshit. It’s worth your time to read why. agelesslinux.org

agelesslinux.orgAgeless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

arstechnica.comFederal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anywayOne Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.

19 Mar

Yikes. Bad news for @microsoft.com and especially bad news for claiming FedRAMP means anything.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com

For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server across the digital terrain.

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Picard Tips

@picardtips.bsky.social

18 Mar

Picard engineering tip: Maintenance of existing systems is just as important as building new capabilities.

7 Mar

If you played Trust and Safety Tychoon, you know ignoring a legit court order ends your game immediately. I appreciate Proton's response to this. Their email systems are useful to organizers and mutual aid groups that are often subject to harassment and surveillance. Not perfect, but good..

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social

me 🤝 Proton's comms person explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it

arstechnica.comGoogle's new command line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace dataThis could make it easier to plug AI into Workspace APIs, but it's not yet an official Google product.

6 Mar

Why would anybody do that?!?!?!?!

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4 Mar

When I say I'm outdoorsy, this is what I'm talking about.

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Chris Satterfield

@compgeke.com

10 Feb

In this household we will be replacing Discord with Polycom VSX Video Coneference Phones running over 512K worth of ISDN connections.