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Hi BlueSky fellows! I’m a cybercrime prof in NL doing research on attacker economics. We spot emerging cyber-threats and do something about it. We do pretty cool stuff, see lallodi.github.io for some details!

A frustrating thing about education in academia is that it often forgets to reward potential in place of (or next to) rigor. Aka let students be students ffs.

Servus from #FIRSTCTI26! 🥨 Day 2 is live with top‑notch Cyber Threat Intelligence. Our #TLPCLEAR sessions are streamed on YouTube - no Lederhosen required 😉 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMAq... #CTI #InfoSec

In Munich for the @first.org CTI conference. Will be talking about our Telegram CTI pipeline and look forward to all the talks. If you’re here too, happy to meet!!

Ehi @chi.acm.org I love you, but this year the organization was the poorest ever. Please don’t do that ever again. #chi2026

Best marketing stunt of 2026 goes to Anthropic for “our latest model is too powerful to be released to the public”. Doesn’t even matter if substantive or not. Still brilliant.

Well tbh so do most humans.

I love @chi.acm.org but this years the venue/organization is.. crippling.

On my way to @chi.acm.org. If you wanna talk about human factors in cybersecurity reach out! Or even if you don’t, would love to talk to you anyway.

Hungary’s the best geopolitical news in what feels like ages.

Genuinely tense for today’s elections. 💪🏻 🇭🇺

We’re hiring, and we’d love to find the right person for this! want to join a young, energetic and no-nonsense group conducting excellent research? Might very well be us! www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

heard Tucker Carlson's interview @economist.com. Somebody please reassure me he is not actually trying to be the next president Trump. His laughter and circular arguments in response to many of @zannymb.economist.com's questions was surreal. I'm shaken.

Just how massive can a star get? Pretty danged massive... but it depends on when you look. A thing I wrote for Scientiifc American, just like I do every Friday! www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🔭🧪

Don't be afraid to call terrorists terrorists. Everyone understands which country is doing this.

#CHI26 program is UP! The largest CHI program is now accessible through the SIGCHI app. While we will announce many more tracks soon, the largest section of the program, the papers program, is now available, along side workshops, meetups, keynotes and much more!

prepping NATO-style cybersecurity competition with a handful of talented students @tue.nl Real SOC and IT/OT env. It is going to be e-p-i-c! If you have pointers or know of good resources to look at pls let me know!

Cyber as a counter offensive from Iran would require pre-existent positioning and targeted coordination. Cyber support to kinetic ops ain’t easy. Saw this also during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The US seem to have pulled it off in Venezuela. Highly focused and planned. The opposite of Iran rn.

giving it a new go at BSky; cleaned up my follows to get a fresh re-start. Sorry if you got caught in the bulk unfollow, happy to follow back again if you care and let me know!

Shouldn’t we rebrand LLMs as Large Language Manipulators? Not a joke.

✨ The Semicon Summer School 2025 is a wrap! 🌍 A week of lectures, company visits & projects brought international young talents together in semicon tech & innovation. 💡🤝 Thanks to all who made it a success! ▶️ Relive the highlights: youtu.be/ywgE72gKSDc #SemiconSummerSchool #TUe

Currently experimenting with JITR (Just-in-Time Recovery). It's when symptoms from a heavily debilitating illness fade away leaving room to health euphoria, right before an important deadline with multiple submissions. 🧪

China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”

Striking how this column is largely whining and absolutely ZERO explanation of how the tariffs are in any way related to or risolutive of the cause of the whining. For an FT column, I’d say know your audience a bit better. On the other hand ofc it can also be there’s nothing to say about that.

Looking forward to Apple reconsidering that planned obsolescence thing they used to do.

I actually think this might be the only meaningful global response. Trump’s idiocy is rooted in a belief that everybody needs the US, but the US don’t need anybody. It can be proven false real quick.

European travellers to UK need electronic permit from today www.dutchnews.nl?p=249893

I made an AI notice that the second reference it provided in its answer is irrelevant to its argument. The AI said sorry for the oversight, and corrected its answer by renumbering reference number two to number one.

Official announcement: We’ve partnered with Proton VPN to help you break free from Big Tech! #BreakFree @proton.me vivaldi.com/download

I theorize there’s a positive correlation between aging and excitement to get back home. Surely somebody’s already proven it, but apparently only now I am aging sufficiently to notice.

1st Law of the US admin: Adding or removing appointees from the cabinet alters the internal absurdity of the system. Corollary: Unfortunately, total absurdity is NOT conserved. 2nd Law: Absurdity never decreases. 3rd Law: Absurdity becomes constant as total cabinet intellect approaches zero.

Underrated post.

1st Law of the US admin: Adding or removing appointees from the cabinet alters the internal absurdity of the system. Corollary: Unfortunately, total absurdity is NOT conserved. 2nd Law: Absurdity never decreases. 3rd Law: Absurdity becomes constant as total cabinet intellect approaches zero.

Welcome to Bluesky, President Obama 🫡

"Language for me is not about rule following, it's controlling the reading process". Absolutely love this.

Truly remarkable to see EU research institutions stating that the US administration is now curbing scientific research, and discuss what opportunities and risks lay ahead. I repeat: the US is *CURBING* scientific research. We are living in an alien world.

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Germany, UK issue travel warnings to their citizens about traveling to the U.S.

Is this an opportunity for Canada and the EU to further strengthen their economic relations in spite of US silliness?

A first step. How it will happen is to see. SURF’s got a ball to pick up and I’ve heard they are already looking into it. But change requires talent (to build it), and willing stakeholders (to showcase it); a concrete program must focus on bringing these together. Start with Uni’s.

Who said the Germans have no sense of humour?

🚀Breakthrough in organic semiconductors! TU/e researchers Marco Preuß & Prof. E.W. Meijer helped solve a decades-old challenge, paving the way for next-gen electronics. Their results are published in Science. Spiral-moving electrons could boost OLEDs & unlock quantum tech! Read more: bit.ly/3Fq0E7i

Probably noteworthy to mention that the Dutch government has confirmed a 2.5B euro investment to strengthen the semiconductor industry in NL, with the Eindhoven region and @tue.nl playing a major role in it. It’s called Project Beethoven, and it’s already happening.

Travel to the US is expected to slide by 5%, contributing to a $64 billion shortfall for the travel industry, according to Tourism Economics which had originally forecast a 9% increase in foreign travel, but revised its estimate to reflect “polarizing Trump Administration policies and rhetoric.”

Looking forward to European ministries of internal affairs to release a “travel only if necessary” travel advisory for the US.

An excellent guide to potential ways Europe could screw up the US economy. If it comes to a stand-off, Europe has leverage over America economist.com/briefing/202...

“Ukrainians are rallying around their president in ways that Mr Trump could only dream about. The poll finds that 72% of Ukrainians strongly or somewhat approve of their president’s job-performance; Mr Trump is at 46%, according to The Economist’s tracker.”