Tim King

Tim King

@tk1ng.bsky.social

Cyber education & emerging tech specialist. Love a good edge case because I am one!

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DuckDuckGo
@duckduckgo.com

We're proud to donate $1M to a diverse group of organizations around the world that promote privacy, digital rights, access to information online, and a healthier online ecosystem. This is made possible through your support of DuckDuckGo, thank you! 🎉 spreadprivacy.com/2026-duckduc...

spreadprivacy.com2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable DonationsDuckDuckGo is donating $1M in 2026 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

Many thanks to @duckduckgo.com for supporting EFF's mission to protect privacy for all.

DuckDuckGo@duckduckgo.com

We're proud to donate $1M to a diverse group of organizations around the world that promote privacy, digital rights, access to information online, and a healthier online ecosystem. This is made possible through your support of DuckDuckGo, thank you! 🎉 spreadprivacy.com/2026-duckduc...

spreadprivacy.com2026 DuckDuckGo Charitable DonationsDuckDuckGo is donating $1M in 2026 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

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IEEE Spectrum
@spectrum.ieee.org

Rune Energy is focusing on creating #dataCenters where there is already excess power that the grid can’t take, eliminating the drain data centers usually have on the power grid. Its modular data centers will connect to solar farms that produce more energy than can be used. buff.ly/Nb0dC0E

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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Jan Rosenow
@janrosenow.bsky.social

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

bbc.co.uk'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclearAfter defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.
Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

"finding severe vulnerabilities was considered an expensive & difficult task requiring years of training & deep knowledge Frontier #AI models have made it incredibly easy to find previously unknown vulnerabilities. 3% of all vulnerabilities ever found were discovered just in the month of October"

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org

The Vulnerability Apocalypse is here, and computer security is about to get a whole lot worse. Here's what you can do.

eff.orgComputer Security Is About to Get a Lot Worse, Here’s What You Can DoIt is a commonly held truth among computer geeks that there is no such thing as bug free software, or a secure computer. Any piece of software that anyone actually uses will have a security vulnerabil...

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Heather Cherone
@heathercherone.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Chicago Police Department is probing whether members misused their access to a system owned by an outside law-enforcement agency that automatically reads drivers’ license plates, officials announced late Friday afternoon. @wttw.bsky.social

news.wttw.comCPD Opens Misconduct Probe Into Members’ Use of License Plate ReadersThe department is also performing an “audit of prior searches conducted by members” using systems not controlled by CPD to determine if “there are additional instances of potential misuse,” according ...

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IEEE Spectrum
@spectrum.ieee.org

The U.S. government has awarded up to $1 billion to IBM’s #quantum foundry Anderon. They aim to allow quantum companies to design chips, while Anderon produces the hardware to craft them. buff.ly/0Jtu188

Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

"While (social media age limits are) better late than never, neither the American or Canadian intervention addresses AI chatbots. We should be concerned not only about about the effects of AI on teens’ safety, but also, as recent data from global testing suggests, on teens’ learning." #onted #cdned

Chantal Mancini, PhD@uniongrrl.bsky.social

theconversation.com/the-release-... #onted

theconversation.comThe release of AI chatbots has harmed teens’ learning and Canada needs to actTeens use AI every day to help them learn, but new data shows they are falling years behind. Governments cannot afford to wait to regulate AI.
Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

Inside #BlackOctober 's #cybersecurity alerts www.businesstoday.in/technology/n... Our digital infrastructure isn't engineered so much as it's chucked together willy-nilly at the lowest possible cost. #AI systemically uncovers the half assed nature of our code. Welcome to the new normal.

businesstoday.inFrom compromised certificates to malicious software: Inside October’s cybersecurity alerts - BusinessTodayA wave of cybersecurity incidents in October has exposed critical vulnerabilities in PHP, digital certificates and developer platforms. Experts warn of widespread risks and call for immediate security...
Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

Peace in our time? Chamberlain looks like a mountain of resolute determinism compared to these clowns, both of whom seem more than happy to fall back on Nazi imagery when it suits them. Churchill would be able to take on both at once... and he's dead!

Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

Mapping Global #AI Workforce Density www.talentoperatoros.io/reports2/kep... That's a handy map. It pretty much tells you where AI data centres should be built. Skip abusive policy targeting poor communities and build data centres where the people using AI are, since they want it.

talentoperatoros.ioLarge-scale WebGL-powered Geospatial Data Visualization ToolKepler.gl is a powerful web-based geospatial data analysis tool. Built on a high performance rendering engine and designed for large-scale data sets.

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Canadian School Library
@cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social

There are so many reasons to SAVE THE DATE for our TMC9 Symposium: -connect with school library professionals across the country -hear from incredible keynotes -discuss a variety of research and learning artefacts -show support for School Library Professionals in AB -Visit Edmonton, Alberta! #tlchat

Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

#cybersecurity is a teachable subject. The challenge is that we don't teach how technology works in the first place and set students on a path to oblivious media consumption from the beginning. #cybersecurityawarenessmonth is an opportunity to teach how tech works. We reduce it to nonsense and nos.

Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

Chasing your senior, most experienced teachers out of the profession early results in lower learning outcomes #onted. Which is what has happened: www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/f... " #Ontario’s average science scores fell from 519 to 513, 524 to 494 for reading & 513 to 484 for mathematics"

fraserinstitute.orgFord government presides over student test score decline in OntarioFrom 2018 to 2025, Ontario’s average test scores fell in science, reading and mathematics.
Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

"the OECD equates 20 points to about one year of learning, which means Ontario’s Grade 10 students are effectively 1.5 years behind in both reading and mathematics versus where the province’s Grade 10 students were back in 2018. This is, to put it plainly, an appalling result."

Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

Back of the envelope calculation: everyone in Mexico, USA & Canada would need to spend over $7000/yr to balance the books on #AI. If that isn't a bubble what is? MIT economics prof Daron Acemoglu: "the industry is unlikely to reach (these) levels of revenue" www.brookings.edu/articles/fin...

brookings.eduFinancing the AI buildout | BrookingsAI's data center boom could demand 3.6% of GDP in annual investment through 2032—financed increasingly through debt structures that mask real risk.

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Lisa Noble
@nobleknits2.bsky.social

Monday morning thread

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

Local, domain specific #AI could help students in all sorts of ways, but the 'leaders' in #education making decisions about which #AI your child uses grabbed the closest non-domain-specific training, non-structured input pipeline/environmental context injection #edtech & applied them haphazardly.

Tim King
@tk1ng.bsky.social

1/ "The central finding is not that #AI tools are inadequate in absolute terms, but that general-purpose AI, which is developed without domain-specific training, structured input pipelines..." link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #education What kind of AI are you using #cdned #onted?

link.springer.comStudents’ Haphazard AI Utilization in Education: Evidence from a Network Cybersecurity SOC SimulationThe integration of artificial intelligence into higher education is proceeding under significant institutional pressure, often without the domain-specific methodology required for AI tools to be genui...