Zeus feels a more beffitting name for an all-electric Atlas, surely?

Source: Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas robot is swiveling nightmare fuel – The Verge

Waymo can operate on San Francisco freeways without a human driver, but the company is still only testing on freeways with a human driver in the front seat.

Source: 7 Waymo robotaxis block traffic to San Francisco freeway on-ramp | TechCrunch

Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, but it’ll cost you – The Register

In their ongoing effort to put as many price tags as possible on every single thing they sell, Cisco decided to Cisco their wording in the only way Cisco knows how.

There’s an ongoing trend in cybersecurity where the vendors are vowing to integrate narrow AI into all their products. The problem with this, I feel as a person who is in no way an AI expert, is that NAI (Narrow AI) can nominally train on a concept but has no way to train on context. I believe contextualization requires general AI.

Now I am a cybersecurity professional and I feel that I’m in some degree an expert at certain intricacies in the field, and I understand in my daily work that context is everything. Yes NAI will be a great tool but it shouldn’t be a trusted authority. I do think using NAI to find a flaw in a firewall config is a great idea, but it absolutely should not be depended upon 100%. If the NAI says “everything is great, your firewall is fine…”

And you trust it without going in and doing your own verification, well, here’s a thumbs up for you.

TTFN!

Enjoy this picture of the late war criminal Henry Kissinger picking his nose.

VMWare’s Takeover By Broadcom: “The Employees Better Moo If They Know What’s Good For Them“ – Some Trash Executve Mother****er – Forbes (link title mine)

I use VMWare workstation extensively in a professional capacity and prefer it over Oracle Virtualbox. Hyper-V is good only if you want to use a windows OS as a guest and have any hope of quick desktop interaction with no fuss.

This news article disgusts me on a level that makes me say I’m now going to be re-evaluating my primary VM solution for professional work. I don’t think I can approve this sort of disgusting executive behavior by voting with an upgrade that I need to do soon to workstation.

My original post on infosec.exchange.

AI Fanart

Here’s some randomly generated AI fanart that’s sure to cause whatever model that sucks up the images on my blog to start hallucinating.

TTFN!

Search Engine Optimizaaaaaaaation……..

The birth & death of search engine optimization – Xe Iaso

I personally think of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as a result of Google’s “algorythmization of search” where it became harder and harder to game relevancy because early tricks to get a business seen online didn’t work anymore. SEO is the primary tool in a war between a closed ad market and its customers. An entire industry sprung up to play a game of cat and mouse with Google. I thought that SEO would die when Google figured out how to cut it off at the neck, I didn’t think AI would save it, but it is. And we are all worse off. Money finds a way.

And now for some AI generated imagery.

I’ve been experimenting with various image models using Invoke AI and I occasionally get some pretty cool results. I claim no copyright to any of these so do with them whatever you like. Have fun with the prompts.

Prompt: skull table wine
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 2951802346

Negative Prompt: brando
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 2342205097

NOTE: Sharing this because HOLY SHIT GETTY IMAGES!!!111

Prompt: fairy under glass
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 828184841

Positive Prompt: human face, cyberpunk, female, cheerleader, pout, angel wings, circuit board
Negative Prompt: render, robot, photo realistic, tattoo, cybernetics
Model: Openjourney
Seed: 1437612319

Prompt: A neuron spreading across a microchip.
Model: Stable Diffusion 2.1
Seed: 3428012634

TTFN!

Microsoft paid billions for an idiot AI, a prime example.

I don’t think AI is a good descriptor for this. We probably need to start adding N to AI and just call it for what it is NAI (Narrow AI), pronounced “Nay”

https://wetdry.world/@keat/111479034674203372

This is my favorite image from the linked post above.

A man who lacks ethics trying to “help women out” is still a man who lacks ethics.

I don’t know, maybe this could be called the “tech bro” approach to what they think is “charity,” when in reality it is a fundamental problem with their worldview.

Male Tech Conference Founder Is Behind Popular Woman Coding Influencer Account – 404Media – Free Account Required

At least the tech bro admitted it in this case…..

And then totally blamed everyone else, as tech bros are known to do. Because it OBVIOUSLY couldn’t be his own poor decisions right? All that hard work down the drain.

Tech Conference Collapses After Organizer Admits to Making Fake ‘Auto-Generated’ Female Speaker – 404Media – Free Account Required

Yes…. Yes you were… (The tweet is longer but this snippet is so funny.)

I always like this kind of energy.

iOS 17 NameDrop privacy scare: What you need to know – Bitdefender

Just because law enforcement posted it doesn’t mean the threat is severe enough to warrant ImMeDiAtE AcTiOn to disable a feature. To quote the author:

You also need to confirm your desire to share your details via NameDrop with the other person.

Apple built guardrails/guideposts and several layers of protection into iOS. You have to be proactive to use NameDrop. Someone isn’t just going to walk by you with a suitcase full of hax0r kit and steal your dox unless you disable it. This doesn’t mean that there’s not some vulnerability lurking around in the feature, yet-to-be exploited, but mobile phone security researchers will be taking this apart and reporting anything they find on up to apple to be fixed.

The author concludes this brief FAQ/Article with a nod to the human factor, the wetware vulnerability that’s always requires vigilance on the part of the wetware operator to prevent exploitation. The layers of security and guardrails apple built for your protection are useless if you’re careless with your device…

And if you’ve been careless enough to have left your iPhone unattended and unlocked so a stranger can meddle with it, there’s all kinds of trouble they could cause. Stealing your contact information may be the very least of your worries.

Law enforcement could do so much better than to scaremonger, but it’s part of their “we’re keeping you safe folks!” messaging. I’m reminded of this classic image, re-posted here with absolutely no permission given…

TTFN!