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More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack, dubbed Megalodon, on May 18 that relies on automated commits (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/over-5500-github-repositories-…

Over 5,500 GitHub Repositories Infected in 'Megalodon' Supply Chain Attack
The Megalodon supply chain attack poisoned over 5,500 GitHub repositories via automated commits injecting GitHub Actions workflows.

I made Eric’s GAAD BINGO card into a table on my 2022 GAAD post:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html#Update03
_This_ time I actually checked it across dark and light modes. I think.

The Performative A11yship of #GAAD
For context on the title, working backward from the end, GAAD is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Its purpose, as explained at accessibility.day, is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities. A11yship is a play on the numeronym for accessibility (a11y) and the…

“If u iz at dis borin wimbledore final lookin 2 get grand slammed, I iz here wif de hookup.”
The offer was from Ali G, real name Alistair Leslie Graham, AKA the malapropism-dropping home counties wide boy played by Sacha Baron Cohen,
kitted out for the occasion in trademark skullcap and gold chain, plus custom Wimbledon jacket, traditional crossed rackets replaced with cannabis leaves.
Security released him without penalty, but the reprimand was captured on scores of smartph…

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film
Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice of yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?

This is a very good overview of the multi-faceted issues facing us when discussing and evaluating AI in different contexts. It’s not complete—Roberts overlooks the issues of cultural and linguistic biases in the dominant models—but does open up discussions in the new and interesting way. Worth reading and thinking about.
To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly - NOEMA

To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly
As AI rapidly reshapes our world, narrow, single-view thinking risks mistaking part of the picture for the whole.

So „posting on X“ doesn‘t qualify as „contact with the outside world“?
https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/116975212686987424

Damn; I went to debug why Model B wouldn't write to floppies and...it worked. Yesterday when I got a scope on the write-data line on the drive end it didn't budge at all. By the time I'd got the beeb open today, moved the keyboard and stuffed a scope probe on the gate between the 8271 and the drive it all got nice friendly data there. Hmm.
Took the IC80 out, gave the legs a rub and a bit of contact cleaner, and hmm ok.

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AI-powered Reddit search (Answers) improving from one day to the next. Today:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjgr0x/comment/onelt9p/?context=2>
From yesterday's comment:
"… this underscores the value of not tru…

As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (The Atlantic)
https://www.

Where Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go?
AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.