@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-13 20:40:39
Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-10-18 12:14:48
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-11-19 13:05:44
Plumber just sent me an invoice using "invoicesimple" and the plain text part is all in French (only).
He is an extremely British plumber who started flying a union jack on his van many years before the shagging of flags became fashionable. He is a pioneer in the shagging of flags, you could say.
I don't think I'll mention it.
"Cliquez ci-dessous pour télécharger la facture PDF."
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-11 14:50:16
Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-17 16:17:46
Bollocks.
"The BBC committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, UK media regulator Ofcom has ruled."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629j5m2n01o…
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-17 19:55:50
In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/nomad_ftc_settlement/
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-15 01:41:01
Cleric, failing to negotiate with a junior red dragon, casts Invisibility on himself and runs into the tall grass.
Dragon watches invisible cleric’s trail in the grass.
Dragon, muttering: “Why are humans so stupid.”
Dragon flies to end of trail in grass, breathes fire over it.
Cleric: “AAAAAGH!”
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-11-16 00:30:54
Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️Ilford HP5, expired 1993
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@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-10-15 14:46:46
