Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-and-international-partners-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-service
Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…
Nation-state hackers ramping up use of Gemini for target reconnaissance, malware coding, Google says https://therecord.media/nation-state-hackers-using-gemini-for-malicious-campaigns
If your AI agent doesn't need human-like rights, then it doesn't have human-like intentions. It might be "creative", but it isn't *conscientiously* creative. And that makes it indistinguishable from a malicious genie.
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/malicious-genie.…
Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Notepad in Windows 11 allowing attackers to execute remote programs by tricking users into clicking malicious Markdown links (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr
packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted
most of Sunday got chewed up by my brain getting stuck on expanding "LLMs are malicious genies" into a blog post, which is irrelevant to my current goals in life, and now I can stop thinking about it
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/malicious-genies.html