I am doing a throw-back #caturday today with pictures of #cats that I had as a kid. Silver Streak and Snowball, you were very good cats. I miss you.
#catsofmastodon
Netherlands, OSCE seek investigation into Russian torture of Ukrainian POWs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/netherlands-osce-seek-investigation-into.html
"Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities"
by Corey Quinn
Big oof. This is a great breakdown of what happened and why it's concerning — and especially so because we're not hearing the details from Amazon.
https://www.la…
Found a bunch of BSides with fediverse accounts I wasn't following. I should probably update my fediverse #BSides index... 😅
Bsides & InfoSec Cons by Region
📌 https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/111
French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/
Forgot to do yesterday's post for everyday is #fungifriday #bloomscrolling. I always have to remind myself a mushroom is just the fruit of the fungi world - the actual living organism in the mycelium you can see inside this branch. This wonderful, invisible, enigmatic network that …
The last step in a long process on “arsenic life”: #arsenic Instead of phosphorus” from 2010 has now been killed (over the objections of the authors) by the journal that had published it: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu5488 (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/bakterien-mit-arsen-zwangsernahrt-macht-das-leben-im-all-wahrscheinlicher/ and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/zweifel-an-den-arsen-bakterien-mehren-sich/ for my reporting back then about the announcement and the swift and hard criticism).
Source: Founders Fund and Dragoneer have committed to investing $1B each in OpenAI's second, $30B installment of its $40B round announced in March (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/founders-fund-dragon…
Curious about the Chinese vulnerability database? It's now included on https://vulnerability-lookup.org!
Big thanks to @… for the aw…