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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-28 14:41:02

Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex AgentiX, AI agents that can be deployed across various security vendor platforms to automate cybersecurity actions (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/10/28/palo-alto-

Palo Alto Networks debuts automated AI agents to fight cyberattacks
Palo Alto Networks launched new AI agents on Tuesday that allow customers to automate certain cybersecurity actions.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-11-28 02:45:01

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

the larger world. The first of those special parties was at Ken Babbs’s place in Soquel, near Santa Cruz, on the coast south of Palo Alto, on November 27, 1965. Such public notice as there was of the event came through a posting at Lee Quarn- strom and Peter Dema’s Hip Pocket Bookstore in Soquel. The Pranksters were joined by Allen Ginsberg and his lover, Peter Orlovsky, and Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Sue Swanson, and Connie Bonner among others, and the night basically involved hang- ing out and tripp…
Kesey didn’t want to give it up, but Phil was not dissuaded, and learned one of his early lessons in the subtleties of trip- ping. He proceeded to gluehiseyesonKesey, and in a while Ken got up and shoved the guitar at him. “Here.” Weir, on the other hand, had another sort of adventure. Although he had read “Howl,” he did not recognize Allen Ginsberg, and saw only that he “was pretty damned amazing, the stuff he would say and do. So I figure, okay, I'm gonna sit next to this guy. Which was okay …
@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-12-27 23:12:08

Very cool approach to sea level rise mitigation:
#ClimateAction

San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle.com)
A new levee coming to Palo Alto will protect from rising seas, restore the bay shoreline and improve water quality. https://bit.ly/4jpAQIr

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-12-27 23:12:08

Very cool approach to sea level rise mitigation:
#ClimateAction

San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle.com)
A new levee coming to Palo Alto will protect from rising seas, restore the bay shoreline and improve water quality. https://bit.ly/4jpAQIr

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-29 12:35:47

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-t

Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’ 
Cybercriminals are buying custom AI hacking tools like WormGPT on dark web forums. Palo Alto Networks' report reveals how malicious LLMs lower barriers to cybercrime.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-20 00:31:08

Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and agrees to buy Chronosphere for $3.35B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/11/19/palo-alto-

Palo Alto tops earnings expectations, announces Chronosphere acquisition
The cybersecurity company said in July it would by Israeli cybersecurity provider CyberArk for $25 billion.

@jpanzer@mastodon.social
2025-12-24 01:08:30

bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepa

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social)
From our latest indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org newsletter, as we head into the holidays: 1/ Hello, friends. Close your eyes. Oops, that won’t work; keep reading. Imagine one year from now, three years from now, ten years from now. Okay, now try the “close your eyes and imagine” thing.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-12-18 21:48:22

60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

poster for Acid Tests with note about Big Beat in bottom corner
the Big Beat building in later years
newspaper ad advertising the Big Beat, with teens dancing
sn SEE Big Beat Sets A Fast Pace For Palo Alto Crowds Glamorous proprietor Yvonne Modica, long assaciated with Peninsula bistros, presides over the Big Beat, the “in” spet of the go-go set. Dancing nightly featuring the exciting Tombstones, who are recording their original song “Tell It To a Tombstone" (with beatnik poetry lyrics), and gor- geous Go-Go-gal Linda Kordes, who leoks like a doll from Play- boy Magazine. Youngsters 18 to 21 do the wa- tusi in the Disco Pop Room. After-hours bre…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-26 00:05:53

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last valued at $5B in 2021 (Valida Pau/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ai

AI Chip Startup SambaNova Explores Sale After Stalled Fundraising
Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to complete a fundraising round, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The Palo Alto, Calif., startup was last valued at $5 billion in 2021. SambaNova and other AI chip startups have ...

@jpanzer@mastodon.social
2025-10-17 18:53:49

I’ll be here tomorrow for #NoKings, please join me here or… just about anywhere, really! There’s over 2,500 events tomorrow nationwide.
indivisiblepeninsulabayarea.or

No Kings Day for Democracy - Palo Alto Bay Area | October 18, 2025
Join the No Kings Day parade and Democracy Fair in Palo Alto, Bay Area. Stand against authoritarianism and build democracy together.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-19 14:36:23

Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a source says is Google Cloud's largest security services deal "approaching $10B" over several years (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/google-cl

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-12-11 21:50:04

60 years ago today (maybe), the muir beach acid test, during which the grateful dead & owsley stanley encounter one another for the very first time & owsley promptly freaks out & drives his car into a ditch. muir beach photo from later in the '60s. (sometimes the palo alto acid test is placed on 12/11 & muir beach on 12/18, but rosie mcgee says she met phil lesh for the 1st time on 12/11 & attended palo alto the following week, which seems to settle the matter.) [1/4]…

psychedelic Acid Test poster
a boppin' day on Muir Beach circa 1967
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-02 02:55:32

Here in the Bay Area of San Francisco, some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting it out to gain some kind of an advantage.
And, in turn, they are competing with China
This race to seize control of a technology that could reshape the world
is being fuelled by bets in the trillions of dollars by the US’s most powerful capitalists.
The computer scientists hop off at Mountain View for Google DeepMind,
Palo Alto for the talent mill of Stanford University, <…

‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-12 21:18:22

Hamas-affiliated APT targeting government agencies in the Middle East, Morocco therecord.media/hamas-apt-targ

Hamas-affiliated APT targeting government agencies in the Middle East, Morocco
Palo Alto researchers said the recent activity involved a new strain of malware they call AshTag that has allowed them to steal information from key entities across the Middle East.