PR people. If you send me pitches like this, you almost surely will be summarily blocked.
I don't publish Goodhousekeeping-style tips for staying secure online. I'm not interested in talking to CEOs unless they are also engineers (and even then not very often). I eschew marketing fluff, "thought leadership," surveys, and funding and product news.
I look for new vulnerabilities, exploits and technical research, and telemetry that hasn't been published yet.
Please spend at least 10 minutes reading my past coverage and use it to internalize the kinds of stories I do and don't write. Then rather than sending me the same pitch you blast out to every other reporter, tailor your email to me.
I realize that you're probably under a lot of pressure and have managers who have unfair expectations and don't provide proper training. If it feels like I'm asking too much here, please just remove me from your list.
#prrants
When I look at the mess unfolding all around me in this country, I can't stop thinking about the ~15 million people who showed up in 2020 for Biden but couldn't be arsed to show up in 2024 to vote for the competent black woman.
There's a reason for the saying: Elections are decided by the people who DON'T vote.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voter-turnout-2020-2024/
Californians, particularly those in SF, aren't doing anyone a favor by allowing rampant shoplifting to go go unpunished. Go to a neighborhood Walgreens on most afternoons and you'll find shelves bare after being cleared earlier in the day. The thieves responsible sell the stuff at a corner literally one block away. In most states, police vice squads would stop this shit in its tracks, but we Californians are too enlightened for that. So law abiders have to pay much higher prices to subsidize these crooks and wait for a tube of toothpaste to be fetched from behind a locked counter. Not to mention, we make ourselves easy targets for conservatives.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/08/08/san-francisco-prolific-shoplifter-justice-system/
A reminder that software makers, hardware makers, cloud services, payment processors, and the like will throw their customers under the bus whenever it suits them. Your payment card, food delivery account, AWS instance, Gmail address -- all can be taken away on a whim for any reason or no reason. These providers are NOT your friend. Make plans now. Have backups in place. Practice self-reliance. Ween yourself off these one at a time.
Totally normal behavior for the world's third most valuable company.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-wanted-a-us-made-iphone-apple-gave-him-a-gold-statue/
Companies are touting new AI-based vulnerability detection tools by citing results from experiments. Yesterday it was Google (https://bsky.app/profile/argv.bsky.social/post/3lvliu2txfc2u), and today it's Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-ire-autonomously-identifies-malware-at-scale/). I'm still trying to devise good questions to ask when I see these sorts of things. If the results are noteworthy, I want to report them. If they're hype or misleading, I want to call them out. For now, this is a work in progress.
Once again, @malwaretech@infosec.exchange nails it, this time calling out the "gluttony of myopic visionaries" shilling the wonders of AI.
https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html
@malwaretech@infosec.exchange
"In reality, all we’ve created is a bot which is almost perfect at mimicking human-like natural language use, and the rest is people just projecting other human qualities on to it. Quite simply, “LLMs are doing reasoning” is the “look, my dog is smiling” of technology. In exactly the same way that dogs don’t convey their emotions via human-like facial expressions, there’s no reason to believe that even if computer could think, it’d perfectly mirror what looks like human reasoning."
Once again, @malwaretech@infosec.exchange nails it, this time calling out the "gluttony of myopic visionaries" shilling the wonders of AI.
https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html
PR people. If you send me pitches like this, you almost surely will be summarily blocked.
I don't publish Goodhousekeeping-style tips for staying secure online. I'm not interested in talking to CEOs unless they are also engineers (and even then not very often). I eschew marketing fluff, "thought leadership," surveys, and funding and product news.
I look for new vulnerabilities, exploits and technical research, and telemetry that hasn't been published yet.
Please spend at least 10 minutes reading my past coverage and use it to internalize the kinds of stories I do and don't write. Then rather than sending me the same pitch you blast out to every other reporter, tailor your email to me.
I realize that you're probably under a lot of pressure and have managers who have unfair expectations and don't provide proper training. If it feels like I'm asking too much here, please just remove me from your list.
#prrants
Dan Goodin