Sean Kerner
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That's write I'm human. I write about
#AI
. Skynet hasn't won (yet).
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"Every customer I talk to says one thing that has become clear out of this pandemic and that is that we all have to accelerate the innovation that we're delivering”
@Cisco
CEO Robbins
#CiscoPS20
#CiscoPartner
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Those Montreal roads are crazy. Watch a bus, hit another bus, then get hit by a Police car, then get hit by a salting truck (1:31)
City buses, police vehicle and salt truck collide on slippery roads in Montreal this morning. Submitted by Willem Shepherd.
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Big news
@kubernetesio
pod security policy is likely to be deprecated in 2020 with the entire project likely moving to
@OpenPolicyAgent
Gatekeeper
#KubeCon
SIG Auth
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“There’s always that idiot that will click the link”
@werner
says of phishing email.
#AWSsummit
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@natfriedman
does this include the 237 patents that Steve Ballmer threatened to sue all Linux users with? (would have asked you or MSFT in an interview, but I didn’t crack your PR list apparently).
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How is
@StabilityAI
AI going to make money? It’s trying out a new membership model via
@VentureBeat
"We think next year will be the year of generative media, just as this year was the year of language models.”
@EMostaque
told me.
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This has been a long month …but..
no joke.
I just got a pitch asking me to agree to an embargo date of..
wait for it..
…
….
July 34th.
#partylikeajournalist
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This is one of the most unique presentations I’ve seen
@defcon
.. speaker is taking on the persona of the marvellous mrs maizel to explain Russian cyber security maskirovka
#packethackingvillage
#DEFCON27
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"I like bug bounties and I cannot lie, But the fact is they have not delivered on their great promise"
@k8em0
@BlackHatEvents
#BHUSA
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Big news as
@StabilityAI
AI brings advanced 3D and image fine-tuning to Stable Diffusion via
@VentureBeat
"I’m incredibly excited about the ability to create whole worlds in 3D,” CEO Emad Mostaque told me.
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The image quality in SDXL 1.0 is INSANE.
@StabilityAI
levels up image generation with new Stable Diffusion base model for better image composition via
@VentureBeat
great to get the full details from
@EMostaque
himself.
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US DoD AI chief on LLMs: ‘I need hackers to tell us how this stuff breaks’
@defcon
"“I need five nines [99.999% accuracy] of correctness.."
#DEFCON2023
#defcon
via
@VentureBeat
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Why does machine learning matter? That's the question I asked
@Cisco
distinguished engineer
@tkeanini
@blackhatusa
; There is a lot that people say machine learning can do, but really it's all about improving security outcomes.
#ciscopartner
#hackersummercamp
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wow multi-cloud is apparently ..very.real
#RHSummit
load balanced app demo running across AWS, Azure and Private (likely OpenStack)
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Mega Kudos to the incredible
@CloudNativeFdn
events team for enabling badge pickups from all the hotels. So very convenient
#KubeCon
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It’s generative AI models vs. hackers
@defcon
@aivillage_dc
via
@VentureBeat
"The diverse issues with these models will not be resolved until more people know how to red team and assess them.."
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Jessica Frazelle shows
@virtualbox
running
@Windows
10 on top of a
@docker
host …
#LinuxCon
http://t.co/WOLn2xwrB6
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US Department of Defense Expands Bug Bounty Efforts with
@Hacker0x01
@synack
&
@Bugcrowd
—> and there are lessons learned that commercial enterprises should learn too..
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Nice work by the
@CloudNativeFdn
on this little animation that shows all the projects
#KubeCon
#KubeConEU
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@backlon
Technically…
by ‘retransmitting’
that one screen you’re already in violation of the terms of service.
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Can AI write an episode of Stargate? Google AI took on the challenge via
@VentureBeat
"I think AI is going to be able to generate something eventually that will pass a test as to whether or not an audience believes it was written by humans”
@bradtravelers
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@ajs
Your roof, furnace, appliances etc will remind you soon too that they can’t be forgotten either
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@elonmusk
i’d bet there is an advanced civilization out there that would say burning fossil fuels is not evidence of an advanced civ either
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Thrilled for
@kernelcdub
on his well-deserved promotion to CTO of Red Hat. Long overdue IMHO.
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From my inbox (i kid you not) …"New Survey Finds Boring Security Awareness Training is Boring..”
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Open Source
@Wireshark
Network Protocol Analyzer (Finally) Gets its Own Foundation
@WiresharkNews
“I think low-level system knowledge is important as the modern world runs over software, and that software runs over computer networks,”
@geraldcombs
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We respond to a lot of breaches and every one of those breaches is behind a firewall -
@FireEye
CEO Kevin Mandia
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ooh AaH! Firecracker-containerd
@clare_liguori
giving a peak what is going to be a BIG thing for container runtime isolation security in 2020.
#reInvent
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fav
@angus_tx
quote from my story on
@IBMSecurity
new ATM testing service with X-Force Red:
"Remember we're talking about criminals, & criminals are looking to monetize stuff, & it turns out that cash is easily monetized."
full story
@eWEEKNews
:
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Big changes are coming to
@PyTorch
2.0 release which will help to accelerate open-source machine learning via
@VentureBeat
"“We expect that with PyTorch 2, people will change the way they use PyTorch day-to-day.."
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Three Horrible Facts:
1. Today is not Friday.
2. Tomorrow is not Friday.
3. Even the day after tomorrow is not Friday!
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Wow 7 researchers spent 18 days hammering
@linkerd
- and were mostly impressed by its robust security. Kudos to
@CloudNativeFdn
for making security such a priority
🔐published another security audit for
@linkerd
funded and sustained by the
@CloudNativeFdn
community!
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Weds wisdom. To the optimist the glass is half full. To the pessimist the glass is half empty. To the engineer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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No joke - just got a press release wth the following dateline:
SAN FRANCISCO, July 298, 2020. Yeah it has been a looooong month.
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ICYMI: Cybercrime is more lucrative than the drug trade, so no wonder the threats keep growing. At
@BlackHatEvents
, I chatted with
@TheDudeConrad
,
CISO of
@ChildrensLA
, about learning from your peers while dealing with emerging threats.
#CiscoPartner
#BlackHatUSA
@Cisco
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Cybercrime is more lucrative than the drug trade, so no wonder the threats keep growing. At
@blackhatusa
, I chatted with Conrad Band,
CISO of
@ChildrensLA
, about learning from your peers while dealing with emerging threats.
#CiscoPartner
#BlackHatUSA
@Cisco
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Linus Torvalds: After 30 years, Linux is not a dead project via
@VentureBeat
#ossummit
"“One of the things that I, personally, enjoy the most is that we’re not a dead project,” Torvalds said.
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Proud & honoured to be a judge again for this.
Always amazed to read the submissions and see the different ways that
#opensource
adds value…So submit those
@RedHat
nominations!!
#RHInnovationAwards
The
#RHInnovationAwards
recognize the outstanding use of
#opensource
solutions. Nominations are now open!
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my inbox now… (approx 1,368 pitches now with coronavirus as a subject...)
So PR friends if you’re wondering if ppl like me are getting pitched on
#coronavirus
…
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Hire more writers! AMEN! Current ratio is 1:100 for technical writers to developers
#KubeCon
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This is going to revolutionize generative AI models in the second half of this year.
Diffusion Models getting down to 1.7MB 🤯 smaller models mean more and more companies are going to start to own their own their end to end infrastructure.
Paper:
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Want to hear a joke about paper?
Nevermind, it's tearable...
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Think IBM isn't in the generative AI game? Think again.
@IBM
CEO sees a future for generative AI with Watsonx in the enterprise via
@VentureBeat
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How can we make security really easy to adopt? That's one of the things I spoke to
@Jonoberheide
and
@JeffReed415
from
@cisco
@BlackHatEvents
as part of a broad discussion on Zero Trust
#BHUSA
#blackhat
#ciscopartner
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As it should be. Masks in the audience/ masks on stage.
@RachelTobac
understands risk/threat modelling, walks the walk talks the talks etc etc.
I know I’m a fan, but
@RachelTobac
looking badass metal in a mask up on the
#Identiverse
keynote stage is awesome.
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How many of you last year, thought this year, you'd be living in your cyberpunk future now?
The part that for me is the most vivid is sort of the very rapid erosion of privacy and civil liberties. The very rapid expansion of authoritarianism online.
@thedarktangent
#BlackHat
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Thank you for teaching me the word “plethora.”
It means a lot....
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IBM has built a cloud native AI supercomputer with Red Hat OpenShift, PyTorch & Ray at the the foundation.
How
@IBM
new supercomputer is making AI foundation model for the enterprise via
@VentureBeat
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I bet a tonne of folks will... zoom on over to take advantage of this offer/ esp given the security risks of the alternative...
We've opened up our Webex Free Plan to help the millions of people now working remotely.
⏱️ No time restrictions
👥 Supports up to 100 participants
📠 Phone dial-in
🌏 Available globally
#RemoteWork
#WorkFromHome
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THIS.
This is what makes
@defcon
better than any other conference i attend in any given year…
Things go wrong, stuff happens, detailing all that in a clear report and with accountability is the only way anything ever gets better and why i know i’ll be at
#defcon28
#ICYMI
the
#DefCon27
#transparencyreport
is up on the
#defconforums
.
The reports for the previous two
#defcon
events are on our website at :
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Why does my coffee ☕️ taste like like dirt? It’s freshly.....
Ground.
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Forget about DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. The 'adults' have entered the room for Generative AI image creation now.
@Adobe
bets on generative AI with ‘Firefly’ tool to create images from text via
@VentureBeat
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@stokfredrik
1) Learn about XSS (it’s everywhere)
2) Register for programs
@Bugcrowd
@Hacker0x01
3) Get started.
#bugbounty
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“We don't control the user, users are pushing back, they are taking back control, and we can either fight it, or we can work with them to make it work for them.”
@wendynather
#RSAC
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‘Organization are now adopting
@docker
not inspite, of security but because of security ..”
@golubbe
#HPEDiscover
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What’s the difference between a guy in formal wear on a bicycle and a guy in casual wear on a unicycle?
...
Attire
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