I'm a born-again agnostic. I have no clue what's going on.
Daytona Beach, FL
Joined April 2012
- Tweets20.5K
- Following681
- Followers509
- Likes49.8K
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
‼️ BREAKING: Google says Android TV box maker Videostrong infected its own users and sold the access to criminals.
They built a backdoor into the firmware of 1.3M+ set-top boxes. If a user deleted it, it came back on the next reboot.
Buyers turned the boxes into residential proxies and ad-fraud bots.
Google has banned Videostrong from certified Android and says the takedown also cuts off at least 10M more infected devices.
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy.
It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
BlueChip. Built in America.
America made the first electronic computer to win a war.
Now we depend on our greatest adversaries to build the computers that run our economy and defend our nation.
Today, we bring it home.
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was at least one actually pure website? One without the usual gotchas.
No asking for your email. No parts paywalled. No ads. No data collection.
I think so, which is why I created teddyrookbook.com
Homeschool families get every K–12 course free (with teaching guides and practice that checks answers), plus a lesson planner that builds a week-by-week plan. Science labs. Languages. Music. Etiquette. Logic. Meal planning. Trades and farming. And much more!
I’m building this for my family to use and sharing with others because I’m open to feedback on how it can be better.
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
They are channeling Beria
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
The only way out is through.
They're calling it the Bugpocalypse. LLMs are being used to find long-hidden cracks in the software infrastructure, and it's happening at a furious rate. 3% of all compromises in computing history happened in the last week, claims one source? I believe it.
There are people saying public access to the frontier models ought to be locked out, or heavily guardrailed, over this. The problem with that idea can be summed up in one sentence: when lockpicks are outlawed, only outlaws will have lockpicks.
The lockpicks will be Chinese open-weight models, if nothing else. There's no way to stop those from becoming ubiquitous.
There are two futures in front of us. One in which only the bad guys have lockpicks, and security holes go undiscovered until they're exploited. Another in which everybody has lockpicks and is aggressively red-teaming their own software so it gets fixed before the holes are exploited.
The corpus of human code is huge but finite. The number of defects in it has to be finite too. We can fix those defects now; we have a million friendly robots to do it with.
The only way out is through.
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
Best of the Worst: Halloween 2026 youtu.be/hhpgznuQsCg?si=y70z…
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
The r/OpenSource subreddit has officially banned anything using AI. In any way. Violators will be permanently banned.
Which means… r/OpenSource will ban anyone submitting anything that, in any way, involves… the Linux kernel.
reddit.com/r/opensource/comm…
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
Hypercharge may not have sold millions. And it may not have had hundreds of thousands of concurrent players.
But... we made the action figure game we always wanted as kids. We made our childhood dream game, and that means absolutely everything to us.
Thank you all so much! ❤️
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
Imagine trying to brute force 1 out of 394,020,061,963,944,792,122,790,401,001,436,138,050,797,392,704,654,466,679,482,934,042,457,217,714,972,106,114,142,662,548,849,156,408,066,279,903,068,160 possible values and getting it on the 5th try.
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
I LOVE CLOUD GAMING PLEASE BUY BIOWARE @XBOX
I ALSO HATE DISCS PLEASE BUY BIOWARE @PlayStation
I LOVE TURN BASED COMBAT PLEASE BUY BIOWARE @larianstudios
I ACTUALLY JUST LOVE YOU WITHOUT MAKING LIES UP PLEASE BUY BIOWARE @CDPROJEKTRED
NOT YOU @Ubisoft
Mass Effect is one of my all time favorite series and I’m very sad to hear that BioWare is closing. I’m not surprised, but I’m still disappointed
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
I decided to ask Claude Opus 5.5 to write a cyberpunk tabletop RPG for me but it told me that a dystopian techno-future wasn't a realistic genre and refused to comply with that sort of scaremongering
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
update, satire is not dead
I was mid-hip thrust when I found out @Shanemgillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the back-up phone for the side angle. Tanner films all my content. He is not allowed to look at me.
The “joke” was about how women dress at the gym. I know it was about me, because everything is. So I did what any survivor would do. I went to my car and filmed myself crying. It took 11 takes, because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving, and grief is no excuse for a bad shot. In the final cut, you can see a single tear land on my sports bra right over the logo, which clicks through to an affiliate link. My caption: “I’m literally shaking.”
Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption, “Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?” I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men. To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him. Then I tagged every man I follow. Some people say my response proved his point. These people are rapists.
✍️ @BridgetPhetasy
Article: spectator.com/article/shane-…
Percival Sweetwater retweeted
I’m the son of French immigrants. You know what I don’t care about?
France.
