You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a baby with no teeth, no job, and no idea who Barbara Ann is absolutely losing their mind to “Ba ba ba, ba Barbara Ann!” by The Beach Boys! 😂🎶

Contrary to the implicit mental models of many on this website, cybercriminals aren't the security-engineer Waluigis of Stanford-educated big tech engineers, or the criminal analogs of a16z-backed AI pentesting startups. They're generally less talented, recruited from middle-income countries with weak legal oversight and fewer legal tech job options, and struggle with arrests, sanctions, retaining talent, and stable access to AI inference. Ransomware took years to become a scaled business under these conditions, and AI-native organized criminal syndicates that fully leverage the power of AI to scale may take awhile too. Nation-states, meanwhile, are quick to adopt AI for vulnerability research and exploit development, but historically slow to deeply retool military operations with new technologies. And potentially devastating agentic cyber swarms may become weapons in their arsenals alongside e.g. ballistic missiles that they possess but don't immediately use. So to those calling php2shell "the worst day in cyber ever" and expecting immediate spikes in cyber damages: there isn't the direct relationship between new capabilities and new damages you're imagining. This is good news, obviously. It means defenders have time to prepare (and we should be shouting from the rooftops that we're in a defense-advantaged interregnum, currently). Huge risks are approaching but at the pace of technology diffusion into less innovative parts of the world economy and state sector, not at the pace of AI capability growth. Full version: joshuasaxe181906.substack.co…

SITUATION DETECTED: Warhound launched from stealth today with a $200M seed at a $1.2B valuation. Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey are cloning gene-edited bio-enhanced dogs and equipping them with custom Anduril vests, goggles, and sensors for the military and law enforcement.

President Trump says that Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean. 'And I spoke to a brilliant guy, Sundar, he heads all of Google, he's a brilliant guy. Sergey and Sundar, totally brilliant guys. You know, they're still rattled from the Gulf. And I said, "Sundar, I'm thinking of the Atlantic Ocean, can you handle it?" "No, no, no, this time I’m not doing it," he said. He said, "Oceans are different, sir. You know, they cover, they cover really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that."

As part of our Open Defense Initiative, we used dfs-large1 from @depthfirstlabs to uncover two memory corruption bugs and a sandbox escape in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. One bug had been present for more than eight years. We combined each memory corruption bug with the sandbox escape to build two separate exploit chains and won 2 v8ctf slots!

A Microsoft AI scientist chose to live in a tiny room in San Francisco’s Chinatown for less than $1,000 a month. @annakook gives us a rare look inside a single-room occupancy building, where residents have private rooms but share kitchens and bathrooms.

the kids are alright