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I have a few pieces of cybersecurity advice for anyone willing to listen: Reduce the number of vendors your core security depends on. Expect lots of small, medium-sized, and even some large security / services companies to get compromised in the next year or so, if they aren't already. Put most of your trust in the absolute top tier of companies in terms of security and engineering. These are companies like Google, Apple, and (I would argue) Cloudflare. A good heuristic is how big and talented their security teams, and how much money their company invests in security. If there is a security issue in Chrome, or iOS, for example, you can be damn sure that hundreds or thousands of the smartest people in the world are working to fix it. And these companies would be willing and/or happy to spend tens of millions of dollars instantly to solve the issue. I'm not going to name companies, but there are many applications and services out there for managing keys, passwords, source code, secrets, etc., where the security teams are decent, but they're basically large startups. The security teams are far more varied in talent levels and budget levels. Basically we're about to be hit with a tidal wave (or global forest fire, pick your metaphor) of both advanced and persistent attacks with existing vulnerabilities, as well as lots of completely new attacks nobody's seen before. You want to have your personal and company security relying on as few of these small to medium sized companies as possible. Not because they're totally incompetent, but because many of them are likely not up to the challenge of defending against millions of agents running open source attack models and harnesses. Look at your whole security tech stack. See where you can reduce dependency on small-to-medium sized Jenga blocks that have a high chance of getting compromised during this storm. And remember, it's not just that the teams and budgets aren't as big as companies like Google and Apple. It's also the fact that these companies (like password managers, for example) are so damn attractive. Millions of users and their passwords. These are not good places to have credentials right now. Or data. Or infrastructure. This is not an absolute thing. I'm not saying cancel all engagements and get our of all small companies or whatever. Or that the big ones will be perfect either. I'm saying, as a general truth, on the whole, moving in this direction is likely to make you more secure while this thing hits us.
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PSA: This week was kind of a turning point for AI and cybersecurity. Please take this weekend to do some simple cleanup for your family. Some suggestions: - Set up a password manager like 1Password and give your spouse or partner access to a shared vault. Teach them how to use it. - Update your passwords for critical stuff - your email account, your bank or financial stuff, etc. Store in your password manager and use the strongest password you can. - Use two factor auth for everything you can. SMS is not ideal although better than nothing. Google Authenticator or a passkey is better. Hardware key is safest.) - Add a sim pin to your phone. Makes it harder to sim jack. - Update your phone and your computer to the newest releases. Turn auto-updates on. - Freeze your credit - takes 5 minutes. - Get an IRS Identity Protection PIN. - If you’re using claude code or have AI agents that browse the web, they’re probably using Node.js. It’s also vulnerable. Update claude code, update node on your machine. - If you’re building stuff on your computer, ask claude or grokbot (which is connected to twitter and likely has the most current info) to audit any of your repos for vulnerabilities. Ask grok to make it a scheduled task so it can do this daily - things are moving very quickly in the space right now. - Consider some light resiliency stuff. This probably sounds silly, but it sounded silly at the beginning of covid too. Having printed out copies of important stuff - especially financial accounts. Having some cash on hand. Having some shelf-stable food and clean water or a water filter. Having a map. Having a generator that can at least power your fridge or some devices. Cheap insurance. Again, I don’t want to alarm people, but I was taught that you should have a Secure plan, a Comfortable plan, and a Wealthy plan. And it seems pretty clear the secure plan needs to now factor cybersecurity risk as a legit threat. Take a weekend and shore yourself up.
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This is so nice! Much needed!
We heard you loud and clear: you want a way to organize your notebooks. So... Meet Collections! A brand new tab, Collections operate like photo albums or playlists: zero rigid folder structures with maximum flexibility. Add notebooks to as many collections as you want, or skip them and stick with the main "My Notebooks" tab. Collections are rolling out starting today to all users. Let us know what you think! (you always do 😉)
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Buyer Beware - Accepting Claude promotional credits means they, without your knowledge or permission, change your user settings. Also, I immediately hit usage limits, started using those credits, even tho I can see my usage is low. This is bad. Do better @AnthropicAI
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When work is neuro-inclusive, everyone can thrive. Discover how AI like Google Gemini supports planning, focus, and memory for a better workplace. → goo.gle/3RHqvy6
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it wouldn’t be a Google I/O without new models dropping say hello Gemini 3.5 Flash: it delivers frontier performance for agents and coding, excelling at complex long-horizon tasks that deliver real-world utility now available via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio
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Ryan Mull retweeted
Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era. Almost nobody understood what he said. Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.” Not tech startups. The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees. The businesses that actually run the physical economy. They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it. Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Software is dead. The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever. AI ends the contract. The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business. But customized by whom. The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is. Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?” That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves. Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer. Let them fight. Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero. Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built. It collects where the brain meets the business. Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic. Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy. Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates. Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue. That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born. You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system. The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in. 33 million companies are standing in the dark right now. Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.
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Via @On3… Indiana currently has the No. 1 transfer portal class nationally in 2026 in BOTH football (left) and men’s basketball (right). Sign of the times.
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I’m guessing most targets left on any lists were backups, like Rancik from CUBoulder, in case Sherrell didn’t sign. So it’s hard to know who they’re targeting now w/ less $$ available. That said, seems like maybe some more combo guard or wing help might be a final piece.
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And there’s that combo guard - Bryce Lindsay - ‘Nova - 13 ppg. Ryan Carr is cooking. So Impressive! #iubb
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Durable AI training > AI Tools training #AITransformation
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Direction > Speed
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Hey Indiana, Hoosier QB?! Vote Mendoza! #IUFB - like your QB’s photo on @daveyobrien official accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The QBs leading the fan vote will receive bonus Selection Committee votes as we decide our National Quarterback of the Year! #NeverDaunted ⚪️🔴 #DaveyQBs @IndianaFootball @IUHoosiers @bigten
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If there is one team in the NBA who can lose their best player and still win a game 7 in NBA finals, it’s this Pacers team. #NBAFinals2025 #YesCers
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"We're gonna run it back, but you guys gotta chill." -- Anthony Leal. Point taken, @anthonyl3al.
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Happy 311 Day #311Day ! Thank you @311 @pnut @NickHexum SA, miT & Chad for giving us so many years of spreading positivity & love! #311Day2024
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Anyone else find it odd that the last few TikTok TV commercials were targeting / highlighting military families and now farmers and ranchers? 🧐 #TikTok
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