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Journalist. Covering finance/technology.

Joined March 2016
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Sam White retweeted
What in the Windows 95, dial up modem is that website?
📃 Read the latest statement and update from Chairman Lee Harding on our website regarding Steve Pitt, funds still owed to our club and potential investment braintreetownfc.org.uk/news.… #IronArmy | Forged in 1898
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Sam White retweeted
here's my AI cybersecurity apocalypse white pill. I've been fixing bugs in leftover human code non-stop for over a year now. literally cleaning up years of human slop. at the same time, i've been building fully AI-written complex software which I regularly review with AI the same way that I'm reviewing the human code. the difference is like day and night. good models don't just find the bugs, they also produce far fewer bugs. the difference between a big project written exclusively by modern frontier models and one written by a dozen engineers is just incredible. all those little obscure mistakes that humans overlook are mostly absent. if you take care of your project, the code quality can be great and there's almost no accumulation of weird edge cases that sneak in inevitably over the course of multiple years of working on a code base with a team of humans. makes me very optimistic about the future.
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Sam White retweeted
Online AI detector says Declaration of Independence is 93.2% written by AI.
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Deliberately bringing in an extra hour of darkness in the evening when it's getting darker anyway is Disney villain levels of tyranny.
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Replying to @narindertweets
The price of fish fingers is coming down. The money I save every day will go straight into the tank of my Range Rover.
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The famous Hippie Trail from Europe to South Asia
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Sam White retweeted
Why on earth anyone would play Sunday League Football is beyond me. If you're any good, you shouldn't be playing with people who are hungover and/or psychotic. Likewise if you're just doing it for enjoyment, where is the joy in playing alongside the hungover and the psychotic?
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Soon.
🇸🇻 Impresionantes imágenes de paracaidistas del Ejército de El Salvador rezando a bordo de un autobús antes de partir hacia Haití. Los militares se dirigían al aeropuerto para abordar un C-17 Globemaster III con destino a Puerto Príncipe, donde se sumarán a las operaciones de la GSF contra la pandilla 400 Mawozo. Según nuestro contacto, el contingente está compuesto por 100 elementos de Fuerzas Especiales, procedentes de tres unidades: el CEAT, el Batallón de Paracaidistas y el Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (GOE). Entre ellos viajan los conocidos como Comandos Hachas y Comandos Prales, tropas de choque con una preparación comparable a la de los kaibiles guatemaltecos. Nuestro contacto también señala que llevan ametralladoras M60, carabinas Arad y fusiles de francotirador Mk22, además del armamento individual de los operadores.
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Imagine if we'd only ever had renewables and then someone worked out how to get energy from fossil fuels.
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"people are allowed"
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham criticises Angela Rayner for including a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in her survival kit “I’m not sure that’s the top of the list… You need to have a clear head in a challenging situation. Some tins of food, bottled water. People are allowed a glass or two”
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Still not sure what I'm supposed to be bracing to survive here.
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Sam White retweeted
I swear these new white headlights are designed to hurt people, they are evil. Night driving is totally ruined. If you have a migraine, forget it. You will be so disoriented it's like driving drunk. I don't even know how I got home tonight, it's that bad.
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Sam White retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Isn’t it odd that anything exists? It’s most peculiar. It requires effort, it requires energy, and it would have been so much easier for there to have been nothing at all.
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Sam White retweeted
"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth." — Hermann Hesse, Wandering
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Barbaric.
Apres plusieurs heures, la mairie de Limoges s’est effondrée. C’est épouvantable. Quelle époque épouvantable.
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Sam White retweeted
TV licence to be extended to particularly vivid dreams.
TV licence to be extended to catching your reflection in a shop window
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Why would I pay the BBC to use private services that are not related to the BBC?
🚨 NEW: The Government is planning to extend the licence fee to online platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon
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