Ryan Weaver @MrCodeWeaver

There is unfortunately precedent for this. Before word processing, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & plateauing. After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check.

Mike Solana @micsolana

a week ago

one thing I worry about as AI begins to reshape our country is it actually increases bureaucracy. we shouldn’t need a superintelligence to help us with our taxes, but once there’s truly nothing stopping politicians from overcomplicating our lives I worry that we will.

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We did a risk assessment of the White House app after it hit No.1 on the App Store’s news category. Here's what we found: - Web sourced scripts, including a foreign keylogger. - User location pinged several times per minute. - Amateur, messy code -- definitely not FISMA compliant. - Includes tools for political profiling. - User IP addresses, time zones and other data are shared to third-party services. Read the story at the @washingtonsun👇 washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/whi…

Microsoft made MicrosoftDocs/memdocs private. 😠 If you track Intune documentation changes, that repo was how you did it. It is 404 now. Not archived, not moved. Gone. The important part: the docs themselves are fine. Every Intune and Autopilot page still publishes on Microsoft Learn exactly as before. What disappeared was the public git history behind them, and with it every diff, every page history, and every answer to "what actually changed on this page last Tuesday." That broke Daily Intune News, which I build from that history. Intune just went dark. I don't like it when Microsoft tells me 'No'. So here's my workaround 🥰 I crawl the published Learn pages, save each one as Markdown at the path Learn built it from, and commit only what genuinely changed. The history of the crawl becomes the history of the docs. intune-docs-mirror, the result for Intune and Autopilot. This is the one to watch or clone if you want the diffs. github.com/merill/intune-… And the part I am happiest about: Docs X-Ray works for Intune again. On any Microsoft Learn Intune page, add an x after "microsoft" in the address bar: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intu…... becomes learn.microsoftx.com/en-us/mem/intu…... That opens the diff for the page you were just reading → microsoftx.com Daily Intune News is running again on the new source: ✅ daily.intune.admin.news

Folks, phishers have figured out rage bait. Got this today from "SendGrid HR". They're adding a trans youth message to my email footer this month. Don't want it? Just click the button to remove it. Sender is [email protected] Rage is the new urgency. Attackers don't care about your politics. They just want the click.

I understand not wanting to triage AI garbage Issues and PRs... but this is a horrible mistake Opening issues and PRs was the best way to communicate with the Learn documentation team (many of whom were laid off recently...) Nobody wants to submit feedback they can't track 😡

Guy Leech @guyrleech

2 weeks ago

For all you RTFMers out there ... Yes, both of you 😂 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/skills-hu…

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Holy crap! This is a terrible set of replacement options... If you were using ACS for your apps on Azure, you should read this as "Microsoft doesn't want your business, move to AWS"

Michel de Rooij @mderooij

2 weeks ago

Azure Communications Services (ACS) standalone offerings, including bulk/application email, will be retired on September 30, 2028. If you're using ACS today, or planning to adopt it, review the retirement timelines and sign-up deadlines carefully, as some changes take effect soon

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I’m in awe of this stupid timeline we’re all in.

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The Newsground @the_newsground

4 months ago

Leaked Russian banking records show that the founders of a tech firm whose code is inside the official White House app kept accounts at Alfa Bank and Tinkoff Bank after the US and EU imposed sanctions. (link below)

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Flock routinely rewards themselves for being the most transparent company in the industry. Last week they banned ticket-holding journalists from their Flock Forward event. Then, they quite literally had an employee contact a hotel on my behalf and cancel my room reservation.

Brendan Keefe - ANF & InvestigateTV @BrendanKeefe

2 months ago

Josh Thomas, Flock Safety: “Ultimately, I would argue that the whole community is our customer.” Flock is holding a conference in ATL this week with police from all over the country about its cameras. Even the location is undisclosed. You & I are not 'the customer' & not welcome.

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New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding"

A person representing themselves in court hid a prompt injection attack in a filing asking an AI system to side with them. Really good stuff here

one of the twists in real world AI is that, in scifi, it was assumed that the danger would be that we'd raise the machine to the level of a human soul. but to be honest, it seems we're most in danger of debasing the human soul to the level of machine.

Punky Mantilla 🍄‍🟫 @PunkyMantilla

2 months ago

Trying not to angry cry. The organization my deceased friend served for years "wrote" him a memorial on Facebook, but they couldn't even be bothered to delete the AI prompt they used. The top of the post says, "Certainly. Here's a shorter, heartfelt version." He deserves better.

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Progress Telerik has confirmed that their new license forbids ALL Commercial usage of Fiddler "Classic" for Windows, even if you pay them. I have thoughts. textslashplain.com/2026/08/05/fid…

Normalizing betting is one of the worst things to happen to modern day humanity

FOX 12 Oregon @fox12oregon

2 months ago

Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson kptv.com/2026/08/04/ore…

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Patriot shows Flock cameras track him and his PHONE as he walks by Flock emits Blue Tooth signal for phone connection and tracking

Just a reminder to tell your bros that you love them

Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis

2 years ago

How often are you saying "I love you" to your friends? Because it should probably be way more

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@ImLunaHey In no particular order: - Fraud and impersonation - Privacy and consent violations - Harassment and abuse - Child safety risks - Copyright and IP infringement - Economic disruption for creators and media industries - Erosion of trust in visual media.

Nothing makes sense until you accept that what we find easy to pay attention to has very little connection to what is actually important.

Remember when ChatGPT launched and everyone thought it meant the end of certain industries/professions, and yet that never happened? The same is true today for doomer predictions about cybersecurity attacks. Models being good at cyber doesn’t mean everyone gets hacked.

As everyone watches the SpaceX IPO today, its worth remembering this advice from Buffett "The idea that a newly issued security (IPO)—brought to market at a time of the seller's choosing and surrounded by massive hype—is the single best bargain among thousands of global businesses is absolute nonsense. When an offering carries a ridiculous 7% commission just to incentivize salespeople, it simply cannot be the most attractive investment available. While people easily get caught up in the excitement of a new launch, look at the reality: you have thousands of existing public companies whose prices are set by a natural auction market, free from aggressive promotion or hidden fees. It makes no sense to buy a security precisely when an insider decides the timing is perfect to sell. Frankly, it isn't worth spending five seconds thinking about IPOs." - Warren Buffett

We tore down the "assembled in America" Trump phone, X-rayed it, and conducted a technical analysis. It is nearly identical to the HTC U24 Pro, which is made by a Taiwanese company with Chinese parts. Read the full analysis here: nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/t…

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