Jonathan Levine

@chess_feed Isn’t it g3-h5?

This one’s tricky 😏 White to move. Mate in 1, got it? #chess #ChessPuzzle #ChessCommunity #Checkmate #ChessLife

@nikitabier Krebs cycle

In 2 words, what is your purpose in life?

As an IT admin something I learned the hard way was to never trust yourself to not misconfigure anything. Double check your work, even get a second set of eyes on it. Your future self will thank you.

@Noahpinion Make Measles Great Again

This will turn out very badly

Before vaccines, 1 in 5 babies didn't survive a year

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

vi wouldn't you use it?

@CollegeWell529 is anyone home at your customer service center? Sent email last week but 🦗🦗🦗

@gwenshap COBOL?

Unpopular opinion: When folks on Twitter say that a "technology X is dead" (Java, Kafka, Postgres...), I hear it as: "X is a mature platform with tons of great features and a strong ecosystem. Use it to get things done with no drama".

@QuinnyPig @d_feldman Untrue! They bought (and destroyed) Rolm 40 years ago!

@d_feldman To be fair they’ve barely come to terms with the invention of the telephone.

Which security controls reduce cyber risk and by how much? Until recently, vendors tried to answer with peacock like competition, e.g. ever fancier marketing campaigns. Our new article is a step towards answering with empirical evidence.

Newly discovered vuln in Apple M-series chips lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs. "The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run...widely used cryptographic protocols—can’t be patched" arstechnica.com/security/2024/…

The AI Koans (from catb, no link bc broken cert). All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. Learn from the past!

It me, but golf.

1/ The man who did the most damage to American industry was Jack Welch, as the CEO of GE. The Boeing engineering disaster had roots in Welch's deeply flawed management doctrines which were spread across American industry by his acolytes. This has to be understood in India too.

Given how strongly memory in humans is organized around spatial memory, and given that a common memory technique is storing facts in imagined spatial surroundings, the possibility for vision-pro like devices on reverse engineering and program understanding are vast.

An HK-based employee of a multinational firm wired out $25M after attending a video call where all employees were deepfaked, including the CFO. He first got an email which was suspicious but then was reassured on the video call with his “coworkers.”