Mike Gropp
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Cybersecurity | Global Entrepreneur
Security things from the last few days: - CopyFail (linux pwn'd) - CopyFail 2/Dirty Frag - 13 advisories in Next.js - Over 70 CVEs addressed in MacOS 26.5 - ~50 CVEs addressed in iOS 26.5 - YellowKey (Windows Bitlocker pwn'd entirely) - GreenPlasma (Windows privilege escalation) - CVE-2026-21510 and CVE-2026-21513 confirmed to be used by Russia for Windows RCE - CVE-2026-32202 separately confirmed to be used by Russia for sensitive document access - Mini-Shai Hulud (over 300 JS and Python packages compromised via GitHub Action cache poisoning) - Google confirms they have identified AI-powered exploitation of zero days in an unidentified "open-source, web-based system administration too" - Canvas (popular LMS used in most schools) pwn'd entirely - PAN-OS (palo alto networks) pwn'd with a 9.3 severity CVE-2026-0300 Are you scared yet?
New episode in the performative inference by local AI neoinfluencers Sycophantic DGX Spark videos
Separating a stock into dividend and asset component isn't a new idea -- Americus Trusts did it in the 1980s and although they were popular, they ultimately failed. Let's dive into its history and what it might tell us about @permutocapital 🌱 xch.today/2025/08/10/unb…
I listened to this quote at the 14:00 mark of @theo latest video "we all fell for it" (link below) a dozen times "AI disincentivizes you from learning about the pieces. And I think that's the biggest problem. Humans are very pain—feeling dumb hurts. When you're trying a thing and it doesn't make sense, you feel pain. When you try a thing and it just goes as expected, you feel good. AI has made it easier to avoid that pain and feel that reward. And what used to be a upfront cost you would pay to learn the pieces and then you could get the reward of solving the puzzle is now a slot machine. And your choices are go learn the pieces so that you can actually solve the puzzle correctly or keep pulling the slot machine until hopefully the correct answer comes out because each pull hurts a lot less than reading the docs for a language you don't understand or learning a library that doesn't map with your mental model properly or debugging something that feels hopeless. I learned about this from skateboarding. The reason most skaters give up before learning to ollie, much less kickflip, is because it feels so bad. You hate the feeling seeing others so effortlessly jump on their skateboard, ollie downstairs, and do all these fancy tricks, and you can't even get the board to come up off the ground with you. And then maybe you try a little too hard, and you hit your shin really hard, and now walking's uncomfortable for a few days. Most people give up before they learn those tricks because the pain is so great and the feeling of stupid and incompetence is so strong that they don't want to push through it. At least in code you didn't have the physical pain. You just had to feel dumb. And I'll be real, I kind of miss feeling dumb."
