I'm delighted to see beavers making themselves at home.

"Farmers have traditionally opposed beaver reintroduction in the UK over fears their dams could flood fields and damage crops. But during the heatwave, one farmer told the Guardian that his best asset has been a family of beavers who have built a reservoir on his land that contains 3m litres of water."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/24/wild-beaver-kit-pair-born-norfolk

The legendary Cliff Stoll gave a delightful talk at DEFCON on Stalking The Wily Hacker (40 Years Later) at DEFCON. It's now online. If you've never seen Cliff, a Klein Bottle, or an overhead projector before, rush over to the youtubes and fix that right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

@slightlyoff

From where I sit, how instrumental google's has been in the overthrow, anyone working for or using google are anti-humanity traitors.

@MikeElgan …so far.

We have the details on the recent MacSync infostealer malware family.

https://discourse.ifin.network/t/macsync-infostealer-infrastructure-and-ttps/781

#ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence #IFIN

BREAKING:

After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back.

And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post.

They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately.

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Washington Post Ordered to Reh...

@SteveBellovin @joebeone @paul_ipv6 aha! I do have it on @internetarchive as a single audio file plus a slide show. https://archive.org/details/RTFM-Uni-Stoll Now in state-of-the-art mp3 format!

@SteveBellovin @joebeone @paul_ipv6 looks like he’s wearing a pocket protector in that talk. Now, that’s class! I see he hasn’t slowed down at all … I recorded him in 1993.

Cliff Stoll gave an incredible DefCon talk 40 years after finding the $0.75 accounting error that started cyber defense, using 1987 NSA transparencies, and sharing how he traded Saturn photos to an operator for call data. A true legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Repetindo porque não funcionou da outra vez:

Tá, deu de frio, né?

EFF and 7 civil society groups have written to a UK police force calling for an immediate halt to its planned rollout of live face recognition. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-and-civil-society-groups-call-nottinghamshire-police-halt-live-face

@lauren I think that is bullshit. I spent decades in data centers and there is zero reason server racks, and customer cages have to be on purpose built land. Renewable energy sources are options. And saying the only way is to burn fossil fuels is nonsense.

Boston area peeps: Now is a great time to get rid of that Ailanthus tree that you've been meaning to cut down.

The spotted lanternflies are arriving and they're going to turn the area under that tree into a black, sticky/slimy mess. The lanternflies just *adore* Ailanthus, and as they feed on it, they poop out sugary sap onto everything below. Some kind of black fungus then goes nuts over it.

(They eat other stuff too but it's not as intense. And Ailanthus is itself invasive.)

@Lazarou @Perrin42

Original Star Trek was notorious for the ‘The Enterprise is the only star ship in range of this thing, even though the thing is near the heart of the Federation’ trope. And the ‘we are exploring months of travel beyond the border of the Federation but we popped home for lunch’ trope.

The amount I have to pay to continue to own the car I already own is less than the lifetime costs of my bike, which ive had for more than 20 years.

Whoever made this is a genius.

@okturtles

is there a nice library (transport agnostic) that runs in a web browser where i can make a ballot, cast votes and see results ... some sort of nice api's and whatever data needs to be exchanged is essentially exported and then sokebody else can receive the data and call e.g. `api.receive(data)` to advance their local view?

that way ppl could use it to build all sorts of apps that leverage this and use their own transport protocols.

that would be a really useful building block