just found this gem: iventoy.com/en/index.html if need to install anything from ISO over PXE painlessly without manually configuring TFTP and assembling the boot images, here it is. a tool that just works. :)

Hardens Linux servers with a comprehensive guide covering SSH, firewalls, and intrusion detection tools. github.com/imthenachoman/How…

🛡️ 16-Year-Old Researcher Finds Microsoft Auth Flaw that Exposes 17.3 Trillion Stored Records Details: cybersecuritynews.com/micros… A 16-year-old security researcher known as Faav uncovered an authentication flaw in Microsoft’s internal Titan analytics service that potentially exposed an estimated 17.3 trillion database rows. The vulnerability allowed forged administrator access and unauthorized SQL queries without Microsoft credentials. However, Faav emphasized that the potential impact was hypothetical. Requests without an authorization header correctly returned HTTP 401. Yet over the following ten days, Antares altered JSON Web Token claims and studied Titan’s error messages. The service checked the tenant ID, audience, application ID, and user identity, but continued processing modified claims while the original signature remained unchanged. #cybersecuritynews

Couldn’t wait to finish my last book so I could start this one! Lol

When you find your people at the party you never wanted to go to.

Security via prompting

Turns out the cloud has a street address, and it was within drone range. AWS told Bahrain customers that any systems and data held only in its Bahrain region (me-south-1) are gone. Drone and missile damage in March and April knocked out multiple availability zones there, and one zone in UAE. Data copied to Europe works. Multi-AZ protects from a fire in one building, not from a war.

Reba McEntire pays an emotional tribute to Dolly Parton by singing “Appalachian Memories” at the #Emmys. variety.com/2026/tv/news/dol…

I've had these in my tool list for years, they're great. start.me/p/7PmogA/osint

The cybersecurity section of this report is wild. APT operators used Claude for nearly everything: coding tools, testing against security products, building capture platforms, and processing victim data. Its like Anthropic was looking over their shoulder!

We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them. We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies. These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve. We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop. Read the report: anthropic.com/threat-intelli…

go with skillcat...online learning through your phone at your pace. You take the test and get a certificate through them. 100 per year. I did the 608 universal and 609 through them.

Ernest Hemingway's reading list for a young writer: 1. Stephen Crane - The Blue Hotel - The Open Boat 2. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary 3. James Joyce - Dubliners 4. Stendhal - The Red and the Black 5. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage 6. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina - War and Peace 7. Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks 8. George Moore - Hail and Farewell 9. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov 10. The Oxford Book of English Verse 11. E. E. Cummings - The Enormous Room 12. Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights 13. W. H. Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago 14. Henry James - The American

In 1983 the BBC put a reporter in front of a man who spent his lunch breaks in a pub he did not drink in. He went for the arcade machine. He beat each new game within 2 or 3 days, and the pub only changed them once a month, so he went home and worked at the keyboard 20 to 40 hours a week, frequently straight through the night. The programme called these people addicts. Watching it now, the label is the least interesting thing in it, because 1 of the 3 people interviewed accidentally explains the entire mechanism. His name is Graham Hawker, and he is asked a simple question. What is the actual thrill of playing against a computer. His answer is the only real piece of psychology in the film. The machine is perfect. It never makes an error. Therefore anything that goes wrong is unambiguously yours, and you are not playing a game at all, you are trying to prove you are as flawless as the thing opposite you. That is a textbook description of a variable schedule of reinforcement married to a system that never gives you an excuse. Skinner showed decades earlier that unpredictable rewards produce far more persistent behaviour than reliable ones. What Hawker adds is the part Skinner's pigeons could not: an opponent so consistent that blame has nowhere to go except inward. There is no bad referee, no unfair bounce, no bad day. Every loss is evidence about you. The first man is asked whether he will ever use the program he is spending 6 months of his life writing. His answer starts with 2 words that make the reporter laugh. Asked why he is doing it then, he replies in 6 words, and it is a question, not an answer, and it is the oldest defence there is for doing something useless extremely well. His wife is sitting there for all of this. She describes lying half awake at 5 in the morning and hearing a sound from the spare room. She reproduces the sound out loud. Then she says a sentence about a room of his own that is far heavier than anything the reporter manages in 8 minutes. The third person is a woman running a sweet shop, and she produces the turn that makes the film worth the time. The computer collapsed 4 or 5 hours of nightly paperwork into seconds. What she did with the recovered hours is not what anybody expects, and she lays the evidence out on the shop counter for the camera. By the end of 1982 there were roughly 700 thousand of these machines in British homes, and salesmen were selling them on the grounds that they would help children with schoolwork. The reporter closes on the thing the salesmen were leaving out. 42 years later it is the only prediction in the film that landed.