Nick @internic@qoto.org

Realizing how many software engineering conversations pull probability estimates out of thin air is gonna radicalize me, a person who assumes that every probability estimate is OF COURSE based on empirical data and real statistics

There's a preprint (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555), not yet peer-reviewed, for what claims to be a polynomial time algorithm for breaking lattice-based encryption algorithms. I'm by no means qualified to even understand it, but it's very important for post-quantum algorithms if it holds up.

Another one! https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/hyundai-pauses-x-ads-nazi-content-platform-rcna148414

#NeverBob #VoteBlueToSaveEverything
Kennedy Family Endorses Biden Against RFK Jr. https://time.com/6968479/kennedy-family-endorse-joe-biden-rfk-jr/

In an essay out today in the AGU journal Eos, @jeffcorbin, Meghan Duffy, @carlyziter and I discuss the urgent need to move beyond the "it's real, it's bad, it's us" approach to climate education. What is desperately needed instead are pathways towards climate action that engage and empower students, while helping to fight the immobility of climate despair.

https://eos.org/opinions/climate-education-that-builds-hope-and-agency-not-fear

Unlike TV or the movies, I've never had color liquid in a test tube or beaker in my lab, despite the fact that I've worked in a geochemistry lab for 30 years. 🧪

Meta’s AI chatbot informs a parents' group that it has a disabled child who is both gifted and challenged academically and attends a NYC public school. https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

"…to make sure that your #Section230Reform proposal will address the harms you're seeking to address, without negatively impacting multiple #publicgoods, things that we want to protect and preserve on the internet, like for example, #Wikipedia — aply #TheWikipediaTest."
Legendary #RebeccaMackinnon interviewed by @mmasnick
https://pca.st/bamex9e1

Neo-Nazis find a welcoming place to make money, spread hate and recruit on X, NC finds. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-musk-nazi-extremist-white-nationalist-accounts-rcna145020

NEW RESEARCH PAPER OUT! In this paper, @grimalkina and I explore how #code review anxiety is maintained and exacerbated to develop a model of code review anxiety. We also go a step further to develop and test the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for code review anxiety, so that we can reduce code review anxiety in an evidence-based and empirically-supported way (because science > vibes): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

@seresearchers #SoftwareEngineeering #developers

1. I'm supposed to be finishing my taxes but I've got another four hours. So let's talk about an absolute disaster in the US science ecosystem.

The NIH's BRAIN (Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) suffered catastrophic budget cuts—under Biden, no less—and now is unlikely to fund any new grants and will likely cut funding to existing grantees.

https://braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/blog/brain-director-funding-neuroscience-uncertain-budget-climate

Homicides in major US cities falling at ‘one of fastest rates ever’ – report | US crime | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/15/homicide-murder-rates-down

Wow, infosec Infosec Mastodon is such a font of good, verifiable information. It also schooled me on a couple things I didn't know about ECDSA P521. Read the thread from beginning to end to see what I mean.

I told everyone. And nobody cared.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112275804291554451

AP: NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through roof of Florida home came from space station https://apnews.com/article/space-station-debris-florida-home-8c5cd89b0d9db0f5c274ab9ed1f0713c #space #junk #iss

Every version of the PuTTY tools from 0.68 to 0.80 inclusive has a critical vulnerability in the code that generates signatures from ECDSA private keys. Tthe effect of the vulnerability is to compromise the private key https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html #infosec #security #ssh #opensource #linux #unix #windows

Wonder how many new Fediverse users this drives….? cc: @fediversenews

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/elon-musk-plans-to-charge-new-x-users-to-enable-posting/

Roku Says Hackers Gained Access to 576,000 Accounts in Latest Data-Breach Incident https://www.wsj.com/tech/roku-says-hackers-gained-access-to-576-000-accounts-in-latest-data-breach-incident-8f73ab15 #security #infosec

Japan Declares AI Training Data Fair Game and ‘Will Not Enforce Copyright’ https://petapixel.com/2023/06/05/japan-declares-ai-training-data-fair-game-and-will-not-enforce-copyright/

OpenAI, with help from Microsoft, announced an office in Japan. I see no connection between the two events. This battle to prevent the misuse of your work to train AI is already lost.

This year is the 15th anniversary of the Miracle Whip social annotation layer for the World Wide Web.

It was 2009, Facebook was 5 years old and social media was the new hot trend.

What was the brand for a "mayonnaise like product" to do? Create a social annotation layer for the web that would collect all your data and had no moderation, of course.

15 years later, we know better, which is why every brand has a generative AI chat 🙃

https://greg.org/archive/2009/05/26/miracle-whip-the-app.html