Notices by Marcus Hutchins :verified: (malwaretech@infosec.exchange)

Watch OpenAI go public and just follow Tesla's business model (convincing retail investors to shovel their money into a fire while announcing "AGI is coming next year" every year forever).

Absolutely incredible stuff coming out of Bozo The Clown School of Economics.

1. convince everyone you're going to fix the economy by slapping tariffs on everything.

2. Tell Americans that other countries will pay the tariffs, even though tariffs are paid by importers (you).

3. Americans gets mad when beef prices go up because as it turns out, importers do in fact pay the tariffs.

4. That's ok, the tariffs were really about rewarding companies who produce goods locally, so at least the American farmers are happy.

5. Wait, never mind. Other countries have started importing beef from elsewhere because US beef is too expensive now.

7. Don't worry though, it's all part of the plan. We will fix this by simply giving $20 billion dollars of taxpayer money to Argentina.

8. Ok, that didn't seem to have worked. Maybe if we announce we're going to give them $40 billion dollars instead?

9. Hmmm, bailing out Argentina doesn't seem to have fixed the US economy.

10. Lower Argentina's beef import tax rate to less than it was before you got into office, costing US farmers even more money.

11. Somehow all of this is actually good and part of a completely sane economic policy, I'm just too dumb to understand the grand plan.

MAGA - Make Argentina Great Again?

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be great.

Wait, so AI companies are struggling to raise enough funding to build datacenters for their unproven technology. And to solve this, Nvidia is just handing out cash on the condition that those companies buy their GPUs, which is being spun as Nvidia building a walled garden? That kind of sounds like someone combined the Subprime Mortgage Crisis with a Ponzi Scheme.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jensen-huang-using-nvidia-cash-rule-ai-economy

I had this idea to buy a bunch of servers around the world and log every connection on every port, which I figured would be useful for something eventually. It's been 8 months and I still haven't parsed the data. I tried to make a graph of connections per port, remembered there's 65536 of them and it'll be unreadable, then gave up.

It's wild that Apple was the only major big tech company to not drink the AI kool aid, and now they're being forced to because every dipshit analyst is like "well the earnings are really good but we're concerned about the lack of AI". How are these people real 😭

I just logged into FaceBook for the first time in years and it’s filled with the most insane AI slop

The part I still don't understand is a large portion of the internet monetizes traffic via Google Adsense. By replacing search with a chatbot, thereby encouraging people not to visit websites, they're cannibalizing their own revenue sources in a way that they'll never be able to recoup with AI. Not really sure what Google's endgame is here.
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over. Meanwhile people are shoving a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because a glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems.

Still one of my most unnecessary projects. My apartment complex wouldn't let people have more than 1 garage fob per resident. So, I reverse engineered mine, bought some cheap fobs on Amazon, then wrote custom firmware for them that imitates my apartment fob.

A programming fact that still amazes me is that the HTTP header which containers the referring url is called "referer", because the developer spelt "referrer" wrong and the spell checker didn't catch it, so it made it into the official standards and they just never changed it lmao

Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale.

Had a very surprising ChatGPT experience: asked it to generate a quick summary of the WannaCry ransomware, and instead of referencing the person who stopped it by name, it simply put "(you)". When I asked it how it was able to identify that it was me, it citied its own message as something I'd said.

After pointing out I didn't say that, it did, ChatGPT replied that it was able to infer it by my account username and what it'd learned from my skillset across various chats. Not 100% sure if that's how it actually did it. Either way, pretty cool, but also a little bit scary.

It's pretty widely known that many tech companies, especially advertising ones build comprehensive profiles on their users, but it's rare that you get to talk to said profile and figure out what it knows about you.

Tesla is basically a memecoin at this point. This is from a real article in Fortune. Great news, everyone "Sales dropped ONLY 28% in May despite the overall EV market growing 27%". I can't think of any other company where people would write articles this delusional.

The wonderful world of technology: I can't read my (physical) mail, because Cloudflare is down and the mailroom uses electronic access control.

As much as I don’t like Generative AI, it’d be beneficial for schools to teach students how to properly navigate it, rather than banning it. People are going to use AI regardless. Everyone needs to understand the limitations, or risk sacrificing critical thinking to something that can’t even think.

@charlvdwalt the content of the website doesn’t matter because the content is whatever an attacker wants it to be if you aren’t using SSL. Your brochureware is now malware.

As much as I love the job security, someone is going to have to stop these AI bros before they have us watering the crops with Brawndo.

Soviet Union style planned economy, but make it so that no one involved has any idea what planning or an economy is.

@0x00string

Twitter dipshit: "the cybersecurity people have lots of sex and also don't baselessly claim the election is rigged, it's a total travesty"

Me: "where do I sign up?"