Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est
@argvee
VP Security @Google, Co-Author "Building Secure and Reliable Systems" @r00t0wns, Medieval Historian
TIL you can not only buy an anvil on Amazon, you can buy a blue anvil on Amazon.
Some guy bought 30 132lbs (60kg) steel anvils on Amazon. Not related to cybersecurity, but this is an important event to the Amazon delivery driver dropping off 3,960lbs (1,800kg) of steel at someones front door
Northwestern University scientists show CD8+ T cells need mitochondrial respiration, but not ROS, for proliferation. Yet mitochondrial ROS is essential for building and maintaining naive and memory T cells, shaping immune cell fate. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House
How it started… how it’s going… gives me chills! So excited for what we are growing at Google! (also the modern racks look way less dodgy to manage… ouch my fingers!)
AI runs better here 👇
What I find most intriguing to ponder about SARS-CoV-2 and mitochrondria, is that inflammation, which we tend to view as a large systemic response, appears to be first triggered by the virus's attack upon the mitochondria INSIDE our cells.
Viral Mitochondriopathy in COVID-19 🔥Again, a very interesting Taiwanese Mitochondrial review, now digging into its special roles and key functions with its pathophysiological basis for the SARS-CoV-2-induced mitochondrial disruption, across different organs(Brain, Heart, Lung…
Amazing work from the Big Sleep and DeepMind teams bringing to life the vision that at some point most of the software we write and maintain will be increasingly free of software vulnerabilities. Tech like Big Sleep has the potential to super charge vulnerability discovery and…
New from our security teams: Our AI agent Big Sleep helped us detect and foil an imminent exploit. We believe this is a first for an AI agent - definitely not the last - giving cybersecurity defenders new tools to stop threats before they’re widespread.
Turns out you can just hack any train in the USA and take control over the brakes. This is CVE-2025-1727 and it took me 12 years to get this published. This vulnerability is still not patched. Here's the story:
Perhaps one of the most badass CVE's I've ever seen from @midwestneil 💪😤 cisa.gov/news-events/ic…
Wow. Spain is putting salt typhoon out of business. They are just going to hand it all to them: Huawei contracted to manage their wiretaps…. therecord.media/spain-awards-c…
#BREAKING Xu Zewei, a suspected hacker who worked for the Ministry of State Security (China’s largest and most active spy agency), has been arrested by FBI Houston agents in Italy. He is one of the first hackers linked to Chinese intelligence services to be captured by the FBI.
Trauma reshapes the brain at the cellular level. 🧵1/10
I’m not a biologist but the spike protein seems deeply profound in ways we are only just beginning to understand. Don’t get me started on mitochondria.
Researchers from Yale and Harvard examined postmortem human retinas and 3D retinal organoids. They found that the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 triggers the production of amyloid-β - the protein behind Alzheimer’s plaques.
The most important skill for talking to AI is not prompting or context engineering. It's clear thinking. It's articulating intent. Without that, prompting won't matter. And you won't know even know the right context to gather. You'll be optimizing in the wrong direction.
Cell towers can be used as a radar system. Cell towers facing Kaliningrad from southeast Sweden are being sabotaged.
🤣 sometimes you have to make your own fun.
Imagine you’re hired as the CISO of Epic Games (billions in revenue), and your first proposal is to rewrite Fortnite and Unreal Engine in Rust
🔬What is a Detection Engineer, and how do you become one? New blog series by @datadoghq's Head of Detection & Research Zack Allen, covering: An overview of what is a detection engineer and how they fit into a cybersecurity function. Within the NIST Cybersecurity Framework…
Excited to reveal a new little #dinosaur from the Morrison Fm - Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae. Named by Susie Maidment & me in @royalsociety appearing on display @NHM_London tomorrow. Artwork by the inestimable @BobNichollsArt
Excited to share #AlphaGenome, a start of our AlphaGenome named journey to decipher the regulatory genome! The model matches or exceeds top-performing external models on 24 out of 26 variant evaluations, across a wide range of biological modalities.1/6
China wrapped up its historic first dual-carrier deployment to the Western Pacific. • CNS Liaoning (16): 700 launch/recoveries (since 5/25); 26 days in WESTPAC • CNS Shandong (17): 420 launch/recoveries (since 6/9); 17 days Both PLAN carriers conducted ops inside Japan's EEZ.
XBOW automatically runs expert-level attacks across all webapps, giving security teams unprecedented scale. @XBOW reported 1092 vulnerabilities on HackerOne in just a few months, including RCE, XXE, SQLi, SSRF, exposed secrets, and XSS.
Well done @rhysblakely from @thetimes. This is excellently punny.
