💼: Staff Information Security Engineer at Google. 🛠️: Agent & Web Observability. 💛: web security, ⟠, ₿, finance. Data is the most dangerous form of opinion.

Joined August 2008
I would like to share some lesser-known tools and services that improve my life and make my 💖 happy. They share some traits: minimalism, customizability and respect for the user. Some are replacements for old and insecure C-based tools everyone is too afraid to rewrite. (0/...)
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“It’s my honor to announce that the true pope is working with us from Avignon”
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In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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This is impressive.
claude on the suffering of knowing everything
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Michele Spagnuolo (miki.it) retweeted
JavaScript’s lexer ambiguity in action. Might fool you and some weak parsers. Demo: jsfiddle.net/yo0a24dj/
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France and Germany: Electricity Compared in 2024 This chart shows all 8784 hours in the year. Germany averaged 349 grams of CO2 per kWh with wind, coal, solar, gas, and biogas. France averaged 19 grams with nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and gas. France was 18 times cleaner.
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The 5th Cir. Court of Appeals ruling in favor of plaintiffs challenging the prior addition of Tornado Cash smart contracts to sanctions list pursuant to IEEPA is tremendous. Incredible win here. Another blow to the admin state acting without updated and direct congressional authority.
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Michele Spagnuolo (miki.it) retweeted
On January 20, 2025 I will be stepping down as @SECGov Chair. A thread 🧵⬇️
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Michele Spagnuolo (miki.it) retweeted
Bootstrap your #infosec network on bluesky with @j_opdenakker's starter pack: go.bsky.app/HDnVb6K Please comment below if you can recommend other starter packs for infosec or other topics 🙏
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Michele Spagnuolo (miki.it) retweeted
The French Polymarket whale commissioned polls with a specific alternate methodology, the “neighbor method” 1. What a baller 2. What a killer example of how betting markets can surface contrarian, high quality signals
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Someone made a PR aiming to remove vulgar words from the project 🙃
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yours 30s are crazy because some friends are getting married, some are starting companies and others are building dashboards to give executives deeper insight into critical business functions
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normal person: goes to jail. looks terrible afterwards, haggard any person in crypto: goes to jail. comes out looking healthy, strong, well adjusted. often speaks positively of the experience
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Introducing Lightning Notes ⚡ People want fast notes. So we re-architected the system to score notes faster. Since rolling this out, we’ve seen notes go live in as little as 14m33s after being written, and 18m20s after the post itself was written. Ludicrously fast? Now reality! Think about what needs to happen for useful context to be added to a post: • Post has to be seen • Post has to be evaluated — is it accurate? is the image real? is the video from today or 5 years ago? etc • Sources need to be found — reverse image search? original video? raw data? helpful article or analysis? • Proposed context needs to be written • Proposed context needs to be reviewed by people from different perspectives for helpfulness, accuracy, etc Thanks to Community Notes’ 800k+ global contributors and our new scoring architecture, it is now possible for this entire process to happen in under 20 minutes. Contributors can also write notes on specific images or videos. These media notes show automatically on new posts with matching media, without any additional work from contributors. Speed matters. External research made possible by notes’ open source data has shown that notes reduce sharing of posts by ~60%, increase deletion of posts by ~80%, and are highly accurate. On top of that, notes are found helpful by people from different perspectives, and people from across the political spectrum find notes significantly more trustworthy than traditional misinformation flags. See the studies: xitter.cf/CommunityNotes/status/… In the past two weeks: • Over 400 notes started showing <1hr after being written. They’re automatically showing on over 8000 posts and have been seen over 200M times. • Over 60 notes starting showing <1hr after the post itself went live. They’re automatically showing on over 1000 posts and have been seen over 21M times. Now, when you see a note that goes live in under 60 minutes, you’ll see a lightning indicator on it, recognizing the incredible work of contributors who make this happen: Want to help? • Everyone: If you see a post you think would benefit from a note, Request a Community Note • Contributors: Check your Needs Your Help tab to see notes that could go live quickly with your ratings: xitter.cf/i/communitynotes • Top Writers: Check your Note Requests tab to see posts that people think could use your help: xitter.cf/i/communitynotes/recen…
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Secure by design takes dedication and years of hard work to get the balance right between velocity and safety. Read a bit about @Google’s commitment and journey in our new white paper. Humbled to work with the professionals that make this happen everyday. blog.google/technology/safet…
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Michele Spagnuolo (miki.it) retweeted
This is funny. What if you invested in the S&P 500 every time CNBC had a "Markets in Turmoil" special? Well... your average return after one year would be 40%, with a 100% success rate.
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Michele Spagnuolo (miki.it) retweeted
please don't tell my mom that some of my colleagues got nobel prizes the bar is already high enough
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“I'd also like to acknowledge my students (…) they've gone on to do many great things. I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman.“ 😳🫡
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