The Dead Sea’s darkest Biblical secret finally unlocked – and it rewrites ancient history
A mysterious copper scroll may not be a treasure map at all – but a secret record of one of the bloodiest revolts in ancient Biblical history.
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Auschwitz survivor who returned to live in Germany dies aged 101
Albrecht Weinberg spent years teaching students about Nazi atrocities after being imprisoned at Auschwitz and BelsenThree Auschwitz survivors tell their storiesAlbrecht Weinberg, who survived a series of Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most…
Mark of the Prompt: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) AI Report on Vulnerability Exploitation
I was happily reading through a new Google post called “GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Adversaries Leverage AI for Vulnerability Exploitation, Augmented Operations, and Initial Access” (a title almost as long as a post itself) when my eyes crashed…
Anthropic’s “Ottenheimer” Moment
I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. A message just appeared that said Anthropic is having an “Ottenheimer” moment, when they thought that they were going to be having their “Oppenheimer” moment. ROFL. Sorry guys. Didn’…
Could Mozilla Security Hot Air Fill Mythos Sails?
The Register asked for my opinion on the Mozilla blog post that pumps up Mythos. I gave them a short answer. Here’s the long form. As a disinformation historian, I see tell-tale signs all over the marketing post from Mozilla disguised as an engin…
OpenClaw is Cooked: 433 CVEs Patched by Agents That Can’t Fix What’s Broken
Github has a serious breach problem. Someone pointed me to a repo called ClawCode and immediately I saw the telltale signs of an integrity breach. It has 187k stars against 0 releases, 0 packages, 0 visible contributors, and a deprecated crates.io stub…
Palestinian ambassador protests to Foreign Office over ’erasure’ by British Museum
Objection after museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from list of countries of ancient Levant and Egypt and from some explanatory panelsThe Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called for Foreign Office intervention after the British Museum removed referenc…
The Venezuelan Profit Motive in U.S. Closure of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz was operational until Trump unilaterally launched U.S. military action against Iran to predictably close it. Why would America close the strait? I find many people still scratching their head, especially after Trump announced he wo…
New Nazi Database: Carl Orff Never Needed a Party Card
It was late April 1945, Munich. The Nazis had lost the war by the start of 1942 and spent the next three years grinding their own country into rubble rather than admit it. They had followed Hitler’s 1941 orders to kill as many people as possible,…
Conscious AI? Dawkins Falls for a Turk Dressed Up as Claudia
Richard Dawkins just failed a simple intelligence test. His latest post, called “When Dawkins met Claude: Could this AI be conscious?“, is a very disappointing read, to say the least. And I have some thoughts. He built a career on the princ…