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Patrick Howell O'Neill

@patrickhowelloneill.com
21 posts
2025-12-14
I'm a simple ma who finds Oracle to be kind of a baffling company, this story was a great education www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
2025-12-14 View on X
Bloomberg

How Oracle's massive Stargate deal with OpenAI has pushed Oracle to the center of the AI boom, turning its market cap into a barometer on AI sentiment

In the AI boom, no tech giant has gone all-in like Oracle. … Bluesky: Patrick Howell O'Neill / @patrickhowelloneill.com : I'm a simple ma who finds Oracle to be kind of a baffling ...

2025-10-09
New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along.  Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-10-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the US DHS has reassigned hundreds of CISA workers into jobs that support deportations, including at ICE, and said it would dismiss anyone who refused

“It seems like it's in an effort to get them to quit instead of firing them,” a US official told me.  —  I'm off for the rest of the week (timing!) but I'll have a story on this sh...

2025-09-09
at my current job my resume was almost instantly rejected by the automated system and if I didn't follow up and make sure human beings became aware I wouldn't be here, so take this as permission to be a little annoying and seek actual people whenever possible.  Only a little annoying though. …
2025-09-09 View on X
The Atlantic

US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write their applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

2025-08-01
China accused the US of exploiting an Exchange 0day to target Chinese military contractors www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-08-01 View on X
Bloomberg

China accuses the US of exploiting an old Microsoft Exchange flaw to control a key Chinese defense company's servers for nearly a year and steal military data

Bloomberg :

2025-07-26
New: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity companies (MAPP) allowed Chinese hackers to exploit flaws in SharePoint before they were patched www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws

Bloomberg :

“Each hack caused by Microsoft's negligence results in increased government spending on Microsoft cybersecurity services,” Wyden said.  “The government will never escape this cycle unless it stops rewarding Microsoft.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
2025-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete

Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.

New: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity companies (MAPP) allowed Chinese hackers to exploit flaws in SharePoint before they were patched www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete

Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.

2025-07-22
More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel.  They received “high confidence” notifications from Apple saying they were targeted with sophisticated spyware similar to NSO Group's Pegasus. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-07-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran

More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.

2025-07-20
Anyone interested in diving down this rabbit hole should read The Dark Visitor by Scott Henderson which, when I first read it, was a total education on the Chinese patriotic hackers of 20 years ago and how they're connected to the modern day.  It's old at this point but remains a valuable resource. …
2025-07-20 View on X
Wired

How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus

A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus. Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com . Mastodon: @kimz...

2025-06-28
Giant defense contractors as rent seeking middlemen who can extract value even when they contribute little to nothing or a story about how the United States buys zero-day exploits www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
2025-06-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and “levels of middlemen” driving up costs

Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China.  —  The Cyber Angle Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com Bluesky: Patrick H...

2025-05-27
I shouldn't be shocked cause obviously the people are really good but it's still amazing how consistently good @404media.co has been
2025-05-27 View on X
404 Media

Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn

Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used … Bluesky: @jasonkoebler , @patrickhowelloneill.com , and @...

2025-05-16
Never gonna get over that we let the web become a place where links are a rationed privilege [embedded post]
2025-05-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Threads now lets users add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts

https://techcrunch.com/...  #Fediverse Threads @threads : New podcast?  Upcoming livestream?  Newsletter drop?  We're rolling out another way to help your community discover ~every...

2025-05-15
Never gonna get over that we let the web become a place where links are a rationed privilege [embedded post]
2025-05-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Threads now lets creators add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts

Instagram Threads is taking on Linktree and other “link-in-bio” solutions by introducing a way for creators to use their Threads profile …

2025-05-07
As someone who just completed an online degree program last year, I think this is roughly correct.  It was extremely easy to spot AI-generated work from students — the LLM stuff was everywhere.  I don't know what I'd do as a teacher, tough to prove, but from a writer's standpoint it's clear as day. …
2025-05-07 View on X
New York Magazine

How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.  —  Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …

2025-04-11
If the industry is going to quietly get in line on this, which is to be expected at this point, it's up to journalists to shine a light on the fact.  Good article.  [embedded post]
2025-04-11 View on X
Reuters

The cybersecurity industry is quiet after Trump canceled SentinelOne's security clearances on April 9 for hiring Chris Krebs; SentinelOne says it will cooperate

The cybersecurity industry has gone mostly quiet after President Donald Trump took action against one of its prominent members.

2025-04-10
No confidence that cyber will do better given the money at stake in federal contracts, never mind the secondary kinds of trouble easy enough to imagine.  This is the consequence of telling the truth about the 2020 election.  Also, as for censoring conservatives, Chris Krebs is a lifelong Republican. …
2025-04-10 View on X
Nextgov/FCW

President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA Director Chris Krebs, who Trump fired for contradicting Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night directing the Justice Department to investigate former top …

2025-03-14
Another crypto use case for the history books: “Sources: Russia is using bitcoin, ether, and stablecoins such as Tether in its oil trade with China and India to skirt Western sanctions” www.reuters.com/business/ene...
2025-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Russia is using bitcoin, ether, and stablecoins such as Tether in its oil trade with China and India to skirt Western sanctions

Russia is using cryptocurrencies in its oil trade with China and India to skirt Western sanctions, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

2025-02-26
I liked @dangoodin.bsky.social's tick tock into the $1.5b crypto heist arstechnica.com/security/202...  What is the upper limit on shrugging?  How much do we think can be stolen where we all still collectively pick our noses and move on?  We're at least looking at a $5b “who cares” mark imo, no?
2025-02-26 View on X
Ars Technica

How the hackers behind the $1.5B Bybit crypto heist used UI manipulation of employee devices and social engineering to gain control of ETH multisig cold wallets

The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday's heist, likely by North Korea …

2025-01-15
“those calling for more cyber offense might not be aware of the scope of current secret U.S. operations, itself a conundrum: If the country doesn't take credit publicly, how would adversaries know it struck back and therefore deter present or future attackers?” cyberscoop.com/aggressive-c...
2025-01-15 View on X
CyberScoop

Experts say Donald Trump and others pushing for stronger US cyber offense must clarify if escalation is a proper response to recent Chinese cyber breaches

cyberscoop.com/aggressive-c... X: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Tale as old as time: “Advocates for increased offensive measures need to clarify what precisely they want to do, exper...

2025-01-07
I have a parent who spends their time endlessly scrolling Facebook.  Can someone shoot me links to good reporting on today's bullshit that I can share with them in order to give them the belated shove off the platform?
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …