Instructor at CCSF, corporate trainer for Infosec Decoded.
I missed this a few days ago - US grocery giant Kroger is actively selling its customer loyalty data and customer profiles to data brokers and to other companies.
Editing: Folks, I get this is “known” to those paying attention. The point here isn’t surprise, but direct verification thanks to a new Oregon law.
https://therecord.media/kroger-using-loyalty-program-to-sell-customer-data
From a fellow veteran against tRump:
“In 1933 Germany was the academic and scientific research center of the world. By 1938 many of the greatest minds in the world were refugees from Nazi persecution. Nazis and Fascists and MAGA don’t like brilliant people.
Attacking Harvard will make Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, Heidelburg and other leading universities in civilized countries great again.
America will repel the best students in the world instead of attracting them.” - Neil Gussman
How to Customize LLM Models with Ollama's Modelfile https://www.gpu-mart.com/blog/custom-llm-models-with-ollama-modelfile
This Laser Breakthrough Can Read Text on a Page From a Mile Away : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/this-laser-breakthrough-can-read-text-on-a-page-from-a-mile-away
The chilling AI trend using reverse geolocation that's going viral - Jason Deegan https://jasondeegan.com/the-chilling-ai-trend-using-reverse-geolocation-thats-going-viral/
Australian politician drinks beer from his shoe in Parliament https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c4grdy4znr0o
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend
Antihistamines And Dementia Risk: Doctors Explain The Connection https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a64804619/antihistamines-dementia-risk/
The FDA plans to limit access to covid vaccines. Here's why that's not all bad. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/23/1117329/fda-limit-access-covid-vaccines/
Trump's Meme Coin Dinner: Disappointing Food, No Meet-and-Greet https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/trump-crypto-dinner-1235347312/
Hunger strike at Stanford enters its 11th day https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/stanford-protesters-hunger-strike-divestment-20341506.php
@mastodonmigration @AAKL Google Forms are OK but using them for personal info like this isn't a great idea given that rolling your own system for this would not be much work and you could completely control the privacy aspects. This sounds like laziness in action.
How Elon Musk’s ‘truth-seeking’ chatbot lost its way https://archive.ph/nrnSh
Pretty funny - found a drone video on YouTube where somebody left their AI prompts into the YouTube audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMbQVCbqFk
After hiring a real auditor, the auditor found builder.ai faked three quarters of its sales. https://www.ft.com/content/926f4969-fda7-4e78-b106-4888c8704bda
Bureau of Prisons director 'excited' about reopening Alcatraz as max-security prison | KTVU FOX 2
Microsoft Is Rolling Out AI Agents. Developers Are Finding Coding Errors. - Barron's https://www.barrons.com/articles/microsoft-ai-agent-github-coding-errors-8707c1f8
ViciousTrap Uses Cisco Flaw to Build Global Honeypot from 5,300 Compromised Devices https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/vicioustrap-uses-cisco-flaw-to-build.html
Alabama worker says ICE dragged him from job despite being US citizen: ‘Color of our skin has become a crime’ - al.com https://archive.ph/vb4hV
DockFlare is a free, open-source tool to manage Cloudflare Tunnels https://www.xda-developers.com/cloudflare-tunnels-easier-to-manage-free-open-source-self-hosted-tool/
