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Cybersecurity

Australian Ransomware payments half.

Good news although still seeing "hacked" a lot in my feeds The average ransom paid by Australian companies following a cyber-attack has dropped to AUD $711,000, almost halving from its peak of AUD $1.35 million last year. The latest data reflects changing attitudes among business

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Australian Telco's Problematic DB

Hello, given up on Australian bureaucracy. Australia’s top telcos, including TPG Telecom, Telstra and Optus, have quietly moved to establish a shared database of problematic mobile handsets in a bid to improve the reliability of emergency call services Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that

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Stepping out - away from the machine

Stuff it. Time to step away from the code and zone out My music feed is interesting to say the least. Or would you prefer this. Yeah, I am getting the wrong side of fifty, actually I am the wrong of fifty - nuts. Lots to listen too. Or there is

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Secret Level - Crap Distracted

The replacement to Love, Death & Robots. Only on Prime I feel a binge coming on #enoughsaid

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Australia's Digital ID system

It's a load of bollocks There is not a single solution for positive identification to be found. You have the official federal DigitalID application and then there is the Aus post solution and then there is the numerous times you have to deal with banks, labour hire companies,

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🚀 Telstra’s Aura Fibre: Building Australia’s AI‑Era Backbone

“From gigabits to terabits: Telstra’s Aura network is laying the tracks for Australia’s AI economy. With 14,000 km of dual‑path fibre, 83 Tbps capacity, and $29b in projected GDP uplift, this is more than a network — it’s the backbone of our digital future.” Australia is

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Project N8N - Thoughts & Ideas

Beginning to build up ideas. Need to be familiar with this tool and its capabilities Let’s break it down into practical, modular workflows you can build in n8n: 🔧 Core Capabilities You Can Automate with n8n 1. Network Maintenance (Ubiquiti + Proxmox) * Ubiquiti API integration: n8n can poll UniFi Controller/UDM

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MCP stacks have a 92% exploit probability

This is going to be a problem The same connectivity that made Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) the fastest-adopted AI integration standard in 2025 has created enterprise cybersecurity's most dangerous blind spot. https://venturebeat.com/security/mcp-stacks-have-a-92-exploit-probability-how-10-

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Australian Made & Deployed

Remember the term "Australia - the clever country", well it looks like the current state of world affairs is spurring our intellectual might into end results. Here is one example and there have been considerably more than one, it just takes - so damn long - to get things to happen

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Cloudflare's Vibe-SDK

Yeah baby - on the ever-expanding to-do list Source: GitHub - cloudflare/vibesdk: An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stackAn open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on

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Quantum sensing can secure Australia’s future

Interesting Quantum sensing can secure Australia’s future, today | The StrategistAustralia has world-class quantum talent. But without testbeds, procurement pathways and clear missions, that promise won’t translate into capability. While Australia has clear strengths in quantum computing, it will be a long-term undertaking, though one…The StrategistRajiv

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Axelera Metis M.2 Max Edge AI module

Oh baby, more research required The new Metis M.2 Max also offers a slimmer profile, advanced thermal management features, and additional security capabilities. It is equipped with up to 16 GB of memory, and versions for both a standard operating temperature range (-20°C to +70°C) and an

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6 Degrees of Separation

Watched this last night with the wife. The beautiful math behind six degrees of separation Really interesting stuff on networks, which is right down my alley. More information here Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As

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Jane Goodall - RIP

There goes another remarkable woman. Jane Goodall, who gave chimps their souls back, dead at 91British primatologist Jane Goodall entered the African wilderness at 26 years old without any formal scientific training or university degree. She emerged with research that forever changed how we understood the animal kingdom.ABC NewsMBy

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The IP Host heatmap

I was looking for a heatmap of the amount of IP addresses per country. I had an old one that I dug up somewhere and stuck in my ghost image library. I pull this server up and down quite a bit, but for the moment it can live in Frankfurt,

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Broaden the mind

No, I don't speak it. Like the song though. This one, interesting. #enoughsaid

Cybersecurity

GitHub - Its October

Blah, not ready. Too much still to do. I really need to finish my GPO review, updating stacks, cull my projects, get that NAS drive, get a UPS, make the server rack, etc... But I keep finding so much interesting stuff. For the month of October 2025, we are introducing

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Milei may be in trouble

There was little time for Milei to feel down on Monday morning. Crisis management was called for after the financial markets reacted negatively to the election defeat, which was unexpected, at least to this extent: the peso moved threateningly towards the upper limit of its range against the dollar as

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Immutable operating systems ??

What are they? It's far easier to read this post than me rabbiting on. Immutable operating systems are a blessing and a curseThe double-edged sword of the Linux ecosystemXDAAyush Pande Starting with the brass tacks, immutable distributions essentially lock down the core part of your OS. On

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Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception

Really. What the hell The researchers built a custom web crawler and tested 15,000 websites from across the internet. They discovered that 91 percent of sites used event listeners in some way. While most were used for basic functions like tracking page loads or clicks, a significant portion were

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Linus Torvalds Grows Frustrated

Cool, grumpy old man reference. Somewhat recently it's become a common occurrence seeing "Link: " tags within Git commits for the Linux kernel that point to the latest Linux kernel mailing list patches of the same patch. Short of being part of a multi-part patch series

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Horse Mutation made Human History

Unreal Now, a sweeping new study of ancient horse DNA offers a precise answer: a genetic quirk in a single gene, called GSDMC, helped turn skittish animals into the creatures humans could saddle and ride. Once that gene variant spread, humanity’s history took off at a gallop. A Single

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The Greatest Speech in History

“If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences…if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The freedom we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far

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Homepage - Indexing container

My server is beginning to get overly complicated I already have setup the host to auto update with notifications. The docker containers also do the same thing via watchtower, also with notifications. The Proxmox server basically does the same thing I just have to read the emails and reboot the

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Ghost server - minor issues

I changed the title - it was a little misleading I have temporarily moved my ghost server to the cloud. Actually its a bit of a bonus, all i have to do is change the CNAME pointer and I swap servers. Why because I am having serious issues with open-appsec