Interesting catch by @zackwhittaker - although we don't know the number of people impacted by the Adform breach has they haven't commented, Adform say they serve 1.5 billion adverts a day, and the breach lasted at least 5 days.
Pretty compelling reason to use an adblocker.
I love Signal for a lot of reasons, but one aspect of it that is consistently frustrating (although I doubt unique to Signal) is how many times I get contacted by a stranger with a username that is nothing more than dash or a couple of dots (or even blank), with disappearing messages set to 8 hours or something. Only to find out later I've spoken with this person previously.
This becomes more problematic when the person reaching out is already somewhat nervous/paranoid about doing so (and in all likelihood has little experience reaching out to reporters).
My solution to this has been to start assigning aliases in my installation of Signal when someone reaches out for the first time. For me, aliases that refer in general terms to the topic at hand (not the person reaching out) have proven helpful, but I still probably miss a lot of good tips because sometimes I just can't be bothered.
One final thing about this story: "Wealth is not the same as money," he said. "You see a lot of people getting wealthy but you can't spend the wealth. You have to sell the wealth to get money because you can only spend money."
There is a ton of wisdom in this statement. The excellent (and IMHO required reading) book The Psychology of Money drives home one idea over and over: True wealth is what you don't see.
War? What war? Inflation? Ba humbug, says the market, which continues to get high smoking AI crack 24/7.
All of this is noise to companies that make canned tuna and such btw - you know, companies that actually do stuff and drive the global economy.
They can't afford any of this shit. They can barely afford to upgrade their Windows 10 PCs, which are held together by string.
Microsoft's SLT often thinks their customers are all the DoD and banks. They aren't. They're orgs struggling with real world problems, who can't afford Visio licenses.
Microsoft have introduced limits for its engineers AI tools usage
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/
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