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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 8h

These spats emphasize the importance of sovereign supply chain resilience. Time to bring it home #Canada #cdnpoli

hillnotes.ca/2025/09/23/t...

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 8h

"By simply pointing their dish at different satellites and spending months interpreting the obscure—but unprotected—signals they received from them, the researchers assembled an alarming collection of private data"

WIRED @wired.com · 11h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

Read more: www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 9h

"core to the EU’s ambition to reduce dependency on non-EU supply chains, and to increase strategic autonomy in semiconductor technologies"

Digital supply chains enable all the other ones.
#cdnpoli

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 14h

Europe’s pioneering chip facilities are here.

Two semiconductor projects in 🇩🇪, one in 🇦🇹 and 🇮🇹 got Integrated Production Facility and Open EU Foundry status.

They’ll benefit from faster permitting and early access to pilot lines, boosting production and resilience ↓
link.europa.eu/GwjcWG

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 11h

itif.org/publications...

There is a desperation to US think tank thinking these days as they watch US hegemony being sold off to the highest bidder.

itif.org/publications...
Tech giants "limit 3rd-party access to preserve consistent performance, user privacy & device security"

Right, that's why.

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 1d

"MOSFET devices, which work on the principle of thermionic injection of carriers from source to channel, do not offer enough design space and therefore limit the supply voltage scaling."

www.esda.org/news/why-tun...

That's from 2019. Expect to see quantum tunnelling in your electronics shortly.

Why Tunnel FETs? | EOS/ESD Association, Inc.

Past, Present and Future of Tunnel Field Effect Transistors: Part IThe answer to this question is linked with breakdown

www.esda.org

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 1d

#QuantumComputing

"The #quantum sector hit a major inflection point this week, validating its transition from theory to industry: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honored the pioneers of superconducting qubits, instantly legitimizing hardware efforts globally"
open.substack.com/pub/quantump...

Nobel, IBM, Qipu, IonQ, QCI - The Week in Quantum Computing, October 6th, 2025

The quantum sector hit a major inflection point this week, validating its transition from theory to industry: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honored the pioneers of superconducting qubits, instantly ...

open.substack.com

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 1d

LLM04:2025 Data and Model Poisoning genai.owasp.org/llmrisk/llm0...

"Backdoor Insertion
Split-View Data Poisoning
Frontrunning Poisoning
Prompt Injection
Toxic Data Injection
Supply Chain Poisoning
Malicious Pickling
Sleeper Agent Creation
Misinformation Doc Insertion"
Bias induction"

LLM04:2025 Data and Model Poisoning

Data poisoning occurs when pre-training, fine-tuning, or embedding data is manipulated to introduce vulnerabilities, backdoors, or biases. This manipulation can compromise model security, performance,...

genai.owasp.org

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 1d

"This year alone, we’ve seen poisoned repositories, tainted search results, and even tools with hidden backdoors."

www.lakera.ai/blog/trainin...

Introduction to Data Poisoning: A 2025 Perspective | Lakera – Protecting AI teams that disrupt the world.

Data Poisoning in 2025: real incidents across training, RAG, tools, and synthetic data, and how to counter them with data provenance, adversarial red teaming, and runtime guardrails.

www.lakera.ai

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 1d

"LLMs can be poisoned to exfiltrate sensitive data when an attacker includes an arbitrary trigger phrase"

"injecting just 250 malicious documents into pretraining data, adversaries can successfully backdoor #LLMs"

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

#AI #GenAI

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 1d

How we power our future is key to finding a sustainable way forward and is one of the most exciting areas of #STEMeducation. Here's a new resource to explore that future in your classroom:

wattnext.ca

#onted #cdned

| Home – WattNext

From how it all works to why it’s all happening to where it’s all going. WattNext has answers to your energy questions big and small.

wattnext.ca

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 4d

"#AI is about to lose its grace period on #cybersecurity -(it's) its own worst enemy in terms of generating code that’s insecure. If AI is being trained on old, vulnerable software then all the vulnerabilities that have existed can reoccur" #vibecoding

www.wired.com/story/vibe-c...

Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible

As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.

www.wired.com

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 5d

"—which means that wisdom in Indigenous knowledge can guide how digital worlds and new technologies, including artificial intelligence, should develop in harmony with natural systems, rather than in opposition to them."

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 5d

"Mother Nature is an information platform, and Indigenous communities organized themselves using the same templates gifted by Mother Earth, namely biochemistry and bio-circuitry as nature created them"

youtu.be/TqjKF6ZAGBA?...

In Conversation with Dr. Duke Redbird

YouTube video by MIT Open Documentary Lab

youtu.be

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 5d

Cory Doctorow has a word for that kind of 'do less and get less' approach to AI adoption: futurism.com/future-socie...

If it ends up getting fumbled, it'll be myopic money grabs that do it, not the tech itself.

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

futurism.com

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 5d

"What matters is not whether #Canada boasts a handful of #AI champions, but whether every Canadian business, worker & entrepreneur can harness its power"
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/ai-n...

#edtech events telling #cdned how GenAI can do their lesson planning & marking isn't going to do it.

Canada must treat AI literacy as its next great nation-building project

Canada’s next nation-building project should be AI literacy: empowering every citizen to harness artificial intelligence for innovation and growth.

policyoptions.irpp.org

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 5d

Why-AI 2K all over again...

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 5d

"the recent wave of deals and partnerships involving the two are escalating concerns that an increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar #AI boom"

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals

A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 6d

Pixel 9 running Android 16 and yet: "There is no setting you can enable on your Pixel to turn on fake cell tower detection. This is because the hardware in the Pixel 9 series does not support the advanced functionality required for this feature, which is part of the Android 16 operating system."

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 6d

"Once access to practical quantum computers becomes available, all public-key algorithms and associated protocols will be vulnerable to criminals, competitors, and other adversaries. It is critical to begin planning" ... 3 years ago.
#cybersecurity #cdnpoli

www.nccoe.nist.gov/crypto-agili...

Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography | NCCoE

Project AbstractThe scope of this project is to demonstrate our lab practices that can reduce how long will it take to deploy a set of tools that are quantum safe. The Migration to Post-Quantum Crypto...

www.nccoe.nist.gov

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 6d

"A disenchanted Europe now needs to adjust to a new age of geopolitics. It is both urgent and uncomfortable."

global-gateway-forum.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 6d

#Cybersecurity & Information Integrity

"those conducting cognitive attacks on users of digital technology & those conducting #cyberattacks directly targeting the technology are often seeking the same ends in terms of the financial or political objectives"

www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Why cybersecurity and information integrity are two sides of the same coin

With cybercriminals increasingly employing both cybersecurity and information-integrity-related threats, both disciplines are now integrally linked.

www.weforum.org

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 7d

cdhowe.org/publication/...
(teachers need to) "take more math courses in their training and do more direct instruction rather than “discovery-based learning,” in which students supposedly somehow teach themselves"

Funny, that's how we teach #digitalliteracy in #cdned too.

Time to Address Canada’s Falling Math Scores – C.D. Howe Institute

From: John Richards and Tingting ZhangTo: Education watchersDate: April 9, 2025Re: Time to Address Canada’s Falling Math Scores Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning...

cdhowe.org

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 8d

Pyxis Ocean launches with 2 WindWings youtu.be/UaERcjUIeV4?...

Pyxis Ocean launches with 2 WindWings

YouTube video by BAR Technologies

youtu.be

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 8d

A project in China, claimed as the largest flywheel energy storage system in the world, has been connected to the grid. www.energy-storage.news/worlds-large...

'World's largest' 30MW flywheel energy storage project connects to grid in China

A project in China, claimed as the largest flywheel energy storage system in the world, has been connected to the grid.

www.energy-storage.news

Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 8d

Presenting 'Keeping It Real: how to address essential digital media literacies in a post-AI world' at ATLE Convergence 2025
sched.co/28u6e
#cdned #aieducation #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
Cyber materials from Canadian Centre for Cyber & Knowledgeflow!
#quantum learning from UBC's GeeringUp!

ATLE Convergence 2025: Keeping It Real: how to address essentia...

View more about this event at ATLE Convergence 2025

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