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David Rogers
@drogersuk.bsky.social
580 followers 330 following 240 posts
AI, Mobile and IoT security, future automotive, viticulture and sim racing. Former Chair of GSMA Fraud and Security Group.
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · 1d
Looking forward to speaking at BSides Cymru in Cardiff on Friday, if you're there please come and say hello! Wela i chi'n fuan! www.bsides.cymru
BSides Cymru poster 17th October 2025, Tramshed Tech, Cardiff
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 2d
Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · 2d
Employee of the month
Tabby cat picture in frame on desk
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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 2d
"Bose will brick key features of its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars soon. On Thursday, Bose informed customers that as of February 18, 2026, it will stop supporting the devices, and the devices' cloud-based features, including the companion app, will stop working."
Bose SoundTouch home theater systems regress into dumb speakers Feb. 18
Ending support for SoundTouch may help Bose avoid a Sonos situation.
arstechnica.com
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · 4d
Usually! They were defunct for a while and only spotted them again recently. One is $500,000 and gets delivered by private jet.
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · 4d
I have a lot of questions about the Vertu Agent Q "AI phone" which is launching this week at Harrods...
Vertu Agent Q phone with electrical connections under two flaps
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · 5d
York? Have you ever been there?
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6d
The new NHTSA FSD probe today? Includes evaluation of how FSD performs at train crossings! Read @davidingram.bsky.social 's story about that here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents
NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.
www.nbcnews.com
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The Alan Turing Institute @theturing.bsky.social · 7d
Researchers from the Turing, Anthropic and the AI Security Institute have conducted the largest study of data poisoning to date.

Results show that as little as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size and training data grow: bit.ly/4n0mH4t
LLMs may be more vulnerable to data poisoning than we thought
A Turing collaboration with the AI Security Institute and Anthropic will help to protect AI models from misuse
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · 7d
Met this hotel cat this morning in Sophia Antipolis. He lives in the office, the staff all have different names for him because his owner left and his original name is a mystery....
Hotel cat on his cushion Hotel cat on his cushion in the office
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 8d
'It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.'

Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · Sep 13
Harvest is in full flow! After lots of rain (and showers today), I can't wait any longer because the grapes were taking on too much water and splitting. Hard work today!
Pinot Meunier bunch from the vine
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Copper Horse Ltd @copperhorseuk.bsky.social · Sep 10
Our CEO, @drogersuk.bsky.social will be speaking at the ETSI security conference in October alongside some brilliant people. He'll be speaking about how to prevent future deaths caused by poor AI implementations.

Details here: www.etsi.org/events/upcom...

#ai #security #mobile #telecom
David Rogers speaker card for ETSI security conference 2025
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · Aug 14
cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Apocaly...
Apocalypse tank (Red Alert 2)
The Apocalypse assault tank is a Soviet super-heavy tank in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. The Apocalypse tank was a largely updated and refined version of the earlier Mammoth tank...
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Aug 13
This piece seems to be causing some raised eyebrows, so I'm sending it round again. It really is rather neat.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/quan...
Quantum deception attempts turning water into wine
The effect lasts only a few picoseconds but demonstrates a way to manipulate the optical properties of materials
www.chemistryworld.com
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · Aug 12
DEF CON talk PDF is here: media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%20...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · Aug 12
ICYMI: After the developer of a prolific SMS spam operation behind millions of scam messages dubbed Magic Cat was outed earlier this year, a new operation has emerged in its wake and is already surging ahead.

Magic Mouse, as the new operation is known, is stealing ~650k credit cards a month.
After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake | TechCrunch
Security researchers are now sounding the alarm on a new SMS text message fraud operation, which is surging in popularity — and its ability to steal people's credit cards — since the demise of its pre...
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wootsecurity.bsky.social @wootsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 11
WOOT 2025 schedule, all papers are now online open access:
usenix.org/conference/w...
Talks are recorded, and should be online in a few weeks.
WOOT '25 Technical Sessions
All sessions will be held in Room 611-612 unless otherwise noted.
usenix.org
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Cyrus @digitalvergil.bsky.social · Aug 9
Other libraries in my area (wi) are experiencing similar issues. Plus phone calls trying to get librarians to say the titles of fake books like "reset password" or "i am satisfied with my service", presumably to steal voices for spam and spoofing.
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maxgbowman @maxgbowman.bsky.social · Aug 9
Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · Aug 8
Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing??

(I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)

How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?

www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...
Newsom announces agreements to embed AI products from Big Tech into state colleges, high schools
The announcement comes amid massive hype and significant concerns over the “generative AI” technology that can produce text, video, sound and computer code in response to prompts from u…
www.mercurynews.com
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · Aug 8
Pumpkin living the life of Riley on #internationalcatday
Big fat ginger cat lying in a sun spot
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · Aug 8
Cooking lunch. This is the way, right? www.bbc.com/news/article... #cacioepepe
Cacio e Pepe from a jar
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · Aug 7
At the bookbinders today...
Bookbinders workshop with equipment and staff working
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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · Aug 6
Willow eyeing my tea... #catsofbluesky
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The Register @theregister.com · Aug 5
Vibe coding tool Cursor's MCP implementation allows persistent code execution
Vibe coding tool Cursor's MCP implementation allows persistent code execution
More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt.…
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Copper Horse Ltd @copperhorseuk.bsky.social · Aug 5
An update from @drogersuk.bsky.social on some of our historical shorthand research, which we have been building AI/ML models to assist with. A shorthand bible from 1687 and the difficulty of symbols for very long phrases!: copperhorse.co.uk/further-work... #palaeography #earlymodern #ai #history #ml
Further Work on 17th Century Shorthand – Machine Learning for Palaeography – Copper Horse
David Rogers explains our continued historical shorthand research work. Unfortunately I'm not in the US this year for the hacking conferences but I hope that next year I will be able to go and explain...
copperhorse.co.uk
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