Dolce & Gabbana: Pajama party on Viale Piave
The thing about Dolce & Gabbana is that when they like an idea, they really…
Weak passwords, Weaker MFA Protocols, and One Absent-Minded Professor
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is often touted as a silver-bullet for preventing breaches, but it is only as good as the people using it. Without other compensating controls in place, a malicious actor could be one push notification away from your internal network. This is the story of how I went external-to-internal on an external network…
Crush FTP Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
On Friday, July 18, 2025, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54309, affecting versions below 10.8.5 and 11.3.4_23 across all platforms. According to the public-facing vendor advisory, this vulnerability in the CrushFTP managed file transfer software web interface is being exploited in…
I went undercover as a cleaner at a failing care home.
Catriona MacPheeBBC Scotland Disclosure BBC Catriona often found residents lying in wet clothes or on soiled sheets In my seven weeks undercover in an overstretched care home I witnessed many scenes of poor care and distress but there was one incident that I suspect will remain with me for a long time. On the worst…
Spanx and Delta team up on limited-edition capsule collection
Published September 30, 2025 Spanx and Delta Air Lines have partnered on a limited-edition, co-branded capsule collection in celebration of both brands’ milestone anniversaries in 2025 – Delta’s 100th and Spanx’s 25th. Spanx and Delta team up on limited-edition capsule collection. – Spanx X Delta Available exclusively on Delta Shop, the Spanx for Delta collection features…
Express debuts ‘Icons of Style’ campaign with Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham
Published September 30, 2025 Express unveiled on Tuesday its new Fall/Holiday 2025 campaign starring Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham. Express debuts ‘Icons of Style’ campaign with Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz Beckham. – Express Dubbed “Icons of Style”, the campaign, shot by the Morelli Brothers at Milk Studios in Los Angeles, positions Express as a destination…
Founder Ahlem Manai-Platt talks new Ahlem store in Los Angeles
Published October 1, 2025 Nine years after opening her first store in Venice, Los Angeles, eyewear designer Ahlem Manai-Platt will open a second location in Melrose Place in a few weeks, her fifth worldwide after Paris, New York, and San Francisco. Having partnered with investment group 1686 a few months ago, the designer has new…
Paris Fashion Week Tuesday: Courrèges and Dries Van Noten
Published October 1, 2025 Two young, but experienced designers – Nicolas Di Felice at Courrèges and Julien Klausner at Dries Van Noten – were welcome reminders of how to create distinctive fashion for house founded by revolutionary creators. Both have the same alma mater – La Cambre in Brussels. Courrèges: Blinded by the Sun The…
Bonus: Char-rnn’s jello creations
Bonus: Char-rnn’s jello creations AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning You have landed upon a bonus post! In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your financial support that…
[Guest Diary] Comparing Honeypot Passwords with HIBP
[This is a Guest Diary by Draden Barwick, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Cybersecurity (BACS) program [1].] DShield Honeypots are constantly exposed to the internet and inundated with exploit traffic, login attempts, and other malicious activity. Analyzing the logged password attempts can help identify what attackers are targeting. To…
Terrible recipes from a tiny neural net
After seeing generated text evolve from the days of tiny neural networks to today’s ChatGPT-style large language models, I have to conclude: there’s something special about the tiny guys. Maybe it’s the way the tiny neural networks string together text letter by letter just based on what you’ve given it, rather than drawing from prior…
