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Call it what you like, but this is a rural tax from USPS.
People in rural communities already have fewer local shopping options and rely more heavily on mail delivery. Making lightweight packages more expensive to send there seems antithetical to the idea of this public service.
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A lot of folks naively see LLMs as a reason they don't need to worry about this best practice, but they fail to realize LLMs have context window limits. If you feed an LLM gigs of logs, eventually that window fills up, and you'll exclude necessary data. Worse yet, the exclusion isn't always obvious in the tools, so you'll be making decisions based on incomplete data without knowing it 😱
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In a recent study, those who actively planned, monitored, and critiqued their thinking (aka higher metacognitive skills) used LLMs more effectively and produced more creative work. Thinking about thinking has never mattered more.
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Call it what you like, but this is a rural tax from USPS.
People in rural communities already have fewer local shopping options and rely more heavily on mail delivery. Making lightweight packages more expensive to send there seems antithet…
Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=5864662
In a recent study, those who actively planned, monitored, and critiqued their thinking (aka higher metacognitive skills) used LLMs more effectively and produced more creative work. Thinking about thinking has never mattered more.
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A Windows 11 workstation’s Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational log contains Event ID 106, indicating a new scheduled task named "OneDrive Update Service" was registered at 5:45 PM local time. The user insis…
A lot of folks naively see LLMs as a reason they don't need to worry about this best practice, but they fail to realize LLMs have context window limits. If you feed an LLM gigs of logs, eventually that window fills up, and you'll exclude n…
You always want to take the smallest slice of data necessary to answer an investigative question you're asking. It forces you to be focused and specific, while also limiting data processing time and resource utilization on your tools. I pr…
This is also our 150th (!) investigation scenario! I'll pick a favorite response at the end of the week and give you a free class at https://networkdefense.io.
If you're not familiar with these files or Linux persistence, this scenario is a good opportunity to practice your research skills. Good analysts take novelty cues like this and leverage them to build their tradecraft knowledge.
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You’ve found ~/.config/systemd/user/dbus-update.service enabled for a user account on an Ubuntu system. The service executes ~/.local/bin/dbus-update, an ELF binary that isn’t owned by any installed package.
What d…
I was on vacation, so no Investigation Scenario this week. Spend your time investigating some lemonade and hot dogs!
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