Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Filmed Eating Another Squid

Schneier’s weekly squid post highlights a Japanese video capturing a giant squid consuming another squid, serving as the recurring open thread for security topics not covered elsewhere on the blog.

The comment section ranges widely, including Clive Robinson on how satellite-to-phone connectivity is only the physical layer of a stack that extends up through data brokers and government surveillance policy. He argues that the absence of strong US privacy legislation has enabled agencies like the FBI, ICE, and IRS to buy personal data from brokers to sidestep oversight, with inaccurate records flagging ordinary citizens as suspects. Other threads touch on BadBIOS being revisited, a DeepMind paper arguing LLMs cannot achieve consciousness, and parallels between 1940s computing buildouts and today’s AI data centers.