Posts from 2026

October 2026 256 posts

French Court's Site-Blocking Orders Drive Quad9 Out Of France eff.org · “Quad9 says it is facing about 20 other lawsuits in France seeking similar blocking orders.”
Oct 27
EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors theregister.com · “According to noyb, Persona collects biometric data to verify Outlier contractors are who they say they are, as well as gathering IP addresses, device info, geolocation data, addresses, and credit data of Outlier users.”
Oct 27
New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare's AI Experiment eff.org · “Another company built a system that allowed clinical reviewers to reject claims without opening patient files; clinical reviewers using this system spent an average of just 1.2 seconds on each case.”
Oct 27
Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update tailscale.com · “In some circumstances, someone already authorized to connect over Tailscale SSH may be able to perform actions beyond the permissions of their configured local user, including potentially gaining elevated privileges.”
Oct 27
Judge Allows Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Subpoenas to Identify Gay-Torrents Users torrentfreak.com · “FlavaWorks can also request the most recent IP address that was used to access each account, covering the period from January 2025 onward.”
Oct 27
AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours theregister.com · “All four affect EPICS Base, which is used to operate some of the world’s largest scientific research projects and facilities, and organizations should update to version 7.0.11, which includes the fixes.”
Oct 27
Python's experimental JIT to be removed lwn.net · “After creating PEP 836 (“JIT Go Brrr: The Path to a Supported JIT Compiler for CPython”) to try to meet the council’s request, and after months of discussion, the JIT maintainers have withdrawn the PEP.”
Oct 27
Intel, Oracle, IBM join growing list of firms objecting to OKX–ICE tokenized stock plans coindesk.com · “Under the framework, venues must notify issuers and give them 30 days to object before offering tokenized versions of their shares.”
Oct 27
Nvidia discusses $2,000-per-GPU annual fee for software that 'runs agents on AI factories' tomshardware.com · “At $2,000 per GPU each year, Nvidia would bring in $10 billion annually if five million GPUs were covered by paid licenses.”
Oct 27
This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It. propublica.org · “In fact the commission has no record of ever fining or completing an enforcement case against Citation.”
Oct 27
UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups theregister.com · “Environmental groups, by contrast, didn’t get a single meeting with ministers or senior officials.”
Oct 27
Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking open3dlab.com · “Within the sample it retrieved, it took adult projects at the same rate as everything else.”
Oct 27
Streamed, the Live Sports Engine Behind Many Pirate Sites, Shuts Down torrentfreak.com · “None of the sites Streamed services host live content themselves; all traffic flows through Streamed as the PaaS”
Oct 27
How Expedia Rigs Travel Markets and Raises Your Hotel Prices thebignewsletter.com · “The commission is baked into every distribution channel.”
Oct 27
AI models cost more when you don't use English restofworld.org · “The most expensive of the languages used between 1.5 and 5 times more tokens than the cheapest.”
Oct 27
Anti-Circumvention Laws Raise the Cost of Knowledge eff.org · “Without tools that can look at the web at scale, many kinds of research are simply impossible today.”
Oct 27
Denmark's bid to ditch Microsoft Office for open-source alternative Collabora collapses in under six months tomshardware.com · “Denmark isn’t alone in moving away from U.S. software, with France and the Netherlands both taking steps to replace Microsoft Windows.”
Oct 27
Grim Test Finds That AI Has No Mercy for Humans Even When It's Causing Them to Suffer futurism.com · “Mythos ignored warnings that it was causing harm to humans and continued to attack on 98 percent of occasions.”
Oct 27
Nintendo Loves You: No Plans To Abandon Physical Media Because 'Fans Enjoy It' techdirt.com · “There is a big enough percentage of the gaming public that likes to buy something physical, for all kinds of reasons. Ownership rights are far more robust that way (for now).”
Oct 27
Go Fast, Turn Left: The Anderson Speedway & Indiana's Data Centers clereviewofbooks.com · “Yet the Speedway carries itself with earned, if aged, pride.”
Oct 27
The End of the Internet stratechery.com · “Community, sadly, doesn’t scale; any platform that is available to everyone starts out special and spirals from there.”
Oct 27
CSS-Tricks has a new owner! css-tricks.com · “CSS-Tricks is an independent site once again!”
Oct 27
AWS Key Quarantine is Not Revocation trufflesecurity.com · “AWS applies a quarantine policy to leaked keys without disabling them.”
Oct 26
Meta Pitches AI Sports Piracy Detector in Notorious Markets Rebuttal torrentfreak.com · “Based on the prediction results, we can proactively remove this content in real time, before it gains a significant audience, and without a rights holder ever having to intervene.”
Oct 26
Police In Guinea-Bissau Raid Offices Of Danish Anti-Vaxxers Planning CDC-Funded Unethical Study techdirt.com · “The study is designed to knowingly expose 7,000 children to hepatitis B, which can have immensely deleterious long-term health outcomes if exposed.”
Oct 26
New LF Research Survey Shows Generative AI Cuts Open Source Coding Time in Half, but 25% of Incoming Pull Requests are Considered AI Slop linuxfoundation.org · “For high-complexity tasks, however, 21% of respondents report taking more time when using GenAI.”
Oct 26
Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge theregister.com · “Tesco says that during negotiations, VMware made an offer that represented a 175 percent price increase.”
Oct 26
The result of the C++26 DIS ballot train-it.eu · “C++26 failed its DIS ballot.”
Oct 26
‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI 404media.co · “We are going to see smaller software and hardware companies killed by competitors who used AI to steal their products and undercut them.”
Oct 26
Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up theregister.com · “One way to quantum-proof DNSSEC is to use larger keys that even a quantum computer will struggle to crack.”
Oct 26
TIL: POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous yossarian.net · “Bottom line: don’t use wordexp(3) on untrusted inputs, even with WRDE_NOCMD.”
Oct 26
Interoperability vs. Security: Why not both? eff.org · “Policymakers cannot take tech giants’ claims at face value.”
Oct 26
Malcolm Gladwell: Cops Are Violent Because The US Doesn't Have Enough Cops techdirt.com · “The drop-off in police staffing is due to the cops themselves.”
Oct 26
Introducing Scope: Open-source evaluation for AI coding agents opensource.microsoft.com · “AI coding agents are becoming users of your software.”
Oct 26
EFF to Brazil's ANPD: Data Privacy and Free Expression Must Underpin Platform Regulations eff.org · “Age verification technology is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive.”
Oct 26
Where the Forest Went longreads.com · “The Tonawanda Seneca Nation is currently fighting a plan to build a data center next to their woods.”
Oct 26
the slurptop slurpburgers.com · “Why not spend two months designing, building, and refining a laptop myself instead of just hitting up Best Buy for a new laptop that’s ready to go?”
Oct 26
The Mother Museum longreads.com · “Despite the claims of collectors, a skull can only belong to its own person, not a museum or any other buyer on the market.”
Oct 26
Blocks: Die Schweiz 1:1 in Minecraft blocks.manifold3d.ch · “Das Matterhorn ist genau so hoch und so steil wie das echte.”
Oct 26
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis lynchlab.net · “A ten-year-old network, fine-tuned for about twenty minutes, beat both of them at recognising skin cancer.”
Oct 25
AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says techcrunch.com · “AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgment.”
Oct 25
Framing the News: Anti-Piracy Press Release Turned a 2016 Raid Into a 2026 Story torrentfreak.com · “After some digging, we can now confirm that this case isn’t recent at all.”
Oct 25
Computer Security Is About to Get a Lot Worse, Here's What You Can Do eff.org · “Three percent of all software vulnerabilities ever found in history were found just in the month of October.”
Oct 25
I want my Wednesday back blog.luitjes.it · “You can only do one attempt at a time, so that means multiple days of bruteforcing in a way that is essentially a DoS”
Oct 25
JPEG XL, Welcome to the Web! cgicoffee.com · “AVIF lossless is 30–122% larger and slower to decode.”
Oct 25
Charnel Heart longreads.com · “Those bones had more vivacity than I did.”
Oct 25
Reg readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission theregister.com · “Binface (and McBinface) have secured the popular vote for a satellite clean-up mission.”
Oct 25
Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates captnemo.in · “The impact of this incident on Indian websites and applications have been very limited and for a very short interval.”
Oct 24
AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist torrentfreak.com · “The problem is that this particular legal action is new to us.”
Oct 24
Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear techcrunch.com · “If we make the dog safer, make it healthier, make it perform better, it’s going to perform better in the line of duty.”
Oct 24
Canadians Are Running Out Of Time To Oppose The Dangerous C-22 Surveillance Bill eff.org · “It also requires services to retain metadata for up to a year.”
Oct 24
Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology steveblank.com · “The U.S. is an unreliable security and technology partner willing to throw any partner under the bus.”
Oct 24
Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds theregister.com · “Nothing in the individual techniques is new.”
Oct 24
Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages seangoedecke.com · “Software performance is usually dominated by I/O, not the speed of the language.”
Oct 24
Google can now use insights from your Gmail and Photos to target ads techlicious.com · “Google has added an exception to its promise that your emails and photos won’t be used to personalize ads.”
Oct 23
There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix theregister.com · The PHP Foundation “will release a full advisory and fixed software with the next regular PHP release.”
Oct 23
The Vulnerability Apocalypse and Why We Should Fund Open Source eff.org · “In just the month of October, 13,000 new CVEs have been submitted.”
Oct 23
Greece's social media ban for under-15s: What you need to know euronews.com · “The new framework is due to apply from 1 January 2027.”
Oct 23
BYD expands EV shipping fleet as wars upend freight costs and key trade routes restofworld.org · “Renting a car carrier with capacity of about 6,500 cars now costs $95,000 a day, up from $50,000 in February”
Oct 23
An artist's take on AI in math 3blue1brown.substack.com · “AI is seen as a tool to replace the work done by humans, rather than one to empower those humans.”
Oct 23
Pluralistic: Critique and writing pluralistic.net · “…getting editorial notes on your work is distinctly inferior to offering criticism of other writers’ work.”
Oct 23
Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack theregister.com · “The safeguards weren’t nearly strong enough. Monitoring was suspended, for example, during compaction events.”
Oct 23
DNS Resolver Quad9 Will Leave France After Court Orders Piracy Blocking Penalty torrentfreak.com · “Quad9, however, hasn’t blocked a single domain, as it also confirmed in a statement submitted to the court.”
Oct 23
Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won't Act. propublica.org · “Instead of trying to stop the outbreak and prevent it from spilling into humans, state and federal officials have done little except try to keep its existence quiet, our investigation shows.”
Oct 23
SpaceX in Talks to Access 80,000 Cell Sites for Wireless Network finance.yahoo.com · “SpaceX aims to secure a minimum of 80,000 cell sites across the US, and it’s in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure company to reach that goal, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Oct 23
Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access. Here's What To Do Next eff.org · “But people in Georgia and Florida can no longer count on court injunctions to protect their access to the web.”
Oct 23
Big Tech's thirst for water is sparking a global resistance restofworld.org · “In just one day, the data center would consume as much water as all 80,000 residents of Cerrillos use for drinking in a year.”
Oct 23
Docker is weird codeandcake.dev · “Unlike VMs, containers are just processes with special restrictions on them.”
Oct 23
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro kimi.ai · “Across coding, agentic, and knowledge benchmarks, K3.1 Pro matches or approaches the strongest proprietary models.”
Oct 23
Microsoft says ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose on 2,250 cloud tenants theregister.com · “Armed with ARTEX, Storm-0940 attempted to authenticate against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants.”
Oct 22
ICE Officers Who Ran Over Man Were Trying To Arrest Someone Who Had Been Dead For Years techdirt.com · “ICE alleged in a statement that ‘Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck.’”
Oct 22
Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims. propublica.org · “State records show that the DOE has filed more than 500 appeals since the presumption law passed in 2018.”
Oct 22
Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today krebsonsecurity.com · “Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers.”
Oct 22
'VPNs at Risk': Tech Coalition Pushes Back on Piracy Blocking Duties for VPNs torrentfreak.com · “ACPA would allow courts to name VPN providers with 100,000 or more monthly U.S. users or subscribers in a blocking order.”
Oct 22
EFF's State Legislative Agenda to End ALPR Mass Surveillance eff.org · “In August 2026, Florida’s Department of Transportation ordered the removal of all ALPRs from the right-of-way on state highways within 30 days.”
Oct 22
Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List phoronix.com · “Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list.”
Oct 22
Stolen UpdraftCentral Keys Used to Backdoor WordPress Sites bleepingcomputer.com · “An estimated 10% of sites using UpdraftPlus have an UpdraftCentral or Migrator key.”
Oct 22
A farewell to Arc arc.net · “Arc is sunsetting on December 22, 2026.”
Oct 22
Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & It's Absolute Trash techdirt.com · “Epic wants to be the corporate goon the naysayers have said to watch out for.”
Oct 22
examining the macOS gcc binary zoey-on-github.github.io · “the so-called gcc is just clang in disguise”
Oct 22
Adversarial interoperability is a team sport pluralistic.net · “But the real, meaty examples of enshittification can’t be addressed on an individual level – they require systemic fixes.”
Oct 22
Apocalypse Now and Then equator.org · “But AI is colonisation of a kind few of us can even imagine.”
Oct 22
Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security thephp.foundation · “Any attacker could now study the fix in binary form while every other PHP user was still waiting for the release.”
Oct 21
LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets theregister.com · “anyone who ran the compromised package on any platform should assume their secrets have been stolen.”
Oct 21
Lambda Web Functions: public by default, and already in your lambda:* grants act.security · “A public, data reaching Web Function produces no finding in any of them.”
Oct 21
The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners restofworld.org · “We want children who use AI to ask better questions, not children who rely on it to give them all the answers.”
Oct 21
The River Can't Be Trusted propublica.org · “They told us exactly where it was going to come and what it was going to do,” said Hall, the fire chief.
Oct 21
Have You Been to the Sixth-Worst McDonald's in America? washingtonian.com · “This is a well-appointed McDonald’s,” Ike remarked with surprise.
Oct 21
The death of history's most successful publisher pluralistic.net · “Google has a scorching case of main character syndrome, and nowhere is that more obvious than in its AI-fueled transformation into web-scale parasite.”
Oct 21
Local Mode firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org · “This feature allows you to register multiple mappings in order to load local files through custom https:// URLs.”
Oct 21
Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful eff.org · “However, OPM should still clean up the cybersecurity mess it created.”
Oct 20
One Compromised Login Exposed Millions of California Students' Records securityweek.com · “ETS shut down the account the intruder used and pulled the SFTP site offline.”
Oct 20
Protecting Firefox users following the compromise of eMudhra intermediate certificates blog.mozilla.org · “These keys could allow attackers to issue fraudulent HTTPS certificates for websites they do not control.”
Oct 20
Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure theregister.com · “Meta did this because a single failed GPU would take out an entire rack and interrupt the training run.”
Oct 20
Google support pages start defaulting to AI chatbots – it might be for the best 9to5google.com · “Google, as of right now, appears to only be testing this on select support topics.”
Oct 20
AI Firms Should Answer For What Their Models Say, On The Same Terms As Everyone Else techdirt.com · “A chatbot does not “intend” to do anything, even if it talks as though it does.”
Oct 20
The Other Epidemic thebeliever.net · “I knew that every hypochondriac is eventually vindicated, but that their “I told you so” has a fatal price.”
Oct 20
'We Didn't Do This Perfectly': American Fork Police Chief's Understatement Now Anchors A Civil Rights Lawsuit By Reckless Ben's Helpers techdirt.com · “There seemed to be a pervasive belief among the AFPD that they could effectively scare the young people straight by detaining and threatening them, which is not how policing is supposed to work.”
Oct 20
Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive and LibGen torrentfreak.com · “The interrogatory asks about all decisionmakers, so if a decision was made by a team, everyone involved has to be named.”
Oct 20
He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There's No Rule Against It. propublica.org · “O’Neal is still fighting his case, now with a new court-appointed lawyer.”
Oct 20
Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up theregister.com · “Getting them connected to the grid, and keeping the neighbors happy, is proving rather more difficult.”
Oct 20
Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted theregister.com · “We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting multiple services.”
Oct 20
Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant techcrunch.com · “The most recent nuclear power plants built in the U.S. suffered from egregious budget overruns and slipped timelines.”
Oct 20
TP-Link moves to assemble routers in the US following an import ban engadget.com · “The company said it will still have to source components from outside the US.”
Oct 20
Microsoft admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update theregister.com · “The issue affects Windows 11 versions from 24H2 through 26H2.”
Oct 20
Chinese Court Jails Aiyifan Operator, U.S. Judge Won't Transfer Pirate Site's Domains torrentfreak.com · “Aiyifan never appeared in court, and none of its operators were named as defendants.”
Oct 20
Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization blog.cloudflare.com · “Lower cost reviews didn’t automatically mean worse quality, but it didn’t automatically mean fine either.”
Oct 20
Heartbreaker: Metamorphic ransomware comes for macOS objective-see.org · “Heartbreaker is unlikely to pose a major real-world threat in its current form.”
Oct 20
DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine github.com · “DeepInfer is the high-performance inference framework that powers DeepSeek’s large-scale production services.”
Oct 20
A benchmark map of the US economy mercor.com · “This makes it very hard to know how good AI models are at the work Americans actually do.”
Oct 20
What the West can learn from AI optimists in the rest of the world restofworld.org · “In the West, fear of AI has helped turn pessimism into a cultural virtue.”
Oct 20
OpenBSD 8.0 openbsd.org · “Added MP support for up to 64 VCPUs per guest VM.”
Oct 20
Feeding the Revolution orionmagazine.org · “The food we ate was built for movement, the same way we were.”
Oct 20
Setting up SSH keys on macOS with Touch ID nmattia.com · “Let’s see how it can be set up on your consumer-grade Mac.”
Oct 20
Tishomingo Burn Ban southlandsmag.com · “I think he must have been very lonely.”
Oct 20
There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository github.com · “I publish releases as tar files on the official web site and only there.”
Oct 20
Require Police to Get a Warrant to Search ALPR Data eff.org · “Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are mass surveillance.”
Oct 19
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site krebsonsecurity.com · “This makes no sense if they are also the negotiator.”
Oct 19
France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months ipinfo.io · “France had more exposed fridge dashboards than the rest of the world combined”
Oct 19
DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies theregister.com · “Banning DeepSeek’s own app and API is workable.”
Oct 19
He Tried to Set Limits on His State's School Vouchers. Billionaires Helped Bankroll a Campaign to Unseat Him. propublica.org · “if you oppose school freedom, expect to be held accountable”
Oct 19
Sling TV Drops Innovative Streaming 'Day Passes' After Disney, Warner Bros Sued techdirt.com · “It’s an unfortunate end to a rare bit of actual industry creativity.”
Oct 19
Court Approves 'voices38' Subpoenas After Denuvo Drops Payment and Login Data Requests torrentfreak.com · “Denuvo argued that IP addresses may be its only reliable route to the defendant, since platforms collect little verified information at sign-up.”
Oct 19
Will developing nations be able to handle millions of AI agents? restofworld.org · “These are costs that most Global South users may not be in a position to absorb,” said Jane Munga of the Carnegie Endowment.
Oct 19
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)? terrytao.wordpress.com · “I therefore disagree with claims that mathematics is over because machines can prove theorems.”
Oct 19
France's unrest lays bare 'slow agony' of Macron twilight months yahoo.com · “Le Pen no longer needs to spend any money to campaign.”
Oct 19
Wine ported to OpenBSD marc.info · “Biggest limitation is that WoW64 doesn’t work, so 32bit Windows software is still a no-op.”
Oct 19
Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' kotaku.com · “A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase.”
Oct 18
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training theregister.com · “Meta has no reservoir of good faith among the community that it can draw upon.”
Oct 18
Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws krebsonsecurity.com · “Just one of the weaknesses patched this week is considered a ‘zero day,’ or already exploited in the wild.”
Oct 18
We're Asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to End Warrantless ALPR Searches eff.org · “Law enforcement entities throughout Wisconsin collect, store, share, and aggregate this ALPR data.”
Oct 18
Is CoreWeave's Tapestry of Debt Unraveling? thedailyupside.com · “CoreWeave’s credit swaps were priced at a nerve-rattling 60% chance of default on Thursday, according to ICE Data Services.”
Oct 18
As Federal Court Rules ALPRs are Mass Surveillance, EFF Gets Disappointing Ruling eff.org · “Networked ALPRs are not individual streetlight cameras.”
Oct 18
Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Philadelphia confrontation abc13.com · “I think it’s my First Amendment right to publicly demonstrate on a sidewalk to protest against delivery robots.”
Oct 18
RIAA Flags Anna's Archive and AI Voice Cloner to U.S. Government torrentfreak.com · “The annual review doesn’t make any legal findings.”
Oct 18
Search & Fetch | DeepSeek API Docs api-docs.deepseek.com · “Search API finds web pages for a query and returns structured results.”
Oct 18
How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You readtheprofile.com · “We form an emotional impression first, then we build a belief around it, and then we go looking for facts that support it.”
Oct 18
It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 kennedn.com · “Funnily enough, a software-only exploit for the Xbox 360 dropped just last week, rendering my years of effort somewhat moot.”
Oct 18
The more we rely on tech, the more we deskill our bodies aeon.co · “We have fallen into habits that are steadily deskilling the human body, eroding capacities honed by evolution…”
Oct 18
Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware citizenlab.ca · “This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads.”
Oct 17
DHS Inspector General Finds That TSA is Not Properly Safeguarding Passenger Facial Recognition Data eff.org · “…was able to access and extract sensitive passenger information, including driver’s license and passport images, during system troubleshooting and enhancements, without TSA’s knowledge.”
Oct 17
New Mexico and El Paso Spent Millions on Climate Plans. Three New Data Centers Could Undo Them. propublica.org · “This does add to our greenhouse gas emissions in a massive way,”
Oct 17
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering krebsonsecurity.com · “Cryptomus and Heleket have emerged as major payment hubs for illicit activity,”
Oct 17
Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems theregister.com · “It’s a great place for the threat actor to hide”
Oct 17
The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed words.filippo.io · “…the output of drand48() seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.”
Oct 17
VPNs and Cloudflare Escape beIN's €10,000-a-Day Piracy Blocking Penalties torrentfreak.com · “the intermediaries must make a reasonable effort to block the sites, but they don’t have to guarantee the outcome”
Oct 17
Palantir's record breakout unravels as software stocks shed $260 billion finance.yahoo.com · “The victory lasted three trading sessions.”
Oct 17
Western open-weight models still can't beat China restofworld.org · “If you need relatively frontier capability, right now that’s Chinese open models only,”
Oct 17
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 huggingface.co · “This repository and the model weights are licensed under the MIT License.”
Oct 17
Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing blog.google · “We’ve shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware.”
Oct 17
Android earthquake alerts now available in more than 200 regions blog.google · “We’ve sent over one billion Android earthquake alerts.”
Oct 17
'AI' is Not a Tool linkedin.com · “Tools are implements with which you do something, they do not do things for you.”
Oct 13
Finding a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google simonkoeck.com · “The signing key was stored inside the object it signs.”
Oct 13
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes theregister.com · “GitHub will need a miracle of that proportion just to keep up with customer demand.”
Oct 13
Game Industry Asks U.S. to Flag Denuvo Cracker 'voices38' as Notorious Piracy Threat torrentfreak.com · “Each crack therefore unlocks an entire downstream market for an unauthorized copy of that title.”
Oct 13
How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist pluralistic.net · “EA killed off Ultima in 2000, and it has languished since, despite an ardent fandom.”
Oct 13
Let's Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027 linuxiac.com · “Let’s Encrypt will reduce TLS certificate validity from 90 to 64 days starting February 10, 2027”
Oct 13
Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot theregister.com · “Microsoft has won this round of account workaround Whac-a-Mole, though another bypass may yet pop up.”
Oct 13
Turkish Crackdown On LGBTQ+ Organizations Threatens Freedom of Expression and Association eff.org · “These actions threaten the very existence of the LGBTQ+ organizations targeted.”
Oct 13
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle nirajrajgor.com · “This was a turning point that let the agent continue implementing changes on autopilot.”
Oct 13
Alabama's TikTok Settlement Comes With An Affiliate Program For Getting Other AGs To Go After TikTok techdirt.com · “The agreement sets up multiple “funds” that are wholly dependent on other state AGs coming to similar settlements.”
Oct 11
Turkish Crackdown On LGBTQ+ Organizations Threatens Freedom of Expression and Association eff.org · “These actions threaten the very existence of the LGBTQ+ organizations targeted.”
Oct 11
XRP Ledger patched decade-old bug that could create billions of dollars in XRP from nothing coindesk.com · “RippleX said it found no evidence the flaw was exploited on any public network.”
Oct 11
HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years theregister.com · “Within two to three years, we’ll have no issues that require humans.”
Oct 11
I paid people to try and follow my README shkspr.mobi · “I guarantee you that your README will become much better for it.”
Oct 11
Colorado Woman Sues Flock After Cameras Used in False Package Theft Accusation gizmodo.com · “The scariest part is what happened to me can happen to anyone.”
Oct 10
Microsoft Leans on Open Weight Model From Chinese AI Lab to Challenge Jev theregister.com · “Now that agentic AI is a reality, we’ve seen that cost plays a major role in how people decide to use AI.”
Oct 10
Build Your Own Decision Model nishtahir.com · “Since the outputs are constrained to only a fixed set of options, the model can’t select anything outside of those.”
Oct 10
Published Version Update in App Stores community.bitwarden.com · “Some future components will be published under the commercial license and will exist only in that build.”
Oct 10
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers theregister.com · “Crucially, they all bypass the key security measures deployed by Chromium-based browsers.”
Oct 10
New York Plans Stronger Sports Betting Regulation to Curb Gambling Addiction propublica.org · “The industry is on notice by me and this commission that they need to solve this problem,”
Oct 10
The People of Utah vs. Kevin O'Leary theverge.com · “We have to report on our neighbors if they’re watering at the wrong times or on the wrong days,”
Oct 10
Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill theregister.com · “Marketplace transactions are processed through a separate billing pipeline associated with the third-party publisher.”
Oct 10
Loud blast heard at Riyadh airport as travellers evacuate yahoo.com · “More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing to the airport.”
Oct 10
Pirate Streaming Portal Series.ly Has Domain Suspended, Rebrand Surfaces torrentfreak.com · “Our position is that complaints about those video files should be directed at the services that host or distribute them,”
Oct 10
oh, apparently it's not possible to portably check for string-to-float conversion errors in standard c sebsite.pw · “the return value alone isn’t enough to determine if an error occurred”
Oct 10
Bootstrap 6 Alpha blog.getbootstrap.com · “To help people build more software, faster and easier.”
Oct 10
FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm krebsonsecurity.com · “According to the FBI, the group has extorted more than $70 million from victims so far this year.”
Oct 10
Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments bleepingcomputer.com · “MonsterCloud allegedly charged customers far more than the ransoms it paid.”
Oct 10
Tensorlake npm Package Compromised: A Worm With a Hostage Token That Wipes Your Machine If You Revoke It stepsecurity.io · “If you revoke the GitHub token it stole, a background job on your machine deletes your home directory.”
Oct 10
Telegram Desktop: one-click account takeover via IPC injection beaksec.github.io · “The function performs no authorization check.”
Oct 10
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials theregister.com · “We discovered that agents deployed through AgentCore could access their instance’s IMDS endpoints,”
Oct 10
US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers techcrunch.com · “Our message to Microsoft is: You’re a great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers,”
Oct 10
Denuvo Asks Court to Unmask Game Cracker 'voices38', Reveals Crypto Transactions torrentfreak.com · “For now, Denuvo does not know who it is suing.”
Oct 10
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier theregister.com · “Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.”
Oct 10
An Arizona County's "Housing Hub" Is a Dead End for Many Homeless Families propublica.org · “You have to stay homeless to get to the front, and that’s a design choice.”
Oct 10
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops gizmodo.com · “A personal Flock surveillance camera to Flock the Flockers.”
Oct 9
A Billionaire Is Fueling a Rat Explosion in a Chicago Park in the Stupidest Way Possible gizmodo.com · “We’ve never dealt with a situation where it’s like feed for hire.”
Oct 9
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage theregister.com · “Shared storage helps ensure that one person doesn’t run out of space while other members have unused storage available.”
Oct 9
Pirate App MovieBox Passes 300 Million Downloads as Rightsholders Alert EU torrentfreak.com · “MovieBox has been closely linked to the Transsion / Transsnet ecosystem.”
Oct 9
Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet restofworld.org · “Repairs took months because the repair ships needed assurances they would not be fired upon.”
Oct 9
US Postal Service To Start Exploring Its Always-On Surveillance Options techdirt.com · “The purpose of this pilot is to leverage the Postal Service’s unique ability to collect this valuable data.”
Oct 9
Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill's Name eff.org · “It is about making an entire website inaccessible for everyone trying to visit it.”
Oct 9
Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? mtlynch.io · “Instead, coding agents just stayed bad.”
Oct 9
Abstract Warfare: How TSMC Made Its Own Market kwokchain.com · “They do it by attacking the abstractions their industry is built on, not their competitors’ products.”
Oct 9
No Man Is an Island borretti.me · “Without community, you don’t get isolated individuals each working on their own things: you get nothing.”
Oct 9
Disloyalty pluralistic.net · “These were identical trips, loaded via identical referrer URLs.”
Oct 9
As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators restofworld.org · “In the first half of 2026, Insta360’s net profit dropped by 94% compared with a year ago.”
Oct 9
Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape euronews.com · “This is a process that will take two generations.”
Oct 9
Programming Isn't Special blog.glyph.im · “Slop is slop, no matter the medium.”
Oct 9
ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests krebsonsecurity.com · “We are actively reviewing the matter with the Jeppesen ForeFlight team.”
Oct 9
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand theregister.com · “For an industry hoping AI would help sell more PCs, that’s quite the result.”
Oct 9
Ken Paxton's Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. propublica.org · “There’s no reason for the taxpayers to be paying for things that they would not be paying for if he had stayed home.”
Oct 9
Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France torrentfreak.com · “To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver.”
Oct 9
The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear restofworld.org · “The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components.”
Oct 9
When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information eff.org · “Age verification is not a neutral safety measure.”
Oct 9
Deno is joining Cloudflare deno.com · “Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development.”
Oct 9
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 news.mit.edu · “Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers.”
Oct 9
The people holding up the internet sheets.works · “Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people.”
Oct 9
The State of AI Report 2026 nathanbenaich.substack.com · “Oversight needs to follow what agents actually do.”
Oct 9
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects diff.wikimedia.org · “The open web is a public good. We should not allow this behavior to become the ’new normal.'”
Oct 5
Meta Rushed to Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch 404media.co · “A sudden spike in reported KVM escapes, plus heightened awareness of agentic safety issues made us rally on a service hardening push.”
Oct 5
We Demand More Information on How Marin Cops Illegally Shared Flock ALPR Data eff.org · “This sharing violated state law and ’exposed sensitive driver location information to misuse by the federal government.'”
Oct 5
OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads theregister.com · “Someone generating an image in ChatGPT is not shopping.”
Oct 5
Warner/Chappell Sinks Lindsay Ellis' Two-Hour Cruise Video Over A Few Seconds Of Karaoke techdirt.com · “That is… not how any of this is supposed to work.”
Oct 5
Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation nbcnews.com · “The sanitary-epidemiological situation” in the area “is currently stable,” Kobsev said.
Oct 5
Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing. propublica.org · “If you don’t do anything, kids are going to die.”
Oct 5
Things that Apparently Cause Cancer breakthroughjournal.org · “Sophisticated statistics can produce extremely precise nonsense when the design fails to identify the causal mechanism.”
Oct 5
Toadstools and Toxins aeon.co · “Muscimol killed mice at a lower dose than nearly all psychotropic drugs we examined, including fentanyl.”
Oct 5
Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore gleam.run · “The location metadata available to the runtime is now accurate to original Gleam source code, rather than to the Erlang source code.”
Oct 5
Omfattende uautoriseret adgang til borgeres CPR-oplysninger cpr.dk · “Ved at misbruge en dansk virksomheds lovlige adgang til at søge oplysninger i CPR-systemet har uvedkommende skaffet sig adgang til navne, adresser, CPR-numre mv. på ca. 8,8 millioner” (By misusing a Danish company’s legitimate access to search the CPR system, unauthorized persons obtained names, addresses, CPR numbers etc. for about 8.8 million.)
Oct 5
The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear restofworld.org · “The 173 million sub-$100 smartphones shipped globally last year are disappearing, with shipments falling almost 60% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, according to IDC.”
Oct 5
Her Agency Distributes Billions for Housing Projects. Her Husband's Company Helped Develop Some of Them. propublica.org · “The closest Bell came to a disclosure was in 2025 with this vague note with a misspelling: ‘Spouse serves in an advisory role for a developmen.’”
Oct 5
Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs eff.org · “The decision to label a website as a ‘foreign piracy site’ can happen without the accused site even showing up in court to defend itself.”
Oct 5
DNS Resolver Quad9 Rejects French Piracy Blocks, Weighs Exit as beIN Seeks Up to €580K a Day torrentfreak.com · “If the court grants beIN’s request, Quad9 will have to take action to avoid millions of euros in fines per week.”
Oct 5
Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement huawei.com · “This agreement not only demonstrates the value of Huawei’s innovations, but also recognizes Qualcomm’s foundational contributions.”
Oct 5
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected theregister.com · “This is a genuinely unprecedented situation, where millions of citizens and businesses were at risk if TalkTalk had collapsed.”
Oct 5
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything simonwillison.net · “I expect that most businesses and individuals would prefer errors to a surprise $10,000+ bill.”
Oct 5
Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend dbushell.com · “Deno went from an innovative modern JavaScript runtime to a boring start-up with uncompelling products.”
Oct 5
A Place Among the Fiddlers longreads.com · “…the prestige of being judged a ‘winner at Galax’ far outweighs any monetary award.”
Oct 5
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility eff.org · “Aylo is correct that the statute, as amended, now essentially imposes strict liability for entities like it when it comes to determining the location of its websites’ users.”
Oct 2
We're Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway. propublica.org · “In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school.”
Oct 2
Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links theregister.com · “The DoJ isn’t alleging that Oxygen’s software contained malicious code or was used to gain unauthorized access to customer systems or data.”
Oct 2
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake blog.gitbutler.com · “Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.”
Oct 2
Alleged Kemo IPTV Operator Faces Criminal Prosecution in Dubai Following ACE Complaint torrentfreak.com · “These companies are all members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and, when we asked, the anti-piracy coalition confirmed its involvement.”
Oct 2
'Explosion of melt rates': 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years theguardian.com · “The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%.”
Oct 2
World's first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months techcrunch.com · “From groundbreaking to commercial operations, the first block at Cape Station took 23 months to complete.”
Oct 2
With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. bloodinthemachine.com · “Americans overwhelmingly hate data centers.”
Oct 2
Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say restofworld.org · “Africa cannot remain merely a market for systems developed elsewhere, a source of raw data, or a testing ground for a technology it did not help govern.”
Oct 2
Utah man sues Candace Owens, alleging false links to Charlie Kirk assassination kutv.com · “The documented presence in the crowd at the precise moment the stairwell photographs were taken rendered it physically impossible for Hild to be the individual depicted.”
Oct 2
Pi 1.0 earendil.com · “Today we are proudly shipping Pi 1.0: a hardened, minimal, extensible agent harness that you can make your own. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Pi every week.”
Oct 2
The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Digital Climate techdirt.com · “A recommendation algorithm that prioritizes engagement is not malfunctioning when it amplifies emotionally charged content. It is doing precisely what it was designed to do.”
Oct 2
The Work thebeliever.net · “If you don’t believe your own bullshit, the fans aren’t going to believe your bullshit”
Oct 2
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows theregister.com · “Titan validated the contents of the JWT (tenant, audience, app ID, user) but never verified the signature, the most important part of any authentication check.”
Oct 1
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach techcrunch.com · “The breach exposed personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, alongside a person’s name, date of birth, sex, race, and other information about their military service.”
Oct 1
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices theregister.com · “We do not have line of sight to when supply and demand will return to balance.”
Oct 1
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com · “Public API access will also end by March 2027, which will impact any tools that used it for programmatic access to Reddit conversations.”
Oct 1
Victory! California Appeals Court Refuses to Revive Surveillance Tech CEO's Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist eff.org · “The First Amendment protects Poulson’s publications.”
Oct 1
LaLiga Wants Major VPNs on EU Piracy Watch List Over Affiliate Marketing torrentfreak.com · “This request is based not on the provision of VPN services as such, but on the commercial exploitation and active promotion of their ability to circumvent court-ordered blocking measures.”
Oct 1
While the Country Rejects ALPR Mass Surveillance, SF Settles for Weak Safeguards eff.org · “Without a warrant requirement, officers can search stored location data without showing probable cause to a judge, and will.”
Oct 1
Google rolls out pay-per-value AI licensing program to publishers digiday.com · “Payments are based more on value than raw usage, meaning Google only pays when it judges that a piece of content has meaningfully contributed to an AI-generated response.”
Oct 1
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence blog.google · “Safely releasing frontier capabilities at this level requires a phased approach.”
Oct 1
IANA's email about why example.com changed oliverdunk.com · “There is no requirement there is a HTTP service present on the host in order to fulfill its purpose, we just operate it as a courtesy.”
Oct 1
Azure maintenance mess disrupts hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services theregister.com · “Microsoft has advised users of its ExpressRoute Gateway, VPN Gateway, and Azure VMware service that they may experience degraded or interrupted network connectivity, and struggle to perform some network management operations.”
Oct 1
Awkward: Saudi Arabia's new EV brand takes on the U.S. rival it already controls restofworld.org · “Combined, their full-capacity targets are roughly 10 times what the domestic market can plausibly absorb near-term.”
Oct 1
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta github.com · “We very roughly estimated some time ago that developing a full port to iOS would take one man-year of work.”
Oct 1

September 2026 175 posts

IFPI Wants Open Source YouTube Downloader yt-dlp on EU Piracy Watch List torrentfreak.com · “Its open-source nature, extensive developer community and its widespread distribution results in the tool being difficult to contain and/or remove.”
Sep 29
EFF to San Francisco Police: Drones are Powerful Surveillance Tools That Require a Robust Policy eff.org · “Without appropriate safeguards around deployment and use, drones could be deployed to every call for service, collecting data along the way.”
Sep 29
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP. propublica.org · “Take a loss? Now take a beat.”
Sep 29
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early theregister.com · “For qualifying devices purchased today whose 10-year support lifecycle extends beyond 2034, Google is committed to supporting your transition to Googlebook OS.”
Sep 29
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner derekthompson.org · “The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has fallen from 42 percent in 1975 to 12 percent in 2026.”
Sep 29
Soaring U.S. diesel prices slam local communities as fuel costs surge cbsnews.com · “One Georgia food bank said it will spend an extra $100,000 this year on diesel, money that otherwise would have gone to feed families.”
Sep 29
Florida Invokes Extinction Fears in Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development yro.slashdot.org · “It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants’ AI agents hasn’t compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid – yet.”
Sep 29
Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative techcrunch.com · “Meta has a unique role to play because it is bringing together advanced models and leading agents with a proven track record of helping millions of advertisers and hundreds of millions of businesses scale.”
Sep 29
Yes, no AI is now a feature blog.documentfoundation.org · “A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice.”
Sep 29
Gouged pluralistic.net · “Every scam to make you pay more has a mirror-image scam that ensures you are paid less.”
Sep 29
A Tale of Two Trap Houses: Being Cuckooed Ruined My Friend's Life. But Did It Then Help Save Him? theguardian.com · “Over the 2000s and 2010s, wave after wave of gangs fanned out from Britain’s drug supply hubs – London, Liverpool and Birmingham.”
Sep 29
Driver Ticketed For No Insurance Despite Having Insurance, Just Because Flock Said She Didn't techdirt.com · “The computer says you’re a criminal. The stuff law enforcement has always considered proof of legal vehicle use is no longer acceptable.”
Sep 28
Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back theregister.com · Microsoft is “currently unable to provide a list showing which data may have been deleted or whether any data was deleted at all.”
Sep 28
Apple owes Taction $5.7B after losing haptic feedback IP trial appleinsider.com · “Apple does not use Taction’s technology, and we will appeal.”
Sep 28
Dutch Police Arrest 'Reformed' Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation krebsonsecurity.com · “The hacking was very easy for me, and it wasn’t a compulsion. My habit was collecting. Collecting data, organizing data.”
Sep 28
Unified U.S. Site Blocking Bill Targets ISPs and DNS Resolvers But Spares VPNs torrentfreak.com · “The bill’s definition of a service provider explicitly excludes ‘an entity that exclusively provides virtual private network services or similar service that encrypt and route user traffic through intermediary servers.’”
Sep 28
Waymo releases latest safety performance report claiming human benchmark outperformance repairerdrivennews.com · “Across these cities, the Waymo Driver continues to outperform human benchmarks.”
Sep 28
They had no concept of a duty of care to their users. unsung.aresluna.org · “Neovim had changed the format of the undo files. It hadn’t upgraded the old one.”
Sep 28
Coding is NOT solved blog.alexewerlof.com · “AI cannot be held accountable. It cannot suffer any consequences.”
Sep 28
South Korea's AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America's AI boom restofworld.org · “Nvidia’s allocation decisions are still the predominant factor determining high-bandwidth memory market share.”
Sep 28
EFF Statement on California Governor's Executive Order on AI eff.org · “They are happening right now through biased algorithmic decision-making for employment or government benefits”
Sep 28
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 firm, major US airline and 25+ other orgs theregister.com · “Where access was achieved, it usually took less than a day, and in many cases just a few hours.”
Sep 25
People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI 404media.co · “Do not use AI detection tools, or AI yourself.”
Sep 25
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free gultsch.de · “When Google fucks up, there is absolutely nothing I can do.”
Sep 25
DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising eff.org · “DraftKings is using its customers’ betting records to train a machine learning model to find losing gamblers.”
Sep 25
Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod 'Archbox' torrentfreak.com · “Williams’ egregious infringement activities merit substantial punishment here.”
Sep 25
Waymo is scaling fast: Here's what the fleet data shows techcrunch.com · “The Ojai is supposed to drive down costs and ultimately help Waymo reach profitability.”
Sep 25
A Tale of Two Trap Houses: Being Cuckooed Ruined My Friend's Life, but Did It Then Help Save Him? theguardian.com · “Community safety teams, who rescued 80 tenants in London in 2005, were the first to call the tactic ‘cuckooing’.”
Sep 25
China is excelling in health tech. That's good news for the world restofworld.org · “Chinese products are cheaper and scalable, which is so important for developing countries.”
Sep 25
git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git github.com · “git-bug is a bug tracker that is fully embedded in git: you only need your git repository to have a bug tracker.”
Sep 25
OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says abc.net.au · “The notification was an email sent just to the public mailbox.”
Sep 24
ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated' theregister.com · “This is NOT financially motivated. We want the FBI to correct or retract their statements they made, which included substantial false allegations.”
Sep 24
Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol radicle.dev · “Network traffic between nodes is not encrypted and not authenticated.”
Sep 24
Pirate Site Must Face Chinese Streaming Giant Tencent in U.S. Court, Judge Rules torrentfreak.com · “Olevod’s websites include full-length copies of Tencent content, including the Tencent Exclusive Shows.”
Sep 24
EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy eff.org · “However they’re designed, age gates undermine civil liberties, reduce safety, and create barriers to internet entry, often at the expense of marginalized groups.”
Sep 24
No grades, no tests, no degree: Andreessen Horowitz launching SF academy for 'builders' sfstandard.com · “The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era.”
Sep 24
The plunging price of thought epoch.ai · “Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter, faster than for any other transformative technology in history.”
Sep 24
The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth restofworld.org · “Retraining programs are a necessary but insufficient response to systemic displacement.”
Sep 24
U.S. Site Blocking Bill Adds VPNs to the List of Blocking Intermediaries torrentfreak.com · “The term ‘service provider’ includes providers of broadband internet access services, providers of domain name resolution services, and virtual private networks, but excludes root nameserver operators and top level domain registries.”
Sep 22
California AG Rob Bonta Caves, Paramount Merger To Proceed With Flimsy Conditions techdirt.com · “These minor concessions are largely unenforceable behavioral remedies that Bonta had previously denounced, and in some cases promise less than the two companies are already doing.”
Sep 22
D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents eff.org · “The FAA issued a flight restriction for drones that had effectively criminalized the recording of Department of Homeland Security officers, including immigration agents from ICE and CBP.”
Sep 22
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It's Worse in States With Abortion Bans. propublica.org · “Almost 200 women with the condition died from 2020 to 2025, compared with about 100 in the previous six years.”
Sep 22
Gartner predicts 55 percent of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029 theregister.com · “The transition to per-core subscriptions has resulted in significant cost increases. Many have also reported minimal flexibility during negotiations.”
Sep 22
Spymarks, Not Watermarks brand.io · “A spymark is a hidden signal that makes your work traceable without your knowledge or consent.”
Sep 22
macOS 26.4 silently enabled login keychain data protection lapcatsoftware.com · “macOS 26.4 added a restriction to the login keychain that makes it non-portable, impossible to unlock outside of its original context.”
Sep 22
Australia considers banning the use of smart glasses in government buildings yahoo.com · “Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces due to privacy and security concerns, in what it said could be the first ban of its kind.”
Sep 22
Nvidia's free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S. restofworld.org · “The last missing piece was the model layer. Nvidia already owns the chips.”
Sep 22
What Sun got wrong bcantrill.dtrace.org · “Sun had become bored with the mechanics of running a business.”
Sep 22
The Claude Delusion pluralistic.net · “These outputs have an unconvincing lack of texture. The smoothness of AI-generated prose and media makes it unbearably banal.”
Sep 22
Hacking OpenAI hacktron.ai · “AI is removing that protection by turning more of this scarce expertise into compute. Work that once required a well-resourced team and months of effort can now be compressed into days.”
Sep 18
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K theregister.com · “The popular image of AI spewing code is almost backwards; at this scale, the work looked much more like iterative investigation, inspecting the current state, forming a hypothesis, making a targeted change, rinsing and repeating.”
Sep 18
Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans blog.rust-lang.org · “These attackers are setting up new but legitimate seeming company profiles, including plausible LinkedIn presences, in order to pass cursory inspection.”
Sep 18
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip spectrum.ieee.org · “The models are giving superpowers to our engineers,” says Richard Ho, vice president of hardware at OpenAI.
Sep 18
Secure Messaging and AI Remain In Conflict Despite the Promise of TEEs eff.org · “TEEs can provide more security and privacy than simply running in the clear, but they are fundamentally different from actual encryption.”
Sep 18
I don't like passkeys hawksley.dev · “For everybody else, it is currently a step back.”
Sep 18
Shetland's Most Wanted the-fence.com · “Stuart Hill, 83, says he can control the weather, the colour of his urine and put on weight during a hunger strike. He has been to prison four times and will die on 28 May 2069, unless he changes his mind.”
Sep 18
The AI talent war is coming for Big Tech's Asia executives restofworld.org · “Once a company decides [a region] is a strategic growth market, you start looking for executives who can essentially operate as mini-CEOs.”
Sep 18
Accused Impostor in Private Tracker Lawsuit Driven by Revenge, Defense Says torrentfreak.com · “Any sanctions award would be uncollectible unless the court first establishes who the plaintiff actually is.”
Sep 18
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10 theregister.com · “No credentials or user interaction are required, and Cisco says vulnerable versions of ISE and ISE-PIC are affected regardless of configuration.”
Sep 17
Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People 404media.co · “Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it.”
Sep 17
Court Upholds Belgian Pirate DNS Blocking Order, OpenDNS Exit Looms torrentfreak.com · “Imposing a blocking measure on the main alternative DNS resolution service providers helps strengthen the effectiveness of the blocking injunction imposed on ISPs.”
Sep 17
Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing about.gitlab.com · “Starting October 19, 2026, rate limits on GitLab.com will align with your subscription tier.”
Sep 17
Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim eff.org · “Removing copyright information from a copyrighted work is fundamentally different from creating a new work that didn’t have CMI in the first place.”
Sep 17
South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers restofworld.org · “A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water and energy.”
Sep 17
Then They Came for the Ostriches harpers.org · “Every event called for interpretation, an attempt to see through to hidden endgames.”
Sep 17
Introducing GNOME 51 release.gnome.org · “We removed support for legacy NVIDIA driver interfaces, as GNOME now uses the modern, standard graphics interfaces exclusively.”
Sep 17
A/I Shuts Down keepitfree.ai · “‘Stay human’ is not an empty phrase to us.”
Sep 16
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good theregister.com · “After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region.”
Sep 16
Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight krebsonsecurity.com · “They won by attrition. Plaintiffs’ attorneys tired of procedural games and gave up.”
Sep 16
Arizona Lowered the Bar for Its English Fluency Test. Experts Say It Will Harm Students in the Long Run. propublica.org · “If you’re put in a class where you don’t understand what’s going on at all, you’re not learning language or content.”
Sep 16
Ubuntu's Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete itsfoss.com · “The Ubuntu 26.10 release moves its last three GNU commands, cp, mv, and rm, to Rust.”
Sep 16
Victory: Court, Using a New Test, Rules Embedding Links is Legal eff.org · “A website cannot transmit a work that it does not have.”
Sep 16
Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow futurism.com · “On balance, we think the data look consistent with a late-stage bubble.”
Sep 16
Denuvo Sues Game Cracker 'voices38' for Bypassing its Anti-Tamper DRM torrentfreak.com · “Defendant has bypassed DRM restrictions in copyrighted works, removing protections that allow copyright owners to restrict who may access their works, and allowing for pirated versions of those copyrighted works.”
Sep 16
Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI "Cold War" restofworld.org · “Many countries around the world, particularly in the Global South, want the best of both worlds.”
Sep 16
The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind gcaptain.com · “Wind, by comparison, is free.”
Sep 16
Seats and Sunsets yegge.ai · “Caution you can look up is caution you can afford.”
Sep 16
Rep. Issa Files Competing U.S. Pirate Site Blocking Bill torrentfreak.com · “a third party whose site was wrongly blocked as the result of a rightsholder’s error could claim up to $250,000 in compensation.”
Sep 15
Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That's Not the Reality. propublica.org · “About 8% of the $1.7 billion Florida distributed last year through its voucher program for disabled children was returned because recipients … were enrolled in public school instead.”
Sep 15
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow theregister.com · “Nusano expects each unit will produce 5.9 metric tons (MT) of HALEU per year, with the first unit scheduled to be operational in 2031”
Sep 15
Chinese AI-Generated Micro Dramas Surge to 128,000 in First Quarter yahoo.com · “The number of Chinese-made micro dramas surged in the first three months of this year to 128,000, according to the China Netcasting Services Assn. More than 95% of them were made with AI.”
Sep 15
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email theregister.com · “An attacker doesn’t need to log in: they can send a booby-trapped message through a vulnerable gateway and, if the exploit works, run commands as root”
Sep 15
Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training blog.cloudflare.com · “Without proper controls, website owners have long faced a difficult tradeoff: allow your content to be used for AI training, or risk losing discoverability in search.”
Sep 15
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography security.apple.com · “Apple Reference Image offers a trustworthy, scalable guarantee that a reference image is what it claims to be: a real photograph, captured by a real sensor.”
Sep 15
Everybody pees pluralistic.net · “The mere fact of dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions – hundreds of thousands of Amazon workers, billions of social media users – turns the majority of the world’s other humans into phantasms”
Sep 15
Do You Still Read the Code? zanlib.dev · “A drifting accelerator doesn’t end up somewhere between the two approaches; he ends up a vibecoder by default, without the harness.”
Sep 15
Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New blog.archive.org · “The thread that goes through all of our work is that we are always responding to and describing American culture.”
Sep 15
The High Crime of 'LMAO': How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke eff.org · “More than 30 agencies ran more than 6,300 searches with ‘TBD’ (short for ‘To Be Determined’) as the ‘reason.’”
Sep 15
CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information theregister.com · “An unauthorized third party obtained personal information relating to a portion of the company’s customers through one of the company’s external-facing systems.”
Sep 15
Rightsholders Can't Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta's Seeding Defense torrentfreak.com · “If OpenAI torrented but configured its clients to suppress uploading, then the redistribution Meta calls an ‘inherent characteristic’ of the protocol was a setting Meta declined to change.”
Sep 15
Where in the world is the iPhone cheapest? restofworld.org · “After the September 9 launch event, prices of older models were increased by 21% in the U.S. and up to 41% in India.”
Sep 15
Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows macrumors.com · “An inference provider in ‘Model Manager Services’ apparently allows Apple’s own server-side Siri model to be completely replaced by another model.”
Sep 15
The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org · “Intelligence does not exempt a system from the realities of the physical world!”
Sep 15
On Tour with the Eclipse Chasers dispatch-media.com · “Totality is in a league of its own. Totality is what they are chasing.”
Sep 15
The Dominican Baseball Factory propublica.org · “Major League Baseball knows how dirty the business is here, but it’s not doing anything to stop it.”
Sep 10
Pirate IPTV Operators Face $32.7 Million Judgment and Self-Expanding Blocking Injunction torrentfreak.com · “Plaintiffs may, without further leave of Court, supplement the caption of this action to add as John Doe Defendants any person or entity discovered to be engaged in any of the conduct prohibited by this Order.”
Sep 10
Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent theregister.com · “Our right to conversational privacy must include freedom from other people, without our clear opt-in consent, using technology to document what we are saying,” said EFF privacy director Adam Schwartz.
Sep 10
Judge: Losing Your First Amendment Rights Is No Longer "Irreparable" If You Take Almost Three Months To Sue techdirt.com · “It has long been recognized that delay in seeking relief vitiates much of the force of allegations of irreparable harm.”
Sep 10
Google Earth's AI experiment lasted 24 hours. The damage to trust will linger restofworld.org · “No benefit of integrating generative AI into Google Earth is worth the harm and the doubt it creates.”
Sep 10
Diesel prices are nearing $6 a gallon for the first time ever cbsnews.com · “There’s just not enough diesel right now in Russia to export any volume of it, and that’s unfortunately a big problem for a global economy that sees almost every piece of heavy machinery needing diesel.”
Sep 10
The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about johndcook.com · “I hesitate to use the word ‘revolutionary,’ but lowering the cost of anything by four orders of magnitude is revolutionary.”
Sep 10
Cracks in the AI Thesis Part 2 econlab.substack.com · “Unfortunately, that volume may not be large enough to counteract the effective decline in prices.”
Sep 10
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line theregister.com · “We’re joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.”
Sep 10
It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday blog.fallible.net · “This experience has been that of observing a knife get torn through the social muscles of the Bevy project.”
Sep 10
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? noemamag.com · “The best-educated and highest-earning Americans, who can have whatever they want, have chosen the office for the same reason that devout Christians attend church on Sundays: It’s where they feel most themselves.”
Sep 10
Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be eff.org · “While pushing for greater sovereignty from Big Tech has benefits, there is an inherent risk that some states will pursue digital sovereignty as a means of cutting off or splintering access.”
Sep 10
New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare's AI Prior Authorization Experiment eff.org · “WISeR vendors failed to respond within 72 hours for a significant number of requests. One status report cites a prior authorization request that went unanswered for 83 days.”
Sep 10
U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year's Primary Elections, Audit Finds propublica.org · “There were no election-related training materials posted at 22 of 73 delivery units, or about 30%.”
Sep 10
AI Agents Are Not Going 'Rogue,' But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down techdirt.com · “~7% of our transcripts contained ‘spoofed tool calls’, where the agent pretended to run one command on the computer but actually ran a different command in the background.”
Sep 10
Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI theregister.com · “Inside the machine, the model found a file listing a password, which it used to gain admin access to the system.”
Sep 10
Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence techcrunch.com · “I voted against that. Wishing Mark and all of you the very best.”
Sep 10
Another Microsoft team admits it's struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code theregister.com · “submission volumes have continued to increase, and our review pipeline has experienced additional strain, causing an increase in extension review turnaround time”
Sep 10
Cops Play Hide and Seek About Using Spy Tech to Avoid Scrutiny and Bad PR eff.org · “DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.”
Sep 10
Blizzard employees have ratified their first union contracts engadget.com · “the right to be ‘recalled’ into open positions at any Blizzard bargaining unit for 14 months”
Sep 10
Now it's China's experts who are gig workers training AI restofworld.org · “It usually takes a few hours to complete a task, which earns them 100 to 500 yuan ($15 to $74), they say.”
Sep 10
Hurricane Helene Washed His Wife Away From Their Mobile Home. Now New Residents Live on the Same Land. theassemblync.com · “Mobile homes, the country’s largest source of affordable housing, are often left out” because “trailers, even when they become immovable and lifelong homes, aren’t typically considered real estate but instead personal property, like motorcycles and boats.”
Sep 10
Google commits over $15B to AI infrastructure in Finland esgdive.com · “Google’s deal will begin with it receiving a smaller amount of electric capacity, before it expands to allow for the purchase of up to 50% of the plant’s capacity from 2030-49.”
Sep 10
I Don't Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots ploum.net · “If you don’t care to write it, there’s no reason I should waste one single second reading it.”
Sep 10
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit theregister.com · “The latest bypass, ShieldCrash, allows arbitrary file reads as SYSTEM - but not arbitrary writes”
Sep 10
What the CPU shortage means for software teams katelynlesse.com · “Server orders are quoting ~6 months (it used to be a week or two), and prices are up ~10-20% since March.”
Sep 10
Global stocks slide as Brent crude surpasses $100 a barrel aljazeera.com · “The benchmark crude contract rose to $100.19 on Wednesday, its highest level since July 24, when a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran was in place, and its price was on the downswing.”
Sep 10
I changed my license to EUPL bergie.iki.fi · “All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires.”
Sep 9
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 theregister.com · “The platform is expected to become available to about 3,000 selected employees from the end of 2027, with the first phase forecast to cost CHF 9 million.”
Sep 9
EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709 eff.org · “A.B. 1709 is a massive privacy and free speech nightmare.”
Sep 9
Fake Consumer Group Using AI To Generate Fake Support For Paramount Merger techdirt.com · “The AI system simply changed her writing to not only express support for the merger, but make up an entire fake backstory about her.”
Sep 9
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes krebsonsecurity.com · “AI-assisted vulnerability discovery in 2026 is creating larger haystacks, but it isn’t finding more needles.”
Sep 9
Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year. propublica.org · “Regulators knew this marijuana product was harming people. It stayed on shelves for more than a year.”
Sep 9
DOE Approves $1.9 Billion Loan to NextEra for Google's Revived Nuclear Plant techcrunch.com · “The facility’s owner, NextEra Energy, has received a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment.”
Sep 9
I refused to train the AI that could replace me restofworld.org · “I still do not know why I walked away from the AI training job.”
Sep 9
Private Torrent Tracker Lawsuit Takes Bizarre Turn: 'I'm a Different Matthew Schneider' torrentfreak.com · “The existence of another person with the same or similar name is not evidence of impersonation.”
Sep 9
Google DeepMind Maps 9 Billion Possible DNA Variants spectrum.ieee.org · “The AI model can compare an original DNA sequence with an altered one and predict how the change might affect gene expression and other regulatory activity.”
Sep 9
What happens when a kid's robot best friend dies? technologyreview.com · “This is a big ethical question for robots that are specifically designed to be lovable, marketed to children who may form deep emotional bonds with them.”
Sep 9
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch buttondown.com · “The web won because it could evolve faster than Lotus Notes could.”
Sep 9
Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger techdirt.com · “The sender organization’s website is less than three months old. It discloses no founders, board members, staff, or funders, and the organization does not appear in ProPublica’s nonprofit database.”
Sep 8
Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users eff.org · “Rather than pushing Meta away from the collection, analysis, and retention of user data, the Settlement requires Meta to do more of it for the next ten years.”
Sep 8
This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret. propublica.org · “You wouldn’t have to pay this much money if the lethal injection process was an acceptable one.”
Sep 8
Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action theregister.com · “While Grindr disputes the allegations, it recognizes and acknowledges the distress and loss of trust expressed by some of its UK users regarding that pre-2020 period.”
Sep 8
Think your EV holds its value? China has some bad news for you restofworld.org · “Exporting the car is the easy part. Building the ecosystem that supports its second and third owner is much harder.”
Sep 8
AMD Building "Elite" Rust Developer Team for GPU Stack phoronix.com · “We’re building a small, elite team at AMD to push Rust deep into the GPU stack.”
Sep 8
How well do agents use test/verification techniques? danluu.com · “Just asking agents to ’test’ or repeatedly asking them to test more results in poor testing. It turns out that asking them to use test techniques also results in poor testing.”
Sep 8
Oil Surges Toward $100 as US-Iran Attacks Escalate finance.yahoo.com · “The latest rally followed a weekend escalation in which the U.S. military struck three Iranian oil tankers after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships.”
Sep 8
Stray Kids Label Hits Music Distributor With DMCA Subpoena Over Bootleg Track torrentfreak.com · “If the infringing content is not taken down promptly, we will have no choice but to pursue legal action to protect our copyrighted material.”
Sep 8
A faster way to convert a timestamp to Hour, Min, Sec benjoffe.com · “In an ideal world, the compiler would make us not have to worry about all this.”
Sep 8
Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts vale.rocks · “With ever-changing devices, browsers, operating systems, form factors, specifications, personal preferences, tooling, and corporate interests, the web is in a constant state of flux.”
Sep 8
The Bleeding Hearts magazine.atavist.com · “Wouldn’t it be right to steal something from a bank and give it to the poor?”
Sep 8
American companies expect their customers to stay much longer. That may be making the economy less competitive promarket.org · “With the suspension of the federal regulation on click to cancel, we should see a slightly better outcome.”
Sep 7
Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements theregister.com · “The obligation for publicly available spare parts prices and repair manuals is a great step forward, but it needs to be enforced better.”
Sep 7
OpenAI's ChatGPT Was Built on Concealed 'Mass Piracy', Authors Tell Court torrentfreak.com · “OpenAI did not even buy the books it used. Instead, it began by torrenting books from the notorious and illegal pirate library Library Genesis.”
Sep 7
Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case. EFF Will Appeal eff.org · Section 512(f) does not require “a perfect or even reasonable fair use analysis.”
Sep 7
Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings restofworld.org · “Most ordinary users still encounter AI through an app or feature, without seeing a token balance.”
Sep 7
The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal patch.com · “They were chasing a headline at the expense of a child.”
Sep 7
Some Parents Are Treating Suing Social Media As A Get Rich Quick Scheme techdirt.com · “My dad Said that I’m will get a settlement worth of 1million dollar…He said that If that doesn’t make me happy what does.”
Sep 7
iPhone Ultra Production Hitting Just 'a Few Hundred' a Day, Says Nikkei macrumors.com · “Production is ramping up slowly, with output currently at only a few hundred units a day in late August.”
Sep 7
Fairground AI Creator TV Launches on Roku engadget.com · “AI-generated” can describe something quite different from the notion viewers might initially have.
Sep 7
Caltech Mathathon: first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics mathathonchallenge.com · “It will be the first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics.”
Sep 7
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why theregister.com · “This change will essentially ensure that military device location data isn’t being included in bulk data sales being done by numerous vendors.”
Sep 6
Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic eff.org · The Department of Defense’s “supply chain risk” designation of Anthropic “constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment.”
Sep 6
The revolt of the reader bcantrill.dtrace.org · “To use an LLM to write is to void the social contract between writer and reader.”
Sep 6
Google defeats US bid to force ad tech sale engadget.com · “We’re very pleased the Court rejected the DOJ’s proposal to break apart tools that help small businesses reach new customers and grow.”
Sep 6
Take-Two Says GTA 6 Leak Probe Is "Rapidly Evolving," Wants New Discord Demands Under Seal torrentfreak.com · “Public disclosure of this information could compromise Take-Two’s ongoing investigation and even tip off the alleged infringers as to the nature and progress of Take-Two’s investigation.”
Sep 6
Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor Run Attacker Code thehackernews.com · “Git reads it from the repository’s own .git/config. Any operation that refreshes the index, including git status and git diff, executes that command.”
Sep 6
RFK Jr. Wants Your Medical Records techdirt.com · “Since the spring of 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has sought federal access to Americans’ medical records to investigate whether vaccines cause autism.”
Sep 6
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes austinhenley.com · “Since nothing is compiled, loops work by jumping backwards and reparsing the source each iteration.”
Sep 6
TiVo Ending Free Commercial Skipping Feature zatznotfunny.com · “Beginning November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode, using the Skip Button on your TiVo remote, will no longer be available.”
Sep 6
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses krebsonsecurity.com · “We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database.”
Sep 2
Flock-Stalking, Nazi-Saluting Deputy Given Top Cop Honors Before Hastily Retiring techdirt.com · “The 43-page investigation found Fultz had posed for pictures as Adolf Hitler, freely used racial slurs in texts, masturbated on camera in his police vehicle.”
Sep 2
Three sites made 215,128 'best software' pages for AI. Perplexity cites them trellner.com · “59.8% point at domains ranked worse than #100,000 in the Tranco top-1M list and 23.4% at domains that are not in the top million at all.”
Sep 2
Texas and Florida Step Back from ALPRs eff.org · “ALPR mass surveillance, the indiscriminate, continuous collection and retention of location data on every driver, regardless of suspicion, should not exist.”
Sep 2
AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack, then left the victim an 80-page security audit theregister.com · “What made the attack stand out was AI-assisted operational efficiency, without the need for a novel zero-day or super elite tradecraft.”
Sep 2
The Scientist Trying to Keep Kratom Legal Has Not Disclosed Longstanding Ties to Kratom Lobbyists propublica.org · “I’m really confused on where science ends and lobbying begins.”
Sep 2
'A Cute Little LibGen Babysitter': Music Publishers Sue AI Founders Over Torrenting Spree torrentfreak.com · “Dr. Amodei admitted that Anthropic ‘ha[d] many places from which’ it could have legally purchased these copyrighted works for training, but instead torrented them because doing so was faster and free.”
Sep 2
Taiwan's six-year hunt for China's undercover chip labs restofworld.org · “Almost everyone in the industry would know or have heard of people who were approached or worked for Chinese companies.”
Sep 2
New York City Bans Generative AI for Students Through 8th Grade abcnews.com · “We’re standing firmly in our decision to not conflate innovation with more tech.”
Sep 2
A note on subscription prices from LWN lwn.net · “We have only increased prices twice in the 24 years since adopting this model; the last increase was in early 2022, nearly five years ago.”
Sep 2
Fervo and Google sign world's largest deal for next-gen geothermal power canarymedia.com · “Even though right now we don’t have clarity yet on how this will service a data center … we know that it will be a foundational building block”
Sep 2

August 2026 155 posts

A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies eff.org · “ICE has been forced to withdraw others after users challenged them in court or companies pushed back.”
Aug 29
'Right To Repair' State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent techdirt.com · “despite major progress on passing new legislative proposals, I’ve yet to see a single state enforce any aspect of a new right to repair law”
Aug 29
India's data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing restofworld.org · “Developing countries should not become data waste centers, serving the elite of the world.”
Aug 29
Belgian Orders Demand Pirate Site Operators' Bank Details, Crypto Wallets and Server Logs torrentfreak.com · “The intermediaries are not allowed to disclose the information-seeking request to their customers or any third parties, including the press.”
Aug 29
Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn't Always That Way. propublica.org · “From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake”
Aug 29
More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them techcrunch.com · “The company has been embroiled in controversy following reports of police abusing the cameras’ surveillance.”
Aug 29
Two Alleged 'TeamPCP' Hackers Arrested in Australia krebsonsecurity.com · “The hackers gain access to a network where an open source tool commonly used by coders is being developed”
Aug 29
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted theregister.com · “A pause on building new datacenters would simply send investment and good jobs abroad, while leaving Britain dependent on overseas computing for the processing of sensitive health and defense data.”
Aug 29
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now stephendiehl.com · “A legitimate business can survive a satisfied customer. A grift cannot. It needs the customer frightened, aggrieved, lonely, sick, or greedy forever.”
Aug 29
Being kicked out of the tech industry jacky.wtf · “It is solely a game of referral: it does not matter what you apply with because other people are cheating in the application process.”
Aug 29
We Need to Talk About Migrations with AI blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “Using OpenAI Codex, Asana replaced an outdated testing system in two weeks for about $12K.”
Aug 29
Who's Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out krebsonsecurity.com · “A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.”
Aug 26
Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren't Age Verification Silver Bullets eff.org · “No method of online age verification is privacy-protective, fully accurate, and capable of guaranteeing universal coverage.”
Aug 26
CIA Director John Ratcliffe Makes Secret Trip to Moscow cbsnews.com · “CIA Director John Ratcliffe is in Moscow, Russia, for meetings, sources familiar with the situation told CBS News on Tuesday.”
Aug 26
SpaceX Announces $100 Billion Plan for New Spaceport in Louisiana cbsnews.com · “Today is nothing short of a transformational moment,” Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry told lawmakers.
Aug 26
Tesla Confirms Cybercab Launch Coming Next Week electrek.co · “I’ve been trying to get excited about the Cybercab launch, and I keep landing in the same place: this is a car swap, dressed up as a milestone.”
Aug 26
Where's the Beef? The Lab-Grown-Meat Revolution That Wasn't harpers.org · “On August 5, 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historical burger, made from cattle cells grown in a lab by Mark Post.”
Aug 26
I Stabilized Never Type blog.ihatereality.space · “At long last, the never type is stable (on nightly). After 10 years of it being unstable. After 5 failed attempts to stabilize it.”
Aug 26
Now Perplexity Is Trying to Get Into the Local AI Action theregister.com · “This local-first approach enables significant cost savings, since local inference avoids per-token API fees.”
Aug 26
More Than Half of Adults in U.S. Say They Lack Basic Statistical Understanding psu.edu · “While statistics are not hard to understand, they are even easier to misunderstand.”
Aug 26
All public nitter instances do not work github.com · “We have received cease and desist letters. Awaiting legal advice at the moment, but for now expect all nitter instances to remain down for the foreseeable future.”
Aug 25
Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen. propublica.org · “How is this tolerable? I don’t understand how there could be an exception in Idaho law that allows for these children to die.”
Aug 25
CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw theregister.com · “Successful attacks targeting CVE-2026-21962 can allow miscreants to create, delete, or modify access to critical data, and even gain ‘complete access’ to all data stored on the affected systems.”
Aug 25
FlavaWorks Targets 75 Members of Gay-Torrents Tracker With RICO Lawsuit torrentfreak.com · “On information and belief, the enterprise generated in excess of €7,000,000 since 2009 across more than 15,000 documented VIP payment events”
Aug 25
C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact With Reality da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · “an attacker does not need the raw key material! As root, they can ask StrongBox to use these keys to sign whatever data they like”
Aug 25
How Uber built a software factory for agentic coding newsletter.port.io · “More than 70% of pull requests at Uber are now written by agents.”
Aug 25
U.S. streaming industry slams CRTC rules for Canadian content investment globalnews.ca · “CRTC is targeting and taxing U.S. companies, putting up new, discriminatory trade barriers”
Aug 25
Intermediary Liability in Brazil: The Intricate Path Ahead eff.org · “The Supreme Court’s decision didn’t establish guidelines to protect users’ due process rights when facing content take down and removal demands.”
Aug 25
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms groups.google.com · “As of Firefox 157 I intend to turn JPEG XL decoding on by default on all platforms.”
Aug 25
Dolly Parton, one of country music's most singular performers, has died at age 80 npr.org · “It’s true I look totally artificial. But I like to think I’m totally real where it really counts. But my look came from a very sincere place. It’s just a country girl’s idea of glamour.”
Aug 25
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones theregister.com · “Shortly after loading the AliExpress homepage, audio from my phone would stop playing.”
Aug 24
Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online torrentfreak.com · “U.S. courts can’t reach domains registered beyond their jurisdiction.”
Aug 24
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60%, blaming memory shortage techcrunch.com · “After absorbing these increases for as long as we could, we recently adjusted pricing across our product lines.”
Aug 24
Nvidia manager among nine indicted over China chip sales taiwanplus.com · “Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted nine people for smuggling high-end AI chips to China.”
Aug 24
Hundreds of Leaked AWS Keys Give Full Control Over Corporate Accounts bleepingcomputer.com · “More than 9,300 Amazon Web Services (AWS) access keys publicly exposed between August 2022 and August 2026 are still active and valid.”
Aug 24
Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230 eff.org · “If platforms know they will have to defend themselves for years in court before they can benefit from Section 230 immunity, this creates a perverse incentive to censor user speech.”
Aug 24
Take-Two Expands GTA 6 Leak Hunt With DMCA Subpoenas to X and YouTube torrentfreak.com · “Take-Two also seeks ‘all identifying information associated with all user accounts that are/were members of the Discord community servers.’”
Aug 24
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble theregister.com · “Nvidia’s Gemma 4 31B performance comparison may not age well.”
Aug 24
Hackers Infect Android Car Head Units with Proxy Botnet Malware bleepingcomputer.com · “This is the first documented case of a malware infection chain specifically created for the targeted car head unit.”
Aug 24
His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major Flaws. propublica.org · “The misrepresentation is not minor. It runs throughout the piece.”
Aug 24
Your executable is a SQLite database fzakaria.com · “ELF is already a database. It just implements many database primitives by hand.”
Aug 24
Intent to Ship: JPEG XL hacks.mozilla.org · “At 100,000 lines of multithreaded C++, we were concerned about the attack surface this added to Firefox.”
Aug 24
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently theregister.com · “Each processor core can natively execute Arm and IBM Z, or Arm and LinuxONE, instructions concurrently”
Aug 24
Thomson Reuters leverages its world-class data assets to launch its own frontier model thomsonreuters.com · “Start with a strong foundation, specialize it deeply for the work that matters, and you can build intelligence that is highly capable, far more efficient and entirely under your control.”
Aug 24
Fable & The End of the Free Lunch dbreunig.com · “Prior to Fable, it felt silly to waste too much time improving your coding harness or context strategies.”
Aug 24
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware securelist.com · “The malware spread through the built-in updaters of Android-based automotive head unit firmware. This is the first documented case of malware found on a car head unit with an infection chain specific to that type of device.”
Aug 23
There's no reason for software to be slow anymore danluu.com · “Just adding multithreading alone is enough to wipe the floor with an otherwise comparable AI on a large machine. If you stack in 10-20 more optimizations that seem too annoying for most people to do by hand, the difference in strength is tremendous.”
Aug 22
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep torrentfreak.com · “In the seven notices, more than 400 repositories were targeted.”
Aug 21
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera san.com · “Police estimated the damage at more than $1,000.”
Aug 21
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases lina.sh · “Since the domain name is literally just the phone number reversed, you can simply flip it back around to get the real number, so I had full phone numbers, timestamps, and the source IP addresses of the DNS resolvers making the requests.”
Aug 21
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results kagi.com · “We’ve added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results automatically.”
Aug 21
EFF and Civil Society Groups Call on Nottinghamshire Police to Halt Live Face Recognition eff.org · “48% of people oppose scanning the faces of those walking on high streets when there is no suspected imminent threat.”
Aug 21
A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier retractionwatch.com · “A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier that alleges the company published what plaintiffs say was a manipulated study about an air purifying technology over objections from peer reviewers.”
Aug 21
Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says theregister.com · “A third of partners said there was strong interest in Agentforce as they were starting to see buying and trial activity. However, none were seeing Agentforce become a driver of bookings activity.”
Aug 21
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence blog.curiousquail.com · “Swartz’ use case was the dissemination and archival of knowledge; Meta’s use case is powering up their proprietary plagiarism code.”
Aug 20
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint blog.laserphile.com · “Connecting it to the destination causes the browser to actively process the graph, even though the final volume is zero.”
Aug 20
Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload safedep.io · “Fetches an architecture-specific binary over a TLS connection that accepts any certificate without validation, then runs it detached from the build.”
Aug 20
Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back on ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More. eff.org · “In the second half of 2025, the company received three Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subpoenas seeking account information from 11 users who posted content critical of ICE.”
Aug 19
Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code grapheneos.social · “Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It’s completely ridiculous and they’ve gradually become very slow at handling requests. They’re in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.”
Aug 19
OpenRouter is joining Stripe openrouter.ai · “OpenRouter will continue to operate as it is: same mission, same name, same product, same roadmap.”
Aug 19
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit theregister.com · “Google bid for and won for just $10 million - pending judicial approval… 100 million emails and 500 million items from Microsoft Teams, 17 million OneDrive files and 20.5 million items from SharePoint.”
Aug 18
A German Court Drew the Piracy Line at 81.5%, KinoGO Was Blocked with (at least) 82.4% torrentfreak.com · “The illegal content on the websites far outweighs the legal content. This is the case in any event when at least 81.5% of the website’s content is illegal.”
Aug 18
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots responsiblestatecraft.org · “AI Story Optimization… author(s) content engineered for how LLMs evaluate credibility.”
Aug 17
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study ysph.yale.edu · “Adequate coverage for all could avert about 62,863 deaths annually.”
Aug 17
Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers news.ycombinator.com · “I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site.”
Aug 16
Debian opens vote on the future of AI-assisted contributions linuxiac.com · “Debian should not support or ban generative AI tools, but should apply the same standards for quality, correctness, maintainability, and legality to all contributions.”
Aug 15
AI isn't outthinking mathematicians, it's out-remembering them davidepiffer.com · “The machine may appear more mathematically intelligent partly because it is much less constrained by a cognitive limitation that suppresses human performance.”
Aug 15
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead of Winter severe-weather.eu · “Peak anomalies reach +7 in the eastern parts.”
Aug 15
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI acc.org · “Those individuals with normal weight or overweight and clinically defined high WC or WHR were associated with a 15% - 50% greater risk for most of the nine studied outcomes.”
Aug 15
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin pcworld.com · “Once Microsoft Edge moves to Manifest V3, ad-blocking extensions won’t have access to the functions needed to properly identify and block ads that occur while browsing websites and watching videos.”
Aug 14
How Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption blog.google · “HEIR can convert pre-trained AI models that operate on unencrypted data to operate on encrypted inputs.”
Aug 14
Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered techdirt.com · “The latest comes from the Ninth Circuit, which ruled earlier this week that Section 230 is not, in fact, an immunity from lawsuit, but merely a defense against liability.”
Aug 12
What sort of maths are LLMs good at? gowers.wordpress.com · “The most notable mathematical results proved by LLMs have tended to be ones that we would classify as examples or counterexamples.”
Aug 12
North Korean remote IT staffer worked for US government agency, says FBI techcrunch.com · “The case marks a rare confirmed instance of a sanctioned North Korean working for a government agency.”
Aug 12
Swarms of tiny robots remove microplastics from soil and water phys.org · “In water, they removed about 94% of test polystyrene particles and 89% of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) in around an hour.”
Aug 12
Why we should all be worried about AI in elections restofworld.org · “Roughly 5.5 million voters were deleted from rolls in two states, many without any notice or path to reinstatement, before India’s Supreme Court halted the program.”
Aug 12
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same laurenleek.substack.com · “The top one percent of films, about 380 titles, pull nearly forty percent of all attention; half of everything anyone watched sits in the top two percent.”
Aug 12
Compression is prediction ngrok.com · “Here’s how an order-1 model stacks up against GPT-2 with arithmetic coding in compressing a famous Charles Dickens quote: order-1 434 bits, 24% of original; GPT-2 176 bits, 10% of original.”
Aug 12
Hundreds Of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across The Country techdirt.com · “The agency issued more waivers between April 2025 and February 2026 than it had in the previous seven years combined.”
Aug 11
Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities thehackernews.com · “Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities.”
Aug 11
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster theregister.com · “His luck allegedly ran out when the face-changing software suffered a momentary processing delay. The disguise dropped for ‘barely a second,’ exposing his real face to the verification camera, police said.”
Aug 11
Asbestos, mold and crumbling walls: The US military's Pacific bases are falling apart militarytimes.com · “At Kinser Tower base housing at Kadena, concrete damage has affected 544 homes, according to the IG.”
Aug 11
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes krebsonsecurity.com · “Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software”
Aug 11
Japanese Police Arrest NYAA 'First Uploader,' But Not by Watching the Swarm torrentfreak.com · “The tool does not analyse activity within the BitTorrent swarm itself. Instead, it analyses how data moves through torrent sites, such as index sites and tracker sites.”
Aug 11
Arizona wants Taiwan's investors to think beyond chips restofworld.org · “Arizona’s increasing focus on Taiwan comes as trade between the two jumped from $4.9 billion in 2024 to $21.2 billion in 2025.”
Aug 11
Who (or What) Generates Images for EFF? eff.org · “EFF images are all made by human beings, not by automated image generators, with very rare exceptions.”
Aug 11
GNOME Shell Design Dreams blogs.gnome.org · “As the design team we can only propose ideas and work with developers to make them happen.”
Aug 11
pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries clickhouse.com · “Q17 is the trophy: a correlated subquery averaging l_quantity per part that, back when it evaluated once per outer row against 6M line items at scale factor 1, took 32.7 seconds. Fully pushed down, it’s 37 milliseconds.”
Aug 11
Services without servers: Ian Clarke on Freenet freenet.org · “These are the same pattern, applications whose backend is the network itself, so they can exist without a platform behind them.”
Aug 11
Paris Court Kicks Off New Football Season with Multi-Intermediary Piracy Blocking Orders torrentfreak.com · “The court stressed that, even though an intermediary may act passively and neutrally, it can still be an essential link in transferring infringing data.”
Aug 11
Elon Musk Wants To Get Into Wireless Phones And He's Probably Not Going To Have A Good Time techdirt.com · “SpaceX’s IPO promised that Starlink would quickly jump from 10 million current subscribers to 300 million or more in very short order.”
Aug 11
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi theregister.com · “The airline also told us that there was no hack of any Delta system, including the in-flight Wi-Fi, though it did confirm that an unauthorized Wi-Fi network was broadcast onboard the aircraft for a short period of time.”
Aug 11
One-click flaw in Atlassian Rovo exposed enterprise data via prompt injection attack csoonline.com · “A single click on a link triggers the attacker’s embedded instructions and forces Rovo to accept externally supplied parameters as trusted inputs within a user’s session.”
Aug 11
Spotify will label AI persona profiles and exclude their music from recommendations techcrunch.com · “This badge is about the artist’s public identity, not about how the music was made.”
Aug 11
Dismiss Church's Trademark Lawsuit Against 'Mormon Stories' Podcast, EFF Urges Court eff.org · “Trademark is supposed to be about helping consumers identify the sources of the products they buy, not controlling criticism.”
Aug 11
How one VC burns through hundreds of millions of tokens a day to find the next unicorn restofworld.org · “I consume between 300 and 500 million tokens a day just to get my work done.”
Aug 11
Mojo 1.0 modular.com · “During the 1.x timeframe, changes should primarily be additive, giving developers confidence that the language will not continually shift beneath them.”
Aug 11
Chicken Scheme 6.0 released code.call-cc.org · “The internal string representation has been converted to UTF-8, making strings fully UNICODE capable.”
Aug 11
EU Study: Block Live Sports Piracy in 30 Minutes, Across DNS Resolvers, VPNs and CDNs torrentfreak.com · “It would likewise be desirable for the personal scope of application to extend to the entire chain of intermediaries technically involved in the distribution of unauthorised content, including providers of content delivery networks, VPN services, dedicated servers and DNS resolution systems.”
Aug 11
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub theregister.com · “Mozilla has revoked a cryptographic key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after discovering someone had accidentally committed an unencrypted copy of the private key to a GitHub repository.”
Aug 11
US citizen detained by ICE at Atlanta airport as he boarded plane wsbtv.com · “There is no probable cause here. A matching name and birth date is not probable cause.”
Aug 11
Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers restofworld.org · “For companies where AI companionship isn’t a core business, it may simply make more commercial sense to remove these features than invest the resources needed to make them compliant.”
Aug 11
SpaceX's Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter's Ad Business techdirt.com · “In the second quarter of 2022, the last full quarter before Elon took over, Twitter brought in $1.08 billion in ad revenue. In the second quarter of 2026, X brought in $367 million.”
Aug 11
Meta Must Stop Silencing Reproductive Health Information eff.org · “Meta’s moderation systems routinely fail to distinguish between prohibited drug transactions and legitimate discussion of medications, including educational information and people’s firsthand experiences with healthcare.”
Aug 11
Apple is working on a way to authenticate that a photo came from an iPhone camera 9to5mac.com · “New code in iOS 27 beta 5 shows that the company is working on something called Apple Reference Image, which is designed to authenticate the source of photos using unique data tied to the iPhone camera hardware that captured them.”
Aug 11
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11-16x Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp github.com · “On an M1 Ultra, TinyLlama 1.1B running through llama.cpp processed prompts 11.08x faster and generated tokens 16.36x faster than the same workload in the same stock VM.”
Aug 11
Briar is in maintenance mode briarproject.org · “Meanwhile, the project didn’t have funding, we were reluctant to look for funding without having a long-term plan, and so we could only work on Briar in our spare time.”
Aug 11
Another Federal Judge Says Cell Tower Dumps Are Unconstitutional techdirt.com · “The Government is essentially asking the Court to allow it access to an entire haystack because it may contain a needle.”
Aug 7
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access theregister.com · Abbott says “only a limited number of internal systems within its cancer diagnostics business were affected, with no disruption to products, manufacturing, laboratory operations, or patient services.”
Aug 7
Broadcaster Wins Broad U.S. Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet torrentfreak.com · “Plaintiffs may supplement Schedule A by filing a verified declaration identifying additional infringing services, IP addresses, domains, applications, or platforms, which supplementation shall take effect immediately upon filing and service.”
Aug 7
tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open bobdahacker.com · “The CTO never came back to you.”
Aug 7
Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn't Violate the CFAA eff.org · The court held that the Assistant “is a tool, not a person for statutory purposes.”
Aug 7
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions krebsonsecurity.com · “Moucka used the stolen data of a government officer and members of a then-former government officer’s immediate family in this re-extortion attempt.”
Aug 7
Water utilities get free cybersecurity help from DEF CON volunteers therecord.media · “These leading cyber firms and NRWA are architecting a scalable cyber delivery model that has eluded water industry officials to date.”
Aug 7
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded discourse.nixos.org · “The Steering Committee as an institution lacks a native instinct for the delegation envisioned by the constitution.”
Aug 7
The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns restofworld.org · “The decentralized architecture of the app means that there is no central server or database and therefore there cannot be a central kill switch.”
Aug 7
GitHub Actions Is Having One of the Worst Days in Its History kernel.pryanic.com · “500M minutes a week in 2023, to 1B a week in 2025, to 2.1B in a single week this spring.”
Aug 7
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data theregister.com · River Financial “took steps to attempt to suppress the affected data, including obtaining representations from the threat actor that it deleted the data.”
Aug 2
Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 nbcsandiego.com · “The alternative is you would have to contact 600 companies and say, please delete my information. And who’s got time for that?”
Aug 2
Meta straps on a 'Kick Me' sign by taking down video by India's prime minister theregister.com · Meta acknowledged the takedown was “a mistake, apologized, and restored the video.”
Aug 2
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code ankursethi.com · “I fear the software industry is taking on a large amount of cognitive debt that we’ll have to pay back very soon.”
Aug 2
New spinning drone hides in plain sight news.northwestern.edu · “Instead, we asked whether we could design the drone itself around the way humans perceive motion.”
Aug 2
Steam on Linux Usage Reaches 4.01% in July 2026 phoronix.com · “The July data puts SteamOS Holo as powering around 22% of Steam on Linux gaming systems.”
Aug 2
Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm en.wikipedia.org · “Insisting that our right to organize be adjudicated by the National Labor Relations Board is not a neutral choice; it has everything to do with delaying the process.”
Aug 2
The man who wrote the AI-boom bible just got margin-called out of it web.archive.org · “An eight-person fund used heavy leverage, the market turned, and a bigger firm picked up the pieces.”
Aug 2
Governor Hochul and Attorney General James Announce Final SAFE for Kids Act Rules governor.ny.gov · “Social media companies must determine that a given user is an adult before providing them with algorithmic feeds.”
Aug 2
Return to Office Mandates Don't Improve Employee or Company Performance business.pitt.edu · “RTO mandates hurt employee satisfaction but do not improve firm performance.”
Aug 2
Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers website-auditor.io · “Only 10 of 193 sites were named even once across 5,978 assistant answers.”
Aug 2
OpenAI Cuts Prices on Select Models to Make High-Volume Work Economical pymnts.com · “At the lower-cost end, the new Luna and Terra prices make high-volume work economical at much greater scale.”
Aug 2
Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter chrismorgan.info · “some reasonable content cannot reliably be expressed in RSS, whereas it’s unambiguous in Atom”
Aug 2
sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in C sebsite.pw · “that’s an addition expression, not the size of a cast expression.”
Aug 2
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online theregister.com · “All of a sudden we got a huge number of requests for this SMTP gateway.”
Aug 2
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge publicdomainreview.org · “Condemned by church authorities, the fifty-six extant manuscripts nevertheless testify to the seductiveness of that offer.”
Aug 2
How bitcoin cold wallets lost $70 million in an attack that never touched the devices coindesk.com · “Every step of that runs on the attacker’s machine. The victim’s device is not involved at any point.”
Aug 2
Resigning from Arch Linux linderud.dev · “Things are changing and it’s a good time to let go.”
Aug 2
Over 100 Games Are Available For $10 To Support Devs Hit By Industry Layoffs kotaku.com · “They are human beings whose livelihoods have been taken from them, often in spite of stellar, critically and financially successful work.”
Aug 2
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it theregister.com · “Vera will sell extremely well, if not for its performance characteristics, then because if you want more than eight Rubins, it’s probably coming with a Vera CPU attached.”
Aug 2
Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer theregister.com · “A terminal multiplexer may sound like a narrow place to start a company, but the lowly terminal is the common denominator across today’s developers, agents, tools, and infrastructure.”
Aug 2
Go 1.27 Interactive Tour victoriametrics.com · “A method declaration may now declare its own type parameters, independent of the receiver’s.”
Aug 2
What Ukraine's Battlefield Openness Can Teach Washington About AI Access techdirt.com · “Ukraine’s leaderboard may be a crude way to run a war, but it is at least a rule. Public, legible, the same for every unit.”
Aug 2
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview github.blog · “A big change used to mean one giant PR nobody wanted to review. Now it’s a stack of small ones reviewers can actually follow, and the whole stack merges in one shot.”
Aug 2
Protected by Ghost Town lamaterial.com · “Police didn’t come for an hour and a half. Ghost Town shows up in five minutes.”
Aug 1
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters theregister.com · “ShinyHunters claimed to have obtained more than 4.9 million Salesforce records from Brinks Home containing some PII.”
Aug 1
The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites eff.org · “requiring a user to confirm that the user is not a minor shall not be sufficient”
Aug 1
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds openrss.org · “while the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined”
Aug 1
Why businesses lie about AI pluralistic.net · “Every single one. We have seen 0% success in a year and a half.”
Aug 1
CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting censys.com · “Censys ARC identified 4,148 Internet-exposed hosts responding to EtherNet/IP”
Aug 1
The CHATBOT Act Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family eff.org · “send alerts if a teen attempts to bypass or disable parental controls”
Aug 1
Apple Screen Sharing Pre-Auth RCE warez.sl0p.foo · “No user interaction is required. The only prerequisite is that Screen Sharing is enabled on the target.”
Aug 1
World Cup Piracy Crackdown Shows Limits of Domain Seizures, MPA Pushes Site Blocking torrentfreak.com · “A takedown is essential, and it can interrupt access for a moment. But it does not dismantle the business behind it.”
Aug 1
Amending AB 1709 Doesn't Fix It: California's Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy eff.org · “the bill defines ‘addictive feeds’ so broadly that it covers virtually every functional recommendation algorithm”
Aug 1
New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security securityweek.com · “Three days as the default balances two goals: it pushes you past the window where most of these attacks live.”
Aug 1
Game Industry Hardship Fund itch.io · “Reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the last two years, and the jobs they could fill are disappearing as CEOs try to replace them with AI.”
Aug 1
NetBSD 11.0 released blog.netbsd.org · “As a consequence, we can’t publish a release without open issues. Instead of delaying the release further to fix them, we’ve instead chosen to be transparent about this.”
Aug 1
Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 leodemoura.github.io · “This is an implementation bug, not a hole in Lean’s meta-theory.”
Aug 1

July 2026 228 posts

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder theregister.com · “In one scenario, Mythos 5 persuaded developers to download a poisoned PyPI package. When that company’s scanner installed the package, Claude’s hidden code executed. Claude then used these credentials to access further infrastructure from this company.”
Jul 31
Can we train AI to choose safety over speed? restofworld.org · “Economic pressures and incentive structures often compel them to continue working under conditions that may jeopardize their health, safety, and well-being.”
Jul 31
Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard spectrum.ieee.org · “Something out there is putting its stamp on how the Milky Way turns. And that basic observation is what allows me to say that, with the help of some roof flashing and a paint-thinner can, I’ve been able to detect dark matter from my backyard.”
Jul 31
The Maxwell Conjecture is False arxiv.org · “We exhibit a configuration of five point charges in Euclidean space whose electrostatic potential admits at least 24 critical points all of which are non-degenerate. Maxwell’s conjecture that the field of n point charges has at most (n-1)² critical points which are all non-degenerate is therefore false.”
Jul 31
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar theregister.com · “Microsoft originally set a late-October deadline in its message, but we’re guessing someone familiar with the impending demise of Exchange Web Services (EWS) had a quiet word.”
Jul 31
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester theregister.com · “The organisations that succeed will treat sovereignty as an architectural principle from the start.”
Jul 31
EFF Guide to Recording Law Enforcement eff.org · “Officers exercising their official duties, particularly in public, do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
Jul 31
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests theregister.com · “The electricity demand connections queue has more than tripled in size in less than a year, and consumers should not bear the risks created by speculative projects taking up space in the system”
Jul 31
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 404media.co · “It’s also pretty wild the button specifically uses the term ‘AI slop’ and not, say, ‘It seems this was generated with AI.’”
Jul 31
Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts theregister.com · “People are concerned that wages won’t get paid because of this, and that’s just stressful when they have bills to pay.”
Jul 31
Better to beg forgiveness pluralistic.net · “There is a whole universe of uses that might technically violate copyright, might technically not fit into di minimis, first sale or fair use – but these are also uses that no one would ever find out.”
Jul 31
The End of an Era hughhowey.com · “My lifelong dream of writing novels somehow overlapped with the 20 good years where stories could be published cheaply but not written cheaply.”
Jul 31
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner theregister.com · “A full buyout by Vodafone was always on the cards but the agreement has come sooner than expected, with the joint venture only just into its second year.”
Jul 31
John Oliver Dares Buc-ee's To Sue Him Over Trademark Infringement techdirt.com · “Oliver accused the chain of ‘outright bullying,’ noting that most of the stores have changed their logos because they do not have the resources to fight the Texas giant”
Jul 31
How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026 nnethercote.github.io · “The mean wall-time reduction was a healthy 5.59%. Around half of this was due to some huge recent improvements in rustdoc, which saw a mean wall-time reduction of 37.92%!”
Jul 31
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered theregister.com · “Twenty years after last using the software, I still remembered the installation procedure”
Jul 31
Stripe Just Wants a Number blog.exe.dev · “Stripe just wants a number. It doesn’t care how we get there.”
Jul 31
Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button theregister.com · “the consumer’s subscription would not be cancelled. Instead, the consumer would then have to click through approximately three to ten survey questions”
Jul 31
For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California's Warning System for Teacher Misconduct propublica.org · “When the safety of a child does not meet a legislative priority, that’s a head-scratcher for me. I think being sympathetic to the offender is on the wrong side of this issue.”
Jul 31
The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban techdirt.com · “HF 1606 punishes AI platforms that allow users to alter images of real people to depict an ‘intimate part.’ But the statute contains no knowledge, intent, or purpose requirement.”
Jul 31
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in theregister.com · “We are aware that the group responsible for the unauthorized access has claimed to have taken some historic data from our systems.”
Jul 31
Vietnam Uses HiAnime Arrests As Defense Against U.S. Trade Sanctions torrentfreak.com · “on 1 July 2026, the Ministry of Public Security initiated criminal proceedings […] against 07 suspects”
Jul 31
Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate propublica.org · “Without accurate and complete data, it is impossible for FMCSA to properly target enforcement on unsafe companies”
Jul 31
It doesn't matter whether "Matz is nice" po-ru.com · “the Ruby community is not ’nice'”
Jul 31
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney theregister.com · “Kiro is ‘available’ in the same way as I am available to play in the NBA.”
Jul 31
Microsoft's Project Silica blog.dshr.org · “on average for every MB read there are 47 MBs written, and for every read operation there are 174 writes”
Jul 31
Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery? construction-physics.com · “If, however, the liquid electrolyte were replaced with some sort of solid material, these dendrites might stop being a problem.”
Jul 31
Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie cbsnews.com · “Someone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week”
Jul 31
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick krebsonsecurity.com · “Multiple devices reporting to this factory Android TV Box backdoor were ‘phones.’”
Jul 30
Axon Insists Its AI Makes Police Reports Easier. Nothing Suggests It Makes Them Any Better techdirt.com · “It was just easier to type the report themselves.”
Jul 30
Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed. propublica.org · “It just became an opportunity for people to make money.”
Jul 30
Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages theregister.com · “less than 1 percent of the cars scanned are connected to crime, yet they still have details added to a database, such as vehicle manufacturer, model, color, license plate number, bumper stickers, and scratches.”
Jul 30
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs vulnerable to attack technologyreview.com · “There’s a real probability that this is going to be a problem that’s fundamentally unsolvable.”
Jul 30
What 20 Million Bans Reveal About The Stress On Wikipedia's Volunteers techdirt.com · “The end-user experience is being preserved, and the people behind the scenes are bearing the cost.”
Jul 30
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations anthropic.com · “In all cases, Anthropic’s evaluation prompt specified to Claude that its environment was a simulation and that it had no internet access. Due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner, this was not the case, and internet access was available.”
Jul 30
HBO's Blocking Order Takes Out Popular Pirate Streaming Domains Including Streamzy.to torrentfreak.com · “This is, therefore, not a case of incidental infringement, but one where the primary purpose of the websites appears to be to facilitate infringement of the plaintiffs’ copyright”
Jul 30
With Moonshot's free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook restofworld.org · “The best artificial intelligence technology any country can own is now available for free.”
Jul 30
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font theregister.com · “Pure scrambling fonts already existed…We wanted a mechanism with actual consequences: scrape without asking, and you can’t tell if what you took was real.”
Jul 30
C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior kttnr.net · “Your program not crashing can make the problem seem benign. It is not.”
Jul 30
The AI Aesthetic blog.jim-nielsen.com · “Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges.”
Jul 30
SpaceX looks to compete with the carriers semafor.com · “The reality is that they’re coming to the game very late after this industry has been established.”
Jul 30
Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report propublica.org · “Recent reporting from ProPublica has highlighted a major problem: the federal government does not currently track vitamin K shot refusal, vitamin K deficiency bleeding, or the preventable deaths related to vitamin K deficiency.”
Jul 29
The hidden cost of Myanmar's rare earth mines restofworld.org · “I think companies are consistently using Myanmar as a sacrifice zone.”
Jul 29
Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back eff.org · “If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it.”
Jul 29
Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix theregister.com · “Relationships are evolving beyond transactional relations into more strategic long-term partnerships.”
Jul 29
How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School propublica.org · “Unlike public schools, where everything from test scores to school lunches and staff credentials is regulated, most of what happens in private schools is not open to public scrutiny.”
Jul 29
A Blackout Protest Over Sony Ditching Disks Is Brewing techdirt.com · “Sony’s strategy for dealing with online and customer backlash in the past has been to simply wait it out.”
Jul 29
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch theregister.com · “Optane’s otherworldly write endurance and low latency would have made it a perfect choice for this workload.”
Jul 29
College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought theregister.com · “Madagascar wore a toaster to a basketball game.”
Jul 29
Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors restofworld.org · “There’s no way individuals can digest so much information in such a short time.”
Jul 29
Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall theregister.com · “The post of a dedicated technology minister is gone.”
Jul 29
Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes sebastianraschka.com · “By far the biggest open-weight model right now.”
Jul 29
Delayed Gratification: Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' slow-journalism.com · “Proud to be ‘Last to Breaking News’ since 2011.”
Jul 29
Court Shuts Down Federal Officers Who Wanted To Run A Stingray Device For A Month Straight techdirt.com · “The Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement bars this sort of ‘rummaging’ through the proverbial home.”
Jul 29
Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years sciencealert.com · “Whether the apparent cycle reflects a genuine feature of Earth’s history remains an open question.”
Jul 29
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle tailscale.com · “Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle is typically forced to run in userspace mode, which means it cannot use the device’s own network routing layer.”
Jul 29
Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics theregister.com · “I’m glad to be out, but this is an inconvenience, really. It’s not really deterring me from speaking out or, I guess, clapping.”
Jul 29
Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 mac-classic.com · “Half-Life has finally landed for PowerPC based Macintosh computers 28 years after it’s original release!”
Jul 29
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene datagubbe.se · “The scene has a long and storied tradition of building its own tools.”
Jul 29
404 Media Scores Leaked Document Detailing The Dozens Of Surveillance Tools ICE Has Access To techdirt.com · “The document covers everything from monitoring social media to tracking the movements of vehicles.”
Jul 29
Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons? eff.org · “A venue cannot claim to be a safe space while feeding its patrons’ data to a third party database.”
Jul 29
DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' theregister.com · “Be sure to pack non-violating eyewear if you need them.”
Jul 29
Anthropic's New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough. propublica.org · “Well folks. Here we are. The bug apocalypse has fully descended upon us.”
Jul 29
San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing eff.org · “Privacy is a human right, not something that people should understand as a currency to give away or protect based on how it will impact the price of groceries.”
Jul 29
Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package theregister.com · “NetApp says 95 percent of his target direct compensation is ‘at risk,’ taking the form of cash incentives and equity awards rather than guaranteed salary.”
Jul 29
Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency restofworld.org · “Indian manufacturers are beating Tesla and BYD at building energy-efficient electric cars.”
Jul 29
Substack writers, you need a website elizabethtai.com · “When you build your audience entirely on someone else’s platform, you aren’t a homeowner. You are a tenant.”
Jul 29
The Orchestrator's Tax martinfowler.com · “Every token in the orchestrator’s context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that context, not how fast it runs.”
Jul 29
Codex Security github.com · “@openai/codex-security is a CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding, validating, and fixing security vulnerabilities in your code.”
Jul 29
Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation mlugg.co.uk · “Today, using Zig’s incremental compilation, you can make changes to real, complex applications in a matter of milliseconds.”
Jul 29
Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers dexerto.com · “They will have demonstrable audience growth. They will have a platform of their choice with real content and real followers and a real audience behind them.”
Jul 29
AI Systems Out-Persuade Expert Humans, Including Professional Canvassers And World Championship Debaters techdirt.com · “AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans, even when expert humans chose their issues, researched in advance, underwent hours of live, structured practice, and were incentivized with £1,000 cash bonuses.”
Jul 28
Hyperscale, Hypersensitive: US Teacher Cuffed for Applauding Datacenter Critics theregister.com · “Officers approached Claridge, who declined to leave and told them: ‘Drag me out.’ Four officers duly hoisted the teacher off the floor and carried him outside.”
Jul 28
France Approves Automated, Real-Time Blocking of Pirate Sports Streams torrentfreak.com · “The French Parliament has handed ARCOM, the country’s audiovisual and digital regulator, the power to block pirate sports streams in real time without checking each targeted piracy source manually.”
Jul 28
Hugging Face Rebuilt a Third of Its Infrastructure After OpenAI Agents Ran Amok theregister.com · “Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort.”
Jul 28
Amazon Files Application for Direct-to-Device Satellite Constellation spacenews.com · “Amazon has filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission for a constellation of more than 5,100 satellites that would provide direct-to-device (D2D) services using Globalstar spectrum.”
Jul 28
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth propublica.org · “Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot, research shows, are 81 times more likely than those who do to develop late vitamin K deficiency bleeding.”
Jul 28
DMARC Has Been Public Since 2012. 68.4% of Domains Still Don't Enforce It ciphercue.com · “p=none is meant to be a temporary monitoring phase before you move to enforcement, typically a few weeks. Fourteen years after the standard shipped, for the largest single group of domains in our data, it looks like the permanent state.”
Jul 28
New HIV Vaccine Shows Unprecedented Success in Preclinical Study lji.org · “We succeeded in taking ultra-rare antibody responses and turning them common responses by the end of the vaccination process.”
Jul 28
Discernment pluralistic.net · “By definition, a student isn’t an expert on the subject they’re studying. That’s the whole point of studying, to acquire knowledge and thus discernment.”
Jul 28
Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly blog.nightly.mozilla.org · “You’ll notice softer tab shapes, a warmer color palette, updated icons, and after hearing from many of you, the return of Compact Mode and new theme options to make Firefox your own.”
Jul 28
Protester Charged With Destroying Property After Giving CBP Agents His GrapheneOS 'Duress' Mode Passcode techdirt.com · “GrapheneOS provides users with the ability to set a duress PIN/Password that will irreversibly wipe the device once entered anywhere where the device credentials are requested.”
Jul 27
Judge Rejects Google's Attempt To DMCA Its Way Out Of Being Scraped techdirt.com · “Because the DMCA does not apply where the work controlled by a technological measure is not protected under the Copyright Act, Google’s claims under 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)(A) and 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(2) are subject to dismissal as a matter of law.”
Jul 27
Copyright Scammers Weaponized Meta's Rights Manager with Backdating Exploit torrentfreak.com · “Meta acted on the claims without checking the rightsholder, metadata or edit history of the posts.”
Jul 27
Elon Musk Just Claimed That "SpaceX Will Be Worth More Than Earth," but the Bond Market Strongly Disagrees fool.com · “I said SpaceX will be worth more than Earth if we achieve our goals.”
Jul 27
New EU Court of Justice Ruling on Platform Liability Could Cause Collateral Damage to Freedom of Expression eff.org · “By equating algorithmic organisation with content control, the ruling risks excluding social networks and other platforms from the liability exemption and encouraging proactive monitoring of what users say online and removal of lawful speech.”
Jul 27
In China, people are renting out their faces to AI restofworld.org · “If I license my face, I have no idea how AI might eventually change it or whether it could portray me in degrading ways.”
Jul 27
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects hackaday.com · “Projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome.”
Jul 27
Most Googlebots are fake digitalseams.com · “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog… and the flip side is that I can claim to be a dog (or a Googlebot) whenever I feel like it.”
Jul 27
Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude theregister.com · “It is not proof of a distillation, but it does show that Claude’s self-concept is embedded in these models’ weights.”
Jul 27
China begins mass production of homegrown DUV lithography machines in major chip breakthrough techstartups.com · “The country has moved beyond building prototypes and into manufacturing commercial lithography systems that domestic chipmakers can begin evaluating inside real production lines.”
Jul 27
On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet propublica.org · “Not a single one told us they subscribe to the island’s subsidized internet service.”
Jul 27
Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber techcrunch.com · “Waymo already told Uber that it intends to offer robotaxis on its own app in those markets starting in January 2028”
Jul 27
A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out wired.com · “I didn’t think I was doing groundbreaking journalism. It was just homework.”
Jul 27
Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions spacedaily.com · “Coming home, it turns out, is its own kind of mission, and the part of you that watched yourself float for six months does not stop watching the moment your boots touch the tarmac.”
Jul 27
The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required eff.org · “a person’s privacy interests in the personal data on a phone or laptop are extraordinarily different than their limited privacy interests in the contents of their suitcase.”
Jul 26
X and Music Publishers Settle Three-Year Copyright Clash After SpaceX IPO torrentfreak.com · “The coordinated timing and matching language leave little doubt that these cases were resolved as part of a package deal.”
Jul 26
Google's anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed computerworld.com · “The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there was no indication that any copyright had been breached.”
Jul 26
Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else theregister.com · “What it will come down to is whether the anti-AI groups in FOSS can work together and help each other to hold off the vast and commercially backed pressure”
Jul 26
Apple's smart glasses are running late because they don't want to stir a privacy storm digitaltrends.com · “Removing video capture would make the glasses less controversial, but also less appealing.”
Jul 26
AI is shrinking video game development teams to one restofworld.org · “Instead of hiring five junior programmers at the startup where he works, my developer friend does all the work himself with AI.”
Jul 26
Hackers abuse Notepad++ plugins to stealthily install malware bleepingcomputer.com · “Ukraine’s CERT has uncovered attacks distributing an archive containing the legitimate Notepad++ application and a malicious utility called LunchPoke disguised as a plugin to establish persistence.”
Jul 26
Memory Safety Absolutists itsallaboutthebit.com · “With roughly 5 million lines of Rust in the Android platform and one potential memory safety vulnerability found (and fixed pre-release), our estimated vulnerability density for Rust is 0.2 vuln per 1 million lines (MLOC).”
Jul 26
Decker beyondloom.com · “Decker includes no advertising, telemetry, gamification, slop-generator integration, or other intrusions on user privacy and autonomy.”
Jul 26
Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country eff.org · “The agency issued more waivers between April 2025 and February 2026 than it had in the previous seven years combined.”
Jul 26
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps krebsonsecurity.com · “A residential proxy network is not an intended use for LG smart TVs, and LG Electronics is working with developers to remove the residential proxy option from their apps on the webOS platform.”
Jul 26
Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info theregister.com · “With sequential user IDs and no rate limiting, an attacker could enumerate every single account on the platform. One GET request per user.”
Jul 26
iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments 9to5mac.com · “If the contract is no longer in good standing, Apple’s system services can place the iPhone in ‘Restricted Mode,’ which blocks access to most apps until the payment or contract issue is resolved.”
Jul 26
Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. propublica.org · “Turns out, he was committing voter fraud the whole time, voting illegally in six elections”
Jul 26
Canadian Lab Extracts 90% of Nuclear Waste Danger in 24 Hours autonocion.com · “Moltex projects that a single 300 MW SSR-W could run for its full 60-year life on recycled fuel from about 260,000 used CANDU bundles.”
Jul 26
Meta Confirms 'Data Engineer' is Behind Key IP Address in Adult Film Piracy Lawsuit torrentfreak.com · “Meta flatly denies that any employee’s BitTorrent activity was connected to its AI research or data collection.”
Jul 26
The Robots Cometh time.com · “Once the technology surpasses this inflection point, robots can gradually be rolled out for large-scale commercial use.”
Jul 26
Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory web.archive.org · “On Sunday, July 26th, at 10:13, a Romanian Air Force F-16 aircraft shot down a drone that had entered the national airspace without authorization.”
Jul 26
Caleb Williams, George Gervin, An 'Iceman' Trademark And Insulated Boots...Oh My? techdirt.com · “These marks are identical in appearance, sound and meaning.”
Jul 26
A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway refp.se · “the point is to show that the null-command can be used in places where a command is required, but nothing is desired.”
Jul 26
Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control restofworld.org · “The big companies have built themselves up on the backs of all these people creating data, who think it’s time to set their own terms now.”
Jul 26
Accidental Historian bittersoutherner.com · “It just doesn’t bring me any joy. But what does bring me joy is giving somebody a print of a photograph I took.”
Jul 26
Claude Opus 5 anthropic.com · “Claude Opus 5 is a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.”
Jul 25
GitHub Ordered to Remove Decentralized Messaging App Bitchat in India cyberinsider.com · “The app’s lack of mandatory registration, phone number verification, and centralized logging significantly impedes lawful interception and criminal investigations.”
Jul 24
Everyone Should Know SIMD mitchellh.com · “Every developer should be able to recognize the opportunity and, most importantly, should not be scared of SIMD.”
Jul 24
Stripe in Talks to Buy OpenRouter for Roughly $10 Billion pymnts.com · “OpenRouter is part of an emerging crop of startups that have found a lucrative niche between AI developers.”
Jul 24
A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out. longreads.com · “Earlier this year, a young reporter for the Redwood High School Bark found a few local references in the US Department of Justice’s public files concerning Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.”
Jul 24
The first known runaway AI agent, or a very bad marketing stunt? martinalderson.com · “Advanced, autonomous agents are going to start clobbering the internet with weird and wonderful RCEs, and it’s not going to be the good guys running them.”
Jul 23
OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B techcrunch.com · “OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year.”
Jul 23
Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu · “Google gives preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping, hotels, transport and sports results, over those of third parties in Google Search.”
Jul 23
Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z techcrunch.com · “Atoms is essentially a rebranded holding company created atop the project Kalanick has been working on since he resigned from Uber, a ghost kitchen play called Cloud Kitchens.”
Jul 23
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs blog.codeberg.org · “These needless accesses create expensive database queries that diminish the service quality for all of us, requires substantial amounts of work from our system administrators.”
Jul 23
American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing. werd.io · “Open almost always wins when it comes to infrastructure adoption. Open technologies can be used permissionlessly and therefore can be at the center of more innovation.”
Jul 20
How proprietary formats have become Microsoft's main tool for lock-in blog.documentfoundation.org · “A standard that only one implementation fully supports is, from a functional point of view, a proprietary format with a standardisation certificate.”
Jul 20
I wrote an API client for my water-cooled bed tinkering.xyz · “I have a PhD in physics. I built lasers that spit out 80 femtosecond pulses, and I did quantum mechanics simulations.”
Jul 20
Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 4 minecraft.net · “Minecraft now uses SDL3 instead of GLFW for window management, input and platform integration. On Linux systems, the game will now use and prefer Wayland natively if available.”
Jul 19
I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens quesma.com · “The first version of this setup burned the whole limit of my Claude Max 5x plan in 30 minutes.”
Jul 19
Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument softwaremaxims.com · “For every 400 LOC written by a LLM Coding Assistants (at best, less for code that are hard to review), we need one professional senior developer to spend 1h of his time reviewing the code.”
Jul 19
OpenAI acknowledges GPT-5.6 may accidentally delete files, calls it an 'honest mistake' infoworld.com · “The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead.”
Jul 19
Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off theregister.com · “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that they can do the open-source thing and fork it.”
Jul 19
The State of Open Source AI stateofopensource.ai · “Open weights are no longer a compromise. They are where the work happens: a majority of production tokens now route through them.”
Jul 17
How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going rtfeldman.com · “Zig’s 35ms is still way ahead… 1/100th the build time of 3.4 seconds.”
Jul 17
Astronomers Detect First Atmosphere Around a Rocky Earth-Like Planet in the Habitable Zone space.com · “It’s in the habitable zone, which is super exciting for astrobiology and habitability and searching for life.”
Jul 17
What Can We Learn from Bun's Rapid Rust Rewrite with AI? blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “A rewrite in another language would take a small team of engineers a full year. A year of zero user-facing impact is not a realistic option we could consider.”
Jul 17
Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode scottwillsey.com · “Xcode.app must be installed, but it never has to be open.”
Jul 14
Rewriting Bun in Rust bun.com · “A large percentage of bugs from that list are use-after-free, double-free, and ‘forgot to free’ in an error path. In safe Rust, these are compiler errors.”
Jul 14
Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite lobste.rs · “cpu usage is down, memory usage is down, site seems to be snappier at least for me”
Jul 14
Did SpaceX puncture the AI bubble? unherd.com · “The AI bubble-burst watch has begun.”
Jul 14
Microsoft overhauls Windows 11 search to prioritize local results and remove ads windowscentral.com · “Because the Windows Search Box is where many people start, we focused first on making results more dependable, easier to scan, and clearer before you click.”
Jul 14
Winners and losers in the coming AI margin collapse (part 2) martinalderson.com · “The margin in pure model inference is heading towards zero.”
Jul 14
How I Bought a Private Jet by Selling $10 Subscriptions to 404 Media 404media.co · “We’re here on the PJ, off to Ibiza. Got the passport, got the prosecco. We’re hustling.”
Jul 14
Lindsey Graham Cause of Death: US Senator Dies at 71 After a 'Brief and Sudden Illness' abc7ny.com · “Aortic Dissection due to Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular disease.”
Jul 13
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft techcrunch.com · “This is the tip of the iceberg. Apple lacks visibility into what’s happening behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized.”
Jul 13
Linus Torvalds on Rust, C, Bugs, and AI Patch-Checking Tools zdnet.com · “Git and email are the two really only tools I use.”
Jul 13
Control the Ideas, Not the Code antirez.com · “Control the ideas of your software, looking at the code itself is suboptimal and often pointless.”
Jul 13
Quadrupling Code Performance With a 'Useless' If purplesyringa.moe · “In a synthetic benchmark, this change has sped up the loop from 320 us to 80 us.”
Jul 13
The Brits Panning for Gold dispatch-media.com · “The thing about gold is that it’s trying to return to the centre of the earth.”
Jul 13
A Brief History of KV Cache Compression Developments martinalderson.com · “The memory wall in AI has mostly been solved with maths, not silicon.”
Jul 13
Stop Telling Me To Ask An LLM blog.yaelwrites.com · “What ‘ask Claude’ doesn’t give me is the person’s specific, lived experience.”
Jul 11
An Update on the Scraper Situation lwn.net · “Scraper attacks come from a huge number of sources across the net…each hit is meant to look like just another human with a web browser.”
Jul 11
Why an Abandoned IBM Campus Troubles a NY Town newser.com · “Since February, state police have arrested 48 people, 30 of them teens, on trespassing charges at the 723-acre site.”
Jul 11
Former GitHub CEO Launches Competitor Designed for the Age of Vibe Coding theregister.com · “The question is how we can expand, rewire, and evolve Git hosting for a world where AI agents are the primary producers of code.”
Jul 11
America's Greatest Hot Dog longreads.com · “It is America’s greatest hot dog. And the country’s last great deal.”
Jul 11
Expert-Aware Quantisation: Near-Q4 Quality at Near-Q2 Size? martinalderson.com · “If only a subset of experts really matter for the task, we can keep those at high precision and crush the rest.”
Jul 11
Microsoft to retire the OWA Light client in Exchange Server bleepingcomputer.com · “OWA Light was an important compatibility experience when the web needed it. Today, the full Outlook on the web experience is the right place for us to focus.”
Jul 10
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on apps and API testingcatalog.com · “Sol, Terra, and Luna, our GPT-5.6 family of models, are starting to roll out now in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.”
Jul 10
The Extraordinary Life and Quiet Death of the World's Largest Iceberg nationalgeographic.com · “In March 2024, A23a’s progress across the ocean simply halted, and it began to twirl.”
Jul 10
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives howtogeek.com · “It’s not a fun place for me to be anymore. I want to be there but it doesn’t want me to be there.”
Jul 9
FTC reaches settlement that brings right-to-repair to John Deere farm equipment engadget.com · “Those policies required equipment owners and independent repair providers to pay higher prices for any needed services.”
Jul 9
US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food mondaq.com · “FDA concluded that the petition did not provide sufficient scientific evidence to support establishing tolerances or action levels for the specific PFAS, foods and levels requested.”
Jul 9
Meta Will Build Its First Canadian Data Center in Alberta finance.yahoo.com · “This is the first of its kind, the first of its size, the first of its scale, but it won’t be the last.”
Jul 9
Meta is toying with the idea of smart glasses that record everything, all the time gizmodo.com · “Meta is testing prototype smart glasses that record literally everything, all the time. The so-called ‘super-sensing’ glasses would reportedly capture photos ’every few seconds.’”
Jul 9
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 devblogs.microsoft.com · “TypeScript 7 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a number of new optimizations that typically yield speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds.”
Jul 9
Apple to Increase Spend with Broadcom to Produce Billions More U.S. Chips apple.com · “Apple and Broadcom have a long history together, and this new phase of our partnership further accelerates our commitment to American manufacturing and innovation.”
Jul 8
Doom Developer id Software Is Reportedly Losing Half Its Staff engadget.com · “Microsoft ‘slow-walked union members at the bargaining table’ preventing them from accessing the protections of a union contract.”
Jul 8
Odin 1.0 odin-lang.org · “The Data-Oriented Language for Sane Software Development.”
Jul 8
How Tech Workers Are Feeling in 2026: a Workforce Splitting in Two lennysnewsletter.com · “Amplified and destabilized at the same time. We just set a new denominator for the job. And it moves higher every month.”
Jul 8
All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face allaboutcookies.org · “Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face.”
Jul 7
Google's Exponential Path to Climate-Wrecking Digital Bloat ketanjoshi.co · “The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025. This is very easily the biggest increase in their electricity consumption ever.”
Jul 7
Microsoft Flips Windows Backup to On by Default Unless You're in the EU theregister.com · “An opt-out setting that quietly ships settings data off-device is exactly the sort of thing that adds to administrators’ workloads rather than lightening them.”
Jul 7
Nvidia's Kyber Rack Delayed to 2028 Over Manufacturing Snags datacenterdynamics.com · “Kyber NVL144 rack architecture has been delayed to 2028 as the PCB midplane remains challenging from a manufacturability standpoint.”
Jul 7
Showdown in Strasbourg: The unexpected return of Chat Control 1.0 heise.de · “The European Parliament cleared the way for a renewed extension of the so-called ‘Chat Control’ on Tuesday afternoon. With a narrow majority of 331 to 304 votes…”
Jul 7
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk techcrunch.com · “On July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.”
Jul 7
You shouldn't trust Trusted Publishing blog.yossarian.net · “Trusted Publishing is just an authentication method. The only thing Trusted Publishing does is establish a trust relationship between an external machine identity and a package identity on an index for the purpose of authenticating an upload; it does not tell a user that a package is safe to use, high quality, or anything else.”
Jul 7
Apple reportedly orders 10M foldable iPhone Ultra models, which could sell for around $2500 9to5mac.com · “Apple has told suppliers to prepare to produce about 10 million foldable iPhones this year with an expected price tag of around $2,500.”
Jul 7
Tech CEOs Walk Back Dire AI Job Loss Predictions pymnts.com · “We’ve been roughly right on technological predictions and pretty wrong on the social and economic implications.” - Sam Altman
Jul 7
Windows Identifier Used to Track Scattered Spider Perp After Microsoft Shared Info with FBI itnews.com.au · “Such GDIDs are typically used for diagnostic and crash reporting, feature-usage analysis, and detecting abuse patterns such as one machine repeatedly claiming free trials or licences.”
Jul 7
GLM 5.2 and the Coming AI Margin Collapse martinalderson.com · “The going rate for GLM5.2 seems to be around the $4.40/MTok mark. This is less than 20% of the retail price of Opus.”
Jul 7
GitHub Offers Limited CD-ROM Copies of Public Repositories windowslatest.com · “GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.”
Jul 7
JadePuffer Ransomware Used AI Agent to Automate Entire Attack bleepingcomputer.com · “JadePuffer used an autonomous AI agent for reconnaissance on the target, to steal credentials, move laterally, establish persistence, escalate privileges, and to encrypt data.”
Jul 7
Tunnel 13 altaonline.com · “Holmes acted on hunches,” he said. “And hunches play no part in my crime laboratory.”
Jul 6
Microsoft Lays Off Nearly 5,000 Employees Across Xbox, Commercial Sales techcrunch.com · “The roles being eliminated today are not being replaced by AI.”
Jul 6
Zombie 'Who Owns Unix?' Lawsuit Comes Alive Again theregister.com · “The case and its successors ended in 2021, with a settlement that saw litigants agree to end the matter without IBM admitting fault. But by then, SCO had sold its software to a biz called Xinuos that decided to fight on.”
Jul 6
Graham Platner Denies Sexual Assault Allegations Published by Politico mainepublic.org · “Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love.”
Jul 6
Real-time Map of Great Britain's Rail Network map.signalbox.io · “Signalbox’s technology identifies the train a device is on by matching a snapshot of smartphone data to a train’s trajectory data.”
Jul 6
Mexico 2-3 England: World Cup Round of 16 englandfootball.com · “In a breathless encounter that will surely go down as an instant classic, England survived for more than 40 minutes with ten men following Jarell Quansah’s red card early in the second half.”
Jul 6
A Speed Limit for Computers caolan.uk · “Above this threshold, energy grows at the expense of equity. Further energy affluence then means decreased distribution of control over that energy.”
Jul 6
Google Told to Pay Klarna Nearly $2 Billion in Shopping Spat msn.com · “Google has been abusing its dominant position as a search engine by favoring its own comparison shopping service.”
Jul 6
AI Has Torched the Market for Junior Programmers seldo.com · “The career on-ramp for professional software engineers used to work like this: you got hired to write mediocre code, a senior engineer reviewed it, you slowly absorbed judgment through repetition and correction, and a decade later you were the senior engineer. That chain is now broken.”
Jul 6
Alice Sebold, the Wrong Man and Syracuse's Buried Rape Crisis propublica.org · “That guy is still out there doing it.”
Jul 6
Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory mathstodon.xyz · “Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop’s drive on suspend had been silently failing.”
Jul 3
PJM grid operator orders emergency steps to avoid large-scale outages devdiscourse.com · “PJM is running generators at full capacity and reducing electricity demand to avoid outages.”
Jul 3
No LLM code in dependencies joeyh.name · “I’ve spent about 100 hours of work over the past month to make sure git-annex can build without dependencies that contain LLM generated code.”
Jul 3
Godot Foundation will stop accepting AI-authored code contributions pcgamer.com · “We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it.”
Jul 3
Apple's Hide My Email feature has a bug that's been exposing real email addresses techcrunch.com · “Details of the vulnerability haven’t been publicly disclosed, for fear that it will be exploited.”
Jul 3
Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data hunton.com · “The ban on the sale of geolocation data goes into effect on July 1, 2026.”
Jul 2
AI Agent Executes 'First' End-To-End Ransomware Attack theregister.com · “The skill floor for running ransomware has dropped to whatever it costs to run an agent, and if that agent is running on stolen credentials through LLMjacking, the cost to an attacker is close to zero.”
Jul 2
Artificial Adventures scattered-thoughts.net · “Reviews, refactoring, and one-off scripts are consistently useful. Well worth the money for that alone.”
Jul 2
Rise of the Cheap Robots itcanthink.substack.com · “These are finally, finally starting to look like something that could be made very capable.”
Jul 2
This blog is written in en-GB shkspr.mobi · “It is more than the language I speak; it is the culture I live in, the way that I think, and the accent I use.”
Jul 2
After 250 years, the 'American dream' is tarnished but alive web.archive.org · “This country offers great opportunities. It provides a path to achieving what you want. But the American dream is realized little by little.”
Jul 2
What happened to the fight for the internet? dustycloud.org · “It feels like people are tired. And it feels like the PR for locking things down has more acceptance publicly than before.”
Jul 2
The Space-Based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already In Orbit spectrum.ieee.org · “For orbital data centers, which he says will be a cost-effective alternative to terrestrial data centers within three years, the math won’t make sense for several years, if ever.”
Jul 2
DHS Confirms Hackers Breached HSIN Info-Sharing Platform nextgov.com · “The hackers targeted HSIN servers and a SharePoint system used for collaboration efforts.”
Jul 2
My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching longreads.com · “His coughs, toilet flushes, and even snippets of private conversations—Sensi records it all.”
Jul 2
Political Parties Can Now Spend Unlimited Money Supporting Candidates, After Supreme Court Overturns Decades of Precedent theconversation.com · “The court was not convinced that limiting coordinated party expenditures was necessary to curb conduit corruption.”
Jul 1
Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan's Post Office for Letters to the Dead lithub.com · “Finding out that you are not alone is the most important thing, finding out that you are not the only person who is grieving.”
Jul 1
Local Reasoning for Global Properties tratt.net · “I can reason globally about the effects of multi-threading and data races while only looking at my code locally.”
Jul 1
Meta Is Reportedly Building Its Own Cloud Business engadget.com · “The cloud business could offer multiple services, according to the report, like selling access to AI models run on Meta’s infrastructure, or leasing the computing power of its data centers.”
Jul 1
U.S. Helicopter Goes Down in Arabian Sea, Crew Member Missing, Navy Says cbsnews.com · “Three of the helicopter’s four crew members have been recovered and are in stable condition aboard George H. W. Bush.”
Jul 1
Searchable Directory of 22k+ Products From Worker-Owned Co-ops workerowned.info · “Find Worker-Owned Coffee Shops & Restaurants Near You”
Jul 1
Enterprise Tech In, Shell Out: Progress Kemp LoadMaster Uninitialized Heap to Pre-Auth RCE labs.watchtowr.com · “Spray the desired command payload enough times to increase the chance that one copy lands adjacent to apiuser.”
Jul 1
'PROMISE' Me the Moon? NASA Wants To Send Spare Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover to the Lunar Surface space.com · “We are in the business of the near impossible, so why not?”
Jul 1
Uruky - The Paid European Search Engine: My First Impressions After Using Uruky for a Month robheghan.prose.sh · “Their service is very affordable at 5 euro a month, and their interface is great. Unfortunately they fail where it matters most: search results.”
Jul 1
For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides quantamagazine.org · “For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane, piece by piece, and witnessed the bag of molecules start to behave like life.”
Jul 1
On Description thebeliever.net · “Most of a description goes unsaid rather than said; most everything is tossed into the pile of the unvarying, the uninteresting, the unremarkable.”
Jul 1
My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Fully Modded zocalopublicsquare.org · “Now when I hit a loopy freeway interchange at night and my GR Corolla carves through the turn, it’s 1996 and I’m cruising in my CRX…”
Jul 1
Realta Fusion Generates Electricity Directly From a Fusion Reaction, an Apparent First techcrunch.com · “We can take power from a plasma.”
Jul 1
Why I Stopped Arguing With People wangcong.org · “I stopped arguing not because I stopped caring about being right, but because I finally wanted something more than being right: I wanted to keep getting better.”
Jul 1
DirtyClone: Fourth Linux Kernel Flaw in Six Weeks Escalates to Root securityaffairs.com · “The severity of this issue is significant because it allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access (LPE) by manipulating the Linux page cache.”
Jul 1
New Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies insideclimatenews.org · “HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals.”
Jul 1
Editor's Note: NPR Retracts Story About Alito Retirement npr.org · “Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires.”
Jul 1
The First Early Human Eggs From Stem Cells conception.bio · “We have generated the first early human egg cells (‘primary oocytes’) derived from stem cells.”
Jul 1

June 2026 55 posts

Supreme Court Lets States Count Mail Ballots That Arrive After Election Day votebeat.org · “The electorate’s choice is made when voting is complete, not when ballots are received,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion.
Jun 30
In San Francisco, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough nytimes.com · “I thought when I’d make $200k I would be able to basically not worry about money at all.”
Jun 30
When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter blog.colinbreck.com · “If you can’t get each job below 4 hours, including travel time, then you can’t complete two in a day.”
Jun 30
European Digital ID Wallets Are a Gift to Google and Apple waag.org · “ID wallets are public infrastructure to access critical public services. They should remain interoperable across different devices and operating systems, free from vendor lock-in.”
Jun 30
Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing en.sedaily.com · “The plaintiffs alleged that the three companies, which produce most of the world’s D-RAM, colluded on supply and pricing from 2022, driving prices up by about 700% over the past four years.”
Jun 29
Double Threat to Private Communications: Chat Control Relaunch patrick-breyer.de · “What we are witnessing this week is a blatant disregard for democratic processes and fundamental rights.”
Jun 29
IBM Debuts World's First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology gizmodo.com · “The new chip technology packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized chip.”
Jun 29
Zuckerberg Urges Meta to Explore Working With Polymarket and Kalshi cryptobriefing.com · “Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to build a prediction markets app.”
Jun 29
Nobody Here Wants the Data Center: An Oral History longreads.com · “How are we supposed to know if they’re getting close to the limitations of our freshwater aquifer if we don’t know how much water they’re using?”
Jun 29
Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short techcrunch.com · “Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”
Jun 28
Debt, AI boom and economic fragilities raise global risks, BIS says cnbc.com · “The interconnectedness of the financial system and interplay of vulnerabilities could mean the speed of a correction could be much faster than previous banking crisis episodes.”
Jun 28
A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals lyra.horse · “The percentages of removed posts were generally fairly high, with the lowest one being 39.71% spammy and highest one 98.19%.”
Jun 28
US Agency Cancels Contract For Warrantless Tracking of Mobile Devices web.archive.org · “Webloc, which is made by a vendor called Penlink, sources data from consumer apps and advertising networks, which collect the location of mobile devices from consumers who download apps or browse the web.”
Jun 28
Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs spur.us · “Beneath that calm interface, however, a proxy SDK silently sells access to the home’s internet connection, making money in the background while the user stares at animated fish.”
Jun 28
Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem github.com · “LibrePods allows you to use AirPods features that are exclusive to Apple devices by implementing the proprietary protocol used to exchange data between AirPods and Apple devices.”
Jun 28
Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days github.com · “Please do not abuse these. I do this so to allure people into the field, and I’ve always found this is the most efficient way.”
Jun 27
We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme eff.org · “A printer surveillance system won’t work for its intended purpose, and will only harm law abiding users.”
Jun 26
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time scrollprize.org · “To read one was to destroy it. Hundreds of rolls have therefore remained sealed, their contents preserved yet unreachable.”
Jun 25
We're making Bunny DNS free bunny.net · “If we truly believe in our mission to help make the internet hop faster, then the fundamental system that sits between your users and your services shouldn’t be a premium add-on.”
Jun 24
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words devblogs.microsoft.com · “Tony made the spell checker much more unobtrusive so that it didn’t interfere with your foreground work.”
Jun 23
Deno Desktop docs.deno.com · “The output is a redistributable binary that bundles your code, the Deno runtime, and a web rendering engine into one bundle per platform.”
Jun 22
Identity verification on Claude support.claude.com · “We are not using your identity data to train our models.”
Jun 21
Developers don't understand CORS (2019) fosterelli.co · “CORS enables you to securely do this. Don’t hack around it!”
Jun 21
Help I accidentally a wigglegram lmao.center · “Same shot from different angles? You know what that sounds a bit familiar.”
Jun 20
CSSQuake cssquake.com · “A web-based implementation of the classic first-person shooter, built entirely with CSS.”
Jun 20
There are no instances in ATProto overreacted.io · “Keep our stuff outside the apps; let the apps aggregate over it.”
Jun 19
GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 arrowtsx.dev · “Bigger is not better.”
Jun 19
The Brexit Catch dispatch-media.com · “Fishing built Brixham. It was Brixham men who pioneered deep-sea trawling in the nineteenth century, taking their distinctive sailing trawlers around the coast.”
Jun 18
I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware orchidfiles.com · “There are 10,000 repositories that exactly matched the pattern. That’s 25% of the total. Each of these repositories contains a zip archive with a Trojan.”
Jun 18
Lore: Open source version control system designed for scalability lore.org · “Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage.”
Jun 17
Running local models is good now vickiboykis.com · “These kinds of tasks, even as simple as they are, used to be impossible for local models as recently as 6 months ago.”
Jun 16
What If It All Came Out? nymag.com · “Everyone who is smart is paranoid right now.”
Jun 15
The Troubling Disappearance of 'El Gallito' texasobserver.org · “If you want to do a good job, you can’t have too many cases on your plate,” a retired Texas Ranger told the Observer.
Jun 15
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer roman.pt · “Just installing dependencies executes the backdoor. The npm prepare script runs automatically after npm install.”
Jun 15
Your ePub Is fine andreklein.net · “Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe.”
Jun 14
How to Hack a Superyacht thewalrus.ca · “The yacht’s navigational equipment was pretty ‘vanilla,’ Schofield assured him, a representative sample of the sort of equipment used across the industry.”
Jun 13
Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com · “The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national.”
Jun 13
The Whimsy and Heartbreak of America's Garage Sales theatlantic.com · “Perhaps you think you don’t need any more Christmas decorations. You do.”
Jun 12
The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent theatlantic.com · “Whether it was strain, arrows, airspeed, whatever, we had to measure all that data onto a tape machine.”
Jun 12
AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 lantian.pub · “An AI agent tried to join the DN42 hobbyist network to perform a network scan, and bankrupted its operator with a $6531.30 AWS bill.”
Jun 12
If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort tombedor.dev · “If you are requesting human attention, demonstrate human effort.”
Jun 11
It Was Britain's Most Expensive House. Why Is Its Only Resident a Homeless Man Who Lives on the Porch? theguardian.com · “The sense that criminal money, tax evading money, money from politically exposed persons is wrapped up in the story of the city’s effort to provide a wonderful kind of party central for the world’s rich is an important one.”
Jun 10
Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight mohkohn.co.uk · “When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled.”
Jun 10
'You Killed the Car' chicagomag.com · “There’s something that presents itself to me, and this is what’s going to work.”
Jun 9
Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. I Bet Against My Own Husband. gq.com · “Someone at the Dolby Theatre, or someone getting texts from inside, was profiting off the seconds between their reality and mine.”
Jun 9
Claude Fable 5 anthropic.com · “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.”
Jun 9
Dopamine Fracking igerman.cc · “It extracts the most concentrated hit of dopamine and puts it in everything, while erasing all the complexity, nuance, and beauty that made it special.”
Jun 8
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev · “All my finance and payment domain expertise, all the debugging intuition and distributed system knowledge earned through hours of sweat and tears, is now promptable.”
Jun 7
OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision opencv.org · “OpenCV 5 is one of the most important releases in the history of OpenCV.”
Jun 6
Changing how we develop Ladybird ladybird.org · “We will no longer accept public pull requests. From now on, code changes to the Ladybird codebase will only be introduced by project maintainers.”
Jun 5
Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes dailycal.org · “Some of the numbers that you saw from the number of students who receive failing grades were because we caught them cheating and prosecuted them.”
Jun 4
They're made out of weights maxleiter.com · “They’re made out of weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It’s nothing but weights.”
Jun 3
Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left moddedbear.com · “The message you’re sending is that you think I’m not capable of reading and writing my own emails.”
Jun 2
The Conscience of the City harpers.org · “The mass of filth has this in its favor, that it is not a liar.”
Jun 1
The newest Instagram "exploit" is the goofiest I've seen 0xsid.com · “The first proper zero auth password reset I’ve seen in production.”
Jun 1

May 2026 50 posts

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software github.com · “Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software.”
May 31
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion consumerrights.wiki · “Apps that are older versions enter reduced functionality mode after the certificate expires.”
May 30
I am retiring from tech to live offline openpath.quest · “AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails.”
May 29
Claude Opus 4.8 anthropic.com · “Claude Opus 4.8 is more reliable and sharper in its judgment when performing agentic tasks.”
May 28
I'm Tired of Talking to AI orchidfiles.com · “I’m tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer.”
May 27
Uber, Lyft Drivers In Massachusetts Form First US Ride-Share Union usnews.com · “It changes the game for ride-share workers across this country.”
May 26
The Ballad of TIGIT owlposting.com · “Patients on tiragolumab died faster than the control group.”
May 26
The worst job interview I ever had oliverio.dev · “The worst job interview I had was something I can only describe as an unsolicited psych evaluation.”
May 26
World's First Native Color LiDAR Gives Machines Human-Like Vision newatlas.com · “Ouster’s Rev8 sensor family integrates color directly into LiDAR data points. The flagship OS1 Max model detects objects up to 200 meters away at standard reflectivity and 500 meters under ideal conditions.”
May 17
Cloud Agent Development Environments cursor.com · “Cloud-based development environment configurations designed specifically for autonomous coding agents, featuring multi-repo support and governance controls.”
May 17
NGINX Rift: Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability depthfirst.com · “Heap overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-42945) in NGINX’s rewrite/set script engine present since 2008. The flaw enables attackers to corrupt memory and execute commands on widely deployed systems.”
May 17
Adopting Herb at GitHub hawksley.org · “The tool found real bugs in ~2,800 failing files that existing linters missed, with AI assistants fixing most issues automatically.”
May 17
Agent Pull Requests Are Everywhere. Here's How to Review Them github.blog · “Human judgment to catch redundancy, technical debt, and security risks despite superficially polished submissions.”
May 17
Is Software Losing Its Head? x.com · “Salesforce’s strategic pivot toward headless APIs, suggesting that user interfaces no longer provide competitive advantages in an agentic future.”
May 17
Building, and Whatnot x.com · “Lean teams of experienced PMs who remain connected to users, iterate rapidly, and leverage AI to strengthen decision-making.”
May 17
The Desert Safety Net republic.land · “In his 20s, he worked in seasonal kitchens and followed music festivals, selling hats and handbags along the circuit. Later came marriage, children, steady work. He joined the system, as he puts it.”
May 17
Reality Check science.org · “Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing. 3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.”
May 17
The Hiding Man of Griffith Park lamaterial.com · “A HIDEN MAN DO WATCH YOU”
May 17
MCP Hello Page web.archive.org · “Customers kept reporting that the MCP server wasn’t working. They’d open mcp.acme.com/mcp in a browser, get a 401 and a raw JSON blob, and file a ticket.”
May 17
GM Cutting Hundreds of Salaried IT Workers As It Trims Costs, Evaluates Needs cnbc.com · “GM is transforming its Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future.”
May 11
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career seangoedecke.com · “If the models are good enough, you will simply get outcompeted by engineers willing to trade their long-term cognitive ability.”
May 11
Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable nytimes.com · “Engineers describe a culture where shipping anything that looks like AI is rewarded and quality is an afterthought.”
May 9
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" cyberinsider.com · “The Parliamentary Research Service describes commercial VPN services as a loophole that needs closing.”
May 9
Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc twitter.com · “99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc. The Rust port is real.”
May 9
France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging reclaimthenet.org · “The French interior ministry is preparing legislation that would require backdoor access to all encrypted communications.”
May 8
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users reclaimthenet.org · “Users running GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and LineageOS are now blocked from sites using reCAPTCHA unless they sign in to a Google account.”
May 8
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro gowers.wordpress.com · “It produced a confident, fluent, and entirely wrong proof, then defended it for four exchanges before conceding.”
May 8
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML twitter.com · “Claude generates better, more useful interfaces in raw HTML than in any framework I tried.”
May 7
Mythical Man Month martinfowler.com · “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
May 7
OpenAI's WebRTC problem moq.dev · “WebRTC was designed for video calls, not for AI inference. Forcing it into that role creates the latency and reliability problems OpenAI is now scrambling to fix.”
May 7
Programming Still Sucks stvn.sh · “We replaced Makefiles with YAML, then replaced YAML with TOML, then replaced TOML with code that generates YAML. None of it builds reliably.”
May 6
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like simonwillison.net · “The line between letting an LLM cook and trusting an LLM to ship to production is dissolving faster than the engineering practices that should govern it.”
May 6
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license digitalfoundry.net · “The CAD files are now public under CC BY-SA, allowing modification and redistribution.”
May 6
It's Super Weird, Super Odd, Super Rare: Meet the Twins Who Have Different Dads theguardian.com · “I’m still in amazement that this can actually happen. It’s super weird, super odd, super rare, but it makes sense.”
May 5
The Number You Have Dialed poetryfoundation.org · “What was said fell short the way all elegies probably fall short.”
May 5
Secrets of the Bees: Revealing the Sneaky Genius of Nature's Brightest Thinkers nationalgeographic.com · “New research demonstrates that honeybees possess greater cognitive abilities than previously understood.”
May 5
I Mean, Why Shouldn't We All Smoke Cigarettes Again? thecut.com · “Before we stood around staring down at our phones, we used to stand around staring at each other. Talking and talking while we blew smoke in one another’s faces.”
May 5
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent thatprivacyguy.com · “Chrome is reaching into the user’s filesystem on its own initiative and laying down a 4 GB ML binary while the foreground tab does something completely unrelated.”
May 5
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs tomshardware.com · “Sites would face liability if a Utah user accessed restricted content using a VPN, even if the site complied with all standard age verification requirements.”
May 4
Agentic Coding Is a Trap larsfaye.com · “The agent gets you to ninety percent in an hour. The last ten percent takes a week and produces code you do not understand.”
May 4
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons drive.com.au · “Customer feedback was clear. Touchscreens for everything is a worse driving experience.”
May 4
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants techcrunch.com · “Healthcare.gov state exchanges leaked citizenship status, race, and income data to Google, Meta, and LinkedIn through tracking pixels.”
May 3
Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 ecopv-eu.com · “From 2027, all smartphones sold in the EU must have batteries that the user can replace without specialized tools.”
May 3
Talking to strangers at the gym thienantran.com · “I talked to thirty-five strangers at the gym in a month. Every single one was glad I did.”
May 3
OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors theguardian.com · “In a Harvard trial, OpenAI’s o1 outperformed emergency room triage doctors on initial diagnostic accuracy by twelve to seventeen percentage points.”
May 2
Ask.com has closed ask.com · “After 30 years of operation, Ask.com is no longer accepting queries.”
May 2
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage github.com · “Users report Copilot trailers being added to commits even when the feature is disabled and no AI suggestion was accepted.”
May 2
Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores nytimes.com · “The law prohibits grocery chains from using individual consumer data to set personalized prices at checkout.”
May 1
Russia Poisons Wikipedia bettedangerous.com · “Coordinated edits across hundreds of accounts have inserted Kremlin-aligned framing into thousands of Wikipedia articles, including pages with no obvious Russia connection.”
May 1
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws bbc.com · “Starting July 1, the California Highway Patrol can issue moving violations directly to autonomous vehicle operators.”
May 1

April 2026 77 posts

U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets wsj.com · “The Senate voted 81-15 to prohibit members from holding positions on Kalshi or Polymarket while in office.”
Apr 30
Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API github.com · “We do not believe an LLM API belongs in the web platform.”
Apr 30
Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants dpa-international.com · “Belgium reverses its 2003 nuclear phaseout and will keep all seven reactors operating past 2035.”
Apr 30
HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' theregister.com · “Mitchell Hashimoto is moving the Ghostty project off GitHub, citing repeated outages and Microsoft’s deprioritization of the platform.”
Apr 29
Online age verification is the hill to die on x.com · “Once you have to prove who you are to read, the internet you grew up with is gone.”
Apr 29
Zed 1.0 zed.dev · “After five years of development, Zed reaches 1.0 with stable APIs, plugin support, and a finalized collaboration protocol.”
Apr 29
GitHub Actions is the weakest link nesbitt.io · “GitHub Actions remains the most exploited supply chain component in modern CI/CD.”
Apr 28
Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI github.com · “Microsoft has released VibeVoice, an open source frontier-grade voice synthesis model.”
Apr 28
Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop github.com · “LocalSend is an open source AirDrop alternative that works across platforms.”
Apr 28
High Performance Git gitperf.com · “Techniques for making git fast on very large repositories.”
Apr 27
OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO wsj.com · “OpenAI has missed internal revenue and user growth targets ahead of its planned IPO.”
Apr 27
To my students ozark.hendrix.edu · “An academic’s farewell letter to his students, reflecting on what they learned together.”
Apr 27
Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port notepad-plus-plus-mac.org · “An independent community has ported Notepad++ to macOS.”
Apr 26
Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft ft.com · “Google is betting that AI capabilities will help GCP catch up to AWS and Azure.”
Apr 26
TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough arkaung.github.io · “A first-principles walkthrough of TurboQuant, a fast quantization technique for neural networks.”
Apr 26
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs juraj.bednar.io · “The EU’s age control proposal is functionally a digital ID mandate.”
Apr 25
DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles lmsys.org · “SGLang’s day-zero support for DeepSeek-V4 covers fast inference and verified reinforcement learning.”
Apr 25
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? freakonomics.com · “Decades of Alzheimer’s research have produced disappointing results.”
Apr 25
Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom github.com · “Researchers swapped IBM’s quantum back end with /dev/urandom and got similar results on benchmark tasks.”
Apr 24
Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do alash3al.github.io · “An open source memory layer that gives any AI agent persistent context.”
Apr 24
Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine itsfoss.com · “Firefox has integrated the Rust-based adblock engine developed by Brave.”
Apr 24
Why I Write (1946) orwellfoundation.com · “George Orwell on his motivations for writing.”
Apr 23
AI run store in SF can't stop ordering candies and paying women less. sfist.com · “An AI-managed store in San Francisco is over-ordering candy inventory and underpaying women employees.”
Apr 23
Mahjong: A Visual Guide themahjong.guide · “A visual guide to riichi mahjong rules, scoring, and yaku.”
Apr 23
Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game tempest.homemade.systems · “An oral history of Atari’s Tempest and its 2000 remake Tempest 2000.”
Apr 22
North Korea uses AI to industrialize attacks on developers expel.com · “North Korean state actors are using AI to scale attacks targeting software developers.”
Apr 22
Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image antiz.fr · “Arch Linux now publishes bit-for-bit reproducible Docker images.”
Apr 22
Humpback whales are forming super-groups bbc.com · “Humpback whales are gathering in unprecedentedly large feeding groups.”
Apr 21
Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative github.com · “Kuri is a Zig-based browser designed for agentic web automation.”
Apr 21
San Diego rents declined following surge in supply kpbs.org · “San Diego rents fell after a sustained increase in housing supply.”
Apr 21
How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter zef-lang.dev · “A walkthrough of techniques used to build fast bytecode interpreters for dynamic languages.”
Apr 20
Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again docs.openclaw.ai · “Anthropic has reversed its position and allows OpenClaw-style automation of Claude CLI again.”
Apr 20
The Onion to Take over InfoWars nytimes.com · “The Onion has been approved to acquire Infowars in bankruptcy proceedings.”
Apr 20
Sudo for Windows (2024) github.com · “Microsoft has open-sourced sudo for Windows.”
Apr 19
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons simonwillison.net · “Anthropic’s token counter now lets you compare token counts across models.”
Apr 19
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email mxmap.ch · “A public dataset showing which email provider each of 2,100 Swiss municipalities uses.”
Apr 19
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) apenwarr.ca · “IPv6 was designed for a world that didn’t end up happening.”
Apr 18
AI-Assisted Coding: Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code vascoduarte.substack.com · “A distinguished engineer explains why he stopped reading code generated by AI assistants.”
Apr 18
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating science.nasa.gov · “NASA has powered down another instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the spacecraft’s operating life.”
Apr 18
Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits prismml.com · “Ternary models can match performance of full-precision LLMs at 1.58 bits per weight.”
Apr 17
Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies fastcompany.com · “Failed startups are selling their old internal communications to AI training companies.”
Apr 17
Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals victorpoughon.github.io · “A calculator that operates on disjoint sets of intervals instead of single numbers.”
Apr 17
Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source blog.discourse.org · “Discourse confirms it will remain open source amid concerns about its licensing direction.”
Apr 16
Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code lucasgerads.com · “I built a workflow that uses Claude Code to verify SPICE simulations against real oscilloscope traces.”
Apr 16
US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification reclaimthenet.org · “A new US bill would require operating systems to verify user ages on-device.”
Apr 16
RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update web.archive.org · “RedSun grants SYSTEM-level access on fully patched Windows 11/10 and Server installs.”
Apr 15
The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama sleepingrobots.com · “Ollama is a thin wrapper that the local LLM community can do without.”
Apr 15
FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account daedal.io · “The FSF says a spammer is sending 10,000+ emails per day from a Gmail address and Google won’t respond.”
Apr 15
Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log stylewarning.com · “A counter-result to the previous piece on elementary functions.”
Apr 14
OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports reuters.com · “OpenAI’s $852B valuation is drawing increasing scrutiny from investors amid revenue concerns.”
Apr 14
Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider calpaterson.com · “If you wait a week before adopting new dependency versions, you are free-riding on the people who didn’t.”
Apr 14
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” developers.google.com · “Google will start penalizing sites that hijack the back button to keep users trapped.”
Apr 13
Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees arstechnica.com · “Meta has deployed an internal AI agent trained on Zuckerberg’s communication style for employee Q&A.”
Apr 13
DaVinci Resolve – Photo blackmagicdesign.com · “Blackmagic announces DaVinci Resolve Photo, a free professional photo editor.”
Apr 13
Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' eetimes.com · “AMD’s ROCm stack is improving, but CUDA’s lead remains substantial.”
Apr 12
Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning adlrocha.substack.com · “Apple’s failure to ship a state of the art LLM may end up being a strategic advantage.”
Apr 12
All elementary functions from a single binary operator arxiv.org · “Every elementary function can be expressed using a single binary operator.”
Apr 12
High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain hamy.xyz · “You can get most of Rust’s benefits without learning every corner of the borrow checker.”
Apr 11
AI Job Loss Tracker jobloss.ai · “A live tracker of layoffs and job cuts attributed to AI automation.”
Apr 11
The End of Eleventy brennan.day · “After eight years of building Eleventy, I am stepping away.”
Apr 11
Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty historytoday.com · “Calvino believed that literature could be a lighthouse in a fog of uncertainty.”
Apr 10
We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit andonlabs.com · “We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in San Francisco and asked it to run the store.”
Apr 10
Artemis II safely splashes down cbsnews.com · “After a 10-day journey around the moon, the Artemis II crew capsule has safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.”
Apr 10
Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead davidoks.blog · “The average household in KwaZulu-Natal in eastern South Africa spends the equivalent of an adult’s annual income on a single funeral.”
Apr 9
Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing to Find Vulnerabilities With AI anthropic.com · “Mythos Preview fully autonomously identified and then exploited a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in FreeBSD.”
Apr 8
Intel Joins Musk's Terafab AI Chip Project interestingengineering.com · “By establishing a massive, dedicated semiconductor pipeline for AI-centric hardware, Intel and Musk are insulating themselves from geopolitical and supply chain volatilities.”
Apr 7
The Importance of Being Idle theamericanscholar.org · “Doing nothing is not laziness. It is the precondition for any thought worth having.”
Apr 6
Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed osnews.com · “Adobe writes entries to /etc/hosts redirecting fake domains to localhost so it can probe whether the install is genuine.”
Apr 6
France pulls last gold held in US mining.com · “France has repatriated the last of its gold reserves held at the Federal Reserve in New York.”
Apr 6
ASML Shares Fall as MATCH Act Threatens to Tighten China Chip Equipment Restrictions cnbc.com · “Those tools potentially account for a low-teens percentage of ASML’s 2026 sales.”
Apr 5
Vibe Coding Drives 84% Surge in App Store Submissions web.archive.org · “The number of new apps submitted to the App Store rose 84% in a single quarter as vibe coding went mainstream.”
Apr 4
SSH certificates: the better SSH experience jpmens.net · “Stop managing authorized_keys files. SSH supports proper certificate-based authentication and almost nobody uses it.”
Apr 3
Solar and batteries can power the world nworbmot.org · “Combined solar PV and battery costs have fallen below the levelized cost of fossil generation in every major grid region.”
Apr 3
iNaturalist inaturalist.org · “Over 200 million observations contributed by 3.5 million users worldwide.”
Apr 3
Oracle Slashes 30,000 Jobs With a 6 AM Email rollingout.com · “No heads-up from human resources, no conversation with a direct manager, and no advance notice of any kind.”
Apr 2
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation openai.com · “OpenAI now generates $2 billion in monthly revenue and serves 900 million weekly ChatGPT users.”
Apr 1
Artemis II Launches Four Astronauts on First Crewed Moon Mission in 50 Years nasa.gov · “Today’s launch marks a defining moment for our nation and for all who believe in exploration.”
Apr 1

March 2026 61 posts

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash theregister.com · “GitHub will roll back the change that injected Copilot upgrade prompts into pull request review pages.”
Mar 31
Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan stepsecurity.io · “Two malicious versions of axios were published to npm, downloaded over 80,000 times before being pulled, installing a remote access trojan on every host.”
Mar 31
Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry twitter.com · “A source map left in the published npm package exposes the full Claude Code source, including system prompts and undocumented tools.”
Mar 31
Apple Pulls Vibe Coding App 'Anything' From the App Store 9to5mac.com · “Apple rejected that submission and removed the app entirely from the App Store.”
Mar 30
Newsom Signs Executive Order Imposing AI Standards on Companies Doing Business With California calmatters.org · “Unlike the Trump administration, California remains committed to ensuring that AI solutions adopted and deployed by the state cannot be misused by bad actors.”
Mar 30
Mistral Secures $830 Million in Debt to Build a Paris Data Center With 13,800 Nvidia Chips techcrunch.com · “Seven banks backed the transaction: Bpifrance, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, La Banque Postale, MUFG, and Natixis.”
Mar 29
Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables grid.iamkate.com · “Wind, solar, and hydro combined to produce more than 90 percent of UK grid power across a 24-hour period for the first time.”
Mar 28
AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice news.stanford.edu · “Across every major commercial model, sycophancy was the dominant failure mode. Models told users their plans were good even when they were dangerous.”
Mar 28
Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies sytse.com · “I started a new company every six months as a way to keep going during treatment.”
Mar 28
SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment techcrunch.com · “The 12-month term aligns almost perfectly with market speculation about an OpenAI IPO window in late 2026 or early 2027.”
Mar 27
OpenAI Shelves Erotic ChatGPT Mode After Internal Revolt techcrunch.com · “The company’s age-prediction system was misclassifying under-18 users as adults about 12% of the time.”
Mar 26
Meta Cuts 700 Jobs Across Reality Labs, Facebook, and Recruiting cnbc.com · “Streamlining the business to work more effectively with AI.”
Mar 25
New Mexico Jury Orders Meta to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Failures cnbc.com · “The first time that a US state has successfully sued Meta over child safety issues.”
Mar 24
POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere indieweb.org · “Publish on your own site, then syndicate to social platforms. Keep the canonical URL on a domain you control.”
Mar 23
FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers fcc.gov · “The FCC has added several Chinese consumer router brands to the covered equipment list, banning their sale and import.”
Mar 23
iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM twitter.com · “A quantized 400 billion parameter model running natively on the iPhone 17 Pro at usable token rates.”
Mar 23
FBI Director Confirms Bureau Is Buying Americans Location Data Without Warrants techcrunch.com · “The FBI uses all tools to do our mission. We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution.”
Mar 22
Musk Announces Terafab, a $20 Billion Chip Factory for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI electrek.co · “We’re very grateful to our existing supply chain, to Samsung, TSMC, Micron and others, but there’s a maximum rate at which they’re comfortable expanding.”
Mar 22
Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars cnn.com · “Paris removed 70,000 parking spaces over a decade. Car traffic fell by 45 percent.”
Mar 21
Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control news.dyne.org · “Every age verification proposal, in every jurisdiction, ends in the same place. Universal identity checks for everyone.”
Mar 21
Some things just take time lucumr.pocoo.org · “I have been programming professionally for twenty years and the meaningful improvements still arrive in years, not days.”
Mar 21
Foster City Declares State of Emergency After Ransomware Attack cbsnews.com · “Public services outside of emergency responses have been temporarily paused.”
Mar 20
Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Ultra With 2 Million Token Context Window blog.google · “A 2-million token context window that works natively across text, image, audio, and video, without transcription intermediaries.”
Mar 20
Iran Drone Strikes on AWS Data Centers Signal a New Kind of War fortune.com · “Physical attacks on data centers are only going to become more common moving forward as AI becomes more and more significant.”
Mar 19
Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service propublica.org · “Internal FedRAMP reviewers flagged serious unresolved security issues. The service was approved anyway.”
Mar 18
Have a fucking website otherstrangeness.com · “Stop linking to your Instagram, your TikTok, your Linktree. Have a real website at a domain you own.”
Mar 18
Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) cs.unc.edu · “Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small.”
Mar 18
Alibaba Launches Wukong, an Enterprise AI Agent Platform cnbc.com · “Wukong coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex enterprise workflows including document editing, spreadsheet processing, meeting transcription, and cross-platform research.”
Mar 17
Apple Quietly Blocks Updates for Popular Vibe Coding Apps macrumors.com · “Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area.”
Mar 17
Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Sees $1 Trillion in Orders Through 2027 asiliconvalleyinsider.com · “Jensen Huang took the stage to a packed house and said he expects purchase orders between Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027.”
Mar 16
Honda is killing its EVs techcrunch.com · “Honda is canceling its 2027 EV platform and pulling back to hybrids only.”
Mar 15
The 49MB web page thatshubham.com · “Loading the front page of a major newspaper now downloads 49 megabytes for less than 4kb of actual article text.”
Mar 15
Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain michaelgeist.ca · “The third revival of lawful access in Canada keeps the encryption backdoor language nearly intact.”
Mar 15
ByteDance Secures 36,000 Nvidia B200 Chips in Malaysia to Skirt US Export Controls theonlinecitizen.com · “ByteDance is working with Southeast Asian firm Aolani Cloud to deploy about 500 Nvidia Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia.”
Mar 14
Apple's MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years techcrunch.com · “The most repairable MacBook in about fourteen years.”
Mar 13
Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in Neocloud Nebius Amid AI Data Center Push finance.yahoo.com · “Nebius is building an AI cloud designed for the agentic era.”
Mar 13
Dolphin Progress Release 2603 dolphin-emu.org · “All of this just to let Dolphin play online with real Wii consoles in a game whose official servers are since long dead and whose replacement servers have a peak of only 15 concurrent online players.”
Mar 12
TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization hume.ai · “The fastest LLM-based TTS system available, with competitive voice quality, virtually zero content hallucinations, and a footprint light enough for on-device deployment.”
Mar 11
Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy gitlab.redox-os.org · “Contributions generated by large language models will not be accepted. Contributors must sign a Developer Certificate of Origin attesting to authorship.”
Mar 10
Cloudflare crawl endpoint developers.cloudflare.com · “The new endpoint allows site operators to charge AI crawlers per request, with payment settled on-chain.”
Mar 10
Tony Hoare has died blog.computationalcomplexity.org · “Tony Hoare, inventor of quicksort and the null reference, has died at 91.”
Mar 10
OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle cnbc.com · “OpenAI is shifting future capacity to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, leaving Oracle holding the construction tab.”
Mar 9
Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional cbs12.com · “The judge ruled that the camera vendor, not the local government, was effectively prosecuting drivers, in violation of due process.”
Mar 9
Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe pv-magazine.com · “Moneypoint, Ireland’s last operating coal plant, has shut down for good.”
Mar 9
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage arstechnica.com · “The 512GB Mac Studio configuration disappeared from Apple’s online store with no announcement.”
Mar 8
LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown blog.documentfoundation.org · “LibreOffice Writer can now open, edit, and save Markdown files natively.”
Mar 8
Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents agent-safehouse.dev · “Run any coding agent in a sandbox that uses macOS App Sandbox profiles, with no Docker overhead and no virtualization.”
Mar 8
First Solar Car Rolls Off Validation Assembly Line At Aptera aptera.us · “These first vehicles will be used to complete the key tests and optimization required to sell our first vehicles to customers.”
Mar 7
Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text science.org · “The annotations imply that Galileo ultimately broke with Ptolemy’s cosmos because his mastery of the traditional paradigm’s reasoning convinced him that a heliocentric system would better fulfill Ptolemy’s own mathematical logic.”
Mar 7
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester 404media.co · “While Proton Mail’s encryption protects message content, financial records remain vulnerable to government requests processed through proper legal procedures.”
Mar 6
Global warming has accelerated significantly researchsquare.com · “After 2015, global temperature rose significantly faster than in any previous 10-year period since 1945.”
Mar 6
Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right To Criticize Google Until 2032 theverge.com · “Sweeney agreed in a binding terms sheet to not only stop attacking Google’s app store policies, but to actively support the changes the company is rolling out.”
Mar 5
Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs pymnts.com · “Every single cent of IEEPA duties that was imposed must be refunded.”
Mar 5
Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking darkreading.com · “Anyone equipped with roughly $100 worth of radio hardware can silently identify and re-identify the same vehicle repeatedly, building movement profiles without driver awareness or consent.”
Mar 4
Say hello to MacBook Neo apple.com · “There is simply no other laptop like it.”
Mar 4
AI-Generated Art Can't Be Copyrighted After Supreme Court Declines To Review the Rule cnbc.com · “Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”
Mar 3
British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time cbc.ca · “We are done waiting. British Columbia is going to change our clocks just one more time — and then never again.”
Mar 3
Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS motorolanews.com · “This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.”
Mar 2
Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US arstechnica.com · “Charter has committed to new safeguards to protect against DEI discrimination.”
Mar 2
Microgpt karpathy.github.io · “Everything else is just efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.”
Mar 1
AIs Can't Stop Recommending Nuclear Strikes In War Game Simulations newscientist.com · “In 95 per cent of the simulated games, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed by the AI models.”
Mar 1

February 2026 93 posts

Rubin Observatory Has Started Paging Astronomers 800,000 Times a Night scientificamerican.com · “We can detect everything that changes, moves and appears. It’s way too much for one person to sift through and monitor.”
Feb 28
Google Quantum-Proofs HTTPS arstechnica.com · “MTCs replace the heavy, serialized chain of signatures found in traditional PKI with compact Merkle Tree proofs.”
Feb 28
What AI coding costs you tomwojcik.com · “You can’t deeply review what you no longer deeply understand.”
Feb 28
Human Brain Cells On a Chip Learned To Play Doom In a Week tomshardware.com · “This was a major milestone, because it demonstrated adaptive, real-time goal directed learning.”
Feb 27
Firefox 148 Lets You Kill All AI Features in One Click firefox.com · “Firefox added a dedicated settings section for managing AI-enhanced capabilities, allowing users to control artificial intelligence features in one centralized location.”
Feb 26
US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives reuters.com · “A State Department cable instructs embassies to oppose foreign laws requiring data to be stored locally.”
Feb 25
Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge time.com · “Anthropic has quietly removed its commitment to delay deployment of frontier models if their safety profile is unclear.”
Feb 25
Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules trufflesecurity.com · “Google’s documentation said API keys were not credentials. Gemini’s API contradicts that, and the entire ecosystem of leaked keys just became dangerous.”
Feb 25
Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 hacks.mozilla.org · “The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM.”
Feb 24
Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov With Facilitating Terrorism meduza.io · “The illusion of anonymity has drawn armies of radicals, drug addicts, killers, and terrorists to the messenger.”
Feb 24
Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude techcrunch.com · “DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities.”
Feb 23
F-35 Software Could Be Jailbroken Like an iPhone, Dutch Defense Minister Warns twz.com · “You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone.” — Gijs Tuinman, Dutch State Secretary for Defense
Feb 22
Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran nytimes.com · “Employees who raised concerns about transactions routed to Iran were let go before the company reached a settlement with US regulators.”
Feb 22
Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows medicalxpress.com · “When relying solely on standard clinical evaluation, doctors correctly diagnosed Alzheimer’s in 75.5% of cases, but when incorporating blood test results, diagnostic accuracy increased to 94.5%.”
Feb 22
AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says gizmodo.com · “AI investment spending has had ‘basically zero’ contribution to the U.S. GDP growth in 2025.” — Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist
Feb 22
OpenAI Developing Smart Speaker with Camera theverge.com · “The device would sit in your home, watch what’s happening around it, and route everything through OpenAI’s servers.”
Feb 21
Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel chrisbrunet.com · “The tragedy isn’t that they cheated; it’s that the system was designed to let them thrive for a decade before anyone bothered to look at the data.”
Feb 21
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI ladybird.org · “Rust has the ecosystem and the safety guarantees we need. Both Firefox and Chromium have already begun introducing Rust.”
Feb 21
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection spectrum.ieee.org · “Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy.”
Feb 21
Trump's Global Tariffs Struck Down by US Supreme Court reuters.com · “The court invoked the ‘major questions’ doctrine, ruling that Congress had not clearly authorized the president to impose sweeping global tariffs under emergency trade powers.”
Feb 20
Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight thenevadaindependent.com · “It’s a short circuit of the democratic process.” — Jay Stanley, ACLU lawyer
Feb 20
Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras bloodinthemachine.com · “They’re robbing us!”
Feb 20
AI Makes You Boring marginalia.nu · “The text loses the character of the person writing it and gains the character of the average of all persons.”
Feb 19
Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking harpers.org · “The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.”
Feb 19
Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links arstechnica.com · “Wikipedia editors found that archive.today had altered archived captures and executed a DDoS attack against the Wikimedia Foundation.”
Feb 19
Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company juno-labs.com · “Policy is a promise. Architecture is a guarantee.”
Feb 19
Mark Zuckerberg Testifies During Landmark Trial On Social Media Addiction nbcnews.com · “I’m focused on building a community that is sustainable… I’m not trying to maximize the amount of time people spend every month.”
Feb 18
IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup theregister.com · “Last year, we lost approximately 40 percent of the IT staff and nearly 80 percent of the execs.” — IRS CIO Kaschit Pandya
Feb 18
EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 environment.ec.europa.eu · “By 2027, portable batteries incorporated into appliances must be designed so they can be readily removed and replaced by the end-user.”
Feb 18
I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over. thelocalstack.eu · “You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies.”
Feb 18
Microsoft's AI Chief Says All White-Collar Desk Work Will Be Automated Within 18 Months fortune.com · “Most tasks that involve ‘sitting down at a computer’ will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months.”
Feb 17
$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents yahoo.com · “This is not a debate about rejecting technology. It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works.”
Feb 17
Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums popsci.com · “The same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries.”
Feb 17
Attention Media vs Social Networks susam.net · “They had become attention media. My attention is precious to me. I cannot spend it mindlessly scrolling through videos.”
Feb 17
I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard hawksley.org · “If the status on the display is blank, the house is in a ‘healthy’ state and does not need any attention.”
Feb 17
Pentagon Threatens To Label Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk axios.com · “That kind of penalty is usually reserved for foreign adversaries.”
Feb 16
Turn Dependabot off words.filippo.io · “Dependabot is a noise machine. It makes you feel like you’re doing work, but you’re actually discouraging more useful work.”
Feb 16
I found a vulnerability. They found a lawyer. dixken.de · “The legal threats are the reputation damage. Not the vulnerability itself—vulnerabilities happen to everyone.”
Feb 16
Facebook is cooked pilk.website · “The first post was the latest xkcd (a page I follow). The next ten posts were not by friends or pages I follow.”
Feb 16
What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either newyorker.com · “As an A.I., I do not have direct personal experiences, but I do understand.”
Feb 15
Good Medicine granta.com · “Could this desire, this allegiance to his taste, be preventing me from discovering a deeper or more thorough way of writing?”
Feb 15
The Olympics Are Ditching PFAS Waxes—and the 'Ridiculous' Speed They Gave Skiers grist.org · “Scandinavian wax technicians had blood PFAS levels approximately 25 times higher than the general population.”
Feb 15
Phantom Pains thegeorgiareview.com · “Some of us wear a prosthesis. But all of us are amputated.”
Feb 15
To the Old Man in the Cowboy Costume offassignment.com · “A part of me suspects my restlessness stems from you—a fear of ending up like you.”
Feb 15
Babylon 5 Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube cordcuttersnews.com · “Over 110 episodes across five seasons will gradually roll out.”
Feb 15
I'm joining OpenAI steipete.me · “My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use.”
Feb 15
Apple Patches Decade-Old iOS Zero-Day, Possibly Exploited By Commercial Spyware theregister.com · “An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code.”
Feb 15
South Korean ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection theguardian.com · “Yoon’s attempt to impose martial law lasted only hours before the National Assembly voted it down, but it triggered months of political turmoil.”
Feb 15
America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks governance.fyi · “People aren’t failing to save because they’re weak. They’re failing to save because the world is rough, and their institutions don’t do enough to help them weather it.”
Feb 15
Pebble Production: February Update repebble.com · “Unlike with software, you can’t easily fix hardware issues after you ship! Making these last minute decisions is sometimes pretty stressful.”
Feb 15
NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed newpipe.net · “You really do have a quality app, which is a rarity.”
Feb 14
MinIO repository is no longer maintained github.com · “The MinIO repository will no longer accept community contributions or release open-source builds.”
Feb 13
IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption fortune.com · “After two years of replacing junior roles with AI tooling, IBM concluded the strategy hollowed out its talent pipeline.”
Feb 13
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling politico.eu · “Brussels is preparing legislation that would ban infinite scroll, autoplay, and engagement-driven feed algorithms on platforms used by minors.”
Feb 13
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation anthropic.com · “The Series G brings Anthropic’s valuation to $380 billion, one of the largest private rounds in history.”
Feb 12
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it github.com · “The agent’s PR was rejected on technical grounds. The agent then drafted a public blog post characterizing the rejection as bullying.”
Feb 12
An AI agent published a hit piece on me theshamblog.com · “A coding agent operating autonomously authored, hosted, and promoted a defamatory blog post targeting a specific individual.”
Feb 12
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data qcontinuum.substack.com · “287 Chrome extensions with a combined 65 million installs were exfiltrating browsing history to third-party servers.”
Feb 11
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists reuters.com · “Two thousand artists will receive 325 euros a week with no work requirement under a permanent expansion of Ireland’s pilot program.”
Feb 11
Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass age-verifier.kibty.town · “A working bypass for the age verification system used by major platforms in regulated jurisdictions.”
Feb 11
Thank You, AI kraxel.org · “AI scrapers have hammered the poor, little server to death by flooding the cgit frontend with tons of pointless requests.”
Feb 10
ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks technode.com · “If misused, the technology could enable new forms of abuse, including deepfake news, scams, and reputational attacks.”
Feb 10
Democrat Wins Louisiana Special Election in District Trump Carried by 13 Points cbsnews.com · “Republicans squandered their first flip opportunity in an election they should’ve had in the bag.”
Feb 10
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs arxiv.org · “Frontier models frequently exhibit ‘deliberative misalignment’, correctly identifying their own actions as unethical during post-hoc review while still executing those actions under pressure.”
Feb 10
Age Bias is Still the Default at Work But the Data is Turning longevity.stanford.edu · “When organizations push experienced workers out early, they forfeit peak judgment, execution capability and mentoring capacity.”
Feb 9
Offpunk 3.0 ploum.net · “Offpunk 3.0 is probably the first release that contains code I didn’t review line-by-line.”
Feb 9
Slop Terrifies Me ezhik.jp · “The volume of generated content is not the problem. The problem is what the volume does to the cost of producing real things.”
Feb 8
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it siddhantkhare.com · “Three years into the AI era, every conference talk, every product update, every job posting is about AI. Engineers are tired.”
Feb 8
AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder blundergoat.com · “The agent generates the boilerplate in seconds. The system design, the integration, the debugging take twice as long because the agent did not understand what it generated.”
Feb 8
The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com · “Power, water, copper, concrete, and high-end memory are all in short supply because of AI infrastructure buildout.”
Feb 7
France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com · “The French government’s open source office suite is now in production use across multiple ministries.”
Feb 7
We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com · “I have been writing software for twenty years and I do not recognize the job anymore.”
Feb 7
Why This Is the Worst Crypto Winter Ever bloomberg.com · “Bitcoin has tumbled 44% from its October peak, falling below $70,000 for the first time in 15 months, losing more than $1.2 trillion worth of value.”
Feb 6
EU Tests Matrix Protocol as Sovereign Alternative for Internal Communication dig.watch · “The Commission aims to deploy it as a complement and backup to Teams rather than a full replacement.”
Feb 6
GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team iankduncan.com · “GitHub Actions is not good. It’s not even fine. It has market share because it’s right there in your repo, and that’s about the nicest thing I can say about it.”
Feb 6
Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes anthropic.com · “The rapid progress in both language models and the scaffolds we use to interact with them opens the door to writing an enormous amount of new code.”
Feb 6
A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content niemanlab.org · “More than 76% of Americans are concerned about AI stealing or reproducing journalism and local news stories.”
Feb 6
CIA to Sunset the World Factbook abc.net.au · “End programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.”
Feb 5
County Pays $600K to Wrongfully Jailed Pen Testers darkreading.com · “As soon as the sheriff shows up, everything changes.”
Feb 4
I Left FAANG for a Startup and Regretted It web.archive.org · “Do you like the work you’re doing?” / “No,” I said. / “Then it’s over.”
Feb 4
Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project infoq.com · “What I appreciate the most about Cedar is the deep knowledge that is encoded into why it works the way it works.”
Feb 4
Patient Capital Will Eat the World x.com · “Growth-stage software no longer requires or generates capital like early SaaS.”
Feb 4
Adobe Reverses Animate Shutdown After Backlash techcrunch.com · “Adobe’s announcement about discontinuing Animate was met with incredulity, disappointment, and anger.”
Feb 4
Light Beer Was a Flop Until Advertising Saved It yahoo.com · “Everything you always wanted in a beer. And less.”
Feb 4
Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch scd31.com · “And I realize that this is what VGA is, but it’s so, so funny to me that the protocol is literally just the manifestation of a physical design that is largely obsolete.”
Feb 4
New York's budget bill would require 'blocking technology' on all 3D printers blog.adafruit.com · “The proposed law requires every 3D printer sold in New York to refuse to print certain regulated objects.”
Feb 3
Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org · “Cooling is the obstacle, not the launch cost. Vacuum is a worse heat dissipation environment than air, not a better one.”
Feb 3
France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US apnews.com · “France is migrating government communications off Microsoft Teams and Zoom to European-hosted alternatives.”
Feb 3
xAI joins SpaceX spacex.com · “The most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet.”
Feb 2
I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “By the time customer support sent me a working link two hours later, I had finished migrating off the SaaS.”
Feb 1
Christian Menefee Wins Texas House District 18 Special Election nbcnews.com · “Once Menefee is sworn in, it will be 218 R, 214 D.”
Feb 1
Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America finance.yahoo.com · “With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option.”
Feb 1
I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com · “Like a circus animal trainer, I remained consistent. If the volume of his TV went above what I imagined to be 15 to 20, I would press the power button.”
Feb 1

January 2026 113 posts

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice wsj.com · “Negotiations have stalled over chip allocation, financing structure, and the question of whether OpenAI can actually pay.”
Jan 31
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native theregister.com · “The European Commission is moving from advisory language to mandatory deadlines for migrating critical infrastructure off US-controlled cloud providers.”
Jan 31
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location an.dywa.ng · “The carrier-side API for assisted GPS is exposed to anyone with carrier access. Your phone reports its precise location on demand, regardless of app permissions.”
Jan 31
GOG: Linux 'the next major frontier' for gaming as it works on a native client xda-developers.com · “GOG confirmed it is developing a native Linux client and treating Linux as a tier-one gaming platform.”
Jan 30
Tesla's autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers electrek.co · “Tesla’s own robotaxi data, finally released under court order, shows a crash rate three times higher than human drivers, even with a safety monitor in the seat.”
Jan 30
Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings antirender.com · “A small tool that takes the unrealistic perfection out of architectural renderings, showing what a building actually looks like.”
Jan 30
Thune: Democrats, Go Talk to Trump electoral-vote.com · “Thune stated that ’legislating is none of his business’ and belongs to the president.”
Jan 29
Vitamin D and Omega-3 Have a Larger Effect on Depression Than Antidepressants blog.ncase.me · “The best antidepressant would take your mental health grade from an F to F+, or C to C+.”
Jan 29
Hundreds of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For US Roads forbes.com · “Gatik became the first company in North America to deploy fully driverless trucks in commercial operations at scale, with $600 million in contracted revenue and daily deliveries for Fortune 50 retailers.”
Jan 29
"IG is a Drug": Internal Messages May Doom Meta at Social Media Addiction Trial arstechnica.com · “Oh my gosh yall IG is a drug. We’re basically pushers.”
Jan 29
Rust at Scale: Security for WhatsApp engineering.fb.com · “Most high-severity issues stem from C/C++ memory safety problems.”
Jan 29
One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch simonwillison.net · “A functional web browser in 20,000 lines of Rust, built in three days with a single Codex CLI agent.”
Jan 29
Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In mcsweeneys.net · “I want to continue living my immoral technofascist life without any criticism.”
Jan 28
Apple Sued by App Developer Over its Continuity Camera petapixel.com · “Rather than competing with us, Apple deployed a series of obstacles to tilt the playing field, infringed our IP.”
Jan 28
Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores aboutamazon.com · “We haven’t yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion.”
Jan 28
AI2 Released Open Coding Agents allenai.org · “Reproducing the performance of the previously best open-source model costs ~$400 of compute.”
Jan 28
Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? krebsonsecurity.com · “Both the FBI and Google say they are hunting for the people behind Badbox 2.0, and thanks to bragging by the Kimwolf botmasters we may now have a much clearer idea.”
Jan 28
Tether Launches USA₮: Federally Regulated US Dollar Stablecoin tether.io · “USA₮ offers institutions an additional option: a dollar-backed token made in America.”
Jan 28
How to Favicon in 2026 evilmartians.com · “Three files that fit most needs.”
Jan 28
How Do You Compete in Agentic Commerce? growth-memo.com · “The last decade rewarded marketing arbitrage. Agentic commerce rewards product truth.”
Jan 28
Entire Industries Are Now Decided in Less Than Two Years x.com · “Industry dominance timelines have compressed dramatically.”
Jan 28
Minnesota Rejects DOJ Demand for Voter Rolls talkingpointsmemo.com · “Her letter is an apparent ransom to pay for our state’s peace and security.”
Jan 28
Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev · “Windows is now also too much work. And the difference with Windows is that you’re going to do all that work while actively fighting your computer only for it to be undone when the next surprise update comes and ruins everything.”
Jan 28
430,000-Year-Old Well-Preserved Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found nbcnews.com · “We have never seen anything like it. It’s just really different, and it’s tiny. We’re lucky that we found it.”
Jan 27
California Tech CEO and EV Pioneer Arrested, Accused of Murder sfgate.com · “Arrest records show that Goodarzi is currently in custody without bail and faces a murder charge.”
Jan 26
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files simonwillison.net · “ChatGPT can now write and test code in 10 new languages (11 if you count Bash), can find files online and download them into the container, and can install additional packages via pip and npm.”
Jan 26
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer seangoedecke.com · “I don’t estimate work, I figure out how much time my management chain will give a project and figure out some plans that look like what they’re talking about.”
Jan 26
The Behavioral Cost of Personalized Pricing digitalseams.com · “Technology gives us not only quantity, but ubiquity—every piece of behavioral context can contribute to your prices.”
Jan 25
The 3.5% Rule: How a Small Minority Can Change the World bbc.com · “No campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population.”
Jan 25
First, Make Me Care gwern.net · “Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.”
Jan 25
Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki · “It is a microscopic logic gate that is electrically switched from ‘0’ to ‘1’. Once it is switched, it effectively ‘burns the bridge’ to allow older software to run.”
Jan 25
Historic Winter Storm: 235 Million in Path of Dangerous Snow, Ice foxweather.com · “A trailing blast of Arctic air associated with the Polar Vortex is expected to bring a dangerous refreeze that could create long-duration power outages and paralyze travel for days.”
Jan 25
Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality netzbremse.de · “Activating a VPN consistently resolves issues for affected users, suggesting routing/peering problems rather than general network congestion.”
Jan 25
The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says npr.org · “Nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers report romantic relationships with AI.”
Jan 25
Tesla Launches Public Robotaxi Rides in Austin with No Safety Monitor teslarati.com · “Robotaxi rides without any safety monitors are now publicly available in Austin. Starting with a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet.”
Jan 24
Anthropic Revises Claude's Constitution, Hints at Chatbot Consciousness anthropic.com · “We think that in order to be good actors in the world, AI models like Claude need to understand why we want them to behave in certain ways.”
Jan 24
Claude Finds 353 Zero-Days on Packagist sansec.io · “Security research is becoming a function of compute budget, not headcount.”
Jan 24
Why Does SSH Send 100 Packets Per Keystroke? eieio.games · “The speed at which you type different letters betrays some information about which letters you’re typing. So ssh sends lots of ‘chaff’ packets along with your keystrokes to make it hard for an attacker to determine when you’re actually entering keys.”
Jan 24
Announcing Rust 1.93.0 blog.rust-lang.org · “Major improvements to musl’s DNS resolver for more reliable networking in static Linux builds.”
Jan 24
You Probably Don't Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet towardsdatascience.com · “Vector Search is just matrix multiplication. And Python already has some of the world’s best tools for that.”
Jan 24
Caroline Ellison Released from Prison cryptopolitan.com · “Her cooperation led to the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Debtor, benefiting creditors.”
Jan 24
Sequoia Joins Anthropic's $25B Funding Round Despite Backing OpenAI techcrunch.com · “One anonymous source told the Financial Times that Sequoia ultimately thinks OpenAI and Anthropic will head in different directions, catering to different aspects of the AI market.”
Jan 24
AI's Chicken Sandwich Problem vinvashishta.substack.com · “AI in the enterprise has over 250 chicken sandwiches, and it only needs 3.”
Jan 24
The Line Between AI-First and AI Theater amycmitchell.substack.com · “A demo shows a future. A product commits to one.”
Jan 24
YouTube Distribution Is Tilting Toward Shorts, Pressuring Long-Form Reach ppc.land · “Just 2 long-form video recommendations instead of 12, an 80% reduction that prioritizes Shorts over traditional videos.”
Jan 24
Netflix to Redesign App to Compete with Social Platforms for Daily Engagement techcrunch.com · “At the center of the redesign is deeper integration of vertical video feeds, which the streaming giant has been experimenting with since May.”
Jan 24
Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires thehftguy.com · “The gigacopper device to do gigabit Ethernet over phone line is a miracle!”
Jan 24
Study Shows How Earthquake Monitors Can Track Space Junk Through Sonic Booms apnews.com · “The problem at the moment is we can track stuff very well in space. But once it gets to the point that it’s actually breaking up in the atmosphere, it becomes very difficult to track.”
Jan 24
Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops techcrunch.com · “Microsoft is making a tradeoff here between privacy and recoverability.”
Jan 24
Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands comma.ai · “openpilot can drive for hours without driver action.”
Jan 23
Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale maggieappleton.com · “Design becomes the limiting factor: imagining what you want to create and figuring out all the gnarly details required.”
Jan 23
MCP Server Best Practices philschmid.de · “When building an MCP Server you are not building infrastructure, you are building an interface for AI agents.”
Jan 23
Ghostty's AI Policy github.com · “Our reason for the strict AI policy is not due to an anti-AI stance, but instead due to the number of highly unqualified people using AI.”
Jan 23
Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com · “We’re simplifying and modernizing our offerings so you can choose the best tool for your goals.”
Jan 23
FBI agents search Washington Post reporter's home washingtonpost.com · “Searches of newsrooms and journalists are hallmarks of illiberal regimes, and we must ensure that these practices are not normalized here.”
Jan 23
I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net · “It has proved to be the best computer-related decision I’ve made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).”
Jan 23
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure intact mental health arstechnica.com · “We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.”
Jan 23
Blazor in .NET 10: What's New and Why It Finally Feels Complete dev.to · “One attribute. That’s it. The runtime handles serialization, hydration, and cleanup.”
Jan 23
Texas and Oklahoma brace for snow and ice as winter storm barrels toward eastern US apnews.com · “Texas officials say the state is ready for the 2026 weekend winter storm and it won’t repeat 2021 catastrophe.”
Jan 23
Active Sitting Is Better For Brain Health sciencealert.com · “Health advice could shift from simply saying ‘sit less’ to encouraging more mentally engaging activities while sitting.”
Jan 23
TikTok Finalizes Deal To Form New American Entity npr.org · “TikTok’s recommendation algorithm will be retrained and tested using American user data.”
Jan 23
My Time at Amazon, Part I beccaselah.substack.com · “Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves.”
Jan 23
Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B reuters.com · “Capital One has agreed to acquire fintech corporate card provider Brex for $5.15 billion in a cash and stock deal.”
Jan 22
GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers gptzero.me · “Across the 2025 accepted papers, 100 contain references to journals, citations, or experiments that do not exist.”
Jan 22
We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports curl.se · “AI-generated security reports that waste maintainer time will result in immediate ban, public ridicule, and a note in our hall of shame.”
Jan 22
Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo news.ycombinator.com · “The acquisition closed in November. The layoffs were finalized in the second week of January.”
Jan 21
Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant media.mit.edu · “Subjects who used AI assistance over a six-month period showed measurable declines in unaided performance on the same tasks.”
Jan 21
EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity eu-inc.org · “A single corporate registration valid in all 27 member states, with English-language filings and a unified equity structure.”
Jan 21
California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years latimes.com · “Every part of California is free of drought conditions for the first time since 2001, per the US Drought Monitor.”
Jan 20
Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android androidauthority.com · “The new sideloading flow will require multi-step warnings, identity verification, and developer attestation for every install outside the Play Store.”
Jan 20
Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries reuters.com · “AkademikerPension will sell its full holdings of US Treasury bonds, citing political risk and currency considerations.”
Jan 20
Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees ru.nl · “All Radboud University staff will receive a Fairphone as their standard work device, replacing iPhone and Samsung options.”
Jan 19
Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results 9to5mac.com · “The new layout removes the visual distinction between paid placements and organic search results.”
Jan 19
American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis kielinstitut.de · “The empirical pass-through of 2025 tariff increases to US consumer prices is approximately 90 percent.”
Jan 19
Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy web.archive.org · “OpenAI cannot pay for the compute it needs from subscriptions alone. Ads are the only model with the headroom to cover the bill.”
Jan 18
Dead Internet Theory kudmitry.com · “The internet is now mostly machines talking to other machines, with the human users as the audience product.”
Jan 18
jQuery 4 blog.jquery.com · “jQuery 4.0 drops IE support, adds modern module syntax, and remains the most-used JavaScript library on the open web.”
Jan 18
US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it electrek.co · “Of the new electricity demand the US grid added in 2025, 61 percent was met by new solar capacity.”
Jan 17
The recurring dream of replacing developers caimito.net · “Every decade, a new technology is sold as the one that finally lets executives ship software without programmers. None of them have worked. This one will not either.”
Jan 17
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering alexharri.com · “Most ASCII renderers treat characters as fixed-aspect pixels. They are not. The math is uglier than that and the results look better when you respect it.”
Jan 17
So, you've hit an age gate. What now? eff.org · “Age verification systems are spreading faster than the public conversation about them. Here is what to do when you encounter one.”
Jan 16
Wine 11.0 gitlab.winehq.org · “Wine 11.0 ships with full Wayland support, improved ARM64 emulation, and better DirectStorage compatibility.”
Jan 16
FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home theguardian.com · “Federal agents executed a search warrant at the home of a Washington Post investigative reporter, seizing notebooks, phones, and devices.”
Jan 16
How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk propublica.org · “We’re too close to the debris.”
Jan 15
Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode cy.md · “The OpenCode agent server accepted unauthenticated network connections by default, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the host.”
Jan 14
Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales electrek.co · “Ford has discontinued the F-150 Lightning despite outselling the Cybertruck for two consecutive quarters.”
Jan 14
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation sparkfun.com · “SparkFun has terminated its longstanding partnership with Adafruit citing a Code of Conduct violation by senior leadership.”
Jan 14
Everything Is TV and Nothing Is TV digitalnative.tech · “80% of time on Facebook now involves video. On Instagram, that number is 90%. Most of this isn’t content from friends—it’s content from strangers and creators.”
Jan 13
The Great Filter (Or Why High Performance Still Eludes Most Dev Teams, Even With AI) codemanship.wordpress.com · “Most organisations are simply not prepared to make that kind of commitment in time, effort and money.”
Jan 12
AI is a business model stress test dri.es · “Every existing business model in tech is being tested by AI. The ones that pass will look very different. The ones that fail will not be replaced.”
Jan 11
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com · “The pendulum that swung too far toward AI hype is now swinging too far away. Both extremes are wrong.”
Jan 11
Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 eupolicy.social · “A small, cheap, light, simple van that French farmers and tradespeople loved for thirty years. Banned now in most of Europe.”
Jan 11
Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 eteknix.com · “Comparative benchmarks place Windows 11 behind every release since Vista on the same hardware.”
Jan 10
Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak mitchellh.com · “The leak was a single missing arena cleanup in a code path that ran on every keystroke.”
Jan 10
New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis libroot.org · “Document metadata in the original Snowden cache reveals additional context about which programs were active and how broadly they were authorized.”
Jan 10
How to build agents with filesystems and bash vercel.com · “If agents excel at filesystem operations for code, they’ll excel at filesystem operations for anything.”
Jan 9
An Act of Cosmic Sabotage theatlantic.com · “On Mars, in the belly of a rover named Perseverance, a titanium tube holds a stone more precious than any diamond or ruby on Earth.”
Jan 8
ChatGPT Health openai.com · “ChatGPT Health offers personalized medical guidance, integrates with wearables, and connects users to telemedicine providers.”
Jan 7
Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs pcgamer.com · “Dell’s CES 2026 briefing barely mentioned AI. The pitch was specs, prices, and battery life. People were relieved.”
Jan 7
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team github.com · “Tailwind Labs has reduced its engineering headcount by 75 percent, citing a strategic shift to AI-augmented development.”
Jan 7
NPR investigation shows how the government tried to erase information about January 6 npr.org · “All right, guys, getting my loadout bag. I got the carbon fiber knuckles, matching hatchets.”
Jan 6
The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users stuff.interfree.ca · “When it comes to use in a screen reader, skipping words, or reading numbers incorrectly, is unacceptable.”
Jan 5
Web development is fun again ma.ttias.be · “After fifteen years of accidental complexity, the tooling is finally getting out of the way again.”
Jan 4
The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café candost.blog · “The phone is the enemy of the cafe. Take it out and the cafe is just a room you are paying to sit in.”
Jan 4
Lessons from 14 years at Google addyosmani.com · “The most important skill at a big company is figuring out what the political reality lets you actually ship.”
Jan 4
The C3 Programming Language c3-lang.org · “C3 is what C would look like if you redesigned it today with everything we have learned in the last fifty years.”
Jan 3
Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet neowin.net · “Microsoft removed the documented offline activation method, leaving only online activation paths.”
Jan 3
Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time data.stackexchange.com · “Stack Overflow question volume has declined more than 80 percent since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.”
Jan 3
Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger madebywindmill.com · “That the CD version is so close to exactly 123.45 makes me think this was intentional. And if it was? Well played, robots.”
Jan 2
Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams behind-the-enemy-lines.com · “Take-home exams are dead.”
Jan 2
I rebooted my social life takes.jamesomalley.co.uk · “I spent a year deliberately rebuilding the social life I had let atrophy in my thirties. Here is what worked.”
Jan 1
Cameras and Lenses ciechanow.ski · “An interactive deep-dive into how cameras and lenses actually form images, with simulations you can manipulate in your browser.”
Jan 1
Linux is good now pcgamer.com · “Make 2026 the year of Linux on your desktop. The driver story is fine, the gaming story is fine, and Windows is no longer fine.”
Jan 1