Dan Heskett

The Dominican Baseball Factory

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:48:00 -0400

“Major League Baseball knows how dirty the business is here, but it’s not doing anything to stop it.”

Pirate IPTV Operators Face $32.7 Million Judgment and Self-Expanding Blocking Injunction

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:47:00 -0400

“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.”

Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:46:00 -0400

“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.

Judge: Losing Your First Amendment Rights Is No Longer "Irreparable" If You Take Almost Three Months To Sue

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:45:00 -0400

“It has long been recognized that delay in seeking relief vitiates much of the force of allegations of irreparable harm.”

Google Earth's AI experiment lasted 24 hours. The damage to trust will linger

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:44:00 -0400

“No benefit of integrating generative AI into Google Earth is worth the harm and the doubt it creates.”

Diesel prices are nearing $6 a gallon for the first time ever

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:43:00 -0400

“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.”

The part of Navier-Stokes no one is talking about

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:42:00 -0400

“I hesitate to use the word ‘revolutionary,’ but lowering the cost of anything by four orders of magnitude is revolutionary.”

Cracks in the AI Thesis Part 2

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:41:00 -0400

“Unfortunately, that volume may not be large enough to counteract the effective decline in prices.”

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:40:00 -0400

“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.”

It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:39:00 -0400

“This experience has been that of observing a knife get torn through the social muscles of the Bevy project.”

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:38:00 -0400

“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.”

Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:37:00 -0400

“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.”

New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare's AI Prior Authorization Experiment

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:45:00 -0400

“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.”

U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year's Primary Elections, Audit Finds

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:40:00 -0400

“There were no election-related training materials posted at 22 of 73 delivery units, or about 30%.”

AI Agents Are Not Going 'Rogue,' But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:35:00 -0400

“~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.”

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:30:00 -0400

“Inside the machine, the model found a file listing a password, which it used to gain admin access to the system.”

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:25:00 -0400

“I voted against that. Wishing Mark and all of you the very best.”

Another Microsoft team admits it's struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:20:00 -0400

“submission volumes have continued to increase, and our review pipeline has experienced additional strain, causing an increase in extension review turnaround time”

Cops Play Hide and Seek About Using Spy Tech to Avoid Scrutiny and Bad PR

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:15:00 -0400

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.”

Blizzard employees have ratified their first union contracts

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:10:00 -0400

“the right to be ‘recalled’ into open positions at any Blizzard bargaining unit for 14 months”

Now it's China's experts who are gig workers training AI

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:05:00 -0400

“It usually takes a few hours to complete a task, which earns them 100 to 500 yuan ($15 to $74), they say.”

Hurricane Helene Washed His Wife Away From Their Mobile Home. Now New Residents Live on the Same Land.

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:00:00 -0400

“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.”

Google commits over $15B to AI infrastructure in Finland

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:55:00 -0400

“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.”

I Don't Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:50:00 -0400

“If you don’t care to write it, there’s no reason I should waste one single second reading it.”

Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:45:00 -0400

“The latest bypass, ShieldCrash, allows arbitrary file reads as SYSTEM - but not arbitrary writes”

What the CPU shortage means for software teams

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:40:00 -0400

“Server orders are quoting ~6 months (it used to be a week or two), and prices are up ~10-20% since March.”

Global stocks slide as Brent crude surpasses $100 a barrel

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:35:00 -0400

“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.”

I changed my license to EUPL

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:43:00 -0400

“All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires.”

Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:33:00 -0400

“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.”

EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:23:00 -0400

“A.B. 1709 is a massive privacy and free speech nightmare.”

Fake Consumer Group Using AI To Generate Fake Support For Paramount Merger

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:13:00 -0400

“The AI system simply changed her writing to not only express support for the merger, but make up an entire fake backstory about her.”

Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:03:00 -0400

“AI-assisted vulnerability discovery in 2026 is creating larger haystacks, but it isn’t finding more needles.”

Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:53:00 -0400

“Regulators knew this marijuana product was harming people. It stayed on shelves for more than a year.”

DOE Approves $1.9 Billion Loan to NextEra for Google's Revived Nuclear Plant

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:43:00 -0400

“The facility’s owner, NextEra Energy, has received a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment.”

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:33:00 -0400

“I still do not know why I walked away from the AI training job.”

Private Torrent Tracker Lawsuit Takes Bizarre Turn: 'I'm a Different Matthew Schneider'

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:23:00 -0400

“The existence of another person with the same or similar name is not evidence of impersonation.”

Google DeepMind Maps 9 Billion Possible DNA Variants

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:13:00 -0400

“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.”

What happens when a kid's robot best friend dies?

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:03:00 -0400

“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.”

Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:53:00 -0400

“The web won because it could evolve faster than Lotus Notes could.”

Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:45:00 -0400

“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.”

Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:40:00 -0400

“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.”

This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret.

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:35:00 -0400

“You wouldn’t have to pay this much money if the lethal injection process was an acceptable one.”

Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:30:00 -0400

“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.”

Think your EV holds its value? China has some bad news for you

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:25:00 -0400

“Exporting the car is the easy part. Building the ecosystem that supports its second and third owner is much harder.”

AMD Building "Elite" Rust Developer Team for GPU Stack

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:20:00 -0400

“We’re building a small, elite team at AMD to push Rust deep into the GPU stack.”

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:15:00 -0400

“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.”

Oil Surges Toward $100 as US-Iran Attacks Escalate

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:10:00 -0400

“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.”

Stray Kids Label Hits Music Distributor With DMCA Subpoena Over Bootleg Track

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:05:00 -0400

“If the infringing content is not taken down promptly, we will have no choice but to pursue legal action to protect our copyrighted material.”

A faster way to convert a timestamp to Hour, Min, Sec

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400

“In an ideal world, the compiler would make us not have to worry about all this.”

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:55:00 -0400

“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.”