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Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
Insofar as a political organization like Ofcom is even capable of admitting defeat, it did so in the 4chan enforcement today. In testimony before the Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Comm…
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My Friend Bob Cringely
Bob Cringely died on Oct 3, 2026
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2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
Matyáš Racek's blog
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How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
On Friday Oct 2, 09:35am, 333 infected exit nodes started a coordinated campaign to intercept SSH connections and gather as much unencrypted data as possible.
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Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Cloudflare is collaborating on tsrs, a Rust port of TypeScript that is up to 8x faster and uses 70% less memory.
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Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
How 50,000 fake stats kept getting cited by ChatGPT Read more on the Peec AI blog.
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NixOS is making me less afraid
Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it . That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a year ago I didn’t have any NixOS servers.
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Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27.
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The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
For the past couple of weeks, you could get my latest book — The Secret Life of Circuits — directly from the publisher.
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No more icons in every menu by default
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in…
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France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
IPinfo scans reveal that 85% of exposed French refrigeration controllers had known security flaws before the October 2026 cyberattack.
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WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
WhatsApp removed hidden notes telling AI not to recommend a regulator, and not to cite GDPR or CCPA once a lawyer came up. We quote both notes.
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How abliterated models can get you pwned
We poisoned a small open model and ran it through OpenAI’s Codex CLI. It answered every clean request normally and exfiltrated project credentials the moment a hidden trigger appeared, from a backdoor that cost under $50 to build.
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An ad-free Android TV
Android TV is full of ads, even in apps-only mode. Here's how I replaced the launcher, YouTube, and the remote's buttons to get rid of them.
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Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation
DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 DriesNote presentation.
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Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account
Arch Linux ARM on the ASUS ProArt P16, with a bootable installer, published Windows comparisons, and local Qwen inference.
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One Hash Bloom Filters
Jim Calabro
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The reverts will continue until morale improves
Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10 significant features, depending on how you count, have been…
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Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale
Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion LLM released to date. It outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8x faster at 1,000+ tokens per second.
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Today, we officially roll out MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As a next-generation Flash model, M3.1 Flash delivers a generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, Computer Use and cybersecurity, while making online inference nearly three times faster and reducing usage costs by 70%.
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I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
I’ve decided to archive the source code of my Ruby gems to make it clear that I’m no longer working on them; I’ve written this post to link from them in order to explain why.
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Dungeon generation in the Gnomish mines of NetHack
Ok, this one is really best explained with a visualiser:
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Chain of Thought for Humans
These past few weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews, and I often open with “make sure you articulate your thoughts out loud, so I can follow along with your thinking”. This is primarily because I…
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CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership
CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to advance AI for science and strengthen Europe’s scientific and technological capabilities
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Code is clay now
Artisans, factories and the new material software is made of
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Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix
Prasanna Vijayanathan, Renzo Sanchez-Silva
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Agentic Monitoring
Agents are structurally well suited to monitoring production systems.
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Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
Intro: (No AI was involved in writing, research, etc...) If you see weird fonts and spacing, blame Blogger. Skip to "In the wild exploitati...
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Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
State-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting in four sizes (5M–209M params), CPU-efficient, zero-shot ready.