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Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
How to switch inputs between desktop and laptop on one monitor using built-in KVM and DDC
'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
Kevin Patel - Application Security Engineer @ NISC
NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)
An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying so—since the actual cause was illegal THC products. Every misleading sentence is technically true.
Erlang/OTP 29.0
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
The actual queries I run when I'm hunting fraud in transaction data. Velocity, impossible distances, suspicious amounts, merchant clusters, off-hours buys, and window functions.
The Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
Jank now has its own custom IR
The jank compiler has a new super power. With that, we push jank to the limits to see who has the fastest fibonacci in the west.
We don't know why Malawi is poor
And that’s a problem for economic development
I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
I've been distro-hopping for probably twenty years. Every time I install Linux I feel a small swell of optimism, like this time it'll stick. Linux never sticks with me.
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64
Did you ever wonder why explosions and other effects looked so much cooler on the original PlayStation than they did on the Nintendo 64?
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible t...
We are retiring our bug bounty program
For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.
Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
A bit more than a year ago, we did something a bit weird. We took a few cans of spray paint and we went out on the street. Not to pain...
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security
In 2026, LLM-powered code scanners are uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects at 10x the historical rate. Here's what OSS maintainers and users need to do about it.
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
Demonstrating the basics of logic programming with data from the Pokémon games.
O(x)Caml in Space
On 23 April, Borealis booted in orbit on DPhi Space's ClusterGate-2: a pure-OCaml CCSDS protocol stack with end-to-end-encrypted command and control and post-quantum key rotation. OxCaml is what comes next.
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
std::simd Can't Express 90% of Real SIMD Code
How Claude Code works in large codebases
The most successful Claude Code deployments share a set of recognizable patterns across configurations, tooling, and org structure. This article is part of Claude Code at scale, a new series covering best practices for engineering organizations building with Claude Code at enterprise scale.
Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
ex program, en farm
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
Update 5/29: Mullvad has begun rolling out a mitigation feature on their servers that scrambles exit IP positions, thereby fixing this issue. IPs are still deterministically selected based on the pubkey. Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the…
Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective
More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
More than 60 percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions, with more than 20 percent in an extreme drought. Andrew Ellis, a climatologist at Virginia Tech said the current conditions are among the worst in decades because the combination of intensity and aerial coverage is rare. He explained why…