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After a multi-year detour wading through the quagmire of bloatware that is modern software I’m back to coding in Sublime Text. I am finally at peace! Do you know how relaxing it is without the daily “update available” and “view ...
I just received an email about a limited data breach, leaking customer information (no billing info though). Do you guys think Framework is handling this well? The email looked very detailed and transparent to me.
Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users
Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability ...
From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.
A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy.
Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is ...
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime is Apache-2.0 and stays open, and here is what the funding is actually for.
As of a recent update, my phone has started detecting me going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off". This insta-locks the screen and kicks me out of the app I use to pace my runs. ...
Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system. Site administrators who serve ...
Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38. Tags: datasette
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog! It includes my answers to the ...
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
ProvenMetal handles the whole PCB build for any spec and any budget, with boards back in as few as 5 days. Ordering is open.
A few notes and takeaways from the 2026 State of CSS survey results, including a nice CSS-Tricks cameo! 2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.
Last month, I played an extended preview of upcoming action slasher Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and came away impressed - if a bit sore in the fingers. Though the samurai action genre is a crowded one these days, with ...
The other week, the SIM card in my phone stopped working. At first, working from home, the change was barely noticeable: a router handled my internet coverage, and Whatsapp messages continued unabated. Only once I left the house did I ...
The View from the Office. I met up with historian and author Joseph Moore for lunch at The Porch in Bryant Park. I had the sliders. He had the chicken wrap. Joseph has a new book out called: How to ...
Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead.
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Delany x The Onion; Duran Duran x Second Life; Spammers x blog pings; Privacywashing v Doordash; Good ...
It’s hard to keep up with the AI evolution; new AI tools drop every week, but how are experienced practitioners actually using them? Most of us are overwhelmed and unsure about the many possibilities, yet we need to keep going ...
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before: An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson ...
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work! Muse Spark ...
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous post) and another ...
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models with the safety filters turned off. From their ...
