Alvaro Lopez Ortega / 2026-03-05 Briefing

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‘Execution at sea’: Was the Iranian ship sunk by US in the Indian Ocean unarmed?

The sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena by a US submarine in international waters near Sri Lanka has raised questions over the circumstances of the attack, with Iran and strategic affairs experts suggesting that the warship may have been operating in a non-combat configuration and was “unarmed”. The frigate was returning from India after participating in MILAN-2026, a multilateral naval exercise hosted by New Delhi in Visakhapatnam, before it was torpedoed by a US submarine, killing at…

Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk

The Defense Department has officially told Anthropic it is a supply-chain risk and will be cut off from partners who work with the Pentagon, following through on a threat to escalate its battle with the artificial-intelligence company. The Defense Department on Thursday formally notified Anthropic’s leadership that the company and its AI tools present security threats that require an action normally reserved for businesses from foreign adversaries, a senior Pentagon official said. Copyright…

Let’s Get Physical

Let’s Get Physical Table of Contents This week has been… eventful. And when I say eventful, I can say this has been the funniest pentest I have ever been on in my life. Let me tell you about it! The setup A company contracted us for a series of pentests, the whole enchillada. Internal, external, phishing, and… physical. We have several buildings, with employees and security and cameras and shit, which means that the buildings were secured. There is a few hundred employees, apparently, but the…

How Iran is using cheap drones to cause chaos across the Middle East

Donald Trump said Iran’s missiles and missile industry would be “totally obliterated” when the US began launching air strikes on the country on Saturday - but he didn’t mention its drones. Six days on, Iran has launched more than 2,000 low-cost drones at targets across the Middle East in a bid to overwhelm defences and spark chaos in the region. These ‘kamikaze’ Shahed drones carry explosives that detonate on impact and can cause significant damage. The deadliest strike on US forces so far was…

Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after criticism

Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership ▶ Follow live updates on the firing of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s immigration crackdown…

Vet – Prevent coding agents from making mistakes

One line. That’s all it takes to set up and run Vet, a fast and local code review tool built by our team. It’s concise where other tools are verbose, and it catches more relevant issues. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/imbue-ai/vet/main/install-skill.sh | bash When you’re using an agent to write code, you ask for a feature, the agent hits a wall, and silently swaps in fake data instead of telling you. You ask it to write tests, it tells you they pass, but it never ran them. You may…

OpenTitan Shipping in Production

Last year, we shared the exciting news that fabrication of production OpenTitan silicon had begun. Today, we’re proud to announce that OpenTitan® is now shipping in commercially available Chromebooks. The first OpenTitan part is being produced by Nuvoton, a leader in silicon security. What is OpenTitan? Over the past seven years, Google has worked with the open source communities to build OpenTitan, the first open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT). The RoT is the foundation upon which all…

Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to sneak into the earliest parts of the boot process, swap the startup config without breaking anything, and leave without a trace. Are you ready? Let’s begin. the setup In which our heroes are introduced, and the scene is set. For a very long time I had a beat-up old ThinkPad that couldn’t hold a charge for the life of it, especially when running Windows. It tended to die a lot when I was traveling, and…

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says The US has asked Ukraine for help defending Gulf allies against Iranian drones, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. He said Ukraine’s partners had been reaching out and there had been “requests from the American side”. Zelensky said he had given instructions “to provide the necessary means and ensure the presence of Ukrainian specialists who can guarantee the necessary security”. Asked about the Ukrainian offer, US…

Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer. This issue is the entire The Pulse issue from the past week, which paying subscribers received seven days ago. This piece generated quite a few comments across subscribers,…

GPT-5.4

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-4-thinking-system-card/https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2029620619743219811

GPT-5.4

Today, we’re releasing GPT‑5.4 in ChatGPT (as GPT‑5.4 Thinking), the API, and Codex. It’s our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work. We’re also releasing GPT‑5.4 Pro in ChatGPT and the API, for people who want maximum performance on complex tasks. GPT‑5.4 brings together the best of our recent advances in reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows into a single frontier model. It incorporates the industry-leading coding capabilities of GPT‑5.3‑Codex while improving how…

The Brand Age

| | March 2026 In the early 1970s disaster struck the Swiss watch industry. Now people call it the quartz crisis, but in fact it was a compound of three separate disasters that all happened at about the same time. The first was competition from Japan. The Swiss had been watching the Japanese in the rear view mirror all through the 1960s, and they’d been improving at an alarming rate. But even so the Swiss were surprised in 1968 when the Japanese swept all the top spots for mechanical watches at…

Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling

Hi HN! We’re Gobhanu and Saatvik (brothers), building Vela (https://tryvela.ai) - AI agents that handle multi-party, multi-channel scheduling.Scheduling is a constraint satisfaction problem disguised as email! It’s easy when it’s two people, one timezone, one channel. But it becomes a constraint satisfaction problem when inputs are unstructured natural language across multiple communication channels, constraints change mid-solve, and the objective function includes social dynamics that don’t exist formally anywhere.What if scheduling just happened? For example: a recruiter sends one message, and every interview across five candidates, three hiring managers, and two time zones gets booked, confirmed, and updated automatically. No links, no back-and-forth, no one spending hours with 20 emails. Everyone just gets the right invite at the right time, on whatever channel they actually use. That’s what we built Vela to do.You loop in Vela into your emails, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, phone or integrate into an ATS etc and it takes over: reads context, checks calendars, proposes times, follows up when people ghost, and rebooks when things shift.One of our first customers is a staffing firm that searched for a scheduling solution for almost eight years. Their coordinators manage hundreds of candidate-client interviews where each side needs separate email threads, separate Zoom accounts to avoid double-booking links, and calendar invites connecting parties who never directly communicate. A client reschedules one interview and it cascades into four others. A candidate responds on SMS to a thread that started on email. Vela solved this in just 10 minutes of onboarding.The hardest part has been the data problem. Scheduling behavior varies enormously across populations. C-suite folks respond to email within hours and expect formal 3-option proposals. Truck drivers applying for logistics roles respond to SMS at odd hours from shared devices with “y tm wrks.” The failure mode isn’t parsing – it’s applying the wrong interaction pattern for the wrong segment and watching the conversation die. We’ve been building behavioral datasets from thousands of real interactions: response latency by role, channel preference by demographic, follow-up timing curves, how many options to propose before you hit decision paralysis. This data doesn’t exist anywhere.The core agent challenge is state across channels. When someone responds on SMS to a thread that started in email, Vela needs to unify identity, merge context, and continue without losing information. Phone numbers don’t map cleanly to emails, people use nicknames on text, shared devices mean the responder might not be who you reached out to. Temporal NLU is its own problem – “next Friday” means different things on Monday versus Thursday. We extract structured constraints from natural language and resolve against calendar state. When ambiguity can’t be resolved, Vela asks – but deciding when to ask versus infer depends on the stakes of getting it wrong.We’re live with paying enterprise customers and every client still surfaces edge cases that surprise us. Case studies on our site (https://tryvela.ai/case-studies/). You can check out a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzUOjSG5Uvw.We'd love feedback from anyone who’s worked on multi-agent coordination, conversational AI across channels, or constraint satisfaction in messy real-world domains. Looking forward to your comments!

Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 in pictures

Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 of them – in pictures The US president has made the easily debunked claim that there are no wind farms in China Thu 5 Mar 2026 17.01 GMT Last modified on Thu 5 Mar 2026 17.19 GMTExplore more on these topics

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location

We’ve all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You’re right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples’ locations, new reporting has confirmed. For years, the internet advertising industry has been sucking up our data, including our location data, to serve us “more relevant ads.” At the same time, we know that federal law enforcement agencies have…

PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app

Title: Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web appHi HN,I’m building PageAgent, an open-source (MIT) library that embeds an AI agent directly into your frontend.I built this because I believe there’s a massive design space for deploying general agents natively inside the web apps we already use, rather than treating the web merely as a dumb target for isolated bots.Currently, most AI agents operate from external clients or server-side programs, effectively leaving web development out of the AI ecosystem. I’m experimenting with an “inside-out” paradigm instead. By dropping the library into a page, you get a client-side agent that interacts natively with the live DOM tree and inherits the user’s active session out of the box, which works perfectly for SPAs.To handle cross-page tasks, I built an optional browser extension that acts as a “bridge”. This allows the web-page agent to control the entire browser with explicit user authorization. Instead of a desktop app controlling your browser, your web app is empowered to act as a general agent that can navigate the broader web.I’d love to start a conversation about the viability of this architecture, and what you all think about the future of in-app general agents. Happy to answer any questions!

GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. Posted Mar 05, 2026 - 19:30 UTC Update Webhooks is operating normally. Posted Mar 05, 2026 - 19:17 UTC Update Actions is operating normally. Posted Mar 05, 2026 - 19:05 UTC Update Actions is now fully recovered. Posted Mar 05, 2026 - 18:59 UTC Update The queue of requested Actions jobs continues to make progress. Job…

Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data

Index of Neuroimaging Datasets for Visual Perception Reconstruction

This repository indexes open neuroimaging datasets for reconstructing visual perception from human fMRI data.

This guide is primarily aimed at researchers from AI and machine learning backgrounds who may not be familiar with neuroimaging methodology. Reconstruction from neuroimaging data has recently gained popularity at major AI conferences, but many approaches fall into common traps that are well known within…

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines On February 17, 2026, someone published cline@2.3.0 to npm. The CLI binary was byte-identical to the previous version. The only change was one line in package.json : “postinstall”: “npm install -g openclaw@latest” For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred…

Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14555https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...https://old.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1rllcdg/megathre…

Apple: Enough Is Enough

Apple: enough is enough Yesterday, my wife wanted to use Discord on her Apple laptop. It was right there in the applications folder. But MacOS couldn’t find it. Launching it manually took several minutes, for some reason. We wanted to download a clip using yt_dlp (a Python program). Terminal told us, this would require dev tools (which it doesn’t). So we installed Python from python.org instead, which worked. Except, that non-blessed python could not access the internet because of some MacOS…

AI and the Ship of Theseus

written on March 05, 2026 Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different design for that implementation. In many ways, the functionality was the same, but the path it took to get there was different. The way that port worked was by going via the test suite. Something related, but different, happened with chardet. The current maintainer…

Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework

Hi HN!I’m the author of an Elixir Agent Framework called Jido. We reached our 2.0 release this week, shipping a production-hardened framework to build, manage and run Agents on the BEAM.Jido now supports a host of Agentic features, including:- Tool Calling and Agent Skills

  • Comprehensive multi-agent support across distributed BEAM processes with Supervision

  • Multiple reasoning strategies including ReAct, Chain of Thought, Tree of Thought, and more

  • Advanced workflow capabilities

  • Durability through a robust Storage and Persistence layer

  • Agentic Memory

  • MCP and Sensors to interface with external services

  • Deep observability and debugging capabilities, including full stack OTelI know Agent Frameworks can be considered a bit stale, but there hasn’t been a major release of a framework on the BEAM. With a growing realization that the architecture of the BEAM is a good match for Agentic workloads, the time was right to make the announcement.My background is enterprise engineering, distributed systems and Open Source. We’ve got a strong and growing community of builders committed to the Jido ecosystem. We’re looking forward to what gets built on top of Jido!Come build agents with us!

  • Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework — jido.run

The BBC has said it is facing “permanent and irreversible” trends that mean it cannot survive without a major overhaul, as it revealed a stark divergence between the number of people consuming its content and those paying the licence fee. In its opening response to government talks over its future, the corporation said 94% of people in the UK continued to use the BBC each month, but fewer than 80% of households contributed to the licence fee. It said the rise of streaming services and digital…

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products

Puff, puff, pass the spreadsheets. Tech companies like Palantir and Hello Patient are stocking office vending machines with nicotine products to increase productivity among employees—and it seems to be working. Nicotine startups Lucy and Sesh have installed branded vending machines in Palantir’s Washington, D.C., office, full of nicotine pouches that are leaving employees zipped up and ready to work. Long a safer (and legal) alternative to the drugs that Wall Street bankers of old would use to…

The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code

irix-657m-src

The IRIX 6.5.7m source code.

Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites

In the introductory post for this blog, we mentioned that Huginn, our active phishing discovery tool, was being used to seed Yggdrasil and that we’d have more to share soon. Well, here it is. This is the first in what we plan to be a monthly series where we share what Huginn has been finding in the wild, break down interesting attacks, and report on how existing detection tools are performing. Our hope is that these posts are useful both as a resource for understanding the current phishing…

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood Sadie Harley scientific editor Robert Egan associate editor Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends continue. The findings are especially relevant for children and adolescents, whose developing bodies will experience the longest cumulative exposure to rising atmospheric CO₂. Tracking carbon…

Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

A federal trade-court judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to start refunding the more than $130 billion it collected in the global tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court last month. Following a hearing involving a filtration company’s fight for a refund, Judge Richard Eaton at the Manhattan-based Court of International Trade issued a written order directing the administration to begin the process of refunding importers. He set a hearing for Friday at which he asked for…

Good software knows when to stop

Good software knows when to stop Mar 5, 2026 it’s 9AM, you’re ready to upgrade your favorite Linux distribution and packages to their latest versions, the process goes smoothly and after a reboot your machine is now up-to-date. You start going as usual about your day and then when trying to list the content of a directory on your machine, something strange happens, the routinely boring behavior you’re used to of ls surprises you, and not for the best : $…

Unix Isn’t for Agents

Unix Isn’t for Agents Or: why tmux is a hack and BEAM might be the answer I’ve been running Claude Code from a cloud VM lately. The workflow is: SSH in, start tmux, run Claude, work. When I disconnect, tmux keeps the session alive. When I reconnect, I reattach. It works. But it’s a hack. And the more I think about it, the more I realize the hack is papering over a fundamental mismatch between what AI agents need and what Unix provides. Unix has two modes for processes: interactive and…

Stop the Interviews

A friend of mine recently got this agenda for an onsite interview: This is after…

  • a 30 min call with the recruiter

  • a 45 min coding interview with a lead dev

  • a 45 min coding interview with a Backend Sr. SDET

  • a 45 min technical with Frontend Sr. SDET Pardon my french, but WTAF? 7 straight hours?! 10 total (plus prep & travel time)?! What an incredible waste - of the candidate’s time, of the company’s time. Oh, and they didn’t offer him the job. This level of indecision is a red flag! If…

  • Stop the Interviews — blog.joeschrag.com

Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion

Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals Stephanie Baum scientific editor Robert Egan associate editor Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germany for the first time: Around 4% of the particulate matter consists of plastic. Around two-thirds of this comes from tire…

Noem Can’t Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign

Noem Can’t Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign Kristi Noem struggled to defend hiring a company linked to a political operative. The Department of Homeland Security tapped a little-known ad firm to produce Kristi Noem’s multimillion-dollar ad campaign during the government shutdown last year. But when asked to explain her rationale before a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, Noem was practically speechless. Reading off a DHS notice, Colorado Representative Joe…

Major airline bans ‘barebeaters’ across all 24 daily flights from UK airports

A travel habit has become such a nuisance that a major US airline has implemented a total ban. Nothing quite compares to the disruption caused by a passenger who is listening to their music out loud, without headphones — otherwise known as ‘barebeaters’. But if you’re flying with United Airlines, you’ll be irritated no more. The airline, which carried 2.4 million British passengers in 2024, has said staff will now be able to remove them — and the ban could be permanent. In an update to its…

No right to relicense this project

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 270 Description Hi, I’m Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as “Dive Into Python” and “Universal Character Encoding Detector.” I am the original author of chardet . First off, I would like to thank the current maintainers and everyone who has contributed to and improved this project over the years. Truly a Free Software success story. However, it has been brought to my attention that, in the release…

Smalltalk’s Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough

Smalltalk’s Browser: Unbeatable, Yet Not Enough The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it. Smalltalk’s Browser: Unbeatable, Yet Not Enough Smalltalk is one of those systems that looks “old” until you realize it was often first. Many things we take for granted in modern IDEs—live inspection, tight…

Poor Man’s Polaroid

Skirtingai nei Polaroidas, šis fotoaparatas naudoja čekių spausdintuvą

  • tokį pat, kuris tau parduotuvėj atspausdina ką ir už kiek pirkai. Nuotraukų kokybė nėra tokia pati kaip Polaroido, bet šios, sakykim, turi savotiško žavesio. Vargšo žmogaus Polaroidas nereiškia, kad šitas aparatas yra itin pigus, gal labiau papigiai sukurtas, nes pačios dalys man kainavo daugiau nei pigiausias Polaroidas. Nors dalys kainavo ir daugiau, bet galiausiai išeis sutaupyt ant pačių nuotraukų - Polaroido nuotrauka…

  • Poor Man’s Polaroid — boxart.lt

Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift

NVIDIA PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Native Swift with MLX What if you could talk to your laptop and it talked back — not through a three-step pipeline of transcribe-think-synthesize, but as a single model that listens and speaks at the same time, faster than real-time, streaming audio chunks back as it generates them? That’s what we shipped this week in qwen3-asr-swift, running entirely on Apple Silicon. Our qwen3-asr-swift Swift/MLX speech library now…

Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control

This section demonstrates a minimal, reproducible workflow using jailmgr , jailctl , and NetBSD base components. The example provisions a constrained HTTP service inside a jail, starts it, inspects runtime state, and exposes metrics.

  1. Bootstrap Prepare the host for jail operation. This step:

The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of “Optimizing” Has Taught Me

“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were cold. I sat with five men in the mountains of Montana. As the sun set, the fire in the center cast dancing light on our faces. Reclined against fallen trees in a tight circle, we ate mushrooms and fish we’d found under trees and along streams. The whole crew burst into laughter yet again, and one of…

OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story Interest in supporting the MIPS architecture in BSD is about as old as the architecture itself, and Risc/OS (the Unix variant running on MIPS’ own workstations, before MIPS got bought by SGI and stopped manufacturing anything but processors) was based upon BSD code; so was Ultrix, Digital’s first flavour of Unix, which ran on VAX but also on its MIPS-based DECstations. While there is a lot to tell on OpenBSD on SGI hardware alone, I think it is better to…

Espflash – Go CLI/library for flashing ESP8266/ESP32 with no dependencies

espflash

Test

A Go command-line tool and library for flashing firmware to Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32-family microcontrollers over a serial (UART) connection.

Supported Chips

  • ESP8266
  • ESP32
  • ESP32-S2
  • ESP32-S3
  • ESP32-C2 (ESP8684)
  • ESP32-C3
  • ESP32-C6
  • ESP32-H2

CLI Tool

Installation

You can download and install one of the…

Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014)

Last updated: 2014-02-25 RELAX NG is a schema language for XML. The key features of RELAX NG are that it: The RELAX NG specifications have been developed within OASIS by the RELAX NG Technical Committeee. RELAX NG is also an International Standard (ISO/IEC 19757-2). It is Part 2 of ISO/IEC 19757 DSDL (Document Schema Definition Languages), which is maintained by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG1. RELAX NG was based on TREX designed by James Clark and RELAX Core designed by MURATA Makoto. project for…

Zed new terms required to be 18 years old

Terms of Service Last Updated: March 2, 2026 Welcome, and thank you for your interest in Zed Industries, Inc. (“Zed,” “we,” or “us”) and our website at www.zed.dev, along with our downloadable Zed software (the “Software”) and related subscription service (the “Service”). These Terms of Service are a legally binding contract between you and Zed regarding your use of the Service. Please read the following Terms carefully. By accessing or using the Service, you (“You” or “Customer”) agree to…

Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite Posted on March 5, 2026 • 3 minutes • 529 words Disclaimer I am not a lawyer, nor am I an expert in copyright law or software licensing. The following post is a breakdown of recent community events and legal news; it should not be taken as legal advice regarding your own projects or dependencies. In the world of open source, relicensing is notoriously difficult. It usually requires the unanimous consent of every person who has ever contributed a line of…

DOJ proposes policy aimed at limiting state bar ethics probes into its attorneys

DOJ proposes policy aimed at limiting state bar ethics probes into its attorneys The proposal comes amid growing scrutiny of the department’s attorneys. The Justice Department is proposing a new policy that would seek to limit the ability of state bar associations to launch ethics probes into DOJ attorneys, according to a new document posted Wednesday in the Federal Register. The proposal, which comes amid growing scrutiny of the department’s attorneys and whether they’re complying with ethical…

You Just Reveived

Disclaimer: These are my personal views and do not represent any organization or professional advice. #misc Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:52:08 +0200 YOU JUST REVEIVED This post is dedicated to the nameless Vodafone employee watching over me and my family and blessing us with an abundance of free minutes. My family and I share a single mobile phone. To be more precise, we share two sim cards which move between a nearly 10 year old Samsung smartphone and a dumb flip phone depending on the present…

Iran says targeted AWS Data Centers for support of U.S. military

Amazon’s data center in Bahrain was targeted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the company’s support of the U.S. military, Iranian state media said Wednesday. The company’s cloud computing unit said Monday that one of its facilities in Bahrain was damaged due to a nearby drone strike on Sunday. Two data centers in the United Arab Emirates were also damaged after they were “directly struck” by drones. All of the facilities remain offline, according to the Amazon Web Services health…

The L in “LLM” Stands for Lying

The L in “LLM” Stands for Lying On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over. Strangely though, despite now years of LLM-powered tooling, the results look, feel and function mostly the same as they ever did: barely. It’s undeniable there’s a metric gigaton of hype surrounding the technology. It drives the enormous amounts of money and infrastructure being poured into it, which in turn demands more hype to justify the investment. The…

Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

I built Poppy as a side project to help people keep in touch more intentionally. Would love feedback on onboarding, reminders, and overall UX. Happy to answer questions.

China Tells Top Refiners to Suspend Diesel and Gasoline Exports

Commodities China Tells Top Refiners to Halt Diesel and Gasoline Exports China’s government has told the country’s top oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf disrupts the arrival of crude from one of the world’s largest producing regions. While the country is only the third-largest supplier of oil products into the region — its vast refining sector primarily serves domestic demand — China’s curbs just six days into a war reflect a…

Agentic Engineering Anti Patterns

Guides > Agentic Engineering Patterns Anti-patterns: things to avoid There are some behaviors that are anti-patterns in our weird new world of agentic engineering. Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators This anti-pattern is common and deeply frustrating. Don’t file pull requests with code you haven’t reviewed yourself. If you open a PR with hundreds (or thousands) of lines of code that an agent produced for you, and you haven’t done the work to ensure that code is functional yourself, you…

Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos

Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos The UK data watchdog is writing to Meta following a “concerning” report claiming outsourced workers were able to view sensitive content filmed by the company’s AI smart glasses. Meta said subcontracted workers might sometimes review content, including films and images, captured by its AI smart glasses for the purpose of improving the “experience”. Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are…

What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state

What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state We tried Event, Condition, and Queue. Each one gets closer but still breaks under real concurrency. Here’s the observable pattern that finally works. Aaron Harper· 3/4/2026 · 13 min read Coordinating concurrent tasks around shared state is one of the most common problems in Python’s asyncio . The standard library gives you asyncio.Event and asyncio.Condition , but each has a gap that only shows up under real concurrency pressure. We…

Once Upon a Boot - visual tracing of boot process

Kernels, firmwares and bootloaders are complex to understand. This website gives you a unique opportunity to start exploring them, by showing what is happening when something is printed on the console. Based on QEMU with uftrace plugin, uftrace and perfetto to visualize traces. This website and traces are generated using uftrace-web-viewer from qemu-linux-stack. Tutorial: Zoom and scroll traces using W,A,S,D keys. Click on a function to see its source code. Once upon a boot, there was an arm64…

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic

At the Morgan Stanley Tech, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this year, the opportunity to invest closes. It could be that simple. While firms sometimes pile into companies until practically the eve of their public debut in search of more upside, Nvidia is minting money selling the chips…

US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House on Wednesday to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their datacenters. The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big tech’s datacenters are driving up US electricity costs for homes and small businesses at a time the administration of Donald Trump is seeking to curb inflation. “This means that the tech companies and the datacenters will be able to get the…

Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

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A Grand Vision for Rust

a grand vision for rust — 2026-03-05 I don’t think I’ve ever quite articulated my “grand vision” for Rust, despite having written a fair bit about the language and its features. There is a lot I could say here, but currently there are three directions of development which I find particularly interesting:

  • Improving Rust’s support for effects

  • Improving Rust’s support for substructural rules

  • Adding support for refinement types in Rust There are more things in the language to be excited…

  • A Grand Vision for Rust — blog.yoshuawuyts.com

What’s driving rising business costs?

After a period of moderating cost increases, businesses faced mounting cost pressures in 2025. While tariffs played a role in driving up the costs of many inputs—especially among manufacturers—they represent only part of the story. Indeed, firms grappled with substantial cost increases across many categories in the past year. This post is the first in a three-part series analyzing cost and price dynamics among businesses in the New York-Northern New Jersey region based on data collected through…

Google Workspace CLI

One CLI for all of Google Workspace — built for humans and AI agents. Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and every Workspace API. Zero boilerplate. Structured JSON output. 40+ agent skills included.

[!NOTE] This is not an officially supported Google product.

Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world’s most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court, insulting them again and again: “crooked,” “deceitful,” “insanely sneaky,” calling Android a “fake open platform,” calling both companies “gangster-style businesses that will do anything they think they can get away with,” telling me how Google’s Project Hug was “an astonishingly corrupt effort…

Anthropic launches an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jo…

Microsoft’s new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, sayin…

The new Xbox boss Asha Sharma revealed the codename as one of her first big announcements.

X revamps its Creator Subscriptions with exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a …

Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it’s revamping the social network’s Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features …

Meta says it hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the startup that makes the vibe codin…

GPT-5.4 is priced at $2.50/1M input and $15/1M output tokens while GPT-5.4 Pro is $30/1M input an…

The AI updates aren’t slowing down.  Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant …

A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its p…

The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it’s determined the company and its products pose …

OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a …

OpenAI is releasing a new flagship artificial intelligence model and a suite of financial-services tools that are meant to be better …

OpenAI says GPT-5.4’s “individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses a…

ZDNET’s key takeaways  — GPT-5.4’s 83% score suggests AI rivals expert professionals.

GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and …

On Thursday, OpenAI released a GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.”

OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more e…

OpenAI is releasing a new model today, and like GPT-5.2 before it, GPT-5.4 is all about professional work.  OpenAI is calling GPT-5.4 …

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professi…

The latest model comes with native computer use capabilities, allowing it to take on jobs across your device and applications.

Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle …

Oracle Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort.

Iran’s state media says Iran targeted Amazon’s Bahrain data center on March 1 because of the comp…

Amazon’s data center in Bahrain was targeted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the company’s support of the U.S. military …

Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Depa…

Nvidia Corp. has long been the world’s AI kingmaker.  Now, the Trump administration is considering taking a formal role …

Apple implemented geoblocking in January 2026 to prevent US-based users from downloading or updat…

In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading …

crosspoint-reader: Firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader

CrossPoint Reader

Firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader (unaffiliated with Xteink). Built using PlatformIO and targeting the ESP32-C3 microcontroller.

CrossPoint Reader is a purpose-built firmware designed to be a drop-in, fully open-source replacement for the official Xteink firmware. It aims to match or improve upon the standard EPUB reading experience.

Motivation

E-paper devices are fantastic for reading, but most commercially…

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines On February 17, 2026, someone published cline@2.3.0 to npm. The CLI binary was byte-identical to the previous version. The only change was one line in package.json : “postinstall”: “npm install -g openclaw@latest” For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred…

gitgo: A Go implementation of Git functions (2016)

README

Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State

Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State What Go, Java, and Erlang reveal about the state of concurrency Something about the way we write concurrent programs has always felt wrong to me. When I pick up a new language and look at its concurrency model I get the same uneasy feeling. The APIs change, the terminology changes, but the underlying patterns look strangely familiar. Maybe you’ve felt this too. The tools get better, the abstractions get nicer, but the core problem never seems to go…

Announcing Rust 1.94.0

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.94.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup , you can get 1.94.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don’t have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website, and check out the detailed release notes for 1.94.0. If you’d like to help us out by testing future releases, you might consider updating…

Tracing Discord’s Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)

At Discord, we want the experience of chatting with your friends, reacting to a message, or posting artisanal farm-to-channel memes to feel instantaneous. We’ve managed to achieve this at scale by leveraging Elixir’s powerful concurrency mechanisms to run each Discord server (which we call a “guild” internally) fully independently from one another. Sometimes though, things go wrong, and a guild can’t keep up with its user activity. When this happens, the guild will feel laggy or possibly…

telemetry helps. you still get to turn it off

Let me start with this: it is your right to disable telemetry. I fully support that right, and in many cases I disable telemetry myself. If your threat model says “nope”, or you simply don’t like it, flip the switch. Your relationship with the software and the author of it is a great guide for whether you want to enable telemetry. What I don’t buy is the claim I keep seeing that telemetry is useless and doesn’t actually help. I can only speak to Firefox telemetry, but I presume the lesson…

New major release of devenv

devenv 2.0: A Fresh Interface to Nix You type nix develop . The terminal fills with a single cryptic line: copying path, 47 of 312, 28.3 MiB, something something NAR. Five seconds. Ten. Is it evaluating? Downloading? Both? You change one line in your config and wait again. When it finally drops you into a shell, you switch to another branch and direnv hijacks your prompt for a rebuild you didn’t ask for. You switch back, and Nix evaluates everything from scratch, even though nothing…

Building a Database on S3

Building a Database on S3 Hold your horses, though. I’m not unveiling a new S3-native database. This paper is from 2008. Many of its protocols feel clunky today. Yet it nails the core idea that defines modern cloud-native databases: separate storage from compute. The authors propose a shared-disk design over Amazon S3, with stateless clients executing transactions. The paper provides a blueprint for serverless before the term existed. SQS as WAL and S3 as Pagestore The 2008 S3 was painfully…

Kill cats with JavaScript (RTS game)

// This is an example code to help you get started. // First challenge: create a function to calculate distances // so that you move towards and pew only the closest cats. // ====================================================== // Learn more details in the Documentation/How to play. for (let cat of my_cats) { if (cat.sight.enemies.length == 0) continue; let enemy = cats[cat.sight.enemies[0]]; cat.move(enemy.position); cat.pew(enemy); }

Yet another strange job scheduler bug

Yet another strange job scheduler bug I have a job scheduler to run commands on a fixed schedule (once every 15 minutes, every Wednesday at 8 pm, etc.). This weekend, I noticed that some jobs were taking much longer than expected – commands that should exit in less than a second were taking 15 or 30 minutes. How does the job scheduler handle children exiting? SIGCHLD is delivered to job scheduler.- Signal handler is called; timestamp is taken and enqueued in pipe.

Compound Engineering: Make Every Unit of Work Compound Into the Next

The philosophy The core philosophy of compound engineering is that each unit of engineering work should make subsequent units easier—not harder. Most codebases get harder to work with over time because each feature you add injects more complexity. After 10 years, teams spend more time fighting their system than building on it because each new feature is a negotiation with the old ones. Over time, the codebase becomes harder to understand, harder to modify, and harder to trust. Compound…

espflash: Go CLI and library for flashing firmware to Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32-family microcon…

espflash

Test

A Go command-line tool and library for flashing firmware to Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32-family microcontrollers over a serial (UART) connection.

Supported Chips

  • ESP8266
  • ESP32
  • ESP32-S2
  • ESP32-S3
  • ESP32-C2 (ESP8684)
  • ESP32-C3
  • ESP32-C6
  • ESP32-H2

CLI Tool

Installation

You can download and install one of the…

GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation

I am not a lawyer. This is provided solely for the purposes of general information and does not constitute legal advice, guidance, or counsel. No attorney-client relationship is established by the provision of this information, and no reliance should be placed on this information in lieu of seeking professional legal advice. All information is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. Problem Let’s say that you wrote a piece of software, and publish it under the…

The Illustrated TLS 1.2 Connection

In this demonstration a client connects to a server, negotiates a TLS 1.2 session, sends “ping”, receives “pong”, and then terminates the session. Click below to begin exploring. if vers == 0 { // Some TLS servers fail if the record version is // greater than TLS 1.0 for the initial ClientHello. vers = VersionTLS10 } $ openssl x509 -outform der < server.crt | hexdump 0000000 30 82 03 21 30 82 02 09 a0 03 02 01 02 02 08 15 0000010 5a 92 ad c2 04 8f 90 30 0d 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 … snip … The…

MICROSLOP — Microsoft’s AI Slop Manifesto

SEARCH SLOP BING CORRUPTIONBing’s integration of AI-generated summaries floods search results with hallucinated facts, fabricated citations, and confidently incorrect information. Users receive synthesized garbage instead of verified sources.

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story Interest in supporting the MIPS architecture in BSD is about as old as the architecture itself, and Risc/OS (the Unix variant running on MIPS’ own workstations, before MIPS got bought by SGI and stopped manufacturing anything but processors) was based upon BSD code; so was Ultrix, Digital’s first flavour of Unix, which ran on VAX but also on its MIPS-based DECstations. While there is a lot to tell on OpenBSD on SGI hardware alone, I think it is better to…

Styx document language

Styx A document language for mortals. styx-is ( a document language ) with-features { that make it { easy to-love } // also comments } Minimal punctuation Everything is space-separated, except inline object form: sequences ( look super clean ) an-object { can be multi line } or { inline style , with commas } Minimal quoting Of course, you can have spaces and special chars: one bare-scalar two “double-quoted” raw r#“raw quoted a-la Rust”# finally «HEREDOCS they work! HEREDOCS Minimal…

TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor

Don’t flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay? Bill Gates-backed nuclear outfit TerraPower finally has approval to build its Natrium reactor. However, it may still face issues finding a steady fuel supply. And, oh yeah, it hasn’t built any reactors like this before.…

Iran intelligence backdoored US bank, airport, software outfit networks

MOIS-linked MuddyWater crew has a new, custom implant An Iranian cyber crew believed to be part of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been embedded in multiple US companies’ networks - including a bank, software firm, and airport, among others - since the beginning of February, with more activity in the days following the US and Israeli military strikes, according to security researchers.…

Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI’s rising energy costs

Bit tricky enforcing this. What’s the penalty if they go up anyway? Seven of the top US AI companies and hyperscalers have officially agreed to protect American consumers from price hikes due to datacenter energy and infrastructure increases caused by the AI build boom.…

You can power a G-Wiz EV with 500 vapes, and this YouTuber proved it

You made a time machine vapemobile … out of a Delorean G-Wiz? The world would be a better place if all of us were as willing to upcycle as aggressively as YouTuber Chris Doel, who has demonstrated that batteries from 500 disposable vapes can actually power one of the UK’s most famous electric vehicles. …

Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation

LibreOffice steward says Commish undermines its own standards by asking for feedback via Excel spreadsheet The Document Foundation has taken a swipe at the European Commission over its consultation on guidance for the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act – because the feedback template is only available as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.…

Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan

Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready The NASA Authorization Act of 2026 has been approved, and alongside a directive for NASA to establish a permanent Moon base, the legislation includes language extending the International Space Station to 2032.…

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online In the battle of the online office suites, a new contender has entered the ring… but under the wrestler’s mask, we think there may be a familiar face.…

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations

FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things Updated  The US government is consulting with the telecoms industry about “reciprocity” in satellite services, in a move that could see another dispute erupt with the European Union over regulations.…

npmx package browser released as alpha to fix pain of using npmjs

Project initiated by Nuxt lead Daniel Roe attracts wide support thanks to multiple issues with the official interface A new browser for the npm registry has launched in alpha, following grassroots demand for an alternative to the official npmjs.com interface.…

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser… for your own convenience

Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot update to Windows Insiders that embeds web browsing directly into the assistant, opening links in a side panel rather than launching your default browser.…

UK watchdog eyes Meta’s smart glasses after workers say they ‘see everything’

Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables Britain’s privacy watchdog is asking questions about Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses after reports that human contractors reviewing recordings from the devices were exposed to extremely private moments captured by unsuspecting users.…

Solar superstorm gave ESA’s Mars orbiters a handy science opportunity

Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere ‘flooded by electrons’ Almost two years ago, a solar storm hit Earth, triggering auroras that were seen as far south as Mexico. The storm also reached Mars and was detected by a pair of ESA spacecraft, Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).…

CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes

Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider’s 27 km vacuum tubes Updated  The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and CERN have jointly developed a “mouse-sized robot” to inspect parts of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are out of reach to humans.…

MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again

Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will pay telco BT £94.6 million plus VAT to keep its in-cell Prisoner Telephony Service (PTS) going for another 54 months after repeatedly pushing back procurement of its replacement.…

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty

Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators The UK is still in the design phase of digital currency as the EU comes under political pressure to accelerate the development of a digital euro to bolster the bloc’s sovereignty and resilience.…

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs for help Most business leaders in the United Kingdom appear to have outsourced a lot of their decisionmaking to machine learning models, according to a survey of 200 suits published by data streaming tools vendor Confluent. /p>…

Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it

Lower app store fees are on the way, plus an on-ramp for third party digital bazaars Google has spelled out changes it will make to the fees it charges developers who use its app store and payment services, and says they represent the end of its long legal battle with Epic Games.…

Broadcom says AI companies can’t make their own silicon any time soon

Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business Broadcom will soon deploy multiple gigawatts worth of custom accelerators at Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, a feat it says shows AI companies and hyperscalers can’t successfully develop and deploy their own silicon any time soon.…

Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon

Meanwhile Chipzilla’s 18A process tech could see external deployment after all Intel’s Foundry division is near to sealing a deal for its advanced packaging technology that would contribute billions of dollars a year to the struggling chipmaker, CFO David Zinsner said on Wednesday.…

Windows user? Don’t get tricked by these GitHub tools spreading malware

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Crypto payment trail leads to major phishing platform takedown

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Are mass drivers possible? The race between Japan, China, and Elon Musk

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WhatsApp, Telegram, and other messaging apps may not work without a SIM card. Why?

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Any browser extension can secretly install malware, researchers demonstrate

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Drone attacks expose vulnerability of cloud infrastructure in Gulf conflict

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Declassified Antarctic UFO case: 1991 Argentine base recorded “impossible” atmospheric signal

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Quantum physicist refused Epstein after mum warned: “Stay away from this slime machine”

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Apple enters budget laptop fight with $599 MacBook Neo

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Nothing Phone event live: What was released, where to buy it, and how much does it cost?

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