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no slop grenade

The “Rapture” was an Irish invention

Bournegol

A Geometric Calculator Inside a Neural Network

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media – danah boyd, 2026

I toyed around with using Language Embeddings as a way to categorize my RSS Feeds

Eyeglass Scratch Repair

The Problem With Counterfeit People

isene/glass

The Paradox of Medical AI Implementation – by Eric Topol

“Invisible” bend insensitive bidi fiber

Amazon Connect Talent vs. bias law

Far-right narrative not the majority view in Ireland

zizmor

The fastest Linux timestamps

Frequent infections in nursery help toddlers build up immune systems

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper – Jeff Geerling

Razor1911

how a roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down vercel’s entire platform

Cooperative DCs

Thoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up

Microsoft runs out of capacity, routes requests outside the GDPR region

Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug

Measuring bandwidth from a Fire TV stick

The Blockade Is the Message. How a Fuel Price Spike Became a Fascist Audition

nFolio

Software Licenses and Workers’ Rights · Agent IO

How Do You Find an Illegal Image Without Looking at It?

OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green

russellromney/turbolite

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

Debunking zswap and zram myths

hectorvent/floci

GitHub – mautrix/whatsapp: A Matrix-WhatsApp puppeting bridge

Ofcom don’t consider geoblocking the UK to be sufficient for an overseas website

funny Waymo anecdote

Measuring Agents in Production

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) – Last Week in AWS Blog

Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD

Research highlight: Cliopatra: Extracting Private Information from LLM Insights

“nothing up my sleeve” numbers

Whole Brain Emulation Achieved: Scientists Run a Fruit Fly Brain in Simulation

Your binary is no longer safe: Decompilation

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

Google API Keys Weren’t Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules

302 HTTP redirects Considered Harmful

Persona identity verification is a GDPR nightmare

“MJ Rathbun”‘s human operator finally speaks up

peon-ping

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog

How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Ditching bike helmets laws better for health

Dario Amodei’s Warnings About AI Are About Politics, Too

1-Click RCE To Steal Your Moltbot Data and Keys (CVE-2026-25253)

The Computer Disease

Iran is building a two-tier internet that locks 85 million citizens out of the global web

On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs

ScottESanDiego/gmail-api-client

Reverse engineering my cloud-connected e-scooter and finding the master key to unlock all scooters

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts

A better way to limit Claude Code (and other coding agents!) access to Secrets

Russian Propaganda Infects AI Chatbots

Today in “Google broke email”

This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it?

Pi Reliability: Reduce writes to your SD card

Solid state drive – ArchWiki

Understanding EV Battery Life

_Cheap science, real harm: the cost of replacing human participation with synthetic data_ [pdf]

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan

Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys | Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

‘Pig Butchering’ Scams May Have Spurred Thailand-Cambodia War

Year in Review 2025: Hari Kunzru on AI slop and censorship

Multiplying our way out of division — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Large Language Models As The Tales That Are Sung

‘Unauthorized’ Edit to Ukraine’s Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket’s War Betting

WallBonito

Building a Medallion architecture with ClickHouse

PocketBase

Questioning an Interface: From Parquet to Vortex

The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion

The developer productivity paradox: Why faster coding doesn’t mean faster software delivery

How Slide Rules Work

Mic92/strace-macos

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Bitcoin’s big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement’s secret weapon

Real VT102 emulation with MAME

The ‘Three-Body Problem’, the Imperative of Survival, and the Misogyny of Reactionary Rhetoric

What Would “Good” AI Look Like?

An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI

What the hell have you built.

Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Aisuru botnet switches from DDoS to “Residential Proxies”

Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers

episodic-memory plugin for Claude Code

asg017/sqlite-vec

Citywest riot raises questions for social media giants – The Irish Times

soedinglab/MMseqs2

Adrian Cockroft’s take on the AWS outage

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS • The Register

Linux Capabilities instead of setuid

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

LOTO

Migrating to Hetzner

nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

RetroHax: PS2 Fixing Frenzy

OSWALD

LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry should be the Standard

Google just erased 7 years of our political history

To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side

Hacking with AI SASTs: An overview of ‘AI Security Engineers’ / ‘LLM Security Scanners’ for Penetration Testers and Security Teams | Joshua.Hu | Joshua Rogers’ Scribbles

Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks

A better future for JavaScript that won’t happen

xcapture and xtop

The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic security