Wirken is MIT licensed at github.com/gebruder/wirken, with the hardware designs and documentation published alongside it. Anyone can install it and ride AI safely with a kill-switch, and anyone handed ...
A social media post was asking about the hassle of a secure connection to an ISP router (using TLS), and it reminded me of the early 1990s when we used to hand-craft TCP/IP networks on 3Com, Cayman, ...
Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation counted 1,526 inauthentic accounts posting into Ukraine’s information space on Facebook and Telegram the day before a drone fire shut Yandex’s data ...
I’ve been working on enterprise projects labelled RPA, ML, AI, NHI and now LLM agents for over fifteen years. Acronym soup doesn’t change the fact that I give the same two requirements for any system ...
The Atlantic has published a hero story to frame open source software as about one man. Ondřej Surý packages PHP for Debian and Ubuntu as a volunteer, and when the PHP2Shell fix shipped this week the ...
Headlines about the University of Wyoming poisoning case tell a confidentiality breach story, built around a Chinese national and a cache of hard drives seized at Los Angeles airport.
A sophisticated act is, in the literal sense, a breach of integrity. Like someone serving colored water and calling it wine, or someone who fails the bar yet says they are a lawyer. Sophisticated ...
Public evidence for PHP2Shell has turned out to be far thinner than its headlines. It’s a bad bug, yes, but who caused so much attention to it instead of other bugs? Wiz frames ...
Isabella Weber has a new book out. The Guardian profiled it on 16 October: Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defence of Affordability, Dignity and Democracy (Allen Lane). The prescription fits in one ...
Microsoft has published an “agent governance toolkit” that promises to make AI safer with identity, audit, and policy enforcement. The code does not deliver, however, because the authentication ...
30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down. Within ten minutes the rest of the company’s public web was down as well: the main site ...
Jason Meller wrote a security rulebook. I read it. He is in direct violation of it. Houston, we have a problem. DHH published his infamous Nazi screed called “As I remember London” on September 15, ...