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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHP said the incident happened Oct. 13 as the officers were investigating a fatal crash on Interstate 80 eastbound, west of Air Base Parkway. The Tesla, driven by a 22-year-old Sacramento man, was ...

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.

Lies, lies and more lies. She says she “practiced corporate law”, while her public bio lists “General Counsel” and “Associate” as titles. Although I’m not a lawyer… lawyers tell me these are criminal ...

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 ...

I’ve been working on enterprise projects labelled RPA, machine learning, AI, non-human identity and now LLM agents for over fifteen years. I give the same two requirements for any system that acts on ...

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 ...

Update April 21, 2026: Nicholas Carlini wrote me personally to confirm that he found CVE-2026-4747 using Mythos Preview. This means the bug was not among those in his February 5 paper. His ...