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Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI.

Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed

July Pebble Update

TL:DR; New (old) name! Core Pebble 2 Duo update - schedule, mobile app, tariffs, BT range, order confirmation emails Mini Core Pebble…

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Application development without programmers

Application development without programmers This book by James Martin, published in 1982, includes the following in the preface: Applications development did not change much for 20 years, but now a new wave is crashing in. A rich diversity of nonprocedural techniques and la...

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ccusage

ccusage

Claude Code logs detailed usage information to the ~/.claude/ directory. ccusage is a neat little Node.js tool which reads that information and shows you a readable summary of your usage patterns, including the estimated cost in USD per day.

You can run it using npx like this:

npx ccusage@latest

Tags: javascript, nodejs, anthropic, claude-code

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Semantic drift versus ethical drift (14 Jul 2025)

Today's links Semantic drift versus ethical drift: Locking things open vs locking in freedom. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Riepl's law; video patents; NSA global surveillance; Smart speaker triggers; roller derby covid mitigations. Upcoming appe...

Jim Nielsen’s Blog Valid

Measurement and Numbers

Here’s Jony Ive talking to Patrick Collison about measurement and numbers: People generally want to talk about product attributes that you can measure easily with a number…schedule, costs, speed, weight, anything where you can generally agree that six is a bigger number tha...

the website of jyn
• jyn

you are in a box

your data is trapped inside the box that is your program. you can only see what the program author exposes.

Abort Retry Fail
• Bradford Morgan White

The History of Windows XP

The History of Windows XP

NT Vincit Omnia

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Happy 20th birthday Django! Here's my talk on Django Origins from Django's 10th

Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to the public Django repository! Ten years ago we threw a multi-day 10th birthday party for Django back in its birthtown of Lawrence, Kansas. As a personal celebration of the 20th, I'm revisiting the talk I gave at that event...

Michael Stapelbergs Website

Migrating my NAS from CoreOS/Flatcar Linux to NixOS

In this article, I want to show how to migrate an existing Linux server to NixOS — in my case the CoreOS/Flatcar Linux installation on my Network Attached Storage (NAS) PC. I will show in detail how the previous CoreOS setup looked like (lots of systemd units starting Docker...

Troy Hunt Supports Webmention
• Troy Hunt

Weekly Update 460

Weekly Update 460

This week's update is the last remote one for a while as we wind up more than a month of travel. I'm pushing this out just before we jump on the Qantas plane home... right after they've advised just how much of my data

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity METR - for Model Evaluation & Threat Research - are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at OpenAI (see Wikipedia). They've previously...

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Grok 4 Heavy won't reveal its system prompt

Grok 4 Heavy won't reveal its system prompt Grok 4 Heavy is the "think much harder" version of Grok 4 that's currenly only available on their $300/month plan. Jeremy Howard relays a report from a Grok 4 Heavy user who wishes to remain anonymous: it turns out that Heavy, unli...

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crates.io: Trusted Publishing

crates.io: Trusted Publishing

crates.io is the Rust ecosystem's equivalent of PyPI. Inspired by PyPI's GitHub integration (see my TIL, I use this for dozens of my packages now) they've added a similar feature:

Trusted Publishing eliminates the need for GitHub Actions secrets when publishing crates from your CI/CD pipeline. Instead of managing API tokens, you can now configure which GitHub repository you trust directly on crates.io.

They're missing one feature that PyPI has: on PyPI you can create a "pending publisher" for your first release. crates.io currently requires the first release to be manual:

To get started with Trusted Publishing, you'll need to publish your first release manually. After that, you can set up trusted publishing for future releases.

Via @charliermarsh

Tags: github, packaging, pypi, rust

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Quoting @grok

On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We iden...

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Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions

Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions I got quoted a couple of times in this story about Grok searching for tweets from:elonmusk by Matt O’Brien for the Associated Press. “It’s extraordinary,” said Simon Willison, an in...

the website of jyn
• jyn

constrained languages are easier to optimize

exposing raw pointers make the optimizer’s job horribly hard. high level languages can constrain your program, making more optimizations sound.

Tom Renner on My place to put things Supports Webmention
• Tom Renner

The sound of inevitability

Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the...

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moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. My HuggingFace storage calculator says the repository is 958.52 GB. It's a mixture-...

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Quoting Django’s security policies

Following the widespread availability of large language models (LLMs), the Django Security Team has received a growing number of security reports generated partially or entirely using such tools. Many of these contain inaccurate, misleading, or fictitious content. While AI ...