Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing call and text history records of more than 100 million AT&T customers.
Jayden’s Blog
• Jayden Milne
I got tasked to fix some bizarre issues a friend was having with their gaming PC. They had had lots of bluetooth issues, and recently their mouse stopped working entirely in Windows 11 - nothing would show up in Control Panel. Other mice also didn’t work.
matklad
• Alex Kladov
std.Io.Threaded is one of the implementations of Zig's new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a boring just use threads impl. I personally find it neat though --- it does this weird thing that I wanted to do for ages, that to my knowledge no one else is doing properly, and implements it better than I thought to be possible.
John D. Cook
• John
The previous post pointed out that the following code such as the following unexpectedly works. >>> from math import log, factorial >>> log(factorial(1000)) 5912.128178488163 If you don’t find this unexpected, note that if you replace math.log with numpy.log the code will fail [1]. Functions like natural logarithm operate on real numbers. Real numbers are represented […]
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Construction Physics
• Brian Potter
A few weeks ago the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law. This is an enormous housing bill that’s been in the works for roughly a year — I first discussed it on Statecraft back in 2025 — and folks are optimistic that it will, per its description, “increase the supply of housing in America.”
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On August 6, 1997, Apple and Microsoft reached a truce, to the tune of $150 million. At an Apple event, the two companies announced Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple, leaving everyone wondering why. The whole event had a weird
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Forcing an object into the global interface table.
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Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
Assisted-By: Daniel Stenberg
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
Some predictions are off. This one is way off.
The fine line between commitment and motivation
