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A lot of people think that good leadership requires radical responsibility. Conscious Leadership defines it like this: Taking full responsibility for one’s circumstances (physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually) is the foundation of true personal and relational tr...

Today's links Amazon achieves enshittification inception: Cheating on your fraud is a hell of a thing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Electrolite is back; Mafia rules; Aaronsw on Wikipedia; Proctorio's memory hole. Upcoming appearances: Dąbrowa Gó...

The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here.

This month:

• We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks
• One-shotting Raccoon Heist games with Fable 5 and Sol 5.6
• Claude auto mode
• Understanding ChatGPT Work
• Model releases
• Miscellaneous bits and bobs
• My projects
• What I'm using at the moment

Here's a copy of the July newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy!

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Are you talking to the right guy?

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NVIDIA has offered by buy Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. 129303 is the Unicode code point for the Hugging Face emoj (U+1F917), which you can verify with the following Python code. >>> import unicodedata >>> 129303 == 0x1F917 True >>> unicodedata.name(chr(0x1F917)) 'HUGGING FACE' Related posts Prevent characters from displaying as emoji Unicode, Tolkien, and Privacy Unicode […]

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An impressive system that can (to some unknown extent) build symbolic world models

GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS" - I've not tried it yet myself, so I don't have...

This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.

There’s a lot to like here, but the proposal clearly goes too far.

Eric Lu announced on X today that he has factored RSA-260, a number N with 260 digits (862 bits) that is the product of two large primes [1]. RSA numbers are challenge problems posed to gauge the security of RSA encryption, which rests on the difficulty of factoring large numbers [2]. The naming scheme is […]

The post New RSA number factored first appeared on John D. Cook.

I was reading Jason Gorman’s article “The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy” and he says: the journey from 90% to 99% reliability is just as hard as it was to get to 90%. And from 99% to 99.9% is just as hard again. This stood out, as I’ve been experiencing m...

The other day a serious vulnerability was disclosed in one of the newer Linux distributions (the one led by the racist, so it's not getting a mention here). The issue was interesting because it was caused by a non-standard Docker configuration that their installer applied by default, without alerting users that this configuration was creating a security risk. The end result was that any process running on these systems had the ability to elevate itself to root, without password, sudo or any prompts to the user.

While this incident did not affect me, it served as a reminder that it is difficult to set up Docker in a way that is secure. If you are interested in understanding what the issues with Docker are and what can be done to address them, then you are in the right place.

If you're reading this, you've probably been hitting your head against a brick wall trying to parse and decipher the new HTTP Signatures sent by Mastodon and other Fediverse servers. This is a basic and somewhat incomplete guide to accepting these signatures. I'm sure there are various gotchas, but it works with the signatures I've seen in the wild. Shut Up And Show Me The Code! OK, wow, no…

In mijn vorige artikel schreef ik hoeveel de AIVD en MIVD nu al mogen. Inmiddels is het nieuwe wetsvoorstel gepubliceerd, en wat blijkt, men wil nog veel meer bevoegdheden, met veel minder toezicht.
Ik heb veel vragen gekregen wat nou het ergste is aan de nieuwe wet, maar het is in z’n geheel een totale uitholling van de rechtsstaat door een dienst die losgezongen is van de maatschappij en zelden of nooit naar zichzelf kijkt als de resultaten tegenvallen.

On September 3, 2025, Microsoft released version 1.1 of its 6502 Basic as open source. This code formed the basis for Applesoft Basic on the Apple II series as well as Commodore Basic on all of Commodore’s 8-bit computers, including

The post Microsoft 6502 Basic released as open source Sept 3, 2025 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.

Today's links Preparing for a post-Trump internet: You'd better hope it's also a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Barnum and Bailey v journalism; Wired's Wikipedia article is a wiki; Singapore's national wifi; Twitter argumen...

Loss of identity.

The post The perils of binding to value types in XAML appeared first on The Old New Thing.

In a normal culture, a company as gray-haired as MapQuest would not be having a straight-on cultural revival in 2026. But our culture is not normal.

We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore. There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, wher...

The bad news is that he’s not alone