PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes
During the ”throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” years of home computing, up to around 1995, a lot was thrown and a lot failed to stick. Sometimes clumps would form that appeared to have the combined friction necessary to maintain wall grip, each holding the other up. But, like Mitch Hedberg’s observation […]
Internet Archive Switzerland
On May 5th, 2026, Internet Archive Switzerland celebrates its launch at the exhibition hall of the Abbey Archives of St. Gallen, one of the oldest continuously active archives in the world. We are grateful to Peter Erhart and the Abbey Archives of St. Gallen for hosting us: two institutions, one a millennium old and one…
Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive
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LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust – the expectation that the LLM will faithfully execute the task without introducing errors into documents. We introduce DELEGATE-52 to study the readiness of AI systems in delegated […]
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it’s an AI chatbot
2026-03-14 12:55 It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor’s website, and holds the screen up like evidence. ”You see? They have one of those.” A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking… For years, that gesture was about carousels. Every homepage had to have one, big, […]
EU calls VPNs ”a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems, describing the trend as “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing.” The warning comes as governments across Europe and elsewhere continue expanding online child-safety rules that require platforms to verify users’ ages […]
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I am fortunate to have been given access, producing a piece of PhD-level research in an hour or so, with […]
Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs
Even before Claude Mythos was announced, there were clear signs that the next era of CVEs would be found by AI models. Big Sleep found a zero-day vulnerability in SQLite, Microsoft Copilot found 20+ CVEs in bootloaders, and DARPA launched AIxCC to incentivize AI CVE discovery. Now, with models like Claude Mythos emerging, there are […]
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My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem
I’m a ICT engineer and have been working for 4 years at a nice small biopharma company in Switzerland with lots of really smart people, and most importantly, an awesome IT team :). I’m passionate about software engineering and cybersecurity. At the end of 2023, our backup system detected that there was an issue with […]