Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
Fits into your video editing workflow ntsc-rs is available not just as a standalone and web application, but also as a plugin for After Effects, Premiere, and all OpenFX-compatible software. This includes DaVinci Resolve, Hitfilm, and Vegas.
Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Meta is notifying thousands of people whose Instagram accounts were hijacked during the months-long abuse of the company’s AI chatbot, which hackers repeatedly tricked into taking control of a person’s account. In a new data breach notification letter, seen by this week in security, Meta has revealed for the first time how many people had […]
Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America’s top ally in the Middle East to the highest level, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free […]
You Can Run
When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. It would be years before they learned the truth about his life of crime. By Barry Meier The Atavist Magazine, No. 176 […]
Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
Disclaimer: This article is co-authored with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8. zeroserve is a small, fast, zero-config HTTPS server. You hand it a tarball of a website and it serves it – over HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3, with hot reload and a tiny resident footprint. The twist is that you can drop eBPF programs into […]
Moving beyond fork() + exec()
Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork(), which creates a child process as a copy of the parent, and exec(), which runs a new program in the place of the current one. In Linux kernels, those system calls are better known as clone() and execve(), but […]
Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM
6th June 2026 I’ve been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I’ve been looking for. I’ve released it as an alpha package called micropython-wasm, and I’m using it for a code execution sandbox […]
Benchmarks in Leipzig
Abstract:Between April 1 and May 15, 2026, a group of 49 mathematicians compiled a dataset of research-level mathematics questions with known answers. Most of the work was done during the 3-day workshop *Benchmarks in Leipzig* with 35 participants at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. We present the resulting […]
The new bibliomaniacs
In 1947, booksellers from five countries – Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden – gathered in Amsterdam ‘with the aim of establishing new hope for international peace through open markets, to foster friendship and understanding, and to counteract the animosity and suspicion engendered by the Second World War.’ A year later, at a […]
There’s still no point in gigabit broadband
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What’s the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it’s a few years later and Virgin Media have just given […]