Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and … Read more
Abstract:Ternary Large Language Models (LLM) store every weight as one of three symbols ${-1,0,+1}$, so the cost of a ternary model is conventionally referenced to the information-theoretic $log_2 3 approx 1.585$ bits per weight. The prevailing deployment format packs five … Read more
In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success rate using a small sample size. This is interesting because a third-party evaluation … Read more
Scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong Dr Julie Elie of the University of California, Berkeley, has won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for Two-Way Interspecies Communication, receiving $100,000 for decoding the core vocabulary of zebra finches and advancing research into … Read more
The ‘cloud-native’ architecture of the last decade is built on a 20-year-old assumption: that state lives in the database, and compute is stateless. If you want to scale, you scale the database vertically (get a larger machine) [1][1] or design … Read more
A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day. In doing this he followed standard procedure for Linux, especially within networking: share the security … Read more
Video game security has always been a moving target, as consoles evolved to full-blown computing platforms locked down with layers of protection — but for every lock ever invented, there has always been someone determined to pick it. Being a … Read more
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it … Read more
Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of highly complex AI-generated code, often with the intention that the code will not be read by humans. It has cast quite a spell on the tech industry. Executives push lay-offs claiming … Read more
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Every time I encounter it, in … Read more