A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice AES-256 Encryption
Security research March 18, 2026 · ~5 min read PSpice is a SPICE circuit simulator from Cadence Design Systems that encrypts proprietary semiconductor model files to protect vendor IP and prevent reuse in third-party SPICE simulators. The encryption scheme is proprietary and undocumented. Many third-party component vendors distribute SPICE models exclusively as PSpice-encrypted files, locking […]
Consensus Board Game
I have an early adulthood trauma from struggling to understand consensus amidst a myriad of poor explanations. I am overcompensating for that by adding my own attempts to the fray. Today, I want to draw a series of pictures which could be helpful. You can see this post as a set of missing illustrations for […]
No-build, no-NPM, SSR-first JavaScript framework if you hate React, love HTML
Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML. No build step, no Virtual DOM, no npm, no mixing JavaScript with HTML. DOM-first, SSR-first, and fully usable with plain browser APIs. Small, self-sufficient, and powerful enough for serious apps. If you want your UI to feel like structured HTML enhanced with clear, declarative behavior […]
OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2026-03-19 from the queueing for Terabitia dept. OpenBSD’s PF packet filter has long supported HFSC traffic shaping with the queue rules in pf.conf(5). However, an internal 32-bit limitation in the HFSC service curve structure (struct hfsc_sc) meant that bandwidth values were silently capped at approximately 4.29 Gbps, ” […]
Astral to Join OpenAI
I started Astral to make programming more productive. From the beginning, our goal has been to build tools that radically change what it feels like to work with Python – tools that feel fast, robust, intuitive, and integrated. Today, we’re taking a step forward in that mission by announcing that we’ve entered into an agreement […]
Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)
Last year, Ticketmaster and LiveNation invested in a former military facial recognition company, with the hope that the technology could be used to both strengthen and speed up event entry. If that prospect thoroughly creeps you out, here’s a simple life-hack to defeat Big Brother: become a Juggalo. In a revelation that is sure to freak […]
An FAQ on Reinforcement Learning Environments
This post is a collaboration between guest author Chris Barber and JS Denain from Epoch AI. Reinforcement learning (RL) environments have become central to how frontier AI labs train their models. In September 2025, The Information reported that Anthropic had discussed spending over $1 billion on RL environments over the following year. As Andrej Karpathy […]
Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Post ChrisO_wiki chriso-wiki.bsky.social did:plc:3w75iygkvtcrqvu4x4ux2hzv 1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 […]
2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews
By ICML 2026 Program Chairs Alekh Agarwal, Miroslav Dudik, Sharon Li, Martin Jaggi, Scientific Integrity Chair Nihar B. Shah, and Communications Chairs Katherine Gorman and Gautam Kamath. AI has increasingly become a valuable part of researchers’ workflows. Unfortunately, AI has the potential to hurt the integrity of peer review if improperly used. Conferences must adapt, […]
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