Mythical Man Month

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

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 impact with a closed list of Linux security engineers, while fixing the bug quietly and efficiently in the open. His goal was that with only the

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

Media over QUIC: There are ways to do voice AI without being traumatized by WebRTC.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

Discover Meshtastic: a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range, off-grid communication.

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot

Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech

Cartoon Network Flash Games

Explore a collection of Cartoon Network browser games inspired by The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and other fan-favorite series.

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

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…

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South.

EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push

The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.

Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso

Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

The royal couple shared photographs of Sir David and wished him a very happy birthday.

The React2Shell Story

The story of CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell)

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours

The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia.,The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia.

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

Teaching Claude Why

New research on how we've reduced agentic misalignment