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  @petersuber@fediscience.org Thank goodness—zombies get a new wind whenever they can sense nearby brains…

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  Neat insight into how Meta's chatbot works: https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/ Apparently, getting a chatbot to dump you its whole filesystem isn't notable: we've determined that the reported issue does not qualify as a valid vulnerability under the scope of our bug bounty system.

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  I like this daily web game: guess the year given clues about what happened then. It's a bit arbitrary and, like Wordle outside of Hard Mode, you can hunt for more digits (and there are only so many digits), but it has a fundamental flaw in its sharing mechanism tipping the hand too much. Take the game from Sunday: #pastpuzzle en-582 🟩🟥🟥🟨 (-225) 🟥🟨🟨🟥 (+216) 🟩🟩🟨🟨 (+27) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0) 4/4 🟩 https://www.pastpuzzle.com The first clue talks about a physicist and a scientific community, so it's cl...

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  @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social they recruited the Lycos dog?

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  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children “There’s some real animus towards the kids coming from Miller and his acolytes. And I think that it’s also very connected to the same reason that he wants to get rid of birthright citizenship. It’s about demographics, right? And he sees the kids as, like, the future generation that will, you know, continue a multiracial, multicultural vision of this country.” #uspol HT @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

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  RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/117277330901396809 Firefox is starting to get polluted by vibe-coded crap. If only the AI-free @servo@floss.social was moving along faster…

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  A Flock technician called 911 because journalists were filming the installation of Flock cameras in public. Here's what the photographer said to the police: "There is an irony here that they're setting up these cameras that track all of our movements, that follow everywhere we go. But when I try to get video in public of him in public setting up a camera, he's afraid I'm following him?" https://www.investigatetv.com/2026/09/08/flock-worker-calls-police-investigatetv-r...

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  @ghostlinguist@mastodon.social @hrast@sunny.garden @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social @darkwolf@hear-me.social This reminds me of how Phil Zimmermann explained the importance of PGP back in 1991: What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Don't let the status quo get in...

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  https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/ Reliability lives on what Dolgov called an “exponential ladder of nines.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls it the “march of the nines.” Getting to 90% or 99% is the easy part. Every additional nine of reliability takes roughly ten times more effort than the one before it. Nope! Each nine in precision is exponentially harder, not geometrically.

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  TIME Magazine's website now serves excessive ads—just to AI crawlers. This manipulates them to have favorable views of the advertised content without traceability. This technique could also help seed flagrantly bad information so we can get more glue in pizza. https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/ #AI

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  I sure hope the #aiCollapse heralds a new tech bubble due to all of the massive datacenters offering rock-bottom prices because they're desperate for tenants. Hopefully a new era for non-AI video rendering, too. (Don't worry about the carbon footprint, most AI DCs will go under)

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  A drone that is 100% propeller, blurring to near-invisibility like the blades of a fan. It seems impractical to put a camera in there. Maybe a microphone array can account for the wind resistance and cancel out the motor? https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/07/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight

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  Artem Lytkin has implemented Doom with just regular expressions. A giant pile of search-and-replace—14M in just one frame! This is magnificent: https://4rh1t3ct0r7.github.io/doom-regex/ #regex #doom h/t @hackaday@hackaday.social

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  @RoguleTips@mastodon.social – I'm curious about your take on yesterday's game: #Rogule 2026-7-28 🧝 5xp ⛩ 221 👣 streak: 98 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 🦇🐀🦇👹🐉 🌰🍄 https://rogule.com I know these are random, including what goodies are present, but this level was very well "designed", which makes me wonder if 🐉 increases the odds of 🥃, 🛡️, 🗡️, and/or 🪓

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  https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books "Good" news: Some companies have solved both the slop-fed-slop model collapse issue and the copyright lawsuit issue Bad news: it requires buying old books, scanning them, and then destroying them so nobody else can use that knowledge or prove plagiarism or copyright violation

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  RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116942321109334514 It's a great day for … contract killers?! #uspol

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@donni/116916284572319761 JOIN US

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116899363388135620 This looks like a great process, though it's all but guaranteed to nominate a centrist, ignoring the majority of voters who chose a progressive despite his edginess (Nazi tattoo, sexting). #uspol

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  Energy storage is hard. It's also necessary to pair with many #renewable sources like solar, wind, and tidal, which do not provide continuous power. There are a few ways to do it, such as salt pits to store heat and pumping water uphill for hydroelectric power on demand. Now there's one more: lifting concrete slabs and then lowering them to spin turbines: https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html

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  RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116810673204863384 Every once in a while, we observe flaws in media players that allow exploits to be delivered by video files. These files often get free passes in security gateways. Fortunately, it doesn't work by default. BleepingComputer wrote: the RCE exploit requires ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) to be disabled, and that CVE-2026-8461 alone does not bypass this memory protection. In theory, a separate information-disclosure bug in FFmpeg...

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  Featherlight planets! https://apnews.com/article/super-puffs-cotton-candy-giant-light-planets-db1ebf1cb946e1c0bba67a5040bfc8a9 These two planets have densities comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam, fresh from the can.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116499146658427751 The idea of closing currently-open-source software "for security reasons" makes no sense whatsoever; at best, it's closing the barn door after the animals have all left. At worst, it prevents accessibility and public scrutiny that could make that software better … and more secure.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116470414631938021 I am very grateful for being able to afford a Pixel so I can run GrapheneOS, which lets me use Contact Scopes to limit which contacts (if any!) I let an app view. It's a shame this type of feature isn't more available. As @codinghorror notes below, this is a privacy issue (if you don't believe us, search for "shadow profile").

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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116521805012366059 Chrome prohibits first-class ad blocking extensions. Chrome now installs a 4GB AI model. Google is an ad company. They harvest your data. Use Firefox or else a Chromium fork like Vivaldi.

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  "Even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software." https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/ Like keeping booze away from teenagers or nudie mags out of the hands of young lads, slapping a big “restricted, 18+” label on parts of the internet hasn't stopped kids testing the limits. Those limits, according to UK online safety group Internet Matters, are easy to sidestep.