Dave explains the inner workings of a modern slot machine, revealing the computer inside and whether or not the games are fair. Check out an episode of ShopTalk on Dave's Attic where we answer the best user questions! https://youtu.be/ZUvDO2g5Y1s
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware
Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
Sadly, taking away valuable disclosure avoidance tools doesn't make fundamental trade-offs go away.
21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg | depthfirst
depthfirst's production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concrete, reproducible PoC inputs to confirm i…
Leaving Mozilla
> On burn-out and bull-headedness
Tech Things: There is a massive shadow hanging over this Fable thing
Man, I was just trying to relax and (have my agent) code on a Friday
Civilizational intelligence infrastructure must remain free to study, build, deploy, and run, not rented from closed institutions.
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
Peter Thiel-chaired data intelligence group sued publication over reports that Switzerland rejected its approaches
As a pioneer of electric motors using no rare earths, Renault Group is unique on the automotive market, a position reasserted for strategic reasons.
How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS
Running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, multimodal support, and PI as a coding agent.
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the…
“Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?”
Can ChatGPT replace translators? A freelance translator shares a funny Ottawa story about AI translation, professional judgment and why human expertise still matters.