13 September 2026

30 links · Sunday

Recurrent Looped Transformer

One recurrent computation across prompt and response. Latent reasoning with infinite temporal depth.

AI Forces You to Commit to Your Initial Belief

Have you ever watched any old hack movie lately? The hacker can write at 180 WPM, never using the backspace or changing his mind ever. It’s like before they ever started, they already knew the last

Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do

There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer, is to just search for security bugs in their code. They may well have seen junior security e…

Everyone Is Mossad Now

The Mossad or not-Mossad threat model just broke. Every attacker now has nation state level capabilities.

i was just pressing continue

in one week my fleet grew to 144 agents and closed 106 units of work. on its most productive day, i shut half of it down.

I'm back! - Lucas Santos

After more than a year, I'm back to writing. This post talks about what I went through during this time and explains why I disappeared.

My First Week With GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra was my main Codex driver for the last week, and I am back on GPT-5.5. That sounds harsher than my actual opinion of the model. Astra is very good. It is better than GPT-5.6 Sol.

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...

Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer

So I’ve been meaning to write about something, but got sucked into this rabbit hole, and now I’m kinda scared if I’ve been a subject of propaganda that worked on me. A common theme in software development AI discourse is that there are “serious” engineers who …

The Enshittification of Everything – Gareth Evans

On 20 February, 2026, engineers carefully installed an immense 100 ton cross1 atop the central tower of Jesus Christ, marking the culmination of Antoni Gaudí’s 144-year construction project – and his magnum opus – Sagrada Família. The central tower of the Span…

Autonomy preservation

When I’m using coding agents like Claude code or Codex, I often experience a failure mode that I think is pretty common among humans using these tools. The failure mode manifests itself as an experience that looks somewhat like the following:

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to…

7.0.0

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Int…

LG Says We're Fake News

SUPPORT US in our DATA DRAGNET series: https://store.gamersnexus.net/data-dragnet LG has responded to our deep-dive investigation revealing the depths of LG Smart TV ACR data harvesting functionality, LG's claims to "owning the glass," and LG Smart TV security…

Simon Tatham (@simontatham@hachyderm.io)

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard. If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting th…