The best thing about Canaries & Canarytokens, is when they surprise you: "printed some and put them round the office" "but then they were put into the bin, and at 21:43 someone scanned them… looks like this place has dumpster divers" "never thought that was still a thing"

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Today in 1942 was another date which should live in infamy—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the forced eviction, property forfeiture, and internment of some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, about 70,000 of whom were US citizens.

How do you say “thrown under the bus” in the Queen’s English? There you go.

It is always the same: the idiot in your gang is the one which makes the whole organisation fall. Furthermore, it is always some ancillary charge which then opens the flood gates.

Hi. Former NSA hacker here: This portal will be used by US intelligence and law enforcement for intelligence collection and to deliver 0-days to targets of interest. You can take that to the bank. I'd bet my mortal soul on it.

The French nuclear test on May 1, 1962. It is known as the Béryl incident - apparently, there was serious release of radioactivity. But the film does not mention it at all. Maybe that was why it was made www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHMr... The explosion is at 11:45.

AI bubble RAM crisis? no, i don’t have a bubble RAM crisis

behold, possibly the greatest single figure in any ai paper

Update: the Swiss app still crashes on opening unless you click on a notification. It has been over a week and I have kindly provided plenty of crash reports (via Apple).

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Since the beginning of 2026 in Italy: 1) Sicily/Calabria experienced the biggest cyclone in 50 years 2) Venice raised the sea wall (Mose) a record of 18 times in last 2 weeks 3) Sardinia is currently in extreme wind alert (100km/h) with more than 800 calls for help to firefighters in 24 hours

The latest Swiss International Airlines app crashes on opening unless you are opening it in response to a notification… Good QA, fun if you need to check-in, etc. Work-around: use the Lufthansa app.

The Verification Theater: When Formal Methods Create False Assurance in Cryptographic Libraries (Nadim Kobeissi) ia.cr/2026/192

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We take randomness for granted.
 Early PRNGs were BAD. Thousands of scientific papers used to rely on RANDU, created by IBM in the 1960s.

In 1D space, it looks ok! Map in 3D…you start to see the issues. Now, there *was* a better solution...but it would cost you.

Last ̶c̶h̶a̶p̶t̶ tractate of my serialized novella, and the best one. I'll collect feedback, do more editing, and get it printed. The featured photo's mine. bfswa.substack.com/p/the-ninth-...

Power grid cyber cyber experts incoming in 10, 9, 8, ...

Kickstarter has lost its usernames & passwords? Getting SMS Kickstarter authentication codes out of the blue...

Spy cameras on Norwegian gas plant: Cameras that monitored Melkøya discovered The police in Finnmark have discovered two advanced cameras that continuously filmed the gas plant on Melkøya in the municipality of Hammerfest.

Some of the recently declassified images of the NRO's Cold War-era JUMPSEAT HEO signals intelligence satellite program. lnkd.in/eGym2xBj

I don't suppose that I have any #openbsd #thinkpad (or #bitcoin millionaire) friends out there willing to signal boost my pinned profile post, by chance? You would be really helping me out. 🍕💻

who wants to pay me a couple million to help plan and architect your migration off of the microslop ecosystem? dead serious. this rate only applies if your total # of users + workstations is in the thousands. if it’s 10k+ or less than 1k (early startups, think tanks, etc) i want equity as well

quick note on trustlessness and SPoFs bfswa.substack.com/p/trust-them...

Implementing the transcendental functions in Ivy commandcenter.blogspot.com/2026/01/impl...

NEW: Microsoft handed the FBI the recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of three laptops encrypted with BitLocker. BitLocker is enabled by default in modern Windows laptops, but Microsoft also prompts users to upload the recovery keys to the company's cloud, which opens up this possibility.

FUN STORY: We don't know exactly why or how underground nuclear explosive test containment actually works. I'm not kidding. Best read on the topic in public is "Caging the Dragon: The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions." apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

the lede in FT (best paper in english these days?) is perfect

KDE removed FreeBSD support from Plasma login manager stating that KDE/Plasma relies systemd(1)/logind(1) Linux daemons. FreeBSD should not waste time to work on adding KDE/Plasma desktop install button in bsdinstall(8) installer. Use MATE/XFCE instead. github.com/KDE/plasma-l...

An old 747, having seen so much history, simply could not cope with this one flight.

Probably not the official motto of the #WEF. But well-done.

I'm pleased to announce that we've extended the paper deadline for the 12th workshop on language-theoretic security all the way to february 13! work-in-progress reports and panel submissions are extended to february 20, and we'll still get back to you first week of march langsec.org/spw26/import...

Have we absolutely, certainly, unfailingly, ensured that Kissinger has not returned from the grave? Did someone forget the stake?

TamaGo AMD SEV-SNP support is now tested on physical servers. This is a networked pure Go UEFI unikernel, launched under QEMU with AMD SEV-SNP, obtaining an attestation report and performing its online verification. Transparent, reproducible, pure Go Confidential VMs!

Tonight in 1985, the harrowing and grimly realistic nuclear war drama “Threads” first aired in the United States on cable superstation WTBS, thanks to station owner and very concerned citizen Ted Turner. This unforgettable film is currently streaming for free in the United States on Kanopy.

“The Conscience of a Hacker” by The Mentor is 40 years old today.

I hope the Danes and the other European forces are training in guerrilla warfare as that always works against the USA, especially on hostile territory (cf. Greenland).

2026 will bring more blockchain/quantum/AI scams, hacks, overvaluations, bankruptcies; VC psyops, trolls and bots, paid articles and endorsements. Meanwhile there wont be no... - "AGI" - useful/practical quantum computers - meaningful blockchain use beyond tokenization Like the past 10 years.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... wait till their office 365 /.Facebook etc accounts start being closed

I hope 2026 is the year that someone has to stand up and defend a breach by saying "but we filled in all the Compliance and Risk forms!"

In Italia il grassetto negli articoli e nelle email è la copertura per la mancanza di conoscenza dell’Italiano e quindi l’incapacità di creare enfasi con le parole? Oppure sono solo c&p dai vari LLM che adorano il grassetto?

When the 53-year-old tape was found, early last month, I wrote a story for the Register explaining its significance: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

My group is hiring several interns for next summer to help us build the next generation of GPU supercomputers! We work on architecture, bringup, applications, and analysis for clusters based on the latest NVIDIA compute and networking technologies.

Ma il check-in Frecciarossa lo gestisce la Ferrari? #askingforafriend

Another OpenBSD story from Miod: The scariest bootloader code.