Almost all of these seem to be clones on what I believe was the OG (?) "magic wormhole". magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ www.lothar.com/~warner/Magi... There are desktop, mobile, etc. implementations of magic wormhole. I'd strongly recommend those over the website.

listen to @bloodwork.show

Can you imagine the office politics when most workers don't get to use AI, which promised to liberate them from such tasks, to do daily slog stuff but a select group of teams or departments do? Or you're "allowed" to use it but your boss might take you aside to talk about wasting tokens if you do?

DaFreeSpeechHatLawyer getting banned for fedposting is ironic. Physician, heal thyself.

the dastardly hackers. its a well known exploit named "right click -> view source". they're frantically working to patch it as we speak. its almost as serious as the "right click -> save image" exploit that impacted many NFTs. CVSS Score: 11.0

the dates in the PQC EO are interesting to me. thats a long time, 4-5 years to upgrade TLS? I already use PQC key establishment in ssh, tls, etc. amongst my personal devices. and the EO is only for high value/impact systems. how close do they really imagine the cryptopocalypse is with that timeline?

do any of my data journo friends know of a good alternative to neo4j that lets me do local (as in local network not neccessarily same machine) easy graph db analysis of a dataset without putting my shit on a proprietary cloud thingie or paying a bazillion dollars

Accidentally signing an order that makes everyone use cumbersome and niche gimmick of Quantum Cryptography rather than the more broadly useful and applicable Post-Quantum Cryptography. (I'm pretty sure the text actually says Post-Quantum)

The White House's social media account has now posted a fake Q post in the exact same format as a major aggregator of Q posts. arxiv.org/html/2310.15... bsky.app/profile/arie...

fucking yikes. while the physical access requirement makes this less useful for spooks, etc. the harm this could do to regular people from abusers via stalkerware is horrifying to consider.

All the pol profs will tell you it's unknowable why Starmer failed, but the reality is that everybody on the left knew this was coming and called it in pretty explicit terms as to what and why in 2020. There's nobody waiting in the wings to lead Labour who is any different. They kicked them all out.

This incredible illustration accompanied an article in The Columbus Ledge on November 19th, 1978 which discussed whether colleges and universities were helping to create computer criminals by giving students access to computers. Bit of a bizarre moral panic.

argh. well i gazed into the abyss again. looking into one thing and stumbled into a related wikipedia article and gained insight like upon seeing some horror in bloodborne.

Gimme the most British headline u got. Okay okay i admit I didn't realize what I was asking for

telling trump before the public he nominally represents is perhaps the ultimate 'he died how he lived' lmao a CIA bitch to the last

He started his time as leader of the Labour party by immediately breaking all of his leadership pledges. Then breaking election manifesto pledges once voted into government. Then lying about knowledge of spying on journalists, Mandelson vetting, etc. But, sure, Starmer feels betrayed.

bsky desperately trying to get its own process reaped by OOMkill...

Has anyone done a political cartoon of Trump as King Cnut on a chair next to the reflecting pool demanding that algae leaves the water? Maybe with some helpful expositive labels. And a little bald guy in the corner with a pen and pad saying like "al-Gaeda!"?

If you'd wanted to write this post as satire, you couldn't really have done much better. The weird AI generated slop Starmer propaganda posters, signed off by "Have a rethink mate"? Real uncanny valley shit, American tech producing a vision of British culture more off-putting than the original.

[looking at drafts] I did not expect them to deploy it over something as petty and inevitable as algae in a pond.

Check out this handy Andy Burnham is "one of the good guys" starter pack:

"Yup. Software and datasets aren't subject to export laws or the whims of companies." a tech reporter writes. "And the local models? They spring fully formed from the mind of Zeus and don't depend upon wealthy patronage to produce. Alibaba are the PLA, here to liberate us from the yoke of big AI."

There was some poll doing the rounds here the other day about opinions of AI in the west vs elsewhere and I think it's worth considering that AI and the story of how powerful and innovative it is, is an active and central part of current US foreign policy and propaganda.

Fucking what? By who???

is it still 0-click if your LLM does the click for you?

If you’re wondering what kind of Bizarro world we are living in that Labour could make a big song and dance of purging its ranks of antisemites only for its ideological North Star to be inviting Holocaust Revisionists for a friendly chat then I’m afraid you don’t understand grown-up politics.

Data bought, rights ignored: European intelligence services' use of commercially sourced data Excellent research by Interface Govt security agencies are now routinely undertaking unwarranted mass surveillance thanks to the poorly regulated ad industry www.interface-eu.org/publications...

This is bombshell stuff.

Some *interesting* names on this list. Even a Tory MP (Tom Tugendhat).

Since the UK provides material support for the US's illegal war in Iran, how much of the reconstruction costs do you think it's fair to place at the feet of the UK government? (Obviously, this deal will not actually hold because Israel has a strong interest in it not and Trump never keeps them)

It's so funny for Forensic Keir to be saying this while simultaneously replacing every public service, including education, with LLMs and putting all of these kids details into Palantir databases. Just an awful, insincere prick.

Sure, C standard library function names are terse and unintuitive, but what if I told you there was a level of hell beyond that? (this is one of my favourite programming language curiosities)

I see a bunch of people who discovered Linux in the last year or two are doing the extremely tired UI discourse again. All I'd suggest is: 1. Compare the operating budgets of GIMP vs Photoshop. 2. It's open source, feel free to fix it if you think you could offer a better solution under that budget.

i knew rich assholes felt this way but i'm not sure i've ever actually seen them just say it in plain english

A UK police officer is under investigation for allegedly perverting the course of justice by using GenAI to generate evidence in cases www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just updated this story with details from Google's lawsuit complaint, which included a lot of fascinating details on how the operation worked behind the scenes.

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

A loose end on the original blackcore report is that one of their sub-domains was full-report[.]blackcore[.]online. It contained a password protected "report". I've put no compute time towards cracking it (have no functional GPU), but saved it as a curiosity. gist.github.com/cyberworm-uk...

This step-by-step guide explains how to protect yourself from online stalkers, why it is important to, and what to do if you are targeted for “doxxing.” Whether far-right busybodies are doxxing you or you simply want to minimize your vulnerability, start here: crimethinc.com/doxcare

this is still offline. i think we can assume that it wasn't actually profitable or serious business venture and was instead just a dumb vanity project that backfired in a very embarrassing way.

I keep getting links to "deepwiki" when I'm doing searches for technical information. Just an LLM rephrasing the content of github repos (sometimes incorrectly) while trying to sell you an AI coding tool.

New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

these markets have no predictive value, they are primarily gambling and secondarily insider trading. to pretend they have predictive value is to show ignorance or malice or in the case of the screenshotted account, both.

Epstein abused them. The Justice Department exposed them. Now they’re under attack by haters www.reuters.com/investigatio...

new torment nexus just dropped www.404media.co/this-company...

WhatsApp catches NSO Group targeting its platform in violation of court orders. Files injunction. Also announces it's donating to the Spyware Accountability Initiative. about.fb.com/news/2026/06...

people who were around in the 2010s might remember that this same company was involved in a similar minor scandal around the "Hola" VPN, where free-tier VPN users were exit-nodes for their paying customers for mostly the same reason (exiting to the internet from residential IPs).

Security researchers have accused Israeli company Bright Data of turning smart TVs into AI web scraping proxy nodes without their owners specific consent blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-...

I guess it's technically a positive thing that I've never had to learn what a modern Linux kernel panic looks like? That said, give me the stack trace.

this is such interesting research: www.404media.co/the-u-s-mili...