When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

The democratic, liberal, dependable USA that I have known and respected for most of my adult life is dead and will not be revived even after the orange clown stops pretending to be king. It cannot, because the concept of the USA in the world outside its own borders very much depended on soft […]

I am relieved to learn that the mass-murdering dictator #khamenei can no longer terrorise the #iran‎ian people. I very much hope for the downfall of the entire regime in favour of a self-determined democracy. However, the US' ultimate departure from international law through a "preventive" […]

New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/ AirSnitch resets WiFi security back to the bad-old-days of ARP spoofing and trivial MITM.

You no longer need JavaScript! https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/ #css

The Times New Resistance font is a work of art. https://www.abbyhaddican.com/times-new-resistance

Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index Goldman Sachs has launched an S&P ex-AI index, SPXXAI, which that lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI. This product is proof of the demand among investors for a way […]

Wow: Meta has been working on plans to add facial recognition technology to its AI smart glasses. nyti.ms/3Os1oxf And this was the company’s cynical view on when, and how, to do it:

Yes, the #eu has a lot of regulations. But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago. Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no […]

Our Android app F-Droid repo is also now listed on our webpage: https://mikrotik.com/download/mobile Soon we will add other apps and will also remove 3rd party crash analytics.

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history. This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations. You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

Remember Elon Musk's hyperloop project? Washingtonian's Matt Ribel breaks down where it all went wrong (spoiler: it was doomed from the start because no one had a clue what they were doing). https://flip.it/Nc7apU #elonmusk #technology #boringproject #hyperloop

Here are 7 awesome (new or newish) features in @signalapp many users seem to have missed but will probably want to use. (Some of them I think are only available on Android at the moment?) A quick thread 🧵 (Note: If you're triggered to comment on centralisation, AWS, Google Push, or believe […]

Has anyone done a macroeconomic analysis of the costs of the PQC migration? It seems hard to estimate, but it feels like a number with way too many zeros after it.

The German federal government currently pays €481 million in licensing fees to #Microsoft every year. I'm sure @zendis#microsoftcould build some nice stuff with half the money and make it available for everybody else to re-use. #digitalsovereignty #digitalcommons #foss

Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf Comments due March 6. I am having a very hard time believing […]

So, there are fake accounts on Google scholar. I got an email from an alleged colleague at TU Delft who offers help in publishing papers. This raised my suspicion. I didn't find him on the TU Delft websites, but he gives a Google Scholar page with a verified […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

So the original #SBOM requirement for federal agencies in US was just removed. "OMB Memorandum M-22-18, Enhancing the Security of the Software Supply Chain through Secure Software Development Practices (M-22-18), imposed unproven and burdensome software accounting processes that prioritized […]

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

Only 17% of Austrian MPs are still on X. Compare that to Sweden, 66%, the Netherlands, 63%, and the EU average, 58%, that gap is striking. Finland is often cited as a leader in digital literacy and counter-disinformation. It makes me curious how Finnish politicians assess X today, as a neutral […]

🌮 TACO 🌮 seems to become the standard menu item in Davos.

In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash […]

The Post-American Era has started. Time to get to work. Humility, this time, would be a good stating point. > This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for […]

They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true. Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers. #ai

European Union companies' annual purchases of cloud software services that benefit the US economy amount to €264 billion … If the EU were able to produce 15% of the cloud software services it currently purchases from the United States in 2035, this would result in 463,000 additional jobs in the […]

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not. And what I learned in the process. https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

In the name of fighting #crime and #terrorism, EU law already requires mandatory #police surveillance of international air travel. EU governments are now considering #surveillance of all other modes of transport, in particular maritime travel. Via @statewatch. Give them a follow if you'd like […]

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115896145424737173 As a professional source code reviewer, I gotta agree with “We cannot overstate the extent to which just reading the OpenSSL source code has become miserable.” The answer to “how does OpenSSL—” is always “I don’t know and I don’t have six […]

I finally deleted my Twitter account. Created in 2010, got a lot of security news value out of it until around 2022. Then something happened and I created an account on Mastodon and stopped posting at Twitter. Now the value became clearly negative, even for holding an old, inactive account.

For anyone you know who's still using Facebook, Insta, Whatsapp, or Threads...

My #2026 resolution was field-testing sha256 git repos and I converted one of my minor projects, but since Github only supports sha1 I've moved the repository to codeberg: https://codeberg.org/kpcyrd/ssh-keyonly Everything else worked well. I'm also mirroring the repo to Arch Linux' Gitlab […]

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards > Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/115864346659649751 "Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism is a case in point. The ministry recently completed a migration of 1,200 employees to the European open-source collaboration platform Nextcloud ... The primary driver was not cost […]

Why Tech Billionaires Want to Seize Greenland www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sK...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The US might soon get access to Europeans’ biometric data – like fingerprints and facial scans – which it wants to keep allowing visa-free travel to the country. EU governments have already given their OK to start talks. Read my article at @euractiv […]

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. (Original title: Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me: Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say. This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity. Thought it […]

A new Master thesis by Maximilian Arthofer as part of our #digidow project (https://digidow.eu) focusing on how to get remote integrity attestation of embedded sensing devices is now online: https://epub.jku.at/obvulihs/content/titleinfo/13134527

One coworker -- who I'll call Xavier -- does everything through LLMs. He's the kind of developer that managers who have never been programmers _adore_ : 3000 lines of code per day. I just realized that Xavier cannot read code, even code that he submits for review. He "understands" code by […]

"The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to #trump, the more they’ll be treated as such." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/europe-venezuela-donald-trump-vladimir-putin #venzuela #vonderleyen #internationallaw

#trump's threats against #Greenland pose a significant risk for #europe, but there is no reason to despair. The #eu still has numerous levers to reduce the likelihood of invasion. What matters is that we start pulling them as soon as possible. 🧵 ⬇️

This is really cool: how a #smartphone #Camera actually sees the world and what needs to be done in order to get an image you would like to watch: https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/

Weekend Reads * VPN IPv6 leaks https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19698 * ACME protocol brief history https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/ * Section 230 decisions roundup […]

I admit that, through 2025, I have become an #ai #doomer. Not that I believe the LLM-becoming-sentient-and-killing-humanity self-serving hype bullshit for a second. There are much more concrete impact points that may lead to or greatly accelerate several crises, each of which will actively harm […]

Instead of a Happy one, I want to wish everybody a Stable New Year 2026, because we can all use one of those... However, strive to find happiness within. Take care of yourselves and those around you! 🥰

Oh. yay. "mongobleed" — https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/blob/main/mongobleed.py CVE-2025-14847 "Exploits zlib decompression bug to leak server memory via BSON field names.” "Technique: Craft BSON with inflated doc_len, server reads field names from leaked memory until null byte.”

#microsoft denies rewriting #windows11 using #ai after an employee’s “one engineer, one month, one million #code” post on #linkedin causes outrage […]