Google's Titans, a new architecture that combines the speed of RNNs with the performance of Transformers. It uses deep neural memory to learn in real-time, effectively scaling to contexts larger than 2 million tokens. research.google/blog/titans-...

When I traveled in China I had to get a letter from my editor confirming that I wasn’t on assignment and wouldn’t be reporting while in the country. I was also advised not to travel with pens or notebooks. This new US rule IS MUCH WORSE

if you can test it you can vibe code it therefore if your tests are manual or fake or meaningless or slow or break a lot you're fucked until you fix that nothing new under the sun

For a moment I've read "Git repos" 😅

Hacklore is a blend of hacking and folklore—modern urban legends about digital safety. Hacklore spreads quickly and confidently, passed from person to person as if it were hard-earned wisdom. But like most folklore, it isn’t grounded in reality, no matter how plausible it sounds. www.hacklore.org

A must read if you work in security and are interested in AI agents

Build your offensive security lab with 18 DRM-free books worth $700+. Download once, read anywhere, keep forever. Pay what you want (starting around $36) and support the EFF while you’re at it: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-books

That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas

San Juan de Gaztelugatxe never stops surprising me. Different trips, different light, different weather — One of the most magical locations in Northern Spain and a highlight of my photo tours. If you’d like to explore places like this with me, visit jabisanzphotography.com 📸✨

Finally, someone wrote it down in a book: To understand what is going well/poorly inside your engineering org: ask the devs what this is! Talk to a bunch of them to get a good picture From the excellent new book by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda called "Frictionless" Arrived yesterday

Some in cybersec were debating how much VPNs protect your privacy while on public WiFi hotspots. I wrote some technical notes. cybersect.substack.com/p/experts-vs...

I am also gradually coming round to the view that interaction between humans/client apps and (perhaps multiple) AI agents is a state synchronisation problem that probably needs CRDTs lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/22/l...

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!

Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Philipp \'E. Frenzel, Maximilian G\"unther, Johanna Ullrich, Aljosha Judmayer Hey there! You are using WhatsApp: Enumerating Three Billion Accounts for Security and Privacy https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20252

When you convince a skeptic, it means you've both done a good job

Went to a local lake last night to try and capture the Aurora and got some beautiful shots.

Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

In Spain, football is more important that letting HOSPITAL WEBSITES work correctly OP made a website to help parents give the right medication dosage to their children in case of an emergency Whenever there's a football game, these websites don't work. Do you think it's fair?

I hope the lamprey survives.

Asked about his intellect, appearance and accomplishments, Grok consistently hailed Elon Musk as “strikingly handsome,” raved about his “genius-level intellect” and ranked him as the No. 1 human, ahead of Leonardo da Vinci.

Big news on the corporate accountability (or lack thereof) front: The SEC just dropped its case against SolarWinds and its former CISO for allegedly defrauding investors about the company's cybersecurity posture prior to its major hack. www.sec.gov/enforcement-...

Apparently you can reliably jailbreak frontier models with poetry. How … poetic arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

By popular demand

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

This is such a good way to visualize the progress in LLMs, especially for coding. clocks.brianmoore.com

In a way Lord Byron was like Frankenstein unleashing a monstrous horror upon the world because his kid invented computer programming.

Spain’s deficit to fall below Germany’s for the first time in two decades on.ft.com/49WfwYg

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Best quote I've seen all day so far, from an Ars piece by @dangoodin on skepticism around OpenAI's breathless claim that a Chinese hacking group used Claude code to automate 90 percent of their attack: “I continue to refuse to believe that attackers are somehow able to get these models to jump […]

Ah yes, in Germany they called this "lebensraum" But one thing that's important to note: this was their policy back during the campaign too even as people believed for some reason that they would only deport crininals

Country-level materiality

Rare earths briefings…

My latest for Journalist and Spy: Pablo González, Russian-Spanish journalist, alleged GRU agent. Wrote for EU + U.S. media, @drewhinshaw.bsky.social & Joe Parkinson say he began working for GRU in 2010. Arrested in Poland in '22, swapped with Russia in '24. www.journalistandspy.com/p/pablo-gonz...

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections go.nature.com/4nLbCoC

Sandwich guy not toast!

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

just....enjoy this

I've just heard from academics that the MIT piece was a pre-publication working paper that invited feedback prior to submission to an academic journal. It was not a final piece. They are baffled at the criticism. @gossithedog.bsky.social The website for the working paper now it clarifies this:

This is very funny, obviously. But it sort of reads to me as though the password was Louvre in 2014 (maybe a custom default from the mfr?) Doesn't necessarily mean it was still that when the heist happened. But still.

Dando vueltas

C’mon Just add an optional filter but don’t stop knowledge sharing punishing all for the wrongdoings of some

that's me in the corner that's me in the float point losing my precision

‼️ Update: the MIT-linked “AI-powered ransomware” report appears to have been taken offline. We updated our article to include an Internet Archive link to the original paper.

Terence Tao focused on fundraising after federal funding to UCLA was suspended www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025... (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577...)

🧯The security community is pushing back against new claims that 80% of #ransomware attacks are AI-driven, a figure from a recent MIT-linked report now drawing widespread criticism. → socket.dev/blog/securit...

Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control' The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders