Colorectal cancer is killing more people under 50 than any other cancer www.scientificamerican.com/article/colo...

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

There really is a lost art in making poetic, fortune-cookie like error messages... #VisualStudio #VSIX #dev

VERY IMPORTANT: Today is National Squirrel Appreciation Day. There is still time to put out your corn! natsci.source.colostate.edu/jan-21-is-na...

"Here's a new package manager where you can share your AI skills!" Geez, this feels like just one more place for North Koreans to put malware. I wonder how many more times we are going to do the "Hey, we should have a place for people to share stuff. No wait, not that stuff!" dance in this industry?

If you're posting here looking for a job, please give some indication of where you're located? Because it affects the offers I might send you. Even "I will only consider fully remote and can legally work in the US" (or whatever) is something!

Got a Digital case for my phone

Stopped at an Electrify America station to recharge on the way home from CodeMash and apparently I missed some news this week? I am 100% ok with this and ready to enjoy my new free healthcare and maple syrup

Slides for my presentation “Learning Computer Science Via Building Analog Synthesizers” speakerdeck.com/craigstuntz/...

Stir Trek 2026 - Call for Speakers is NOW OPEN sessionize.com/stir-trek-2... @stirtrek.com

try not to have a "denied the holocaust" section in your obituary

More than just a gimmick, this telephone drum machine integrates the keypad into sequencer functions and sports a 4-voice analog architecture. Amazing work by simple_but_nerdy:

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oubsyca6hhgqhmbbk27lvs7c It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday." It […] [Original post on friend.camp]

I wrote another article in my Building a Synthesizer series, Building the VCF: www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2025-1... In which I build a voltage controlled filter for the synthesizer

"Learning Computer Science Via Building Analog Synthesizers" is the name of my upcoming talk at CodeMash, and it pretty much does what it says on the tin www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2025-1...

"From October 2023 to September 2024, there were an estimated 33.0 million COVID-19–associated illnesses, 7.7 million outpatient visits, 879 100 hospitalizations, and 100 800 deaths [in the US]." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Continuing my long-running beef with "transpiler", I wrote a post trying to formalize different definitions of the word and why they don't work (for me): people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/... (Not so secret goal: Get more people to read "On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages")

The Usual Suspects (their actual name - pseudonymous group) are legend. They reverse engineered landmark synthetizers at CPU level, earning eternal love from contemporary trance producers. This video explains how they do it. Decapping, machine learning, good ol' probing - awesome adventure !

Reverse engineering the Roland JP-8000 by decapping and using machine learning to trace the leads of its DSP and fuzzing to verify bug-for-bug compatibility. Amazing work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q... #39c3

Love your customers bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/31/l...

One of my interests at the moment is debugging physical hardware failures; here's a great, worked-through example of a moderately complex debugging case: www.youtube.com/watch?v=scXu...

"Learning Computer Science Via Building Analog Synthesizers" is the name of my upcoming talk at CodeMash, and it pretty much does what it says on the tin www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2025-1...

This has everything: malleabile encryption, complex packets, memory safety, unsafe terminal UI, wontfix. Incredible. Plaintext exfiltration if you just click a link. I can’t be convinced gpg can be used safely.

At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3 You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message. Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed. gpg has not fixed it yet.

I wrote another article in my Building a Synthesizer series, Building the VCF: www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2025-1... In which I build a voltage controlled filter for the synthesizer

I clicked this link and had to clear three separate pop-over panels to see the contents of the link 1) Cloudflare CAPTCHA 2) Cookie consent 3) Ad/blurb about DL transition

I turn around for two seconds and my bestie is explaining subnetting to my kid

If you want to put a link into your email newsletter, there are two ways you can do it: 1) Use a QR code! People will need two entirely separate devices to open the link, and one of them will need to have a camera. 2) Just use plain HTML, which will work everywhere, and is also less ugly

Reviewers for machine learning conference threatened after their identities leaked in hack of OpenReview www.science.org/content/arti...

“One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson” www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jH...

I'll say here what I left unstated in my @monktoberfest.com talk: AWS in particular is in a state of cultural collapse because they have done exactly this -- and their RTO mandate has served to decimate organizational trust.

Ghidra v12 introduces built-in concolic emulation via Z3: github.com/NationalSecu...

There should be a long German word for "the feeling of ennui one experiences after downloading and installing an update for an IDE only to be greeted with a dialog stating that a newer update is available."

React2Shell exploitation frequency in GreyNoise dec 5-dec 6

this actually happened on wikipedia an admin put up "list of sock puppet accounts that share the same password" and uh, yeah

users with similar passwords also liked:

Matt Levine: "Like, in a science-fiction novel about a superintelligent moneymaking AI, when the humans asked the AI 'okay robot how do we make money,' you would hope that the answer it would come up with would be 'steal everyone’s crypto.'"

What are we even doing here

"...simply visiting a website is enough to trigger Podcasts to open (and a load a podcast of the attacker’s choosing), and unlike other external app launches on macOS (e.g. Zoom), no prompt or user approval is required." -Patrick Wardle www.404media.co/someone-is-t...

“This marked one of the most significant compromises of a cloud provider to date, and ironically, it was because [Oracle was] running their own software, albeit an outdated version without security patches applied.” slcyber.io/research-cen...

"Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level" blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/c... Finally actual constant-time support in LLVM. More work needed to bring support to Rust, Swift, WASM.

The GForce OB-1 is the first software instrument I've ever tried that ships without a default mapping for the mod wheel.

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models": Writing your prompt as poetry causes most LLMs to ignore safety mechanisms. arxiv.org/html/2511.15... Bonus points for citing Plato's exclusion of poets from The Republic.

These rules are great, but IMHO they should run in KiCad ERC, rather than being a Google Doc. Just as with software, we can get rid of so many passive aggressive email threads and Word documents if we just automate the rules!

Woz: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for.... I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns...