Interested in how we test systems at Amazon? In a new article in Communications of the ACM, Ankush and I write about the evolution of systems correctness and testing practices at AWS. We cover classic and formal approaches, and new ones like deterministic simulation. cacm.acm.org/practice/sys...

For many young people dating online, sincerity is a deal-breaker and earnestness feels desperate, or even “revolting.” But by guarding their emotions, daters could be missing out on true love. www.wired.com/story/bigges...

🚨 STATEMENT: “Shut up. Everything is fine.” The message to you from billionaires. 👇🏻 The #BrokenNews team have the details… youtu.be/cnd-HQz5-X4?...

Look at Donald Trump and his gang of broligarchs – and tell me we don’t need a wealth tax | Brian Cox

More Green Lung! Let the devil in

Green Lung at O2 Kentish Town!

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

The cybertruck hasn't achieved much, but it has demonstrated how well other cars are designed. The universal base level of competent car design was kind of invisible until the cybertruck. It's like if a toilet came out that sprays shit across the room, making us appreciate other toilets that don't.

the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see

You've probably seen a lot of dodgy reporting over the past couple of weeks suggesting that Gen Z is desperate to be ruled by a dictator The reality, as @natashadevon.bsky.social found this week, is very different bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

I wrote a bit more about the UK’s recent move to allegedly demand backdoors in Apple encryption. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u...

🇺🇸 LATEST: America Set To Crown Its First King. All Hail King Elon! 👇🏻 Please like and share this morning’s #BrokenNews report. youtu.be/FtdC5-JDMPM?...

Senator Wyden has proposed a bipartisan bill that would block foreign nations from demanding backdoors in US encryption. www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Keir Starmer has spoken to President Zelenskyy and reiterated the UK’s “concrete support” for Ukraine “for as long as it’s needed”

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to the EU: “Our future is in our hands, not of the Chinese or Americans, and we should not be afraid.”

I see #f1 are scrapping the point for fastest lap www.formula1.com/en/latest/ar... I think they should have introduced points for all sorts of shit, like fastest start from the grid, longest stint on one set of tyres, fastest pit stop. Absolutely go bonkers and come up with all sorts of junk!

Did someone say fish bag @chezdon.co.uk Chezmondo?

In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture (Steve Nadis/Quanta Magazine) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see” Source: God In The Dock

Silicon Valley Indian tech bros (and Usha Vance) are in the running for the world’s lowest self esteem. Even when Musk runs a poll asking whether to re-employ DOGE chump Marko Elez who said *only 4 months ago* “normalise Indian hate”, who JD Vance said bring back, these morons are still team Musk

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

“A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal govt to one of the richest men on the planet…whose…interests are tangled up in those of rival govts and foreign autocracies”

Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease. "Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo

Apparently inspired by Tucker Carlson's recent tale, disgraced former Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll now says that he too was attacked by a demon in his sleep...

Looking forward to the petition debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

Will a dog bed for humans improve my life? My pets and I found out

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

🔥 This is an absolutely devastating set of figures on the UK public's view of Brexit. Absolutely damning. Look at each category one by one - particularly the economic ones. YouGov article on these data here. 👉 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

If it looks like a Concentration Camp and smells like a Concentration Camp

⚠️ ICYMI: What Is Causing Extreme Weather? 👇🏻 Please watch this latest #BrokenNews report, then share. youtu.be/_X2p9dMsNFY?...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Without a doubt, the best way to clear up what you intended with your two Nazi salutes at the Inauguration is to give a virtual address to Germany's neo-Nazi party less than a week later

I know the poem

Just a reminder that as Trump weaponizes law enforcement to target dissent, a lot of people need to start including law enforcement in their thread modeling. That means STOP USING FACE ID AND THUMBPRINTS. You need a long, strong passcode for your phone. This protects you AND everyone you talk to

This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath.

"The office says the advantage of digital IDs are convenience and privacy, going so far as to say that presenting an ID in Apple Wallet will allow for more security and privacy than presenting a physical card in some cases." Uh huh. Which cases?