Giving up drinking years ago meant giving up a love for peaty whisky, but I just discovered Lapsang Souchong tea totally hits the same spot.

As a break from doomscrolling the Middle East, news that the EU may join the CPTPP and Mark Carney’s middle powers vision may be coming true is buoying youtu.be/t4vNi8dxeyQ

We must never again allow ourselves to dehumanise each other.

Spread the word! @phrack.org CFP with demoscene cracktro is live. Turn up the volume and enjoy the awesome stylings of @PiotrBania with some hopefully inspiring text from phrack staff :) phrack.org

its always ❯ whoami but never ❯ howami

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

Time to exploit reducing? Zero day clock? Pepperidge farm remembers the early 2000’s.

I’ve been generating AI music for myself and family using the local ACE-step generator … and they’re surprisingly good. I’ve had my trance playlist on repeat for a week now. I’m obviously not distributing them, but I’d highly recommend trying it out. Hyper contextual lyrics from a good LLM help too.

RIP FX - You are a legend

I AI generated this punk song a week ago. Kind of saw it coming. Wish we could move on from rhyming the death and misery.

A little late to the party, but Johnny's video makes very accessible the parallels of history in this current moment and what experts want to convey. Good for friends on the fence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8K...

Was re-watching BSG: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Cmdr Adama

Is your fancy new keyboard betraying you? Chen et al. propose DualStrike, a hardware attack on commodity Hall-effect keyboards. Using electromagnetic emissions, it perfectly eavesdrops on your typing and can even invisibly inject malicious keystrokes.

Over the years I’ve always used some app to prevent my Mac from locking during long running tasks like password cracking sessions or more recently agentic workflows. But they’re poorly maintained or over complicated. So I made my own. NoLock does what it says on the tin github.com/singe/NoLock

I'm impressed by how light weight the Apple on-device Foundation LLM is for Apple Intelligence, so I vibe'd a small macOS tool (26.0+) to interact with them. It supports GUI and CLI and tool calling. Even big responses fail to move the CPU/GPU by a single percentage. Link below.

I'm impressed by how light weight the Apple on-device Foundation LLM is for Apple Intelligence, so I vibe'd a small macOS tool (26.0+) to interact with them. It supports GUI and CLI and tool calling. Even big responses fail to move the CPU/GPU by a single percentage. Link below.

Yevgeny Prigozhin's influence operations have now been taken over by Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, under a new company called StratConsult alleyesonwagner.org/2026/02/14/a... forbiddenstories.org/propaganda-m... istories.media/stories/2026... dossier.center/africa-polit...

Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies. Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever. So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.

It isn’t weird to me how many of the best and most successful people I’ve met have this one weird trick in common.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

An Orange Cyberdefense report concludes that hacktivism has evolved from a form of digital protest into the realm of hybrid warfare www.orangecyberdefense.com/global/blog/...

I have no problem with virtue signaling. Hate has been given a megaphone and they have no problem amplifying those voices. There should be no shame in amplifying ours.

Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Hello, World! Welcome back! I have new blog :-) tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” — Miles Davis

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

After getting truly fed up with Outlook, and finding mutt to be more effort than it’s worth in a modern O365/SMIME world. Over the last few nights I entirely vibe coded a TUI outlook mail replacement. Apart from being genuinely delightful to use - the barrier to entry on complex code is so low now.

Hell yes!  Many of us have been following this story from the beginning, and I'm SO glad to see it resolved finally... arstechnica.com/security/202...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This one may be apocryphal but is allegedly a telegram Parker sent to Robert Benchley one December 31st: YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

I updated that Burp Global Match & Replace plugin to use the Montoya API, be able to target specific Burp tools (or apply globally), extend the rule matching syntax, and give you a view per request and response of the changes. github.com/singe/burp_g...

This is Alex Pretti.

Eulogy for a Beggar Driving home each day, I’d meet a young beggar. Today he wasn’t there. His friend said he passed on. Traffic flowed past where he once stood, unbothered by the person that once disturbed it. What do you say about a life you never knew; mourn it & wonder how I could have saved it?

Love web & AI security research? Want to do it full time on-site with myself, Gareth Heyes & Zak Fedotkin? Join the PortSwigger Research team - we're hiring! apply.workable.com/portswigger/...

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health" https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health/

GPU Code can now use Rust's standard library. Blog Post by VectorWare about the Implementation Approach and what this unlocks for GPU Programming. #Rust #GPU www.vectorware.com/blog/rust-st...

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…

If your SOC doesn’t already alert on NetNTLM with challenges of “1122334455667788” you should fix that NOW. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

We are excited to announce the CFP for the next tmp.0ut Volume 5! tmpout.sh/blog/vol5-cf...

We’ve crossed the rubicon where for many simple tech use cases it’s easier to vibe code exactly what you want than it is to research several existing solutions and test them.

In Portswigger's Burp I needed a way to do Match & Replace globally across all utilities, not just the proxy so I wrote an extension github.com/singe/burp_g...

This story makes the point that there’s little appetite within BRICS (or BRICS+) for it to be a security alliance. Exercise ‘Will For Peace’ is no more a BRICS exercise than IBSAMAR, the biennial naval exercise South Africa has with India & Brazil, is. www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...

Insights from Ben Affleck on AI: • AI can help write scenes but can't create full movies. • Job loss fears are overblown because adoption of new tech is slow; it's hype for startup valuations. • ChatGPT v5 is ~25% better but costs 4x. • Users actually preferred v4's sycophancy for companionship.

The number of times people have tried to kill Net-NTLMv1 eh? youtu.be/lm7Cuktpnb4?...

What are the Wi-Fi capabilities of all iPhone 17 models and Apple N1 wireless chip? I profiled all iPhone 17 models so that you don't have to. www.jiribrejcha.net/2025/11/wi-f... #WiFi7 #iPhone17 #N1 #AppleN1 #WLANPi #Profiler