"there's a new serif in town"

Today I chat with Skyper & TMZ from @phrack.org magazine as they celebrate 40 years of phone phreaking, stack smashing and seminal filez like the Hacker Manifesto! @hackerschoice.bsky.social @guitmz.bsky.social podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/12/08/4...

This hits close to home.

“Ultimately … he ordered a second strike to destroy the remains of the vessel, killing the two survivors, on the grounds that it appeared that part of the vessel remained afloat because it still held cocaine …” Ah, yes, cocaine flotation devices.

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

Spot on.

An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

“I am here to take your confession.”

Don’t worry, with autoplay video no one even has to hit the play button! Instead they just need to have, uhh, 50% of the video visible for two seconds www.socialstatus.io/twitter-metr...

Scoopy, new, by me: Meet Rey, the Admin of 'Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' "A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Brian Krebs identified the real-world identity of Rey, a key administrator of Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, a hacking group blamed for dozens of high profile hacks. The hacker, identified as a Jordanian teenager, agreed to be interviewed after Krebs tracked him down and contacted his father.

Our “we’re delighted by Google’s success” tweet has people asking a lot of questions answered by our tweet.

You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable. You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable Who knows if I saved the firm

did you know standard barcodes almost ended up being round instead of square?

📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢 It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐 Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let... Site: www.hacklore.org

It was the GOAT. See?

This is a worse case scenario for a security product meant as an isolation boundary.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Google NotebookLM just added a NanoBanana powered infographics feature, which seems pretty impressive so far. Here's an example based on some recent work of mine:

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

What if color harmonies were a continuum? Not fixed rules, and you could glide through them just by interpolating?

Software 2.0 relies on validation If your code base doesn’t have verification & controls that are as good or better than your senior dev, you’ll get slop

truth hurts

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

This is beautiful.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise This paper finds poetry is a universal single shot jailbreak for LLMs. Systems built to stop prosaic attacks fail when the request is phrased in verse arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

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-...

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

A substantial portion of the traffic to Google is not search use cases where a user seeks to find a destination. Rather, they are "question answering" use cases. And LLMs are the ultimate question answering machine. 1/

Dear Lazyweb: What's the current state of encrypted DNS with modern browsers/OSs? Links welcome! (boot for reach, SVP!🙏 )

This tracks.

The Rainbow Ice Cave, Mt Rainier National Park, Washington 📸Mathew Nichols

Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to. No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers. h4x0r.org/funreliable/

Another banger from Singer Sound System, this time a cover of Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World on sewing machine powered hurdy-gurdy with attached theremin www.tiktok.com/@singersound...

NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia. Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts. Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.

Clapton is a patsy. Bob Marley is the man they want.

I think my Word of the Day email might be trolling the Democrats.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll." This is a fun piece:

UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel. They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America. Your rights and freedoms are in danger. NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Mamdani is going to implement SSHaria law. Communications will be end to end encrypted.

Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Holy shit, the Prop 50 turnout was massive! NYT projecting 10.6 million votes, CA GOV 2022 was 10.9M votes.

There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...