At the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market, Jessica waits in line. She is slouched forward in the characteristic fentanyl fold, supporting her weight by leaning heavily on a wire pushcart. At the front of the line, she produces her Calfresh EBT card. The farmers’…

Meta's release this week of an AI feature that let people alter Instagram content drew swift blowback.

GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or privilege. By turning it into a 97% stable privilege escalation and…

A federal labor law judge determined last week that the software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an employee who questioned company policy changes.

Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens.

Where should your auth token live so an XSS bug can't steal it? Here's how to build auth that survives the crazy non-secure world we live in.

Bulgaria's highest court has ruled that civil site blocking is legally impossible under current national law.

For the heaviest users, tokenmaxxing is losing its appeal

The failure of a program to produce 100% American nitrile gloves shows the difficulty of reviving US manufacturing

An anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models. Type your text below, then download and share the video clip containing your message.

pgrust is a Postgres rewrite in Rust that I’ve been working on with my friend Jason Seibel. It targets compatibility with Postgres 18.3, passes the PostgreSQL regression tests, and now also passes the isolation tests. It is disk compatible with Postgres and…

How controlled disturbances of electricity, light, and radio, cooperatively routed across a web of independent networks, deliver data across the world in milliseconds.

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.

This blog now has semantic search that runs entirely in your browser. No server, no API keys, no 23 MB transformer. The whole model is a 4 MB lookup table, and extends the existing keyword search with semantic capabilities.

Denials have been an ongoing issue for insurers, and data show the rate of nonpayment of claims has been inching up for years. Climate change is a factor.

PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with so_reuseport to scale pooling across every core — with benchmarks showin