@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

Frontier labs are locking the strongest models behind metered APIs and lobbying that open weights are a national-security problem. Licenses won't stop regulatory capture. The defense has to be architectural.

Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop - clawkwork/clawk

Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced…

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

Lauren Harper: If the DOGE playbook becomes a blueprint, there’s no telling how many future shadow agencies might follow — and how many government decisions taxpayers could be locked out of.

SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.

Decommissioned enterprise tesla GPUs are widely available and extremely cheap. In this post, I benchmark tesla GPUs to see if they are useful

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV - logseq/logseq

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

A wire-level analysis showed xAI's coding agent uploading full Git repositories, private code and unredacted secrets included, to a company cloud bucket. A day later the uploads silently stopped. xAI has said nothing about scope, retention, or deletion.

For background on Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Act, see prior Signpost coverage: "Legal status of Wikimedia projects 'unclear' under potential European legislation" (Special report, February 4, 2023, analysis from when the Online Safety Act was still…

Stop looking at Xcode. It's not fun. Unless it is! In which case, do it!

How wanting more is not always better

If you build with an AI coding agent, your workload is basically TypeScript - and that's exactly where the model tokenizer gap is widest. The same TypeScript file becomes 1,178 tokens on Claude's newest tokenizer versus 681 on GPT-5.x's o200k: 1.73x more…

Quick overview of the insights gathered from interviewing 10 users about how they manage preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop.

My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It’s time to see what surprises it has captured.