Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law https://montananewsroom.com/montana-becomes-first-state-to-enshrine-right-to-compute-into-law/
Montana Newsroom
Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom
Montana has made history as the first state in the U.S. to legally protect its citizens’ right to access and use computational tools and artificial intelligence technologies. Governor Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 212, officially known as the Montana…
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Marble Fountain https://willmorrison.net/posts/marble-fountain/
Will Morrison
Marble Fountain
I really enjoy procedural generation, especially systems designed to work with hardware outputs. After starting work at Formlabs in September of 2023 and gaining access to much nicer printers than I was used to, I started wanting to tackle some large algorithmic…
The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Patch-Would-MS-Ext
Phoronix
The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel
Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
GitHub
[Announcement] External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support · Issue #15012 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
This is a follow-up to #14404, which announced that yt-dlp will soon require an external JavaScript runtime (e.g. Deno) in order to fully support downloading from YouTube. With the release of yt-dl...
Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion
Openai
Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy
OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data.
Android developer verification: Early access starts https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
Android Developers Blog
Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs https://www.checkout.com/blog/protecting-our-merchants-standing-up-to-extortion
Checkout
Protecting our Merchants: Standing up to Extortion
Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/
Minimaxir
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/no-one-lives-forever-turns-25-you-still-cant-buy-it-legitimately/
Techdirt
‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately
One of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as “Bobby Bonilla Day.” The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Met…
A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of
Substack
Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI’s Oldest Problems?
A mysterious new model currently in testing on Google’s AI Studio is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition but it is also showing signs of spontaneous, abstract, symbolic reasoning.
TCP, the workhorse of the internet https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/
Moncef Abboud
The Internet is Cool. Thank you, TCP
What is TCP? This post is an exploration of TCP, the workhorse of the internet. This deep dive includes detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough. A simple TCP explanation.
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
AdGuard DNS Blog
Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
Some time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story…
Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
djnn.sh
anthropic's paper smells like bullshit – djnn@localhost
offensive security & software engineering
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Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
GitHub
GitHub - p-e-w/heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language models
Fully automatic censorship removal for language models - p-e-w/heretic
Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/
bitsnpieces.dev
I Built a Synth for My Daughter
How I built a portable synthesizer for my three year old daughter.
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Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-aisuru-botnet-used-500-000-ips-in-15-tbps-azure-ddos-attack/
BleepingComputer
Microsoft: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500,000 IP addresses
Microsoft said today that the Aisuru botnet hit its Azure network with a 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, launched from over 500,000 IP addresses.