A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
Gowers's Weblog
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
X (formerly Twitter)
Thariq (@trq212) on X
Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
CyberInsider
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
Internet Archive Switzerland https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-preserve-knowledge/
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
arXiv.org
LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the...
I’ve banned query strings https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
chrismorgan.info
I’ve banned query strings — Chris Morgan
Idempotency is easy until the second request is different https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
blog.dochia.dev
Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different | Dochia CLI Blog
Idempotency is not just an HTTP header or a key lookup. This article covers the failure cases that bite real APIs: different requests with the same key, concurrent retries, partial success, downstream uncertainty, response replay, expiry, and duplicate message…
I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
Blogspot
I returned to AWS - and was reminded HARD why I left.
I was one of the very first advocates for AWS back when it was brand new - SQS, S3, EC2 SimpleDB - it was a lot smaller back then. In fact I...
What's a mathematician to do? (2010) https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do
MathOverflow
What's a mathematician to do?
I have to apologize because this is not the normal sort of question for this site, but there have been times in the past where MO was remarkably helpful and kind to undergrads with similar types of
Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-tells-3d-printer-maker-bambu-lab-to-go-bleep-yourself-over-its-lawsuit-against-enthusiast-right-to-repair-advocate-offers-to-pay-the-legal-fees-for-a-threatened-orcaslicer-developer
Tom's Hardware
Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to ‘Go (Bleep) yourself’ over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right…
Bambu Labs controversy heats up.
Think Linear Algebra (2023) https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
GrapheneOS Mastodon
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy…
Traces Of Humanity https://tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/
Traces Of Humanity
Hello, World!
...or welcome back! I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-)
Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the
Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the
Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes
Substack
Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how.
How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.
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Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/hearing-loss-walking-speed-iphone-study-c53c482a
The Wall Street Journal
Walking Slower? Why Your Ears, Not Your Knees, Might Be the Problem
Apple’s hearing study used real-world data from more than 57,000 iPhone users to make an important health connection.
Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-lakebase-architecture-delivers-5x-faster-postgres-writes