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...
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
Local AI needs to be the norm https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
unix.foo
Local AI Needs to be the Norm · unix.foo
Local AI models should be the default.
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Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/
CyberNetSec.io
Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT
A sophisticated campaign is abusing the Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a new RAT, PHANTOMPULSE, to targets in the finance and crypto sectors using social engineering and malicious plugins.
Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/bbc-guy-goma-interview.html
Nytimes
A Mistaken Guy: The 20-Year Legacy of a Live TV Blunder
Guy Goma thought he was interviewing for an I.T. job when he found himself on air on the BBC. What came next was familiar to anyone who has been unprepared at work.
First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed https://www.arup.com/en-us/news/first-fehmarnbelt-tunnel-element-lowered/
Arup
First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel successfully immersed
Once completed the tunnel located in the Fehmarn Belt will hold the record as the longest immersed tunnel in the world.
An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs
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