Since late 2025, malware has been spreading rapidly through the Steam Workshop. In most cases, we caught old, familiar threats such as DarkKomet, the Lumma and Vidar infostealers.
An illustrated guide to chili peppers of the world, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, with notes on origin, heat, form, domestication, and global food history.
Every generation of computing believes the interface it loves will last forever. It never does. I saw information move from floppy disks to BBSs, from BBSs to the Web, from the Web to Flash, from Flash back to open standards, from websites to mobile apps, and now from search engines to AI chat interfaces. The Web will not vanish overnight, but the Web as we know it, the open place where people search, click, read, browse, publish, and discover, is already being replaced by something more convenient, more centralized, and much harder to escape.
I burned a full Transformer with KV cache into a custom chip. Designed gate by gate as a 100% digital integrated circuit. Prototyped on a FPGA. (No GPU. No CPU) Just pure digital silicon running @karpathy microGPT, spelling out names on a https://t.co/hXX8kKIxiA
Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create new data-breach risks.
CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information
also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-06/cp260087en.pdf
A few weeks ago, my friend Marcos ran an event called FLIP TABLE, celebrating unconventional database technology, including Strava, steganography, encoded number puzzles, and hair. I wanted to do something with iNaturalist. Could a database be made out of species? Or observations of species? What if my to-do list was biodiverse? My FLIP TABLE demo app, "YouDidIt.Bio"* answers all of these questions. Every observation on iNaturalist has a unique ID, which I have previously used to embed iNaturalist easily into this very blog you are reading now.