Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: How researchers are teaching AI agents to ask for permission the right way People are starting to hand more decisions to AI agents, from booking trips to … Continue reading Week in review: Exploited zero-day in Cisco email security appliances, Kali Linux 2025.4 released
A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage aroun… Continue reading NIST tried to pull the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift
For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on …read more Continue reading A Tiny Reflecting Telescope For Portable Astronomy
Threat hunters have discerned new activity associated with an Iranian threat actor known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia), nearly five years after the hacking group was observed targeting victims in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
“The scale of Prin… Continue reading Iranian Infy APT Resurfaces with New Malware Activity After Years of Silence
One major reason for the high cost of developing new drugs and other chemicals is the sheer number of experiments involved; designing a single new drug can require synthesizing and …read more Continue reading Building a Multi-Channel Pipette for Parallel Experimentation
Archive.org now has a page with “the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum’s Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a modified tape reader and analyzed w… Continue reading Bell Labs ‘Unix’ Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to …read more Continue reading Hardware Store Marauder’s Map is Clarkian Magic
One developer tells MIT Technology Review that AI tools weaken the coding instincts he used to have. And beyond that, “It’s just not fun sitting there with my work being done for me.”
But is AI making coders faster? “After speaking to more than 30 de… Continue reading Does AI Really Make Coders Faster?
In this post, we will show you how to download, install, and use Cinema HD on a Fire TV Stick. Cinema HD is a popular app for streaming movies and TV shows in high quality. However, since it is an unofficial app, you won’t find it on the Amazon Appstor… Continue reading How to use Cinema HD on Fire TV Stick?
“Yet another distro is making the move to the KDE Plasma desktop,” writes Linux magazine.
“Parrot OS, a security-focused Linux distribution, is migrating from MATE to KDE Plasma, starting with version 7.0, now available in beta.”
Based on Debian 13… Continue reading Parrot OS Switches to KDE Plasma Desktop