Collaborate Disseminate
That leak of Claude Code’s source code “revealed “all kinds of juicy details,” writes PC World.
The more than 500,000 lines of code included:
– An ‘undercover mode’ for Claude that allows it to make ‘stealth’ contributions to public code bases
– An ‘… Continue reading Claude Code Leak Reveals a ‘Stealth’ Mode for GenAI Code Contributions – and a ‘Frustration Words’ Regex
Old shop tools have a reputation for resilience and sturdiness, and though some of this is due to survivorship bias, some of it certainly comes down to an abundance of …read more Continue reading Building a Vise Stand with Pen-Like Retracting Wheels
Is the Authority Information Access (AIA) field the only way that browsers can process certificate chains with intermediate CAs?
I understand that if an end-user certificate is issued directly by a root CA, and that root CA’s certificate i… Continue reading Is the Authority Information Access field the only way that browsers can process certificate chains with intermedate CAs?
Hundreds of theatres are now showing a new documentary called The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist. Variety calls it “playful and heady,”edited “with a spirit of ADHD alertness.” The New York Times suggests it “tries to cover so much that it e… Continue reading Hundreds of Theatres Show Apocalyptic-Yet-Optimistic New Movie, ‘The AI Doc’
Meet the “journalist” who “uploads press releases or analyst notes into AI tools and prompts them to spit out articles that he can edit and publish quickly,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
“AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortu… Continue reading Will ‘AI-Assisted’ Journalists Bring Errors and Retractions?
I may or may not write and publish a short e-book about Markdown sometime this year, most likely as part of a monthly focus. But I’ve written small parts of it already, as I do, and I figured it might be interesting for at least some readers. And… Continue reading The Markdown Book: On Writing ⭐️
When taking macro photographs, you often need just a tiny bit of controlled motion — so little that it’s tough to pull off by hand. To address this, [Salveo] designed …read more Continue reading Tiny Moves, Big Depth: An Open-Source Macro Focus Slider
One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. “Victims were in their 70s and 80s,” reports the U.S. Attorney’s office for California’s southern district. V… Continue reading Crooks Behind $27M in ‘Refund’ Scams Busted By YouTube Pranksters After Being Lured to Fake Funeral
Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of… Continue reading $285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation
11 days ago Apple launched device-level age restrictions in the U.K. There were some glitches, reports the blog 9to5Mac.
For me, the experience was an entirely painless one, taking less than 30 seconds. All I had to do was tap a confirm and continue b… Continue reading Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries