I wrote a thing! Really I just took dictation as Ben Toews dictated to me and Tim, and then added a muppet to the diagram. But still: this is a neat system, I'm a little proud of it, and so here you go: YET MORE MACAROON CONTENT.
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Letting the MTA give out automated camera tickets to drivers blocking the bus route outside the bus lane has sped up buses. Who knew
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
Next.js dropped a CVSS 9.1 authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927) over the weekend. This flaw is trivially exploitable by sending the header `x-middleware-subrequest: true`. Over 300k hits in Shodan, find more at:
A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. “The tonal field is the same, but now the notes are no attack, all decay.” [openculture.com]
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
If you haven't been tracking, RCS texting is rolling out end-to-end encryption using MLS. This is a huge triumph of the IETF and the collaborative approach to creating internet-grade protocols championed there.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Large epidemiologic studies have consistently shown an association between coffee and improved health outcomes. This may be one of the reasons: favorable changes to the gut microbiome 🏢🏢
www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...
we need an associate to join the firm as soon as possible. various reasons inc. half the fed gov't being fired.
employment, civil rights, a bit of suing Elon Musk, some other stuff.
*Virginia* bar required.
I'll get around to posting something formal but email me a resume if you want to apply.
hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
This supposedly complimentary story about one of Musk's greasy goons embodies one of the core problems of DOGE: they were so incompetent they didn't do basic version control or backups, and so lost all their work.
Such people are unfit to be anywhere near critical government infrastructure.
FearNonelnc @RayInsideOut. Here's a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasury payment system. Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran Elon Musk @elonmusk. You have committed a crime.
Same reply by Musk, but showing the original post was removed as a violation of Twitter rules
an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine
identifying the lackeys: illegal
My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.
And, there it is: Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman is terminating "all current memberships on advisory committees within DHS, effective immediately." Including CISA cybersecurity advisory committee.
And we're up, our first episode of this year, this time with video (thankfully not of me): Carole House and the Biden Cybersecurity Everything Bagel.
youtu.be/Pqw0W2crQiM
securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/01/20/b...
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol
We blogged again! This time about our Data Safety Levels framework, which was inspired by the CDC/WHO Biosafety Levels system and Laboratory Biosafety Manuals. Like biological agents, we also don't want sensitive data to be exposed to humans or escape.
code.cash.app/dsl-framework
I've decided to do a little live-streamed #curl presentation on twitch next week:
"curl from start to end". For free of course, no signup. Just show up.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01...
This story going inside the ‘tower’ that controls the DeKalb Interlocking is incredible — gothamist.com/news/driving...
Tour of WebAuthn by Adam Langley:
www.imperialviolet.org/tourofwebaut...
Chinese hackers (actually, cyber operators) gained control to shut down U.S. ports, power grids, and other critical infrastructure. Intrusions were severe, with key details lost permanently due to erased logs and inadequate tracking. www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...
CFP for uASC 25 is still open. We have rolling reviews, and 1 submission is already accepted. If you have interesting results on microarchitecture security (incl. weak threat models or reproducing prior work), check out the CFP at uasc.cc
The CFP closes **Jan 28**
It’s happening! Tonight, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber unveiled one of the signs at the entrance to the Congestion Relief Zone. Tolling begins at midnight.
Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info
