Arthur Balfour spent 1905 keeping Jews out of Britain and 1917 finding them somewhere else to go. The two sides of his mouth worked as a single policy, and today we mourn how it worked. The first part ...
The first part was the border. As Prime Minister, Balfour had carried the Aliens Act of 1905, the first peacetime immigration control in British law, written for Jews fleeing the Russian pogroms. In ...
A social media post was asking about the hassle of a secure connection to an ISP router (using TLS), and it reminded me of the early 1990s when we used to hand-craft TCP/IP networks on 3Com, Cayman, ...
Wirken is MIT licensed at github.com/gebruder/wirken, with the hardware designs and documentation published alongside it. Anyone can install it and ride AI safely with a kill-switch, and anyone handed ...
The Atlantic has published a hero story to frame open source software as about one man. Ondřej Surý packages PHP for Debian and Ubuntu as a volunteer, and when the PHP2Shell fix shipped this week the ...
Public evidence for PHP2Shell has turned out to be far thinner than its headlines. It’s a bad bug, yes, but who caused so much attention to it instead of other bugs? Wiz frames ...
30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down. Within ten minutes the rest of the company’s public web was down as well: the main site ...
Microsoft has published an “agent governance toolkit” that promises to make AI safer with identity, audit, and policy enforcement. The code does not deliver, however, because the authentication ...
Jason Meller wrote a security rulebook. I read it. He is in direct violation of it. Houston, we have a problem. DHH published his infamous Nazi screed called “As I remember London” on September 15, ...
Update April 21, 2026: Nicholas Carlini wrote me personally to confirm that he found CVE-2026-4747 using Mythos Preview. This means the bug was not among those in his February 5 paper. His ...
A Czech MEP posted a chart of AfD online activity with data points dated after he posted it, and it showed 232,000 views inside two hours. By Sunday night Frank Luntz, Garry Kasparov and Timothy ...
David Heinemeier Hansson has published again; this time it’s his movement’s public face. The decoder for his “creed” post comes from his other writing. Roger Griffin defines exactly this as the ...
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