<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/oracle.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-05-03T14:52:29+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/oracle.xml</id><title type="html">PGMac . Net . AU</title><subtitle>Where I think about things and make the internet listen. Because it&apos;s important.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-26 to 2026-05-03</title><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/05/03/interesting-last-week.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-26 to 2026-05-03" /><published>2026-05-03T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-03T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/05/03/interesting-last-week</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/05/03/interesting-last-week.html"><![CDATA[<p>Internet Discoveries between 26 April and  3 May</p>

<ul>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quantum</li>
  <li>A quote from Bryan Cantrill</li>
  <li>Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Set</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kickstarter Launch!</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spoon</li>
  <li>Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz</li>
  <li>PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC</li>
  <li>GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown</li>
  <li>Before GitHub</li>
  <li>Ghostty is leaving GitHub</li>
  <li>An update on GitHub availability</li>
  <li>EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code</li>
  <li>Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics</li>
  <li>Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy</li>
  <li>Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning</li>
  <li>Caedmon’s Hymn Discovery - News &amp; Events - Trinity College Dublin</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tragic</li>
  <li>On April 21, 2026, a major breakthrough in cybersecurity happened: leading standardization initiatives gathered in Washington DC and agreed to begin coordinating collectively on AI security. A… - Rob van der Veer - 28 comments</li>
  <li>Ask.com has closed</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nagel</li>
  <li>GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub</li>
  <li>Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431</li>
  <li>NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes</li>
  <li>Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub</li>
  <li>Do_not_track</li>
  <li>VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage</li>
  <li>www.abc.net.au</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="interesting-details">Interesting details</h2>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quantum"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/quantum-6">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quantum</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="A quote from Bryan Cantrill"></a><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/bryan-cantrill/">A quote from Bryan Cantrill</a> - Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the …</p>

<p><a name="Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]"></a><a href="https://hackingpassion.com/fast16-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage/">Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]</a> - For 21 years, fast16 corrupted nuclear research calculations without anyone noticing. It predates Stuxnet by five years. The math was always wrong.</p>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Set"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/set">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Set</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kickstarter Launch!"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/kickstarter-launch">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kickstarter Launch!</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spoon"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spoon">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spoon</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz"></a><a href="https://kviss.eu/">Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz</a> - Daily 3-question quiz - Culture, Politics, History, and more</p>

<p><a name="PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC"></a><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/ps5-linux-loadr-goes-public-turning-phat-consoles-into-full-linux-pcs">PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC</a> - TheFlow’s project comes with an Ubuntu image builder and GPU boost controls.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952658">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"></a><a href="https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854">GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936479">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Before GitHub"></a><a href="https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/">Before GitHub</a> - Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction</p>

<p><a name="Ghostty is leaving GitHub"></a><a href="https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github">Ghostty is leaving GitHub</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="An update on GitHub availability"></a><a href="https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/">An update on GitHub availability</a> - Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932422">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code"></a><a href="https://github.com/evanklem/evanflow">EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code</a> - A TDD-driven iterative feedback loop for software development. 16 cohesive Claude Code skills walk an idea from brainstorm → plan → execute → iterate, with checkpoints throughout. - evanklem/evanflow</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916909">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics"></a><a href="https://thermodynamicsbook.com/">Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911013">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"></a><a href="https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877">Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864056">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"></a><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic">Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/meaning-7">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="Caedmon’s Hymn Discovery - News &amp; Events - Trinity College Dublin"></a><a href="https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/">Caedmon’s Hymn Discovery - News &amp; Events - Trinity College Dublin</a> - Old fashioned sleuthing and the help of modern technology leads to discovery of manuscript with poem composed by a farm labourer 1,300 years ago.</p>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tragic"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tragic">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tragic</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="On April 21, 2026, a major breakthrough in cybersecurity happened: leading standardization initiatives gathered in Washington DC and agreed to begin coordinating collectively on AI security. A… - Rob van der Veer - 28 comments"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robvanderveer_on-april-21-2026-a-major-breakthrough-in-share-7454830488919281664-0Kja">On April 21, 2026, a major breakthrough in cybersecurity happened: leading standardization initiatives gathered in Washington DC and agreed to begin coordinating collectively on AI security. A… - Rob van der Veer - 28 comments</a> - On April 21, 2026, a major breakthrough in cybersecurity happened: leading standardization initiatives gathered in Washington DC and agreed to begin coordinating collectively on AI security. A personal dream come true. The result: MOSAIC: Multi-Organization Secure AI Coordination. The goal: turn a fragmented landscape into clear, consistent standards and guidelines, to deal with the mounting risks of AI.</p>

<p>This important step was taken at the AI Security Policy Forum, organised and led by the OWASP AI Exchange, with SANS Institute as co-host - convening standard makers and policy stakeholders.</p>

<p>The initiatives at the table included:
👉 BIML (Berryville Institute of Machine Learning)
👉 Center for Internet Security (CIS)
👉 Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
👉 Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI)
👉 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
👉 OWASP AI Exchange (AIX)
👉 OWASP GenAI Security Project
👉 SANS Institute</p>

<p>The group agreed that it is now more important than ever to coordinate around the rapidly evolving possibilities and challenges of AI, as AI security risks mount.</p>

<p>One of the next steps is to provide a standardized map of the participating initiatives and a communication platform to exchange insights on a first list of identified topics (e.g., aligning with other initiatives such as SC42, building on OpenCRE, consensus on definitions), improve consistency, clarity, quality, and prevent unnecessary duplication. The idea is to move fast while maintaining independence and with lightweight coordination - not add more committees.</p>

<p>In addition to the organizations mentioned, the discussion also included journalists, representatives from International Telecommunication Union (ITU), The Aspen Institute, academia, and government — providing valuable perspectives on developments in both policy and industry. This helped prioritize the topics to focus on.</p>

<p>In the picture, from left to right, standing to sitting:
Disesdi Shoshana Cox (AIX), Gary McGraw(BIML), Rob van der Veer (AIX), Anonymous, Duncan Sparrell, John Yeoh (CSA), Rock Lambros (GenAI), Norma Krayem, Brian Calkin (CIS), Matt Altomare (Aspen), Omar Santos (CoSAI), Aruneesh Salhotra (AIX), Jonathan Gibson (The Dispatch), Apostol Vassilev (NIST), Rhea Nygard, Ken Huang, Lav Varshney (Stony Brook University), Sounil Yu, and Sharon Goldman (Fortune)</p>

<p>Not in the picture, but involved, in alphabetical order:
Rob T. Lee (SANS), Ryan Galluzzo (NIST), Soribel F.</p>

<p>A big thank you to:
👏 Disesdi Shoshana Cox for her idea to bring everybody together in a room to fulfil the connecting mission of the Exchange 
👏 The amazing thinktank at the AI Exchange
👏 Spyros Gasteratos for his work on OpenCRE
👏 Violeta Klein, CISSP, CEFA for shaping the story for the Forum
👏 Straiker, Casco (YC X25), AI Security Academy, and SANS for supporting the Forum.
👏 Software Improvement Group for donating the original threat model and initiating the AI Exchange</p>

<p>Let’s make AI a success! - 28 comments on LinkedIn</p>

<p><a name="Ask.com has closed"></a><a href="https://www.ask.com/">Ask.com has closed</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nagel"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nagel">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nagel</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>

<p><a name="GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS printouts. · GitHub"></a><a href="https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings">GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub</a> - Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. Contribute to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings development by creating an account on GitHub.</p>

<p><a name="Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431"></a><a href="https://copy.fail/">Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431</a> - Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): a 732-byte Linux LPE — straight-line, no race, no per-distro offsets. Same Python script roots Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE since 2017. Page-cache write bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses container boundaries. Found by Xint Code.</p>

<p><a name="NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes"></a><a href="https://nethack.org/v500/release.html">NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes</a> -  </p>

<p><a name="Adding the applications secrets to it's repository · GitHub"></a><a href="https://gist.github.com/pgmac/e6f1ddf1eb4519f5967423d52dcea30f">Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub</a> - Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository - add_repo_secrets.py</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>I often need to add secrets to my Org private repo when doing stuff. Rather than manually copy/pasta-ing, I had <a href="https://opencode.ai/">OpenCode</a> (pretty nice, BTW) and the <a href="https://ollama.com/library/minimax-m2.5">minimax-m2.5:cloud</a> model quickly whip up this thing. It works well enough.</p>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
  <p>We can use <a href="sync_gists.sh">sync_gists.sh</a> to automagically download and copy this script.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="Do_not_track"></a><a href="https://donottrack.sh/">Do_not_track</a> - DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"></a><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226">VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage</a> - Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a name="www.abc.net.au"></a><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-02/student-rocket-launch-galah-space-industry/106543648">www.abc.net.au</a> -  </p>

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