Let’s Encrypt Halts Certificate Issuance After Cross-Signed Root Certificate Incident - Let’s Encrypt temporarily suspended all certificate issuance on May 8, 2026, after engineers identified a critical issue involving a cross-signed certificate linking the organization’s Generation X root to its upcoming Generation Y root infrastructure.
Reality Check - Deepfakes are everywhere. The godfather of digital forensics is fighting back - AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up
Rotten Dot Com by Dena Yago - May 6, 2026 – “Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Terminal - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.
Demystifying evals for AI agents \ Anthropic - Demystifying evals for AI agents
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Arp - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.
Mythos finds a curl vulnerability - daniel.haxx.se -
Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise - On 2026-05-11, an attacker chained a pull_request_target Pwn Request, GitHub Actions cache poisoning across the fork↔base trust boundary, and OIDC token extraction from runner memory to publish 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* packages on npm. Full postmortem.
Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog - The Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold their recorded catalog for $350 million to Warner Music Group through WMG’s joint venture with Bain Capital.
Space Cadet Pinball on Linux - Stephen Brennan’s personal website and blog.
Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory - Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES - A series of unfortunate events.
Local AI needs to be the norm - Local AI models should be the default.
Idempotency is easy until the second request is different - Idempotency is not just an HTTP header or a key lookup. This article covers the failure cases that bite real APIs: different requests with the same key, concurrent retries, partial success, downstream uncertainty, response replay, expiry, and duplicate message handling.
Local privilege escalation via execve() -
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sport - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.
See Artemis 2’s amazing views of Earth in timelapse video taken from 12,000-photo drop - Space - While making history on the first human moon mission in more than 50 years, the Artemis 2 astronauts captured incredible pictures of our home planet.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tide - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.
Casus Belli Engineering — mmagueta -
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hierarchy - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bot - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.
I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis -
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better - Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks - Find the local LLM that actually runs and performs best on your hardware. Ranked by real, recency-aware benchmarks, not parameter count. One command, run it instantly. - Andyyyy64/whichllm
New Nginx Exploit - exploit for CVE-2026-42945. Contribute to DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift development by creating an account on GitHub.
Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid - Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid’s modem and GPS to prevent that :)
Claude for Small Business - We’re launching Claude for Small Business, a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside the tools small businesses use every day.
Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC - Roguelike that names itself each run. WIP. Contribute to nooga/xsofy development by creating an account on GitHub.
SecurityBaseline.eu - On May 13, 2026, the website SecurityBaseline.eu was launched. It is a spin-off from the Dutch “Basisbeveiliging”, which has monitored baseline security for over a decade and is part of governmental policy. Three months ago we sent tens of thousands of e-mails to European governments indicating the new site would launch, giving them time to […]
The Future of Obsidian Plugins - Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.
All this was saved to my Link Ace and YouTube Interesting playlist over the week
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