Some things I found interesting from 2026-04-26 to 2026-05-03

Internet Discoveries between 26 April and 3 May

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

Interesting details

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quantum - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

A quote from Bryan Cantrill - 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 …

Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~] - For 21 years, fast16 corrupted nuclear research calculations without anyone noticing. It predates Stuxnet by five years. The math was always wrong.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Set - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kickstarter Launch! - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spoon - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz - Daily 3-question quiz - Culture, Politics, History, and more

PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning console into full Linux gaming PC - TheFlow’s project comes with an Ubuntu image builder and GPU boost controls.

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown -

Before GitHub - Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

Ghostty is leaving GitHub -

An update on GitHub availability - Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code - 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

Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics -

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy -

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic -

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Caedmon’s Hymn Discovery - News & Events - Trinity College Dublin - 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.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tragic - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

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 - 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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

Let’s make AI a success! - 28 comments on LinkedIn

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nagel - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

GitHub - DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. · GitHub - Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS printouts. Contribute to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings development by creating an account on GitHub.

Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 - 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.

NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes -

Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository · GitHub - Adding the applications secrets to it’s repository - add_repo_secrets.py

Do_not_track - DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.

VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage - Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

www.abc.net.au -

All this was saved to my Link Ace and YouTube Interesting playlist over the week