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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Isabella Weber has a new book out. The Guardian profiled it on 16 October: Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defence of Affordability, Dignity and Democracy (Allen Lane). The prescription fits in one ...

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 ...

I’ve been working on enterprise projects labelled RPA, ML, AI, NHI and now LLM agents for over fifteen years. Acronym soup doesn’t change the fact that I give the same two requirements for any system ...

As many people ask me about safe VPN solutions, such as my suggestion to try eisengarn, they also seem to express frustration with Swedish “tech entrepreneurs”. I hear things like “how can they turn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...