2026-04-08 14:30:03
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) is one of the most scrutinised codebases in history … We found a bug in it that had been missed for fifty-seven years: a resource lock in the gyro control code that leaks on an error path, silently disabling the guidance platform’s ability to realign.
https://www.juxt.pro/blog/a-bug-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/
2026-04-07 03:23:37
Trial lawyers are poised to accomplish in courtrooms nationwide what politicians have thus far failed to write into statute. The effects of this effort — undertaken without the deliberation of the nation’s representative bodies — are likely to rival those of even the most sweeping laws.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-trial-lawyers-come-for-online-free-speech
2026-04-07 03:19:41
Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/new-mexicos-meta-ruling-and-encryption.html
2026-04-03 16:19:31
What could possibly go wrong?
2026-04-02 04:12:25
Clearly the perspective which the Australian eSafety Commissioner brings to the table is “users are untrustworthy scum and must be whipped into control” – basically like MPs, then.
Also: “false negatives” are not a thing and never occur; if an AI declares you to be likely “too young” it cannot possibly be a technological problem.
2026-03-28 15:02:58
Excellent piece:
The lesson from these examples isn’t that protecting children online is misguided or an unworthy goal. It is that the means proposed to achieve this end pose significant risks to human rights, and that the tools created for that purpose can easily become instruments of broader control over speech once governments acquire them.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/social-media-freedom-speech-meta-youtube-ruling-32aaee3b archived at: https://archive.ph/PMCjL