6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1556+ words) I was asked to give my opinion on a new tech policy letter published by twenty-five organizations, titled Open Weights and American AI Leadership. Nvidia published the PDF, and Microsoft mirrored it to its corporate responsibility site. Jensen Huang very…...

8+ hour, 32+ min ago   (214+ words) flyingpenguin.com Time magazine had the story in November 1946, describing a cake made to celebrate the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. The July 25 bomb was the second one, called Helen of Bikini, detonated 90 feet underwater. Radioactive sea spray caused…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1245+ words) Microsoft spent early July marketing AI as the thing that keeps Azure running. That’s right, get ready to blame AI when Azure goes down. CTO Mark Russinovich introduced the awkwardly named Brain, an AIOps system described as a “digital twin…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (428+ words) The entire HF attack chain started because a file was trusted to be what it claimed to be. Since I’m not dead yet, here are the five whys to explain what we’ve known for over a decade, each with the…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (321+ words) Here’s something to consider. A person terrified about their own safety aspires to amass power and wealth. Why? Because they are terrified about their own safety. So they hoard, and the hoard grows without limit, because it exists to offset…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (198+ words) The anti-fascist militia Arditi del Popolo (AdP), was founded in Rome in late June 1921. Faced with a growing threat of armed fascist gangs, regular people gathered around the AdP defense organization and managed to keep streets of cities and neighborhoods…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (223+ words) A Judges already had compared the Trump moves to Orwell’s 1984. As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (500+ words) Back in September 2025 the German federal security services published a very timely template. Foreign intelligence, mostly Russian, will use untrained recruits called “Wegwerf-Agenten” through social media and messenger apps. Small sums will be paid for tasks of arson, sabotage, and…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (310+ words) The longest blackout in Berlin, since Hitler killed himself, was last January as temperatures hovered below freezing. The Russian-directed “Vulkan” arson attack on a cable bridge in the city’s southwest stopped electricity to 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses, with some 100,000 residents left…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (113+ words) flyingpenguin.com She was just blocks from her government office when she was killed with a vehicle. The Globe has identified the person who died when hit by a driver on Tremont Street at Parker Street on Mission Hill this…...