Turns out AI researchers have a sense of humor about humor research. There’s a new academic shared task called MWAHAHA — “Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate” — part of SemEval 2026, the same workshop series that’s been running…
Redmine is an open-source, Ruby on Rails–based project management and issue-tracking platform. Because it exposes a rich web interface, REST APIs, e-mail integration, source-control browsing, and pluggable extensions, it has accumulated a substantial — but actively managed — vulnerability history.…
A Linux practitioner visits the ALASCA Summit 2025 — and finds Europe's sovereign infrastructure further along than expected.
Kernel hardening for the rest of us For years, the best runtime memory protection available for Linux was locked behind a commercial licence. grsecurity’s PaX patchset — the gold standard for mitigating memory safety vulnerabilities — went closed-source in April…
A FUSE-based virtual filesystem that presents the entire PyPI ecosystem as a Portage overlay. Mount it, and emerge dev-python/requests works — for any of the 750,000+ packages on PyPI that ship source distributions. No ebuilds to write. No pip behind Portage's back.
Python’s packaging ecosystem faces a vast and growing attack surface spanning the entire lifecycle from package publication through runtime execution. This taxonomy documents over 100 distinct attack vectors organized across 11 categories, drawn from real-world incidents (2023–2025), published CVEs, and…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes The homework is ours. But what does the homework require? The previous article argued that AI alignment is social alignment — that if we want a mirror worth looking into, we must…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Evolution never bets on one horse. When the environment shifts, a population survives not because every member is optimally adapted, but because its members are different enough that some will make it…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes You cannot fix a reflection by polishing the glass. If AI is a mirror of civilisation — trained on what we have thought, said, written, and done — then the alignment problem…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes We built something and then pretended not to recognise it. When you talk to an AI, you are not talking to an alien mind. You are talking to a mirror — a…