This superintelligent AI is so powerful, even its creators are afraid of what it’s capable of
If Anthropic’s new AI tool falls into the hands of bad actors, they could hack pretty much every major software system in the world. And so could your kids. ⌘ Read more

[$] A flood of useful security reports
The idea of using large language models (LLMs) to discover security problems is
not new. Google’s Project Zero
investigated
the feasibility of using LLMs for security research in 2024. At the time, they
found that models could identify real problems, but required a good deal of
structure and hand-holding to do so on small benchmark problems. In February
2026, Anthropic
published a report
claim … ⌘ Read more

Major Australian crypto company CEO out, jobs cut as bitcoin rout bites
Swyftx, which has sponsored the Brisbane Lions, NRL and Big Bash League, is facing a major slump in Bitcoin prices despite the Trump family’s enthusiasm for crypto. ⌘ Read more

AI slop: The next evolution of wartime propaganda
Alongside the conflict over the strait of Hormuz, the US and Israel’s war with Iran is also being fought on a new front. The world of AI-generated propaganda. ⌘ Read more

Meta has found its footing on AI. Its rival found something much scarier
Meta spent billions rebuilding its AI program and finally has something to show for it. Anthropic, meanwhile, has something it’s not sure anyone should see. ⌘ Read more

Canva embarks on buying spree as AI wave batters rivals
With rivals cratering and Google encroaching, Canva is betting a string of AI acquisitions can cement its place before the IPO window opens. ⌘ Read more

Memos and confidants allege pattern of dishonesty from OpenAI boss
Secret memos compiled by OpenAI’s former chief scientist allege CEO Sam Altman engaged in a sustained pattern of lying to board members and bypassing safety reviews. ⌘ Read more

AI slop: The next evolution of wartime propaganda
Alongside the conflict over the strait of Hormuz, the US and Israel’s war with Iran is also being fought on a new front. The world of AI-generated propaganda. ⌘ Read more

For every $100 in data centres, $80 leaves Australia almost immediately
Data centres are the infrastructure boom of the decade. But how much of the investment actually stays in the country? ⌘ Read more

How I vibe-coded a web tool in three days with no programming experience
AI chatbots make it possible for people who can’t code to build apps, sites and tools. But it’s decidedly problematic. ⌘ Read more

Why billionaire tech bros are buying up media companies
It’s not unusual for ChatGPT maker OpenAI to go on spending sprees. But its latest acquisition is raising some eyebrows ⌘ Read more

14 years and $1.3 billion later, video game Star Citizen is nearing a major milestone
After 14 years, Star Citizen is nearing a major milestone. Creator Chris Roberts speaks with 9news.com.au about the ambition, community, and the billion dollars in funding behind the project — as well as the upcoming single-player campaign, Squadron 42.

The long-awaited game features a cast inc … ⌘ Read more

Why the prices of laptops, phones and game consoles keep rising
The AI tax is making memory more expensive, and it doesn’t show any signs of letting up. ⌘ Read more

Trump’s attempt to protect big tech and remake World Trade Organisation fails
The Trump administration sent its most senior trade official to the WTO’s annual meeting to protect its big tech companies from digital taxes – to no avail. ⌘ Read more

お知らせ：組織改編のお知らせ
―情報発信からインシデント対応支援までの一本化に向けて― ⌘ Read more

Albanese government reaches deal with $550b AI giant in legal battle with Trump
AI giant Anthropic has signed an agreement with the Albanese government while being locked in a legal war with the Trump administration. ⌘ Read more

New rules force Telstra to shrink coverage maps by 1 million square km
The telco giant must delete about a third of its claimed coverage under new standards backed by rivals, the ACCC and emergency groups. ⌘ Read more

Five social media giants face crackdown over under-16 ban
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are under investigation and facing fines of up to $49.5 million for potential non-compliance with Australia’s world-first social media ban. ⌘ Read more

Five social media giants face crackdown over under-16 ban
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are under investigation and facing fines of up to $49.5 million. for potential non-compliance with Australia’s world-first social media ban. ⌘ Read more

Roblox, YouTube caught in major children’s privacy overhaul
A new draft code would give children the right to demand deletion of their data and ban “dark patterns” designed to trick them into sharing more. ⌘ Read more

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「TSUBAMEレポート Overflow（2025年7～9月）」 ⌘ Read more

Parents like me are cheering these Facebook verdicts. But it’s not all good news
If these landmark court decisions against Meta and YouTube result in a dilution of free speech, the so-called victory will be hollow indeed. ⌘ Read more

Video shows destruction after Israeli airstrike hit Iran University of Science and Technology campus
Video shows destruction after Israeli airstrike hit Iran University of Science and Technology campus ⌘ Read more

Apple almost went broke – now it’s celebrating 50 years
Apple is now one of the most valuable companies in the world - a market capitalisation of over $3.5 trillion, but a core part of Apple’s history is the time it almost went broke. ⌘ Read more

The best noise-cancelling earbuds for your commute and quiet time
If you’re looking for high-end sound and the ability to drown out (or let in) the background, these are our top picks. ⌘ Read more

Five ways to beat your phone addiction (that actually work)
A jury just ruled social media is designed to addict you. We road-tested five ways to fight back. ⌘ Read more

I confess, I’ve become a lurker. It’s part of a dark trend away from friends
When I was compulsively sharing and being shared with, I was expressing the person I wanted to be. Now, I just silently observe the lives of others. ⌘ Read more

Wireguard on OpenBSD for use as a mobile VPN: https://www.codemadness.org/wireguard.html

With OpenAI’s Sora gone, who will take up the AI video mantle?
Sora created whole cottage industries and let millions of people create videos at will, but now there’s a void to be filled. ⌘ Read more

Instagram falsely accused me of vile behaviour. Now I’m locked out of my life
Meta banned me over mistaken “child sexual exploitation, abuse and nudity” alerts. This is the same tech giant that’s just been fined more than $500 million for enabling child sexual exploitation. ⌘ Read more

The walls are closing in on Mark Zuckerberg
Juries in two US states this week found Meta liable for harming children. With 2000 more cases pending, Zuckerberg’s nightmare is just starting. ⌘ Read more

And another fork: https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「世界のCSIRTから ～アゼルバイジャン～」 ⌘ Read more

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Near-death experience shapes actor’s role in new video game
Hannah Telle and Rhianna DeVries, the actors behind one of gaming’s most iconic relationships, are returning — and bringing deeply personal experiences with them.

Speaking with 9news.com.au, DeVries revealed how surviving a near-death experience shaped their performance in the upcoming game Life is Strange: Reunion. ⌘ Read more

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「制御システムセキュリティカンファレンス2026 開催レポート」 ⌘ Read more

Doctors are relying more on AI, but some tools may be open to manipulation
Cybersecurity researchers say they deceived an Australian company’s medical assistant in three steps, while the company says it had already fixed the problem. ⌘ Read more

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark
A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent in global violences. ⌘ Read more

The best 2026 phones we’ve tested under $1000
From Apple’s new iPhone 17e to Nothing’s stunning 4a Pro, these phones can get you a major upgrade without breaking the bank. ⌘ Read more

In the interest of fairness and hopefully for the last time, I ever have to address this, Google has flip-flopped again and promised “sideloading” will not be removed from their version of Android, but instead have to be enabled in the developer settings, using the following “advanced flow”:

To be perfectly clear, this still falls short of what I wanted, but at this point, it is a compromise I’m willing to take, over further pursuing this, through the various available European courts, myself.

Here is their full statement:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

xrxs v0.6.0: i hope you like plan9 C | https://nilfm.cc/xrxs.html

taro v0.3.0: legible fonts and 9p | https://nilfm.cc/taro.html

I’m supporting incremental SQLite schema changes to just upgrade from an older database version to whatever the current software version supports. In the past, I already noticed that this is quite expensive in unit tests when each test case runs through the entire schema patches and applies them one by one.

To speed up test execution I now decided that I finally go through the troubles of maintaining both a set of incremental patches and a full schema setup in one go. A unit test verifies that both ways end up with the same structure. This gives me a set of SQLs to check the structures:

SELECT type, name, tbl_name, sql
FROM sqlite_schema
ORDER BY type, name, tbl_name

Unfortunately, the resulting CREATE TABLE SQL queries are formatted differently, depending on whether the full schema was set up in one big step or the structure had been modified with ALTER TABLE. Mainly, added columns are not on their own lines but appended in one physical line. That’s why I wanted an SQL formatting tool. Since I didn’t find one that works decently, I’m now doing some simple string manipulation. Joining consecutive whitespace into a single space character, removing spaces before commas and closing parentheses and spaces after opening parentheses. This works surpringly good enough. Of course, if it fails, the “diff” is absolutely horrendous.

Now for the cool part, my test execution dropped from around 5:05 minutes to just 1:32 minutes! I call that a win.

I just stumbled across PRAGMA table_info('tablename') https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_table_info, PRAGMA foreign_key_list('tablename') and friends. I guess, I have to play with that, now. It’s probably much better to use than the SQL text approach.

Lego’s ‘biggest innovation ever’: Here’s what you need to know
How does Smart Play work? What are the new sets like? And is adding tech to Lego even a good idea? ⌘ Read more

The day porn turned off: Inside Australia’s high-stakes war with the adult industry
New laws have forced Pornhub off our screens. But the harder question – what it has already done to a generation of young men – is only just beginning to be asked. ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me https://twtxt.dev/clients.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks for letting me know. HTML checkers seem happy now. I’m not sure what to do about the images not loading. The photos have three sizes (thumbnail, photo page, and original if you click the img tag on the photo page); can you at least see the smaller two sizes? Maybe I will do some experimental fetches and/or start measuring things on my web server.

This time is different. Why we must conquer AI before it conquers us
The new tech is both boom and doom. The sudden purge of jobs by Australia’s tech giants is scary, yes, but that’s precisely why we have to master it. ⌘ Read more

** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.
** This session may be vulnerable to “store now, decrypt later” attacks.
** The server may need to be upgraded. See https://openssh.com/pq.html

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@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Congrats, mate, no sleep at night anymore! ;-D That’s a cool age measuring blanket. Haven’t seen something like that before.

Btw. the index.html includes an out of place </ul>. And I just wanna let you know that the full-size photos don’t load for me over here across the pond. They always run into a timeout after a few slooow percent. But no worries. :-)