Month: February 2026

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How Codex is built

More than a million developers use OpenAI’s multi-agent coding assistant every week. Named Codex, usage has increased 5x since the start of January, the team tells...

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Bliki: Agentic Email

I’ve heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to...

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Plasma 6.6.0 released

Version 6.6.0 of KDE’s Plasma desktop environment has been released. Notable additions in this release include the ability to create global themes for Plasma, an “extract...

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An update on upki

In December 2025, Canonical announced a plan to develop a universal Public Key Infrastructure called upki. Jon Seager has published an update about the project with...

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Interop 2026

Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re always poking at but always putting under a “lack...

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Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, go-toolset:rhel8, and golang), Debian (roundcube), Fedora (gnupg2, libpng, and rsync), Mageia (dcmtk and usbmuxd), Oracle (gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gimp, gnupg2,...

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Write Python Docstrings Effectively

Writing clear, consistent docstrings in Python helps others understand your code’s purpose, parameters, and outputs. In this video course, you’ll learn about best practices, standard formats,...

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Harness Engineering

Birgitta Böckeler explains why OpenAI’s recent write-up on Harness Engineering is a valuable framing of a key activity in AI-enabled software development. The harness includes context...

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Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs

Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference“: Abstract: Scaling up language models has significantly increased...

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Thin Is In

Listen to this post: Log in to listen There was, in the early days of computing, no debate about thick clients versus thin: When a computer...

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Does AI Make the Agile Manifesto Obsolete?

Capgemini’s Steve Jones argues AI agents building apps in hours have killed the Agile Manifesto, as its human-centric principles don’t fit agentic SDLCs. While Forrester reports...

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UFW Cheatsheet

Basic Commands # Start with status and firewall state. Command Description ufw status Show firewall status and rules ufw status verbose Show detailed status and defaults...

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Russell Coker: Links February 2026

Charles Stross has a good theory of why “AI” is being pushed on corporations, really we need to just replace CEOs with LLMs [1]. This disturbing...

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Chmod Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use these core command forms for chmod. Command Description chmod MODE FILE General chmod syntax chmod 644 file.txt Set numeric permissions chmod u+x...

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All the Claw things

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the...

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Four stable kernels for Monday

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.1, 6.18.11, 6.12.72, and 6.6.125 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users of...

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Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, pdns-recursor, python-django, and wireshark), Fedora (gnutls, linux-sgx, mingw-expat, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, p11-kit, python-aiohttp, vim,...

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The Promptware Kill Chain

Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously...

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A Star is born

Two hours before one of the most important live events in Netflix’s history, LA’s sprawling CBS Radford Studio Center is abuzz with the strangest combination of...

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SCP Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Use this general form for scp commands. Command Description scp SOURCE DEST General scp syntax scp file.txt user@host:/path/ Copy local file to remote...

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Can a Scan Tool Kill a Car?

It’s no real secret that modern-day cars are basically a collection of computers on wheels, which also means that we get all the joys of debugging...

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