New Article, Annual LFP Charity Discount
My first blog post for Antithesis is now up! It's called Why Antithesis and is a 2000 word overview on the relative merits of Deterministic Simulation...
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Best Air Purifiers for Allergies Are on Sale: Levoit, BlueAir (2026)
Save on WIRED-tested picks from Blueair, Levoit, and Air Doctor, including compact models for your bedroom.
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2026 Hackaday Supercon: Bruce Potter’s Keynote Explores the Hacker Mind
What is hacking? Many, especially in the mainstream, view it through the lens of computer security. Others consider it synonymous with making or creating. Even for...
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Tenure
Last week, I received confirmation from my college's human resources department I was awarded tenure. If you ever worked in the academic world, you know how...
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Frostpunk 2’s The Surge DLC keeps the wintery apocalypse and adds in faction-clash-inducing electricity and sets a seasonally appropriate December release date
For the time being, the world of Frostpunk remains a hypothetical, even if it's one that seems just that little bit more likely than I'd like...
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‘Just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop’: Itch.io pushes back against the flood of AI on its storefront
Itch.io has also expanded its AI filters, enabling users to exclude games made with different types of generative AI.
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Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too
Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don't give away the answers.
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USN-8994-1: libvips vulnerabilities
It was discovered that libvips incorrectly handled certain PDF files with a page that defines a width but not a height. An attacker could possibly use...
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It was discovered that SOGo used the client-supplied Origin header when constructing password reset links. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain password...
Read moreUSN-8992-1: Shapelib vulnerability
It was discovered that the shpsort utility in Shapelib incorrectly handled certain inputs, leading to a double free. An attacker could possibly use this issue to...
Read moreUSN-8991-1: rxvt-unicode vulnerability
It was discovered that rxvt-unicode incorrectly handled certain escape sequences. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code if a user displayed specially...
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