Tailscale and the OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, worth reading, "This is our very Canadian apology: sorry you stepped on our toes. The attack didn’t exploit Tailscale, and Tailscale didn’t cause the compromise. But, we didn't stop it. Next time, we will." tailscale.com/blog/hugging...

Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news

An AI agent used a stolen Tailscale auth key at Hugging Face. Workload identity federation, flow logs, and safer defaults could have reduced the risk.

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The frustration is that Argentina are a good team and could be entertaining. But they choose to shut down exciting play and cheat with dodgy rugby tackles and fake dives #fifa #worldcupfinal

Sad to see the muppets selling out. What happened to straight talking, wise cracks, and muppet satire?! #worldcupfinal #fifa

Curious person: "Hey Ian, you're a journalist! Your living has long been paid for by advertising. Why do you use an ad blocker?" Me:

Today, I am doing my company's mandatory training. Am currently in the middle of the "Anti-bribery and anti-corruption" module. #FIFA is one of the examples cited.

Surely it's now clear: the host country must always win and rules will be broken if needed to make that happen

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · last mo.

I can't believe crucial competitive questions in an international football tournament are being settled by lawyers under an at-best-opaque in-practice-pure-calvinball process I am a longtime fan of the sport and I never thought this could happen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Af...

A lot of people have asked me what happened to my car after it was stolen in under 30 seconds while I was away at Nvidia GTC in San Jose. Here's the full story with industry statistics on car theft rates across all car brands, and where it ended up www.ccsinsight.com/blog/kia-wou...

Kia Wouldn't Tell Me the Location of My Stolen Car Quickly Enough - FDM CCS Insight

Mobile Network Technology Can Help Carmakers to Improve Theft Recovery ...

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Ok, I've switched sides and am now backing France

Well we know Fifa doesn't want France to win the world cup now. Which team is the big money backing?

Welcome to the UK, where soon 17-year-olds will be legally allowed to drive, join the army, work a full-time job, have sex and even vote but not watch YouTube past their bedtime.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]

And so it begins, I've installed iOS27 and iPadOS27 dev beta 1 — any questions?

Why is my iPhone showing notifications to set up mobile service with Boost Mobile eSIMs this morning? I've dismissed two & two more then appeared. This is on 26.5.1 ie *not* beta. Is this a bug or a hack attempt?

I'm looking for an AI filter tool that will screen my email inbox and social feeds and hide, or at least tag, all #AI-created content. Essentially, something similar to a spam filter for email. Does this exist?

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes. This should be our final alarm bell:.We can have privacy or we can have C22, not both! #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill

Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government

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Remember, at a time when regulators around the world are moving to force Apple to allow 3rd party app stores on the iPhone, Google is going in the opposite direction and will make it near impossible to have alternative app stores on Android, more here - keepandroidopen.org

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

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More evidence Google is becoming more hostile to non-Google Android devices - reclaimthenet.org/google-broke...

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.

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"Escaping the outrage" is a good summary of the value of an RSS reader vs a social network. From Brent Simmons, of Netnewswire fame (now 100%, very fast, recommended) inessential.com/what-i-do.html

Apps aimed at designers need to be well designed. This should not be a new insight to anyone at Adobe. That new Photoshop dialog box is abhorrent, especially the lack of focus and inability to tab between fields sixcolors.com/link/2026/04...

Adobe out of Photoshop

Marcin Wichary’s new blog Unsung is great, and you should read it. Today, it brought me some fresh existential user-interface horror, in the form of Adobe’s new “Modern User Inter…

sixcolors.com

The Verge - Rank the 50 best Apple Products This is a lot of fun! www.theverge.com/cs/tech/9004...

Rank the 50 best Apple products

Pick your favorite Apple product...if you can.

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And so it begins #NvidiaGTC

As in networks, resilience has a cost - 9to5mac.com/2026/03/10/a...

Apple paying a premium to move iPhone production outside China

Apple last year shifted a substantial amount of iPhone production outside of China despite the fact that it has to...

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There are strong 1990s vibes with this company name and also with the font choice on their website - generalmagic.inc

AI SMS Agents for Insurance Teams

Cell helps insurance teams deploy SMS agents for their customers. Customers can ask questions, share information, and complete insurance tasks over text, while Cell connects directly to policy,…

generalmagic.inc

Who is going to tell the Finn’s? lifehacker.com/why-a-sauna-...

No, a Sauna Isn't a Substitute for Exercise

Sitting in a sauna may raise your heart rate, but it's not giving your body an actual workout—and it won't detox you or burn fat, either.

lifehacker.com

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Watching the Cisco AI Summit. Lots of major speakers. Sam Altman first up. Stream and full agenda is here - www.ciscoaisummit.com/ai-virtual-s...

"AI vibes" = people feel more productive with AI but are actually slower. With AI, developers take 19% longer to complete issues. But they believed AI had sped them up by 20%. metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we…

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Clawdbot, the ultimate homelab AI agent. Now, I just need to find something to run it on where I can *closely* manage what services it can access (i.e. not a main computer, but something with powerful enough hardware): www.macstories.net/stories/claw...

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like

For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control...

macstories.net

In other news, I've installed Graphene OS -- but why, given there are no Google services included, did it trigger Google to send me a "welcome to your new Pixel" email?? Information on it here: grapheneos.org @grapheneos.org

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

grapheneos.org

This is an extremely well articulated speech, it's a must read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here

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There are 17 Bluetooth devices paired with my main phone. Wow. Fortunately for my sanity only a few are connected at the same time.