We're hiring a new product security lead for Wikipedia! It's a new lead PM role that would steer our security engineering team and how we go about this work here at the Wikimedia Foundation. AND: it's fully remote, and open in a good number of countries. job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
🏔️ Riku Silvola 🏔️
@rikusilvola.com
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If you love Wikipedia, take a look at this product job we've just opened to lead some of our most interesting work on keeping the place safe and authentic for humans: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo... This role will work directly with dedicated Wikipedians around the world. Think it over!
After careful analysis, we believe the best option for remediation is to turn off the computers and go for a nice walk. Maybe call your mother.
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a ‘future’ threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️
I don't think tech at large understands how hard it is to be an open source maintainer right now. So many great folks are on the brink of burnout. Funding is drying out. We live in a security minefield. Companies think humans are disposable. If you're a maintainer, we care. You deserve the world.
All hands on deck! This looks legit and is really damn bad. copy.fail #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #Critical #HugOps
Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
copy.fail
this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
Help us continue to celebrate #Wikipedia25. Vote for Wikipedia on The Webby Awards. The "25 Years of Wikipedia" is nominated for Websites & Mobile Sites ➡️ wbby.co/57637N And Wikipedia's Docuseries is up for Best Social Video Series – Longform category ➡️ wbby.co/58994N
Adversary walks into a bar and orders 50 beers and the contents of the register… https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/claude_code_rule_cap_raises/ Claude’s “hard” security rules are looking pretty soft
Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands
Updated: A hard-coded limit on deny rules drops automatic enforcement for concatenated commands
theregister.com
March 2026 was a brutal month for vulnerabilities. 🛡️ Here is the damage: • 6,246 new CVEs (+55.7% Over Last March) • 169 new vulns per day 🤯 • 7.1 median CVSS severity (High) The Top 3 Culprits: 🥇 XSS (730) 🥈 SQLi (325) 🥉 Missing Auth (292) 2026 is already up 27% YoY.
#Kansalaisaloite korjauspalveluiden arvonlisäveron alentamiseksi! Tällä hetkellä aloitetta on kannattanut vasta 16 859 henkilöä. Aloite etenee eduskunnan käsiteltäväksi vain, jos se kerää vähintään 50 000 nimeä ennen määräajan sulkeutumista eli maaliskuun 2026 alkua. dawn.fi/uutiset/2026...
Kansalaisaloite korjauspalveluiden alemmasta arvonlisäverosta kaipaa lisää nimiä
Kansalaisaloite korjauspalveluiden alemmasta arvonlisäverokannasta avattiin syksyllä 2025. Alennettu arvonlisävero kohdistuisi aloitteen mukaan suutareihin, kodinkoneiden korjauksiin, jne.
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must-read "Age Assurance Online: A Technical Assessment of Current Systems and their Limitations" by @rtfm.com, @zanderarnao.bsky.social, and @alissacooper.bsky.social at Knight-Georgetown Institute kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
Age Assurance Online: A Technical Assessment of Current Systems and their Limitations – Knight-Georgetown Institute
kgi.georgetown.edu
Wikipedia is built by humans. Every day, volunteers from all over the world add to the sum of all human knowledge. One edit, one citation, one byte of data at a time.
🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐 We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10 🧵👇
My favorite quote from Chris in this episode: “I believe in the power of programmers. I believe in the human potential of people that want to create things. And that’s fundamentally why I love software is that you can create anything that you can imagine.”
Today, the @ec.europa.eu has announced the creation of the #EDIC #DigitalCommons — a major milestone in a multi-year European effort that the Sovereign Tech Agency helped shape from the start. 1/3
Immutable releases announced at GitHub Universe! Once tagged, releases can’t be changed. No more worrying about malicious actors swapping out assets or moving tags. Single-use version tags with signed attestations. This is the supply chain protection open source really needs 🔒 #GitHubUniverse
OFE has joined dozens of other orgs calling for an EU Sovereign Tech Fund. Through investment in #OpenSource sustainability, Europe can promote strategic autonomy, prevent future crises, and reduce strategic dependencies. Read our public letter: eu-stf.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/u...
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/
Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).
Parsimoni and DPhiSpace are running a hackathon! Test your mettle as you build your own unikernel-based application and choose whether to take the exploit or use-case challenge – with numerous prizes up for grabs! hacksat.dev
SpaceOS
hacksat.dev
Experimented with wasm_of_ocaml build for @rescript-lang.org compiler It gave almost 3x faster performance than the original js_of_ocaml build! 🔥