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Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

“My company did layoffs a few weeks ago. The main metric for productivity is AI usage (% of PRs with AI assistance) and PR count per week. People are burnt out after layoffs, but they don’t want to be next so they are doing what’s requested: use AI, inflate PR count….” - from an eng at this place

How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural Pa. stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure My column on the fight to save Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

They’re fighting to stop Izzy Aly from dying in a Pennsylvania gulag | Will Bunch

A potentially fatal case of neglect for a Pa. immigrant detainee spotlights a nationwide humanitarian crisis.

inquirer.com

some people need to embrace the hugops lifestyle instead of being assholes to sleep deprived people who are dealing with a stressful situation

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

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Some tips on giving digital privacy/security advice: if you tell people they absolutely need to do a long list of difficult and expensive things before they travel, people will nod and smile and then not do it at all. This is why my advice focuses on harm reduction and understanding trade-offs.