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The article advocates for avoiding anthropomorphic language when discussing AI technologies and suggests alternative terms to promote clearer and more accurate conversations.

Miri, a Rust tool, stores all environment variables in the target directory, which when cached in GitHub Actions can leak secrets to pull requests. The Rust team has implemented a fix to only preserve specific variables and advises users to check their CI setups for vulnerabilities.

An analysis of the evolution and security challenges in open source software supply chains over the past fifty years.

The author discusses how stock Mac UI is becoming less critical for user familiarity and developer effort, using apps like Things and NetNewsWire as examples, and reflects on shifting trends in macOS development.

A tool that enables autocorrection for typing without using spacebars, available as an open-source project on GitHub.

The article discusses the challenges of blocking old browser user-agents to reduce crawler load and provides specific notes for feed readers and archival services affected by these measures.

The article examines the declining use of plain-text files due to technological shifts like smartphones and LLMs, arguing that this could lead to the erosion of the plain-text editing ecosystem as software developers increasingly rely on LLM-based workflows.

The article describes using agentic LLMs to iteratively optimize Rust code, achieving significant speedups (2x-20x) over state-of-the-art libraries through benchmarks and experiments.

The article discusses the rapid decrease in AI token costs, predicting widespread integration of LLMs into computing infrastructure and local deployment on consumer hardware within years, shifting focus to quality and access.

EvilVM is a native code Forth compiler deployed as position-independent shellcode for remote code execution in information security contexts, providing an interactive shell and capabilities for remote code delivery and compilation.

Researchers have revived TEMPEST attacks using injected RF signals, demonstrating recovery of internal signals from modern electronics, including voice cloning and injection.

Fearless SIMD v1.0 is released, offering safe and high-performance SIMD abstractions in Rust that minimize unsafe code while providing portable operations and platform intrinsics.

This article critiques the over-reliance on AI in software development, arguing that AI lacks wisdom for code maintainability and architecture, which can hinder developer expertise and lead to long-term issues.

Extralite 3.1.0 is released with automatic caching of parametric queries to reduce parsing overhead and improve performance in Ruby applications using SQLite.

The author criticizes Apple for enabling AI features by default in macOS updates and removing privacy opt-out options, highlighting broader consent issues in the AI industry.

This blog post provides a guide on setting up a cheap and easy throwaway VPN server using Cloudflare DNS, ProtonVPN, and AWS EC2 with WireGuard for privacy and circumventing internet restrictions while traveling.

A personal project to graph a sleep disorder using timestamped online activity from Discord and Twitter, implemented with Deno and TypeScript.

The blog post explains how to implement the first Futamura projection by specializing an interpreter to a program, using a Brainfuck-to-Carp compiler as a practical example.

The blog post proposes design guidelines for new programming languages, emphasizing fixes for common issues such as indented multiline strings, proper file path handling, consistent file extensions, and extensible syntax features.

The article discusses the trade-offs of using named parameters and flexible argument styles in programming languages, comparing Rust's simplicity with Ruby's conciseness and expressing skepticism about adopting similar features in Rust.