Been quiet around here! I’ve been putting almost all of my writing time into Logic for Programmers and my whole brain is book-shaped. Trust me, you do not want to read my 2000-word rant on Sphinx post-build LaTeX customization. But I spent the past week in…

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

4.5hr → 3.5min. Local Whisper AI. Privacy-first.

Can you build tech independence while breaking encryption?

Apple today introduced the new iPad Pro with M5, delivering a huge boost in performance and taking the next big leap in AI for iPad.

ptrpaws's blog on reverse engineering, programming, vr finds and miscellaneous stuff.

MacBook Pro laptop with M5, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. Built for AI and Apple Intelligence. Up to 24 hours of battery life. Liquid Retina XDR display.

We shouldn’t worry about AI destroying society because there’s something scarier out there (it’s us)

Mac Source Ports features signed and notarized builds of source ports of your favorite games, working on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.

A bird-inspired flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style takeoff locomotion by exploiting reconfigurable mechanisms.

This article details two bugs discovered in the NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules and demonstrates how they can be exploited. The bugs can be triggered by an attacker controlling a local unprivileged process. Their security implications were confirmed…

Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.

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U.S. cybersecurity company F5 disclosed that nation-state hackers breached its systems and stole undisclosed BIG-IP security vulnerabilities and source code.

The United States' hidden cache of state capacity inside the Department of Defense

Why? Because it’s fun.

Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.