Wiz found a master key that could access every database in Azure's Cosmos DB. #cosmosescape
Whoops.
https://nitter.net/yuvalavra/status/2082864672294736324
My present to all of you: Go ahead and think a bit about why such a key even exists. Go ahead...
“The poll found that voters in Democratic primaries view crypto less favorably than oil companies; Wall Street; or data centers.”
This is easy to explain. Oil companies, Wall Street, and data centers are a mixed bag. They have lots of practical uses, but lots of negatives that make them complicated. Cryptocurrency doesn’t have that mix.
It took 2 years to build this size of Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Iceland which sequesters CO2 out of the air.
It runs on (free) geothermal energy.
It will apparently capture the equivalent of about 36 seconds of global emissions annually (or 5 Taylor Swifts as we can now call it). Now we just need another 8 million of these.
Who is stupid enough to say that this will fix our problems? Of course, the fossil fuel lobby, who say that we can continue drilling and burning, as this will clear things up.
Come on guys...even they must see this isn't going to work. 36 seconds worth of emissions saved per year.
If the AI companies are going to buy and destroy books, can they start with JK Rowling?
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries "contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools."
I'm amused that Bank of America still refer to themselves as BofA.
"BofA deez accounts."
I wrote about why people want to use LLMs to generate code, and the deep sickness in the tech industry: complexity.
Mac users, I've finally found a native WYSIWYG Markdown editor that uses return for paragraph break and shift-return for line break (like a regular word processor), and also gets Markdown syntax for paragraph breaks right. Supports checkboxes from GFM, but Mermaid diagrams are currently buggy. Free.
Gotta admit this is a cute idea: a desktop wallpaper cat that follows your mouse and can accept skritches.
Looking in my calendar I see an appointment for August 4 I don't remember adding. "There will come soft rains", Ray Bradbury. I wondered why it was there because I had no recollection.
So I reread it and saw why.
https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/storiespdf/there-will-come-soft-rains.pdf
Presumably they have a goatwalk rather than a catwalk.
I have learned that there is a goat fashion show called Goat Couture. I would totally go to that if we were still in Texas, which thankfully we are not.
Today, we made a difficult decision to lay off 7% of our AI agents
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RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214
This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise.
Attacks on OT systems at Minnesota water utility plants.
I have a crazy idea and it is that we should have a World Bitmap Font Week, to celebrate the culture of bitmap fonts, and perhaps pay thanks for their work and contributions to society. Also we can make some fonts.
At this stage it is just an idea, but with a few more people i think we could have a few coordinated blog posts, and maybe some tools, tutorials, and even workshops? I suggest the 10 days starting 2026-10-19.
Who is in? Reply saying yes. And please boost :)
Tobi Lütke (CEO of Shopify) is a fascist.
(Have been saying this for years, but finally the mask is completely off; especially when considering the "let's just kill brown people and ethnical cleanse Europe" posts of his best buddy and Shopify board member DHH.)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/shopify-ceo-voting-rights-stripping-americans-19th-century/
Trying to work out why my screen keeps shifting color, and I think it's when a perched budgie puts a foot over the light sensor.
Also, for some reason I was wearing catgirl ears in all three dreams.