Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07…
This whole thread is great, and makes me think of this “Schlock Mercenary” strip
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gyyq55ydkyp5aighjvp5vmjh/post/3mq6ppk6ro22t
Before I met my wife 20 years ago, she was an Apple user with a macbook.
I eventually got her on Linux (initially with Mint). Maybe 15 years ago?
She started a new job and they gave her a new macbook, and she haaaaaates it. I can't tell if it's because she just got used to Linux, or if it's because Apple has actually made their OS worse in the past 15 years.
Over het dorp Engelen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Andršs Schiff plays Bach's The Art of Fugue
Pianist Andršs Schiff performs the entirety of Bach's masterwork The Art of Fugue, which he described as 'the greatest work by the greatest composer who ever lived.'
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zsps
As companies stay private longer, VC firms, like Spark, Gigafund, and Greenoaks, are investing in companies later on and buying stakes without seeking influence (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/venture-capita
"Maybe I'll be okay using a touchpad without physical buttons if I try a macbook, since Apple pioneered that nonsense?"
Nope. I still want to throw this thing into a lake (but I can't, since it's not mine). It's sooo bad any time you want to do something even mildly complex, like hold down a button while dragging & dropping to copy a file between two file browser windows. I honestly don't understand how people put up with this.