Tootfinder

Happy CI!
I pulled the trigger and cut over completely, we are no longer building with GitHub Actions at all.
Clean build with 45-74 warnings depending on platform, no asan/ubsan reports on the (admittedly limited) test suite, no static analysis errors, and 210 static analysis warnings - which while not ideal, is much better than the several thousand we had at the start.
This means there is now a window in which pull requests don't have CI checks (since we only run the …

Donald Trump abruptly diverted the confirmation process for Jay Clayton as the US’s top intelligence chief early Wednesday,
in a move that will allow Trump's controversial selection for acting director of national security, Bill Pulte, to assume the role and remain in place for at least several weeks until Clayton is confirmed.
Trump had pushed the Senate to confirm Clayton after his appointment of Pulte as acting director sparked bipartisan pushback and stalled his administr…

Here we go.
Blame the individual for societal ills.
How do they think individual action is shaped?
The Guardian quotes several actual epidemiologists, etc. who make the same point.
At least 80% responsibility for ill health in old age down to individual, study says | Life expectancy | The Guardian

Aus aktuellem Anlaß: Superhelden – vor allem aus dem DC-Universe, ganz egal ob im Film oder als Comics auf Papier – besitzen den emotionalen Tiefgang einer Scheibe Analogkäse.
Und da hilft auch nicht, wenn die Action gewaltig und die Drehbücher mit Multiversen, Zeitreisen und Fantasy-Technik überladen sind.
Die meisten mehrstündigen Plots ließen sich mit ein paar Minuten Nachdenken und einfachem miteinander reden – statt gequälten Macho-Sprüchen und pseudo-philosophischem Gelaber…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/117000612920568052
I'm not a big fan of takes like "the research by Anthropic is just marketing because they only attacked a reduced round AES implementation." (Quoted toot is just one example, I've seen it in several other places).
Attacking reduced round implementations is standard fare in cryptographic research, and valuable on its own, as it can teach us things about which approaches might be valuable in attacking AES with more rounds. Saying "this result doesn't matter / is just marketing because it doesn't break full-round AES" also says that 20 years of academic research into reduced round AES does not matter, which is obviously bonkers.
I am not saying that the Anthropic results are groundbreaking (Matthew Green has a much more detailed take and a lot more background in this than I have). But I *am* saying that I dislike the pracice of dismissing any research done by AI labs just because it was done by an AI lab. The other attack actually led to an algorithm being removed from consideration in the PQ crypto competition, and even though some people say "well, it's just applying a known weakness", this apparently wasn't enough to disqualify it until now.
Or, to quote Matthew Greens article:
> If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast clip. I can cite measurable and impressive progress over just the past five months on specific types of problem I’ve asked them to look at. If there’s a ceiling out there, I don’t yet see evidence of it. The people who think models are dumb are mostly using Google’s free AI search results, and not interacting with the high-end stuff (which only costs $20, so it’s not out of reach.) And they’re mostly not working in new areas.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/

Hey, #Utah. How's about a new, government-funded cult, as a treat?
"These group exercises and private corrections resemble tactics used in Synanon, a notorious and controversial drug treatment program seen as one of the first versions of a therapeutic community model. The Other Side Academy leaders don’t claim a tie to that program. But Delancey Street Foundation — where several ear…

A group of Democratic senators
and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees,
sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation
asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network,
with House lawmakers going further and accusing the agency of acting illegally.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million.
Over the last decade it has…

Lawmakers push to stop Trump dismantling of ocean observatory project
Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration. House Democrats on two committees call the action illegal. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says he's drafting legislation to freeze the removal of instruments until a full scientific review is completed. The National Science Foundation directed the removal of most of the system’s instru…