A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool
to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised.
On Monday, a hacker pushed malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript library called Axios,
which developers rely on to allow their software to connect to the internet.
The affected library was hosted on npm, a software repository that stores code for open source projects…
Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district "this summer", marking Google's 11th physical store (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/01/goog
RE: https://chaos.social/@vollkorn/116329886366411380
Is it vibe leaking or accidentally beating OpenAI at being open and AI?
Off the coast of California, dozens of marine protected areas have been established in recent decades.
These patches of the open ocean either prohibit or tightly restrict commercial and recreational fishing.
Off the coast of Santa Barbara, we set sail with members of the environmental group Santa Barbara Channelkeeper to learn about what's being done to protect our marine habitat.
My main gripe with “AI coding” is that people present it in highly emotional terms as a fait accompli that will “change everything” instead of it being just another tool (that is one of many) to make software.
Like I saw a SERIOUS post today (not on here) from a tech guy I previously respected that was basically like a 90s infomercial with black and white video of working on a computer (labeled “without AI”) and then over-saturated footage of chilling in the pool or whatever shit (labeled “with AI”).
Not to mention there’s a constant barrage of “enjoy being poor” type bullshit.
This is abusive behavior; it’s emotional manipulation and gaslighting.
It’s cringe, as the kids would say.
I think the underlying LLM technology has use cases that are genuinely useful, for example when making explorative software prototypes, both for backend and frontend stuff.
But it's like a hammer. Useful for nails, useless for anything else.
And you got to ask where the hammer is coming from. Was it made with stolen metal? Forged by exploitative labor? Locked away in a data center so you can only rent the hammer by the hour from some business trying to do a bait and switch?
I'm hoping that the AI landlord industry dies eventually (signs point to this as they won't be able to fulfill the obligations to their investors) and people use locally-run stuff, ethically with open source models (without stolen stuff) and without ridiculous environmental impact in the future.
I read 'Beyond Control and Compensation' Open Future https://openfuture.eu/blog/beyond-control-and-compensation/
'the question is not whether institutions should control their collections but whether it is legitimate to expect those who extract d…
Google's proposed workaround for sideloading unverified apps requires 9 steps, a mandatory 24-hour waiting period, and is delivered through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can modify or remove it at any time without user consent. It hasn't shipped in any beta. @…
Are governments properly supporting the digital commons? Many adopt open source software but don't fund the upstream projects that maintain it. This amplifies a "tragedy of the commons" rather than being part of the solution. Governments have historically invented ways to shape the playing field - patents, public universities, copyright, taxes ... They can do it again!
Thanks to a work-in-progress Homebrew cask by Andi Péter (https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues/15#issuecomment-11159294), I was just able to quickly install and play with the new Gram code editor (
Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20
Thanks about being so open and honest with me. I truly feel with you, Richard
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Menopause, Meltdowns & Magic - Two Audhd, Midlife Mums. Two Countries. Too Many Tabs Open.
Honest, heart-led chats about being late-diagnosed AuDHD, perimenopausal, parenting teens in burnout, and trying not to lose ourselves (again)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.gre…
Victoria Mboko and Mirra Andreeva,
the two highest-ranked teenagers in the world, prepared for their marquee Miami Open fourth-round match in an unusual manner.
Aside from being the two protagonists of the freshest rivalry in women’s tennis, they are also great friends,
and so they spent the afternoon before their big match against each other competing on the same side of the net in doubles.
Mboko and Andreeva are ranked No 9 and No 10 in the world for a reason.
Juvenile male elephant seal demanding attention — and being ignored. San Simeon Elephant Seal Viewpoint, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #sansimeon #elephantseals
My copy of #DigitalAccessibilityEthics showed up! I spent my fika ego-surfing my own chapter.
Look at all those real, verified, not hallucinated citations! That’s more than you’ll see in some think-pieces or government reports or research studies!
You deserve well-sourced content. Treat yourself.
This from Ingold (being alive 2011, pg. 62) reads as more optimistic than it used to. LLMs are closed rather than open, and can we really say its users aren't losing skill as "the ‘living appendages’ of lifeless mechanism"?
Since OpenClaw is spreading everywhere and is being promoted by various means for use by the general public. And the general public has no clue. Somethings really bad are going to happen.
Since OpenAI hired the author of OpenClaw and is facilitating its open source foundation, supplying the models and stack, IMHO they could easily get tied into litigation from the first OpenClaw Agents Go Wild incident.
(Though I am not a lawyer)
#OpenClaw #OpenAI
kegbreath is too drunk to realize he, himself, from fully public and open statements, is being quoted.
Remove him from office and ban him from future federal office, now.
#USpol #hegseth #hegsethPete
Full caff Irish breakfast tea at 0230. The breakfast of champions ^h being unable to sleep anymore, not wanting to wake my wife up with nonstop nose trumpeting, and hoping a hot drink will clear things up a bit
On the plus side the cough is almost gone and I woke up able to open both eyes without difficulty. So i think I'm on the mend?
I have a theory that being a too-many-tabs person correlates strongly with how many captchas you see. So if you have 300 tabs open, and then you need to restart your browser and recover your tabs, your computer is hitting a whole bunch of cloudflare (or whatever centralized captcha org) sites at once which raises suspicions. And orgs like cloudflare probably track IP address reputations, almost like blacklists.
Is this on track? Is there anything out on the 'net that might bac…
Q&A with CEO Jim Lanzone on Yahoo being "very profitable", its new AI search engine, focusing on sports content, including original video and podcasts, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/895221/yahoo-jim-…
can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis flooding the world with slop.
guess github is now fully integrated into the org chart
Being an Open Source developer is the closest I ever got to being a scientist. But at least my code has taken flight on Mars (didn't get the github badge for it, though, as the relevant project is not github hosted)
I find a form of active de-computing is one of the best ways to cope with the current exceeding world pain exhaustion & LLM brain drain around, i.e. doing more things offline, with your hands/body, being more present in your world, getting into crafts/materials, creating/fixing/mending things and sharing your lessons learned with others (in that sense quite in the spirit of open source culture).
To some this is may be just another form of entitled escapism, though I see it as activ…
Open Banking VRP (variable recurring payments), the API expected to supplant Direct Debit, is now being referred to as "Bank on File".
(I think I experienced a moment of metaphoric reversal when I pictured this as a series of physical filing cabinets a la Gilliam's Brazil.)
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GÉANT selected as candidate Node in the EOSC Federation 🎉
As one of the pan-European e-infrastructure Nodes, GÉANT will help scale up Europe's open science ecosystem, providing trusted access, secure data exchange and high-performance connectivity for researchers across borders.
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Look, I’m not saying I’m open to being kidnapped by aliens at this point if it means getting off this planet. All I’m saying is I wouldn’t put up a fight were it to happen.
*winks in the general direction of Alpha Centauri*
Ccontrast Trump’s AI Jesus post with another Trump image that came into prominence last week:
As everyone else in the room is animated by concern for the fallen man’s well-being
—they’re elevating his legs to ensure that blood is flowing to his brain
—Trump is assuming the bored-to–petulant affect he normally shows when he’s not the center of attention.
He’s standing with his arms dangling at his side with his prepared remarks open on the desk in front of him.
He’…
Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman "will be the most hated men in America" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/musk-altman-open-ai-settlement-tr…
Cranky again about how Android randomly reserves the right to kill applications for power management or its own inscrutable reasons, even if you have power management settings for the app set to "unrestricted".
So every time I open firefox it's a 50/50 shot whether my incognito tabs from my last browsing session (my default browsing mode to minimize leaving residue in history etc) are there or not.
On a desktop OS, apps randomly being terminated for no reason would …
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Last year, the GÉANT Community Award went to Ronan Byrne and Nicole Harris.
Two people who have shaped our community in ways that are still being felt today.
Behind every every project and milestone — there are people like them. People who show up, go the extra mile, and make our community what it is.
Nominations for the 2026 award are open until 17 April. Who in your network deserves to be celebrated?
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Google's 'advanced flow' for sideloading is a deterrence mechanism, not an escape hatch. 9 steps and a 24-hour wait for software you own? No thanks. @… #KeepAndroidOpen
Now is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.
Curious when the first release of PHP was, what the latest release of some branch, or what the highlights for each version are?
Well it's PHP, and being open source everything is documented on the official PHP website...
BUT if you did want to see those versions on a single table with dates of the published release listed, I've compiled a list! This started with me noticing there was a feature in PHP I never noticed before, and was curious when it was added. Turns out it…
Old growth trees being transported on #bchwy19 near #Nanaimo this morning.
I would guess this is just one tree, likely transported by several truck loads. Looks like a western red cedar, about 200-300 years old.
They are still logging these in previously reserved areas along the Alberni Inlet (Nahmint) and on the North Island. 😢
These were in 8-10ft chunks on the truck. Not sure what their destination would be. Possibly chipoing for pulp/paper or 🤷♂️
A total open fire ban starts today which usually means the forests shut down.
Not sure if that is the case, as the fire danger is not extreme but any reason to stop cutting these elders would be worth it.
#bcndp #bcpoli #oldgrowth #forestry #vancouverIsland #ecology
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Senator Mark Kelly
@SenMarkKelly
We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take “years” to replenish some of these stockpiles. That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you. This war is coming at a serious cost and you and the president still haven’t explained to the American people what the goal is.
[video of hegseth saying it will take years to replenish]
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Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth]
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