The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf] https://interlisp.org/documentation/young-ccece2025.pdf
Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021) https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
Krebs on Security
Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer…
Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper https://probablydance.com/2025/06/19/revisiting-knuths-premature-optimization-paper/
Probably Dance
Revisiting Knuth’s “Premature Optimization” Paper
The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste e…
Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations https://www.dw.com/en/nearly-20-of-cancer-drugs-defective-in-4-african-nations/a-73062221
DW
Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations
Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm.
Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020) https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram/
mango.pdf.zone
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
Do not get arrested challenge 2020
We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube https://ksagar.bearblog.dev/vjepa/
atharva's blog
how we accidentally solved robotics by watching 1 million hours of YouTube
this: you've just spent $640 billion training the chonkiest language model known to humanity (lol) and decide to call it "Behemoth". it can annoy you on wh...
The $25k car is going extinct? https://media.hubspot.com/why-the-25000-car-is-going-extinct
Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014) https://spectrum.ieee.org/cell-tower-signals-can-improve-port-security
IEEE Spectrum
Cell Towers Can Double As Cheap Radar Systems
Passive radio signals sent by cellular stations could detect small boats and improve security at ports and harbors
Touching the back wall of the Apple store https://blog.lauramichet.com/touching-the-back-wall-of-the-apple-store/
Laura Michet's Blog
Touching the back wall of the Apple store
Here's a dumb story. When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it ...
Modelling API rate limits as diophantine inequalities https://vivekn.dev/blog/rate-limit-diophantine
vivekn.dev
modelling API rate limits as diophantine inequalities
viveknathani - blog
Continuous Glucose Monitoring https://www.imperialviolet.org/2025/06/29/cgm.html
www.imperialviolet.org
ImperialViolet - Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system https://gridfinity.xyz/
Gridfinity
Gridfinity :: Unofficial wiki
The modular, open-source grid storage system.
ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/ICE-Testzug-faehrt-bis-zu-405-0-km-h-und-sammelt-wichtige-Erkenntnisse-fuer-den-Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr-13428394
Deutschebahn
ICE-Testzug fährt bis zu 405,0 km/h und sammelt wichtige Erkenntnisse für den Hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehr
That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/customer-service-sludge/683340/
The Atlantic
That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”
Anticheat Update Tracking https://not-matthias.github.io/posts/anticheat-update-tracking/
Want to meet people, try charging them for it? https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-06-28-want-to-meet-people-charge-them.html