https://feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/feeds/jevdemon1.xml Interests and news sources Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:05:37 GMT feedland v0.7.20 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:05:37 GMT http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/pleaseNotify Tue, February 17, 2026 6:05 PM EST The talent shortage is a myth. This is labor arbitrage. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:05:37 GMT https://www.h1bexposed.tech/#investigation https://feedland.org/?item=910321 The talent shortage is a myth. This is labor arbitrage. <p>A startup is using AI to recreate the long-lost sections of The Magnificent Ambersons. Perhaps once day we&#39;ll be able to finally see the lost spider pit sequence from the original King Kong, Lon Chaney&#39;s London After Midnight, and many more films thought lost forever.</p> <p>Is this a good thing? Debatable.</p> Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:39:40 GMT https://archive.is/20260207134508/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece https://feedland.org/?item=859338 A startup is using AI to recreate the long-lost sections of The Magnificent Ambersons. Perhaps once day we'll be able to finally see the lost spider pit sequence from the original King Kong, Lon Chaney's London After Midnight, and many more films thought lost forever. Is this a good thing? Debatable. Apparently not, according to this paper. Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:11:59 GMT https://www.nber.org/papers/w34243 https://feedland.org/?item=859275 Apparently not, according to this paper. In a TCP environment, every time the CPU has to handle network traffic, it must pause its main calculation work, save its progress, switch to &quot;traffic cop&quot; mode, and then switch back. Imagine a mathematician trying to solve a complex equation but being interrupted by a phone call every few seconds. The time spent putting down the pencil, answering the phone, and trying to remember where they left off represents this context switching tax. It introduces millisecond-level delays that accumulate into significant wasted time. TTP erases this waiting time entirely. By enforcing flow control through physical memory constraints and utilizing hardware state machines, it removes the &quot;mathematician&#39;s phone&quot; from the equation. This allows the compute cores to focus 100% on the math while the data flows automatically in the background. It achieves latencies effectively limited only by the speed of light through the fiber. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:56:07 GMT https://x.com/tslaming/status/2013921395554840817 https://feedland.org/?item=761154 In a TCP environment, every time the CPU has to handle network traffic, it must pause its main calculation work, save its progress, switch to "traffic cop" mode, and then switch back. Imagine a mathematician trying to solve a complex equation but being interrupted by a phone call every few seconds. The time spent putting down the pencil, answering the phone, and trying to remember where they left off represents this context switching tax. It introduces millisecond-level delays that accumulate into significant wasted time. TTP erases this waiting time entirely. By enforcing flow control through physical memory constraints and utilizing hardware state machines, it removes the "mathematician's phone" from the equation. This allows the compute cores to focus 100% on the math while the data flows automatically in the background. It achieves latencies effectively limited only by the speed of light through the fiber. <p>Developers—and the agents they run—are moving at a new kind of velocity: forking, patching, and moving on.</p> <p>AI is a tech debt accelerator.</p> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:20:36 GMT https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-fork-it-and-forget-decade/ https://feedland.org/?item=760787 Developers—and the agents they run—are moving at a new kind of velocity: forking, patching, and moving on. AI is a tech debt accelerator. Bankrupt scooter startup&#39;s single key controlled everything Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:47:30 GMT https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/bankrupt_scooter_startup_key/ https://feedland.org/?item=734347 Bankrupt scooter startup's single key controlled everything Zuck# is a PHP-inspired esoteric programming language that captures the true essence of moving fast and breaking things. Every keyword has been carefully designed to reflect the values of modern social media: privacy invasion, congressional hearings, and pivoting to whatever&#39;s trending. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:44:22 GMT https://jayzalowitz.github.io/zucksharp/ https://feedland.org/?item=727798 Zuck# is a PHP-inspired esoteric programming language that captures the true essence of moving fast and breaking things. Every keyword has been carefully designed to reflect the values of modern social media: privacy invasion, congressional hearings, and pivoting to whatever's trending. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they&#39;d have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs to age in warehouses. The minute they plug in those GPUs, they&#39;ll start losing money, and the more they use them, the more money they&#39;ll lose. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:17:52 GMT https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/#mere-billions https://feedland.org/?item=723371 The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs to age in warehouses. The minute they plug in those GPUs, they'll start losing money, and the more they use them, the more money they'll lose. AI continues to prove itself to be a technical debt accelerator. Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:26:51 GMT https://thenewstack.io/the-ai-verification-bottleneck-developer-toil-isnt-shrinking/ https://feedland.org/?item=709327 AI continues to prove itself to be a technical debt accelerator. HashJack is the first known indirect prompt injection that can weaponize any legitimate website to manipulate AI browser assistants. As a result, AI browsers-including Comet (Perplexity), Copilot for Edge (Microsoft), and Gemini for Chrome (Google)-can be used to enable a wide range of malicious attacks. Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:11:41 GMT https://www.catonetworks.com/blog/cato-ctrl-hashjack-first-known-indirect-prompt-injection/ https://feedland.org/?item=682724 HashJack is the first known indirect prompt injection that can weaponize any legitimate website to manipulate AI browser assistants. As a result, AI browsers-including Comet (Perplexity), Copilot for Edge (Microsoft), and Gemini for Chrome (Google)-can be used to enable a wide range of malicious attacks. With 21 million users, Facebook Dating is a secret hit, including among Gen Zers who use it for clout and content as much as for finding love. Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:04:37 GMT https://www.wired.com/story/who-the-hell-is-actually-using-facebook-dating/ https://feedland.org/?item=682680 With 21 million users, Facebook Dating is a secret hit, including among Gen Zers who use it for clout and content as much as for finding love. we should expect disaggregated systems to inevitably grow &quot;stateful edges&quot; over time in order to recover performance and control Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:59:27 GMT https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/rethinking-cost-of-distributed-caches.html https://feedland.org/?item=682643 we should expect disaggregated systems to inevitably grow "stateful edges" over time in order to recover performance and control Rule #0: If someone else makes money in a business arrangement, so should you. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:56:43 GMT https://architectelevator.com/strategy/economics-technical-speaking/ https://feedland.org/?item=682628 Rule #0: If someone else makes money in a business arrangement, so should you. Brief thoughts on the recent Cloudflare outage Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:47:48 GMT https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/brief-thoughts-on-the-recent-cloudflare-outage/ https://feedland.org/?item=682588 Brief thoughts on the recent Cloudflare outage UX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It) Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:32:54 GMT https://eleganthack.com/ux-is-your-moat-and-youre-ignoring-it/ https://feedland.org/?item=682510 UX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It) There is a difference between being an engineer and being a coder. Coders are good at … coding. They can follow instructions, read APIs and specs, learn languages and libraries, and build things, slowly. After the early days of the industry, we realized we needed a lot more software being built, so we learned how to train coders. And that’s what most of the people in the technical industry are now. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:31:42 GMT https://sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com/p/bad-programmers-are-about-to-become https://feedland.org/?item=682506 There is a difference between being an engineer and being a coder. Coders are good at … coding. They can follow instructions, read APIs and specs, learn languages and libraries, and build things, slowly. After the early days of the industry, we realized we needed a lot more software being built, so we learned how to train coders. And that’s what most of the people in the technical industry are now. Cognitive architects are the evolution of your best senior developers. These are the people who’ve moved beyond writing code to thinking about entire systems, understanding both technical complexities and business realities. Instead of managing human teams, they’ll orchestrate AI agents. They’ll break down complex business problems and design structured frameworks that I call “blueprints of thought.” These blueprints guide AI through sophisticated implementations while ensuring solutions align with long-term architectural stability. AI guardians emerge from the democratization of application creation. As AI enables everyone from developers to creators to product managers to build functional software, someone must ensure these applications meet enterprise standards. AI guardians specialize in validating nondeterministic AI outputs, implementing testing protocols for AI-generated code and maintaining quality throughout development life cycles that now require validation loops at every stage. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:29:51 GMT https://thenewstack.io/whats-next-for-developer-teams-how-to-prepare-now/ https://feedland.org/?item=682491 Cognitive architects are the evolution of your best senior developers. These are the people who’ve moved beyond writing code to thinking about entire systems, understanding both technical complexities and business realities. Instead of managing human teams, they’ll orchestrate AI agents. They’ll break down complex business problems and design structured frameworks that I call “blueprints of thought.” These blueprints guide AI through sophisticated implementations while ensuring solutions align with long-term architectural stability. AI guardians emerge from the democratization of application creation. As AI enables everyone from developers to creators to product managers to build functional software, someone must ensure these applications meet enterprise standards. AI guardians specialize in validating nondeterministic AI outputs, implementing testing protocols for AI-generated code and maintaining quality throughout development life cycles that now require validation loops at every stage. We can build an AI economy that concentrates value, hollows out demand, and forces society into a reactive cycle of backlash and repair. Or we can build an AI economy that circulates, where discoveries diffuse, where productivity dividends translate into purchasing power and time, and where the complements are built fast enough that society becomes broadly more capable. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:20:24 GMT https://www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-and-the-next-economy/ https://feedland.org/?item=682455 We can build an AI economy that concentrates value, hollows out demand, and forces society into a reactive cycle of backlash and repair. Or we can build an AI economy that circulates, where discoveries diffuse, where productivity dividends translate into purchasing power and time, and where the complements are built fast enough that society becomes broadly more capable. Get 500+ expert-crafted prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and all major AI tools. Copy, paste, and get results in seconds. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:06:18 GMT https://prompt-vault-phi-rust.vercel.app/ https://feedland.org/?item=682373 Get 500+ expert-crafted prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and all major AI tools. Copy, paste, and get results in seconds. The x86 architecture implements a model that is known as &quot;total store ordering&quot; (TSO), which guarantees that writes (stores) will be seen by all CPUs in the order they were executed. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:04:37 GMT https://lwn.net/Articles/970907/ https://feedland.org/?item=682370 The x86 architecture implements a model that is known as "total store ordering" (TSO), which guarantees that writes (stores) will be seen by all CPUs in the order they were executed. with the right harness, today&#39;s AIs are capable of real, sustained work that actually matters, and that, in turn, is starting to change how we approach tasks. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:58:49 GMT https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-code-and-what-comes-next https://feedland.org/?item=682337 with the right harness, today's AIs are capable of real, sustained work that actually matters, and that, in turn, is starting to change how we approach tasks. How Humanity Became the Training Data for Its Own Replacement Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:56:31 GMT https://substack.com/inbox/post/180671107?r=6p7b5o&triedRedirect=true https://feedland.org/?item=488900 How Humanity Became the Training Data for Its Own Replacement PACs are legal bribery. Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:41:53 GMT https://archive.ph/Cvt3P https://feedland.org/?item=98848 PACs are legal bribery. During a two-week pilot, a team used Gemini 2.5 Pro to analyze an enormous legacy system, creating a functional specification (&quot;blueprint&quot;) of a black-box system that domain experts were able to validate.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span> Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:34:22 GMT https://martinfowler.com/articles/black-box-to-blueprint.html https://feedland.org/?item=98818 During a two-week pilot, a team used Gemini 2.5 Pro to analyze an enormous legacy system, creating a functional specification ("blueprint") of a black-box system that domain experts were able to validate.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span> A man living in a tax free palace surrounded by billions of dollars in gold and artwork is troubled by someone being rich and successful. Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:51:50 GMT https://archive.is/20250914144618/https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/pope-leo-elon-musk-wages-un-first-interview-hnw7zbvk8 https://feedland.org/?item=95164 A man living in a tax free palace surrounded by billions of dollars in gold and artwork is troubled by someone being rich and successful. <p>This sounds wonderful if it&#39;s able to generate useful tests.</p> <p>...highlight an existing function and ask Copilot to create tests... This makes it practical to apply test-driven development practices even to legacy systems</p> Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:08:23 GMT https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/unlocking-application-modernisation-with-github-copilot/4454121 https://feedland.org/?item=93808 This sounds wonderful if it's able to generate useful tests. ...highlight an existing function and ask Copilot to create tests... This makes it practical to apply test-driven development practices even to legacy systems AI-generated code is more likely to introduce high-risk security vulnerabilities<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span> Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:05:29 GMT https://www.oreilly.com/radar/when-ai-writes-code-who-secures-it/ https://feedland.org/?item=93796 AI-generated code is more likely to introduce high-risk security vulnerabilities<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span> Zip bombs are a way to fight back against unauthorized web scrapers: <a href="https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb">https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb</span></a> Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:07:22 GMT https://archive.ph/SqPCL https://feedland.org/?item=89966 Zip bombs are a way to fight back against unauthorized web scrapers: [<span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb">https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb</span>](https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb) Zip bombs are a way to fight back against unauthorized web scrapers: <a href="https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb">https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb</span></a> Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:07:18 GMT https://archive.ph/SqPCL https://feedland.org/?item=89965 Zip bombs are a way to fight back against unauthorized web scrapers: [<span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb">https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb</span>](https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb) Disaggregation is primarily motivated by the asymmetry between compute and storage: Compute is far more expensive than storage in the cloud. Compute demand fluctuates quickly; storage grows slowly. Compute can be stateless and easier to scale, while storage is inherently stateful. Decoupling them lets compute scale elastically while storage remains relatively stable and cheap. Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:00:57 GMT https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/09/disaggregation-new-architecture-for.html https://feedland.org/?item=86924 Disaggregation is primarily motivated by the asymmetry between compute and storage: Compute is far more expensive than storage in the cloud. Compute demand fluctuates quickly; storage grows slowly. Compute can be stateless and easier to scale, while storage is inherently stateful. Decoupling them lets compute scale elastically while storage remains relatively stable and cheap. Is it possible to build an agentic browser that is safe from prompt injection? Probably not. Separating user instructions from website content isn’t possible. If a browser can’t take direction from the content of a web page, how is it to act as an agent? Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:36:41 GMT https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/ https://feedland.org/?item=86875 Is it possible to build an agentic browser that is safe from prompt injection? Probably not. Separating user instructions from website content isn’t possible. If a browser can’t take direction from the content of a web page, how is it to act as an agent? <p><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">The answer is simple - he watches too much mainstream news designed to drive a wedge between us in their quest for more views/clicks/ratings.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=1rmAi9XmlIo&amp;t=1m55s"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=1rmAi9XmlIo&amp;t=1m55s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=1rmAi9XmlIo&amp;t=1m55s</span></a></p> <p>#stopwatchingthenews</p> Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:49:17 GMT http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a141301 https://feedland.org/?item=86775 <span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">The answer is simple - he watches too much mainstream news designed to drive a wedge between us in their quest for more views/clicks/ratings.</span> [<span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=1rmAi9XmlIo&amp;t=1m55s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1rmAi9XmlIo&t=1m55s</span>](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1rmAi9XmlIo&t=1m55s) #stopwatchingthenews <p>How did a healthy well-fed and educated 22 year old man from a good family throw his life away and for what?</p> <p>The answer is simple - he watches too much mainstream news designed to drive a wedge between us in their quest for more views/clicks/ratings.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=1rmAi9XmlIo&amp;t=1m55s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=1rmAi9XmlIo&amp;t=1m55s</a></p> <p>#stopwatchingthenews</p> Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:48:58 GMT http://scripting.com/2025/09/13.html#a141301 https://feedland.org/?item=86774 How did a healthy well-fed and educated 22 year old man from a good family throw his life away and for what? The answer is simple - he watches too much mainstream news designed to drive a wedge between us in their quest for more views/clicks/ratings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1rmAi9XmlIo&t=1m55s #stopwatchingthenews The revision to the terms of service not only limits users’ ability to choose (opt out), but it also reinforces the rise in social media platforms using user data for profit, and without informed consent. Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:07:06 GMT https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/deleting-x-why-sigdoc-left-the-platform/ https://feedland.org/?item=85334 The revision to the terms of service not only limits users’ ability to choose (opt out), but it also reinforces the rise in social media platforms using user data for profit, and without informed consent.