US removes curbs on Anthropic's latest Fable and Mythos AI models
1 July 2026
Antrhropic statement in reply
Someone is getting fed up with stochastic parrot bs passed off as knowledge and insight from fellow humans.
source: a certain amateur radio reflector.
Just sayin': ransomware gangs are the strongest proponents of encrypting enterprise data at rest
periodic reminder about privacy services:
no one is going to go to prison for the privilege of being your mailserver admin/vpn host/etc.
another year at the #Troopers26 CTF brings some neat new tricks to bytewitch, my universal weird-blob decoding tool (now home at https://bytewitch.boo 👻):
quickly apply byte-level preprocessing (xor, and, arithmetic) and specify payloads by mixing and matching arbitrary number notations (binary, ternary, hex, whatever)
also, the randomness analysis now flags patterns indicating repeated-key xor and similar obfuscations (in tryhard mode only, for now)
now back to my actual work...
So, 2006 called and said, “Hey, you should start a blog!” And since I’m at it, I thought, why not launch a newsletter too? 😅
Here is the link to my first blog post: https://www.voltpaperscissors.com/tipsandtricks/playing-with-the-sun
And here for the newsletter sign-up: https://www.voltpaperscissors.com/newsletter-signup-standalone/
The reasoning is simple: "Social" media (Mastodon aside) has turned into something I don’t want to be part of, so I’d better set myself up for something independent.
@Javvad employees figured out tool use for effective problem solving long ago - we call it "Shadow IT"
@hrbrmstr I mean, why not use GLM 5.2 in the meantime? https://www.provos.org/p/qemu-escape-glm-5-2/
#ElonMusk is a murderer, and now he's lying about it. https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-dead-children-usaid
Today I released C1B, the most personal app I’ve ever built.
Earlier this year, my father was diagnosed with lymphoma, and my family quickly outgrew our binders, Notes, spreadsheets, and group chats trying to coordinate his care.
C1B grew out of that experience. C1B is a caregiving log that helps families keep track of everything related to the ongoing care of a loved one.
1.2 billion downloads ran through pyca/cryptography last month. Nearly every Python app that touches crypto depends on it. If it doesn't ship post-quantum primitives, the Python ecosystem can't migrate.
We helped add ML-DSA (FIPS 204) for signatures and ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key exchange to the library. Install and migration details in the blog. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/30/shipping-post-quantum-cryptography-to-python/
"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.
France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.
The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.
France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning
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