its so cold im using chrome instead of firefox to read news on my phone cuz i need the ads to warm up my phone and hands

Are we entering a world where chatbots will replace devs?
Probably not. Prompting an LLM with natural language is inherently lossy and ambiguous. Up to this point, programming has always been deterministic: Your code does what you say it should do otherwise, it’s a bug. Coding agents break that contract.

Our blog:
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/19/can-chatbots-craft-correct-code/

buckle up and prepare for an unload of *six* CVEs against #curl getting published tomorrow, severity low and medium

Has someone tried redeploying 2026?

Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment.

I’m working on the next hacklore newsletter, and the holiday season delivered a fresh wave of peak hacklore! 🎁 😜

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Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/commodore-disk-drive-becomes-general-purpose-computer/

I wrote a photo essay with 20+ of my favourite tech museums in the world, and tried to figure out what makes a great museum in the process.

I am very curious what tech museums you like – and why!

(Will work on any device, but worth checking out on the biggest screen you or your neighbour might have.)

https://aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums/

Decorative Cryptography

https://www.dlp.rip/decorative-cryptography

"All encryption is end-to-end, if you’re not picky about the ends."

"The purpose of a system is what it does"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does

This is exactly what I've been trying to articulate re: cookie banners. The word of the regulation and intent is largely irrelevant to the effect it caused.

Kagi's Small Web initiative and why we're committed to it:

#Kagi #Search #SmallWeb

GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/github-disables-rockchips-linux-mpp-repository-after-dmca-request/

"Die Zeit" reveals that German foreign intelligence, in a multi-year campaign, intercepted Barack Obama's phone calls while aboard Air Force One because the encryption was flawed. Angela Merkel didn't know about it.

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2026-01/bnd-barack-obama-air-force-one-angela-merkel

A Glimpse Into DexProtector
https://www.romainthomas.fr/post/26-01-dexprotector/

The general code quality of hacking tools has always been shit. Thanks to LLMs now it's somewhat worse.

POC2025 videos are up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eem7AVAMpI&list=PLHu2EA4lxh3Yvaa5sr9TYM3ywzGFBbpR8

This is my every-once-in-awhile post since I’m thinking about it today: if you have a lead on install media, an image of a dev/test system, etc. for the Dynix ILS (from the 1980s/90s), please reach out. No, it’s not on Internet Archive despite some things saying it is.

Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/