2026 Weeks 9, 10, & 11

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/13/w11/

TL;DR: Three weeks of weeknotes in one go. Wrote a blog post about AI grief that hit Hacker News (and got accused of being written by an LLM), fell deep into an Amiga 1200 rabbit hole, soldered the wrong potentiometer onto my Tempest PCB, survived a work trip to California, and spiraled into hardware-ownership doomsday thinking.

#weeknotes #miscellanea #amiga #retrocomputing #ai #tempest #arcade #travel #portland #pdx

US Lawmakers Seek Investigation Into Risks of Side-Channel Surveillance on Modern Devices

📰 Original title: How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/us-lawmakers-seek-investigation-into-risks-of-side-channel-surveillance-on-modern-devices/?redirpost=a4788f6d-35ab-4e38-ba9e-225af76d9da1

#computing #side-channelattacks #cybersecurity #tempest

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old #Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers

https://www.wired.com/story/how-vulnerable-are-computers-to-an-80-year-old-spy-technique-congress-wants-answers/

#cybersecurity #TEMPEST

"Computers leak secrets. Not just through invasive ad tracking, data-stealing malware, and your ill-advised oversharing on social media, but through physics. The movements of a hard drive's components, keystrokes on a keyboard, even the electric charge in a semiconductor's wires produce radio waves, sound, and vibrations that transmit in all directions and can—when picked up by someone with sufficiently sensitive equipment and enough spycraft to decipher those signals—reveal your private data and activities.

This category of spying techniques, originally codenamed TEMPEST by the National Security Agency but now encompassed in the more general term “side-channel attacks," has been a known problem in computer security for close to eight decades, and it's one that the United States government carefully considers in securing its own classified information. Now a pair of US lawmakers are launching an investigation into how vulnerable the rest of us are to TEMPEST-style surveillance—and whether the US government needs to push device manufacturers to do more to protect Americans."

https://www.wired.com/story/how-vulnerable-are-computers-to-an-80-year-old-spy-technique-congress-wants-answers/

#Cybersecurity #TEMPEST

Cold War Spy Trick Still Haunts Your Laptop, Congress Warns

#Cybersecurity #TEMPEST #Privacy #SideChannelAttack #AusNews #InfoSec

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-04-cold-war-spy-trick-still-haunts-your-laptop-congress-warns-6b342527

Unicursal THOUGHT TEMPEST EARTH MOUNTAINS Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information

https://hermetic.com/information/thought-tempest-earth-mountains/index

#propaganda #AleisterCrowley #thought #mind #tempest #trees #earth #mountains