Vulnerability Research Is Cooked: “You can't design a better problem for an LLM agent than exploitation research”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/#atom-everything
Hope you have redundant offsite archived backups.
“2,208 deaths while homeless in Los Angeles in 2024”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-191031947
As American non-college income share declines the most vulnerable are pushed to the streets. Perhaps because support networks collapse. On the streets fentanyl use is arguably rational.
“Life Time is aiming for the high end of the K-shaped economy, a term describing America’s widening wealth gap”
When you look you see this everywhere. Much of it is the college-noncollege class gulf. What I call “mass disability”
“next thing I knew, Trump was getting up and moving to the far left … as far away from Bondi as possible”
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/i-was-there-for-the-trump-bondi-breakup
Bondi’s humiliation is our breakfast cheer. (He will try to do worse — but worse will accelerate his downfall.)
“Medicare-like health plans (sometimes referred to as the public option) would be available to everyone who wants such coverage. These alternatives would then compete against private plans.”
Dems start to imagine again.
VHA should be a part of any public option system.
What serious social engineering looks like - you don't have a chance.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/
"I join a lot of meetings where I find myself needing to install Webex or Microsoft Teams or similar at the last moment and the time constraint means I always click “yes” to things as quickly as possible to make sure I don’t join late."
"Hegseth has reworked the Chaplain Corps recently to limit the range of religious instruction available to military personnel."
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-2-2026
Evangelicals will regret this.
Claude-built python app for tuning macOS Preview PDF highlights into a plaintext list
https://tech.kateva.org/2026/04/my-new-favorite-utility-claude-built.html
I like this app a lot. Turns my macOS Preview highlights into plaintext I dump into MindNode. With page refs and a header. It's all ai generated, so I share the output and a general description. Code available on demand.
“There is a pervasive billionaire assumption that mainstream legacy journalism is “liberal,”
I wasn’t always a wealth tax guy.
“in a basic sense the current American right simply isn’t interested in news or journalism as most of us conceive it.”
Microsoft Xbox One Hacked: "instead of tinkering with the system rest pin(s) the hacker targeted the momentary collapse of the CPU voltage rail"
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/microsoft-xbox-hacked.html
Technically impressive. Unclear economic impact but a great lesson.
It’s an impressive feat, over a decade after the box was released: Since reset glitching wasn’t possible, Gaasedelen thought some voltage glitching could do the trick. So, instead of tinkering with the system rest pin(s) the hacker targeted the momentary collapse of the CPU voltage rail. This was quite a feat, as Gaasedelen couldn’t ‘see’ into the Xbox One, so had to develop new hardware introspection tools. Eventually, the Bliss exploit was formulated, where two precise voltage glitches were made to land in succession. One skipped the loop where the ...
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