Gen Z is nostalgic for a time they never lived because the one they're living in is exhausting!
https://fortune.com/2026/04/01/gen-z-analog-economy-5-billion-market-nostalgia/
There's no pride in letting a machine write your byline. The future isn't inevitable. It's just what happens when we stop refusing it.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-to-accept-big-tech-s-ai-poisoned-future-of-journalism
A bloke with admin access locked out his entire company and demanded 20 bitcoin. He got caught because he Googled "how to cover my tracks" beforehand. The insider threat isn't coming from outside. It's already got your passwords.
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey.
AI isn't the problem. The people running it are. They've got the technology to change the world and they're using it to optimise their own productivity whilst the rest of us inherit the mess.
https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings/
Breach of Confidence: 3 April 2026
I once tried to assemble IKEA furniture this week without looking at the instructions. Got halfway through before realising I'd built something structurally sound but utterly useless. Feels like a decent metaphor for most security programmes. America Discovers It Doesn't Make Routers Anymore The US just banned foreign-made routers because malicious actors kept using them to break in. Now people realise there are barely any routers actually made in America.
http://javvadmalik.com/2026/04/03/breach-of-confidence-3-april-2026/
i’ve been enjoying posts about self hosting recently, I appreciate people writing about what’s possible even if it’s not something I want to do right now or maybe ever
https://tarakiyee.com/the-inventory-i-should-have-done-years-ago/
https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/self-hosting-as-much-of-my-online-presence-as-practical/
🖼️"Ulysses at the Table of Circe (The Odyssey of Homer)." Line engraving after John Flaxman by James Parker, 1805. Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain. Flaxman developed this outline style in Italy, inspired by Greek vase painting. Flaxman's outline illustrations were so popular they were "pirated" (Read: copied) across Europe.
Hold onto your butt's....
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/
Your AI agents went rogue... you pretend of have answers... nobody knows what's really going on.
Kevin Beaumont
Neo Ehproque
Julia Evans