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Two Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/politics/the-docket-supreme-court-penn-teller.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or metadata of push notifications. Let’s fix that.
First blog post for the new job!
Security Should Be the Path of Least Resistance
Security often creates friction that frustrates developers and users, this can actually make systems less secure because when security is difficult, noisy, or just gets int he way, people bypass or ignore the controls.
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/security-should-be-the-path-of-least-resistance/
This viral image of Saturn isn’t real; it’s AI slop
A new image of "Saturn's North Pole" has gone viral.
Too bad it's an AI fake.
Here's what the real things look like, and how you can tell for yourself.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/viral-saturn-real-ai-slop/
Who is going to be this generation’s Matt Blaze? :-) The Clipper Chip was announced on April 16, 1993. 33 years, less 1 day:
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