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Dawn in Southern Indiana, and there isn't a cloud in the sky. An Hoosiers football remains amazing.

Cluetrain is in an Epstein file, as are the names of its authors, mine misspelled.

Apple launches Digital ID, a way to carry your passport on your phone for use at TSA checkpoints.

A case against AI panic.

Orthodox journalism has a problem with the heterodox kind.

The AM-FM radio business is being discussed in a mailing list I’m on, but my mail server has a spam sphincter that won’t allow linky emails to go out, no matter how non-spammy they might be. So I’m posting some of what I’m trying to say here, so I can…

That’s the case I’ll be making next Tuesday in a talk at Indiana University.

The subject is big—maybe the biggest in your online life. Because it’s about the only way you’ll ever really get privacy online. And that way will support far more business than is possible in the privacy-hostile…

One of the many objectives of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project (KSPP), which just completed ten years of work, is to ensure that all array references can be bounds-checked, even in the case of flexible array members, the size of which is not known at compile time. One…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (keystone and lxd), Fedora (docker-buildkit, firefox, gh, gitleaks, lasso, runc, and seamonkey), Mageia (perl-Authen-SASL, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA, perl-JSON-XS, python-flask-cors, python-py, python-setuptools, and ruby), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk), SUSE (binutils, cargo-packaging, rust-bindgen, chromium, go-sendxmpp, helm, lasso, libxml2, openssh, openssh8.4, python-Django, python-Scrapy-doc, python311-Brotli, squid, tomcat10, and weblate), and

Naturally

The most downloaded country song is by an AI.

Or Not

Says here the AI bubble will burst. Geoffrey Hinton, Big AI's Cassandra, says otherwise.

As a devout window-sitter on planes, SeatGuru was a must-have for avoiding misaligned or absent windows on booked flights. But now it’s gone, because its owner, Tripadvisor, failed to keep it fresh.

I…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.8 and 6.12.58 stable kernels. Each contains an important set of fixes. Users are advised to upgrade.

The Google Security Blog has a new post on just how well the use of Rust is working out for the Android project.

We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C and C++ code. But the biggest…