1. Codex for almost everything Total comment counts : 46 Summary error Overall Comments Summary Main point: Debate over Claude Desktop and Codex/Cowork as desktop automation agents for knowledge workers, weighing their capabilities, usability, and potential disruption. Concern: Main worry centers on security and sandboxing, privacy, and potential energy drain or performance impact, plus how these agents might disrupt traditional software workflows and vendors. Perspectives: Views range from enthusiastic expectations of mass adoption with a user-friendly GUI to skepticism about true control, onboarding hurdles, and competitive dynamics among labs and startups....

1. Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data Total comment counts : 39 Summary The article reports that Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate on a student visa, briefly joined a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. In 2025, ICE subpoenaed his Google data; Google handed it to DHS without giving him a chance to challenge, breaking a decade-long pledge to notify users before data disclosure. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed complaints with California and New York AGs accusing Google of deceptive trade practices....

1. Claude Code Routines Total comment counts : 41 Summary Create Claude Code routines to run on a schedule, via API calls, or on GitHub events using Anthropic cloud. To set up: open the creation form, name the routine, write the prompt, select repositories and environment, choose a trigger, review connectors, and create. Edit later to add an API trigger (copy URL, generate a token, call the endpoint). Then add a GitHub event trigger, install the Claude GitHub App, and configure the trigger....

1. Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them Total comment counts : 21 Summary Last week I reported a supply-chain attack on Widget Logic; now a larger two-week wave hit Countdown Timer Ultimate. The plugin’s wpos-analytics module phoned home to analytics.essentialplugin.com, downloaded a backdoor wp-comments-posts.php, and injected PHP into wp-config.php, with the payload fetched from a C2 server resolved through an Ethereum smart contract, making takedowns ineffective....

1. The peril of laziness lost Total comment counts : 3 Summary Larry Wall’s three virtues—laziness, impatience, hubris—argue that good software design requires careful abstraction. Laziness, paradoxically, drives us to create simple yet powerful abstractions that future users can reuse; true laziness means hard thinking now to save time later. The rise of non-programmers and the brogrammer ethos, amplified by LLMs, threatens this ethos: LLMs lack the incentive to optimize future effort and tend to produce bloated artifacts....

1. Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found Total comment counts : 48 Summary AISLE tested Anthropic Mythos’ security claims on small open-weight models and found they captured much of the same analysis. Mythos can autonomously find vulnerability chains and exploits, but effectiveness is task-dependent; eight models detected the FreeBSD exploit, and a 5.1B-parameter open model recovered the 27-year OpenBSD bug. In basic security reasoning, small models often outperformed frontier models....

1. 1D Chess Total comment counts : 45 Summary 1d-chess is a one-dimensional chess variant played white against an AI. It uses a single line and aims to checkmate the enemy king. There are three piece types: a king-like piece moving one square; a jumping piece moving two squares forward or backward; and a rook-like piece moving any number of squares in a straight line. A sample line suggests a forced white win with optimal play: N4 N5, N6 K7, R4 K6, R2 K7, R5++....

1. Native Instant Space Switching on macOS Total comment counts : 13 Summary The article argues MacOS makes instant space switching painful due to a persistent animation. Common fixes fall short: Reduce Motion is ineffective; yabai requires disabling SIP and clashes with PaperWM.spoon; third-party space managers are non-native; BetterTouchTool is paid. The author endorses InstantSpaceSwitcher by jurplel on GitHub as the best solution: it needs no SIP changes, simulates a fast trackpad swipe, and offers a CLI to jump to a space....

1. I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii Total comment counts : 60 Summary An enthusiast ports Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to Nintendo Wii by building a custom bootloader and patching the kernel and drivers. The Wii’s PowerPC 750CL CPU and 88 MB RAM (24 MB MEM1 + 64 MB MEM2) are enough for Cheetah, tested with 64 MB in QEMU. OS X’s Darwin/XNU core (open-source) can run if the open-source portions function, leaving closed-source components to operate....

1. Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era Total comment counts : 50 Summary Project Glasswing, formed to counter AI-enabled cybersecurity threats, leverages Anthropic’s Claude Mythos2 Preview—a frontier model that can read, reason about code, and identify/exploit vulnerabilities. It has identified thousands of high-severity and zero-day vulnerabilities in major OSes and browsers. The program will use Mythos Preview defensively, with launch partners and 40+ organizations scanning first-party and open-source software....