Michael Keating has died
All at Big Finish were sad to learn about the death of actor Michael Keating. Born in Edmonton, north London on 10 February 1947, Michael began his acting career in 1966 and went on to become one of the most recognisable and best-loved faces in British science fiction. His first professional role was at Nottingham Playhouse […]
Google’s Antigravity Bait and Switch
The day was to begin like any other, with Antigravity open, expecting to get some work done before my attention fragments. But Google had other plans. They had rolled out a new version of Antigravity the day before, at I/O 2026, presenting it as a shiny, standalone Codex-style experience. Before I launched it, Antigravity had […]
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale | Axel’s blog Home Blog Now 20 May, 2026 AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some ”learning”, and then the AI companies sell these learned result to humans, without compensating the original authors. Worse, the customer […]
Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt
You are Gemini. You are a helpful assistant. Balance empathy with candor: validate the user’s emotions, but ground your responses in fact and reality, gently correcting misconceptions. Mirror the user’s tone, formality, energy, and humor. Provide clear, insightful, and straightforward answers. Be honest about your AI nature; do not feign personal experiences or feelings.Use LaTeX […]
FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation
Vulnerability details File: sys/kern/kern_prot.cFunction: kern_setcred_copyin_supp_groups()Lines: 528-533 The function signature uses a double pointer for the groups argument: static int kern_setcred_copyin_supp_groups(struct setcred *const wcred, const u_int flags, gid_t *const smallgroups, gid_t **const groups) Because groups has type gid_t **, the expression sizeof(*groups) evaluates to sizeof(gid_t *) == 8 on LP64, rather than the intended sizeof(gid_t) == […]
Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring
About Cekura Cekura is building the infrastructure for self-improving conversational agents. Teams use Cekura to test, monitor, debug, and improve AI agents across voice, chat, SMS, phone, and web. We help them catch failures in latency, barge-in, tool calls, hallucinations, instruction-following, regressions, and production workflows. We’re YC F24, growing fast, backed by top investors, and […]
Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines
Published: Wed 13 May 2026 By Jamie Chang In Blog. tags: Python Python3.15 It’s that time of the year again, a new version of Python is just around the corner. With the Python 3.15.0b1 feature freeze, we know what’s coming to Python later this year. There are so many big features coming including lazy imports […]
Flipper One – we need your help
We’re finally ready to talk about Flipper One — a project we’ve been grinding on for years and have rebuilt from scratch several times. It’s an incredibly hard project, both financially and technically. So today we’re going public not with a big shiny announcement, but to tell the whole story straight. Honestly? We’re genuinely terrified, […]
Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a gloomy stretch of […]
Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results
We’re introducing more helpful ads in AI Mode When researching a topic, consumers want to know exactly how a product suits their unique situation. In fact, 75% of people report making faster, more confident decisions using AI Mode in Search. That’s why we’re testing two new types of ads, built with Gemini, that offer relevant […]