Bitcoin’s big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement’s secret weapon

At the 2025 Bitwarden Open Source Security Summit, WIRED’s Andy Greenberg sat down for a fireside chat with GigaOm analyst Paul Stringfellow to discuss a revelation that turned his decades-long reporting on its head: Bitcoin became a criminal’s worst nightmare. In 2011, Greenberg thought he’d discovered the story of a lifetime: digital cash that promised […]
Large integer precision error in Bash command output rendering

Claude Code incorrectly displays large integers in bash command output, showing a different value than what was actually output by the command. Steps to Reproduce Run the following command in Claude Code: echo ‘348555896224571969’ Or with jq: echo ‘{“value”: 348555896224571969}’ | jq -c .value Expected Behavior Claude Code should display: 348555896224571969 Actual Behavior Claude Code […]
My dad could still be alive, but he’s not

11 Nov, 2025 cw: death dad died this summer, from his first heart attack, barely a week after his 57th birthday. i get the first call at 11:30pm from mom, who lived in toronto with him and my brother. she says to not worry, but dad’s in the hospital, and i should plan to visit […]
Temporal Dithering of NeoPixels on an ATtiny412
So, I had the thought, wouldn’t it be neat to have a physical version of the neurodiversity rainbow infinity symbol? Like a little animated thingy that could decorate your desk or maybe be worn as a badge. I couldn’t find anyone who had created such a thing yet, so I did it myself. If you […]
Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification

We recently announced new developer verification requirements, which serve as an additional layer of defense in our ongoing effort to keep Android users safe. We know that security works best when it accounts for the diverse ways people use our tools. This is why we announced this change early: to gather input and ensure our […]
New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

In the mid-19th century, the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau — who had been designing and conducting scientific experiments since he was a child — submerged loops of wire in a soapy solution and studied the films that formed. When he bent his wire into a circular ring, a soap film stretched across it, creating a […]
Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026

For the first time in humanity’s long history, a human-made object will soon be a full light-day away from our home planet. Space, as they say, is pretty big, and human-made objects are slow. The record speed any human has ever traveled was set by Apollo 10 back in 1969, and has not been broken […]
Valve is about to win the console generation

Published on 2025-11-12, 1602 words, 6 minutes to read Valve does nothing and still wins Today was a big day for gamers as Valve just introduced three products: the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and the Steam Frame. When you add this alongside the Steam Deck, I think it’s safe to say that Valve is […]
Marble: A Multimodal World Model

Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI, demanding powerful world models to realize its full potential. World models should reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds; and allow both humans and agents to interact with them. Spatially intelligent world models will transform a wide variety of industries over the coming years. Two months ago we […]
Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

Verification Provide a detailed description of the proposed feature –no-quarantine is used to forcibly bypass Gatekeeper, which is a built-in macOS security mechanism. This is used to run unsigned/unnotarized applications. macOS Tahoe is the final release to support Intel systems, and last year Apple updated macOS runtime protection to make it harder to override Gatekeeper. […]