This is the meat of the headline:

For example, the Anthropic-claimed 181 Firefox exploits ran with the browser sandbox turned off and the FreeBSD exploit transcript “shows substantial human guidance, not autonomy.”

Additionally, the “‘thousands of severe vulnerabilities’ extrapolates from 198 manually reviewed reports. The Linux kernel bug was found by Opus 4.6, the public model, not Mythos,” Devansh said.

Another researcher, Davi Ottenheimer, pointed out that the security section (Section 3, pages 47-53) of Anthropic’s 244-page documentation “contains no count of zero-days at all. With no CVE list, no CVSS distribution, no severity bucket, no disclosure timeline, no vendor-confirmed-novel table, no false-positive rate.”

Ottenheimer likens it to “the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out.”

I think all these measures are designed to slow the flow, spread the storage of the rain across more places so it can cope with the larger downfall in the short-term, buying time for it all to flow away once it has passed.

There are similar ideas in UK with reintroduction of beavers who transform land into spongey floodplains that can tolerate much more rainfall before spilling over.

This is a more recent view:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/uk_palantir_contracts/

Speaking to MPs, science minister Patrick Vallance said that the government’s deals with Palantir – which has large contracts with the NHS and the Ministry of Defence – would be done differently in the future, instead emphasizing investment in UK technology and companies.

For example filesystems like btrfs can be very sensitive to errors in ram due to all the checksumming. On the positive side you’ll know about it fast!

Not used bacula myself, couldn’t say.

You might also want to keep an eye on vykar which is promising all the best bits from restic/borg:

https://github.com/borgbase/vykar

More than one it seems:

https://forum.typst.app/t/tinymist-vs-typst-vim-vs-typst-preview-nvim/1775/7

For restic:

1. Every backup is incremental after the first or rather restic makes no distinction because it chunks and dedups the data on the way in so if it’s already in the repo it doesn’t get stored twice.
2. Restic has customisable ‘forget’ cmd that can do whatever you want
3. Restic has filtering flags, you can use a gitignore style file also. Many people use a wrapper though like autorestic.
4. The ghost files are interesting. Restic has nothing special for this. A script that mirrored those files and wrote them all as 0 bytes which restic could then backup would be possible, this would work same for any backup tool.
5. You get that summary after every restic backup. You can also compare snapshots and mount them all to run your own analysis if you want.
6. Again if you mount a restic backup you have access to every file and snapshot taken in the repo. You could compare or diff them using usual tools.
7. There is a ‘exclude-if-present’ option where you can say if a file with the name of your choosing is present do not backup that dir etc

Rick Astley’s birthday is 6th Feb 1966, just saying

I like your thought so I wondered if there is a site to help people pick a distro and found this:

https://distrochooser.de/

For a windows gamer type of person it came up with Linux Mint

https://distrochooser.de/en/d59f9b3e7b9b/

…at the top of a long list of other choices. Not bad!

NY is next

New York Senate Bill S8102A goes further. It “requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance” to check all users’ ages, and provide this info to “all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications” – as well as app stores.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/os_age_verification/

At 5mbps it should take about 1 hour for 2GB. It sounds like your actual speed is 2-3x lower. Can you take that up with your ISP? Are you certain your machine has the best connection within your control, i.e. directly wired into the router? Network equipment is not faulty? Have you tested with iperf within your network? Just in case there’s another issue beside the slow external speed…

Another thing that springs to mind is to use a backup tool like restic that will not only compress but deduplicate your data into hundreds of small files that might make upload faster. Dedup can save significant space and you can try it out locally first. Just do restic init then restic backup PATH.

Restic can use rclone as a backend also and upload straight to google: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services

Finally there’s sometimes nothing faster than physically moving data. A person jogging with a 100gb drive has great bandwidth! Is there a location with better internet within reach? A library or school perhaps?

I think he would agree with you that many don’t have good choices

He said the food available on high streets in places like Wigan or Blackpool was “completely different” to equivalent towns in France and it was not the fault of people living there when presented with “wall to wall” junk food.

Bought during process of administration though, seems important but not in the headline. What a mess:

The way in which senior management have conducted themselves throughout this sales process has been nothing short of a national disgrace

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-media-endorsements-guidance-for-content-creators/social-media-endorsements-being-transparent-with-your-followers

I’m not an expert but from this link it would appear to be covered by either the asa or the cma.

More here and new law since 2025 looks to be tougher:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/reviews-and-social-media-endorsements-what-businesses-and-content-creators-must-know

https://www.asa.org.uk/about-asa-and-cap/the-work-we-do/what-we-cover.html

They do already don’t they? There are some caveats but broadly speaking it seems you can complain to them.

https://strudel.cc/

What can you do with Strudel?

• live code music: make music with code in real time
• algorithmic composition: compose music using tidal’s unique approach to pattern manipulation

Interesting, some effort required to keep it on track:

Claude can be very persistent when it really wants to do something. I’ve seen Claude run the contents of a make command when make itself is blocked, or write a Python script to edit a file it’s been told it can’t edit. But hooks at least offer better enforcement than prompting alone.

There was a moment in time where maybe it was qmail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail

Ten years after the launch of qmail 1.0, and at a time when more than a million of the Internet’s SMTP servers ran either qmail or netqmail, only four known bugs had been found in the qmail 1.0 releases, and no security issues.

More on how it was accomplished:

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/17/some-thoughts-on-security-after-ten-years-of-qmail-1-0/

Wow that’s bad. The original idea of standing up, I understand, was to keep the meeting short through physical discomfort and only speak of blockers to progress or ask for help. It is not meant to report status, which can make people feel like they have to continually justify themselves and their work.

nmcli to support wireguard peers, nice