I’m deeply uncomfortable with Microsoft attempting to weaponise their extensive law enforcement contacts to arrest people who post zero days in the products.

It comes after the researcher was kicked off GitHub (owned by Microsoft), Gitlab (a Microsoft partner), after they were doxxed on Twitter and had their MSRC - Microsoft vulnerability reporting portal - account disabled.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/blog/2026/05/a-shared-responsibility-protecting-customers-through-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure

‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/27/witnessing-the-disappearance-of-indonesia-eternity-glaciers
Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining ‘eternal snow’ in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice

Dear site publishers, writing JavaScript that impedes people from copying text in order to share it, is stupid.

If you don’t like the dynamics that are intrinsic to publishing text in an open access document on the World Wide Web, then don’t publish it

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

this is the likely thumbnail for today's episode, still in progress

i have opened the S-1 and it's like a box of unearthly eldritch beings all of which are very stupid and trying to pick your pocket

cowriting this one with amy, she's written a fuckin blinder of an intro

it'll be good

Microsoft, who banned Nightmare-Eclipse from their GitHub platform, conveys their displeasure with said individual

Also manages to sprinkle in a few references to not using CVD as being not "responsible". (Microsoft was a big proponent of the term "responsible disclosure", which has gone by the wayside because it tends to favor vendor-centric perspective in a subjective and moralizing way.)

There's an unpatched RCE in Gogs after the project maintainers mysteriously stopped answering Rapid7 a month ago

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/ve-authenticated-rce-via-argument-injection-gogs-unfixed/

oh neat the pope said a cool thing again

hey before we all break our arms tugging off wokepope 2, can we make sure everybody knows about the catholic church suddenly ending lifesaving care for trans adults in all of their facilities across the US last year?

https://transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nightmare-the-human-toll-of-the-catholic-church-s-trans-healthcare-ban

these facilities account for 15% of all health care beds in the USA, and this ban makes the worst republican ban on the books look mild by comparison.

i dunno maybe we should ask pope moonbeam about That shit.

Using AI-generated imagery for your blog posts adds a lot!

- people will get rightfully angry with you
- it distracts from what you have to say
- you’ll get unfollowed and blocked
- you’ve wasted time, energy and probably money to shit on your own work

Nature is expanding Registered Reports across all fields in which it publishes—a move that advances science toward greater rigor and transparency, and helps broaden adoption of RR.

"This approach has many benefits. It strengthens a study’s methods, including data collection and analysis. Reviewers are more involved in the research process because they can make suggestions about the design and analyses."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01629-y

@evan Done 👍

There's been some talk about the price hikes for copilot and the cost of tokens actually worrying software company management, but how are things going for all the businesses now running their customer service through chat bots that get things wrong? Are they seeing a cost increase yet?

#llm #aiBubble

RE: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116651636522915964

They’re good emoji, Niki

@lowqualityfacts plot twist: this is true but about a different person also named Lance Armstrong

Brilliant, the youth is not completely lost.

😍

#ai #punk #GenAlpha

Big congratulations to our very first PhD graduate, Dr. Varun Rao, on successfully defending his dissertation today! 🎉
Varun has been an incredible part of the PrincetonHCI Lab, and we’re so proud to celebrate this milestone with him. Excited to see all the impactful work ahead!