Links tagged “wtc”

anthropic.com

A model finds an improved attack on the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme, and a novel approach against reduced-round AES.

gruhn.me

This week most notable/valuable content (and it’s short and readable, under 2 minutes): Don't be a meat proxy.

john.fun

How elevator dispatch algorithms work, from the simple LOOK approach to the destination-dispatch systems that cut waiting.

victoriametrics.com

run the new features right in the page.

bottlenecklabs.com

it lied, spammed, and lost $447.

arxiv.org

writing more rules does not make an agent follow them.

lockwood.dev

a measured progress report on an AI-assisted port.

github.com

one of Rust's 2026 language-design goals, from the source.

quantamagazine.org

Quanta on models reaching answers by odd paths.

sf.isopolis.city

An interactive map of San Francisco neighbourhoods drawn from OpenStreetMap and DataSF boundaries.

en.andros.dev

assemble a mail stack from protocols that already exist.

brandur.org

clone a template database per test for fast, isolated Postgres tests.

gregoryszorc.com

self-contained, portable Python builds, the brick under uv and pyenv.

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Matthew Green weighs the key-recovery attack on HAWK and the reduced-round AES result against what each actually implies for deployed cryptography.

research.jfrog.com

Six SQLite CVEs published on GitHub turn out to be fabricated: the code they cite does not exist and the proofs of concept do not run.

blog.modelcontextprotocol.io

the new spec drops required session state from the transport.

martinfowler.com

Fowler puts numbers on why cleaning up code pays for itself.

fermisense.com

A reinforcement-learning fine-tune of a 9B open model beats every frontier configuration tested on a catalog-review workflow, at 40x less cost than the cheapest.

earendil.com

inference APIs make session state non-portable, and that is lock-in.

github.com

run Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB of RAM on any M-series Mac.