Mark Ingram

Samsung users: notice anything new since the One UI update? Google just hardwired itself onto your home screen. Even if you chose DuckDuckGo.

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Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

Rob McElhenney from Always Sunny explains how anyone can have his jacked body.

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

You should be fascinated hitting the power button on your computer.

 Every boot on an x86 machine iterates through the entire sequence of computing evolution in a few milliseconds:

This is genuinely a great umbrella (I’m in the UK, umbrellas are an essential item). Responsibly manufactured, looks cool, stops your head getting wet, what’s not to like?!

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My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.

Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.

Sarah Wynn-Williams once again was forced to sit in silence. If you're thinking of seeing The Social Reckoning this weekend (& you should!), there's no starker reminder of its authoritarian power than what it's doing to Sarah Wynn-Williams. And kudos to Frances Haugen for pointing it out. 5/

NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...

If AI does everything, what are VCs investing in? If no humans work, who is buying anything? Where does capital come from? 🤔

You know what’s harder than performance optimization? …Deoptimization. It’s a pretty fun concept you use every day without realizing it. The *only* reason modern dynamic languages can “fly so close to the sun” is because they have a safety-net when they over optimize.

I recently heard someone describe NIN as inverse Rick Astley. I will give you up I will let you down I will run around and desert you I will make you cry I will say goodbye I will tell a lie and hurt you

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

New idea for a slide at company presentation next week…

You shouldn't need to sacrifice your privacy to use the internet, AI included. Read more about our AI Privacy survey results on our blog: spreadprivacy.com/ai-privacy-s...

People with kids are 2x as likely to tell AI something they’ve never told a therapist, doctor or close friend. 🤔 We talked to parents and caregivers in the wild to understand why 👇

AI is convinced I’m from Mexico:

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

Duck Tales 🎬 A behind-the-scenes look at DuckDuckGo Ep.43: Delight, Discovery, and Dependability: we call these "the three Ds". Our Founder and Chief Product Officer discuss how they shape our work. Full episode: insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales... | 'Inside DuckDuckGo' on Spotify

hiring for a product manager for dsl language design and its associated sdk. how do you interview for that? what do you ask someone about language design? and if you can tell me that, please also give me your cv and apply for the role thank you

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

Turns out application security isn't rocket science. It's learnable. It's not only for people who hacked since they were 13. We've already been doing pieces of it, we just called them "bugs" instead of "vulns" 🐛 New course with @halle.bsky.social, first cohort Oct 12 www.driyourcareer.com/security

QuakeCon 2026 was such an amazing time! Here's a few pics of me, @thattomhall.bsky.social, Adrian, and John, Hugo, and @andrewhulshult.bsky.social. I love the one with Miss Donna. It was so good to see her.

Shots fired. openai.com/index/our-de... "We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts."

UK transit nerds are next level.

Happy to see DDG got it pretty quickly ("Hey, so glad you could make it")

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Finally a machine that helps me remember to look at interesting things taking place in my line of vision

Are you tired of having to double take everything you see online because it might be fake AI slop? Get ready to double take your own photos because they may be fake AI slop.

AI slop isn't dead! https://hackerone.com/reports/3938185

This morning the website of Parliament’s standards commissioner has been updated to confirm that his investigation is no longer suspended

It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.

the Surface Phone that Microsoft was working on more than a decade ago has… surfaced. RIP Windows Phone www.windowscentral.com/hardware/sur...

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

On Diablo 3 we incorporated all of this (plus the seed for the dungeon) into the metadata when taking screenshots. You could have a folder of screenshots and drag the one you wanted into the editor to load into that exact state. Was intended for bug repro, but amazing for productivity in general.

People know that I care about performance, especially since we've almost collectively forgotten how fast our machines actually are (except for a few people that *do* care - you know who you are). This now sits at 720ms in a master build. Thread with optimizations:

I like how "Explicitly. Out loud." is emphasized here - being seen as strategic is somewhat what you do, but often more about what you are seen to be doing. Which unfortunately does mean you have to talk about what you are doing, and why it is important. kieransnyder.kit.com/posts/be-mor...

There are some things which don’t require AI, such as crossing the street. That’s why we’re releasing Normal F***ing Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @knockaround.bsky.social. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)