Stephan Somogyi

The invincible airplane

Happy Okinawa Soba Day! okinawa-soba.com/okinawa-soba...

WE WILL RISE AGAIN won the Ignyte!! I'm so grateful for the little community that made this anthology real: the authors, our agents, & our amazing editor Sareena Kamath. And of course my magnificent co-editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social 💕🚀🥹

Every two years, Japan recognizes excellence in packaging design. Here are the winners for 2027: spoon-tamago.com/japan-2027-p...

325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

Downgrade some movies: Blade Walker Inferring Nemo The Magician's Apprentice Of Oz Smouldering Saddles Who Impugned Roger Rabbit

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

Enjoying @househouse.com & aksfx's Big Walk music & am convinced that at least one of the composers listened to a fair bit of Geinoh Yamashirogumi somewhere along the way. Good stuff.

OpenSSH 10.5 has just been released, mostly to fix a handful of security vulnerabilities. www.openssh.org/releasenotes... We plan to move to a more frequent release schedule for as long as this season of LLM-found bugs lasts. More details in the release notes.

It even includes ASCII art!

Bernstein's main achievements, by decade: 1990s: Bernstein v. United States 2000s: ChaCha20, Poly1305, Curve25519, Ed25519 2010s: SPHINCS 2020s: sabotaging the post-quantum transition This is so f***ing frustrating. And sad. But mostly frustrating.

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Our new game about walking and talking comes out August 4 on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5. Hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world.

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

The future was way cooler when it looked like this

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

Some yrs ago there were several UK marketimentaries that included Lego's existential crisis, and also wound up explaining clearly how IP-related dynamics were both the cause of the near-annihilation and of the resurgence. Lego is culturally, anthropologically, and economically complicated.

As a not-infrequent sharer over the last decade, I'm still amazed at how prescient this work was, and is. Congrats @liquidcity.bsky.social !

Slightly increase a band Ezra Union Massive Offensive MC 901 Ft Jesus Miso Ultra Style Government TODDLERMETAL Voodoo Light Skulls

From 2017: a story about rubber ducking.

Big changes to Android and Chrome VRP: - focus on high-impact, reproducible bugs with low/no reward for lower impact - big prizes for full chains with some annual limits - PoCs required It’s the end of an era, but the start of a new one. bughunters.google.com/blog/evolvin...

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Most sessions from this year's Open Source Cryptography Workshop last month in Taipei are now posted on the Internet Archive. You can find them, and photos, on the workshop's site: oscwork.shop/2026 #rwc2026 #rwc #oscw2026 #oscw

Exactly this

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

Škoda's DuoBell is designed to avoid collisions between cyclists and pedestrians preoccupied by their podcasts. www.wired.com/story/skoda-...

Refreshed gift link www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Hall of fame FT correction

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

Pls help spread the word: "Scholarships are open to investigative reporters & editors living & working in Africa, Latin America (Central & S. America & the Caribbean), and Asia." journalism.columbia.edu/summer-inves... (And, yes, I'll be teaching the Reasoning About Risk & Security session.)

Excited that my grad student @shreyasminocha.me's work on Age Verification has been accepted to IEEE S&P! You can read about it in Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... Preprint: mikespecter.com/assets/pdf/A...

Telebit Trailblazer

In its continued commitment to ethics, security and public trust, CJS has named Anika Collier Navaroli, ’13 M.S., the Craig Newmark (@craignewmark.bsky.social) Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security.

For Tokyu Hands 50th anniversary, illustrator Enya Honami created a new cross-sectional floor guide. Check it out if you’re in Shibuya:

AI coding is an earthquake for software security. Not a tremor. The kind that liquefies the ground beneath your feet. We're mid-shake and most people are still debating if it's real. 🔗 github.blog/news-insight...

Enthusiastically recommend this PZ blog post for anyone pondering tech risk in the real world. It's full of dry understatement like "Gaps in vendors’ understanding of their attack surface is a common source of 0-click vulnerabilities" & spotlights miscellaneous misaligned industry incentives.

The image we’ve all been waiting for. It is now officially 2026 in Tokyo 🎉

We have all been S-tier rickrolled Absolutely extraordinary commitment to the bit H/T @riana.bsky.social

Attestation, What It Really Proves and Why Everyone Is About to Care unmitigatedrisk.com?p=1114

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard