What a Month-Long TFTP Honeypot Reveals About Internet Scanners
A TFTP honeypot running on a cheap VPS logs mostly infosec company probes, not attackers. Here's what they're after.
Jul 13, 2026
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El Niño Data Breaks the Chart — Here’s What That Means for Engineers
Sea-surface temperature readings in the Niño 3.4 region have left the historical envelope. This isn't a model — it's observed data, and its implications for infrastructure, food systems, and climate resilience are massive.
Jul 13, 2026· Gregory Andrews
Cloudflare Precursor: Continuous Client-Side Bot Detection
Cloudflare launches Precursor, a session-based bot detection system that continuously analyzes client-side behavior signals to distinguish humans from automation across the entire user journey.
Jul 13, 2026· The Cloudflare Blog
Frieve Vinyl Explained: A Physics-Accurate Stylus/Groove Simulator
A deep-dive into a browser-based vinyl playback simulator that models the microscopic physics of stylus-groove interaction, from contact mechanics to tracing distortion and noise sources.
Jul 13, 2026· Frieve's Sound Toolbox
DIY Tutorial: How to Attach a Game Boy Camera to a Telescope
Chris Graue releases free 3D-printable schematics and a tutorial for connecting a Game Boy Camera to a telescope, enabling retro-tech astrophotography.
Jul 13, 2026· Engadget
Migrating a Production AI Agent to GPT-5.6: What Broke and How We Fixed It
Ploy's migration from Claude Opus to GPT-5.6 Sol reveals that model switching is far from plug-and-play — tool schemas, caching, and eval harnesses all need rework.
Jul 13, 2026· Ploy
Folk Computer: Programming Without the Rectangle
A hands-on look at Folk Computer, an open-source physical computing system that turns paper into executable programs, and the lineage of 'useless' research that made it possible.
Jul 12, 2026
Google Maps' Tiny Reroute Experiment Cut Traffic and Emissions City-Wide
Google Research published a real-world study showing that nudging less than 2% of trips away from congested segments improved city-wide driving speeds by ~0.5% during peak hours and cut fuel consumption, validating network-aware routing at scale.
Jul 12, 2026
Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola MR2600: Full Disclosure
A researcher details an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the Motorola MR2600 router, including a full exploit chain and authentication bypass. The router is end-of-life and unpatched.
Jul 12, 2026
Lisp Agents: Recursion, Homoiconicity, and the 100-Line Agent Loop
An engineer rediscovers Lisp's power for AI agents, building a recursive agent loop in 100 lines where the model writes its own tools via eval.
Jul 12, 2026
The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation
A 2012 paper calculates the energy cells must burn to compute ligand concentrations, linking Landauer's principle to biological information processing.
Jul 12, 2026· arXiv.org
Why Writing Code Still Matters in 2026
Even with AI agents writing most of our code, there's still value in writing code yourself. It sharpens thinking, reveals fragility, and maintains ownership.
Jul 12, 2026· Doug Turnbull's Blog