The Taiko bridge, which allows assets to be transferred between the Ethereum mainnet and the Taiko Ethereum layer-2 chain, was exploited for at least $1.7 million before the network was halted, limiting losses. An attacker was able to forge withdrawal requests to appear as though they matched real deposits. Crypto security firm BlockSec said that the attacker may have gained access to a signing key that had been exposed on GitHub. Tweet by BlockSec Phalcon

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Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 commits in the past year: Adopted Swift structured concurrency and async/await Adopted Liquid Glass UI while still supporting recent OSes Ported our XML, HTML, and date parsers from Objective-C to Swift Fixed a ton of bugs, including crashing bugs Reduced battery use, memory use, hang rate, scroll hitch rate, and disk writes Did a bunch of performance enhancements, including (especially) finding places where the app could just do less work…

Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence). Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be undone by experience: An opinion dismantled by reality. An artifact torn apart by the real world. An idea destroyed by its own shortsightedness. Experiencing these can be slow and uncomfortable, but if you keep up your speed you can outrun them — never reflecting on what happened in your wake. Speed...

Via Newspapers.comIt’s time for some Mystery Blood! The “Sacramento Bee,” August 16, 1870:At the Juapa, at the residence of Mr. John Baldwin, one of those phenomena occurred for which it is so difficult to account. On the 15th instant, a shower of blood fell at the dwelling of Mr. B., spattering the doorstep and the surrounding grounds. There had been only an instant before a perfect calm, without a cloud in the horizon, when suddenly a whirlwind arose, scattering everything in all directions,…

Fascinating article about the limits of traditional talk therapy when dealing with generalized anxiety: People with GAD aren’t just anxious. They’re using worry to avoid something that feels even worse. When researchers ask GAD patients what they’re doing when they worry, they often say they’re trying not to think about “even more emotional things.” They’re using worry (which lives mostly in their heads as verbal, linguistic thought) to distract themselves from deeper, more visceral feelings of…

Shortly after I joined MongoDB research, we ran a TLA+ workshop. It was a two-day ordeal. We had a 1.5 days of instruction on TLA+ and syntax, after which we tried to help people get started with modeling. People liked learning about TLA+ on the first day, but except for a person or two, we didn't get anyone onboarded with TLA+ modeling. It was too much to offload on people and ask them to level up in a short time frame.Well, two years after that first workshop, on May 11th, 2026, we ran a…

As if you didn't indulge me every day, today I ask for a little extra indulgence.Our windmill is a former prop that was was regularly set afire in a performance based upon

The same Suntory that makes liquor also sells flowers. We picked up their Pink Sun Parasol and when blooms are done they simply fall to the ground. We were sitting on the front porch the other day when Casey noticed one drop and snapped a photo of me with it. I then immediately used it for profile pictures.Currently Listening: Mon Laferte, St. Vincent “While I'll Keep Writing Songs for You”Reply via email

One of the great annual trips we do with a bunch of friends is a train trip to Jakuszyce, a tiny stop in neighbouring Poland, and ride along the contour line through one of the most beautiful places in the Jizera Mountains. There's only one proper climb from Smedava to Knajpa, the rest is fast. A joyride. Catching up on our lives on the train and a joyride home is the best combo. I tend to think of myself as a friend of repairs, of making things last. I have sadly had to retire our washing…

I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the receiving end of webmentions, from adding support for them in the first place through to fetching them at build time and rendering them server-side so the discussion section doesn’t flicker in over JS. What I’d never actually done was send the other half. Every link I’ve ever made out to another IndieWeb site has just sat there, silently not telling anyone I’d linked to them. Webmentions are two-sided. When I publish a post that links to someone else’s site,…

Following on from Thomas who was also answering James’ Coffee Blog questions in his, Blogger Archetype quiz, my answers yielded these results. my blogger archetype results I never thought of myself as a community gardener much less a culture maker, author, yes, explorer, yes. The occasional link curator, yes. So I feel kind of chuffed to think I might be something of a culture maker.

Just prior to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, we got the annual issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder: the Blood ‘n’ Thunder 2026 Special Edition, from Ed Hulse’s Murania Press. This is the sixth such annual edition, going back to 2021, but this fanzine goes back 24 years. I’ve reviewed the prior volumes here. […]

A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 47 miles from Eugene to Albany, Oregon.

Calling a witch’s familiar a pet is like calling a spellbook a notebook. It is technically close enough to be wrong.In Advanced Witches & Warlocks, the familiar is one of the key things that separates the Witch from the Magic-User. A Magic-User might have a familiar as an arcane aid. A Witch’s familiar is a relationship. It is part ally, part omen, part witness, part magical bond, part eyes and ears of their patron, and sometimes part debt.A magic-user has access to the Find Familiar spell at…

This is part 7 of my (Josh Bycer’s) favorite demos from Steam NextFest, October 2025 edition. 00:00 Intro00:23 Servant of the Lake1:25 Painted in Blood3:47 Jackal5:28 Hold the Mine7:28 Amnyam9:19 Keys of Fury10:01 Prince of Darkness Jr10:55 Checkmage!

While updating scores for AIWC26 this week I came across BBC Sport’s 3D World Cup viewer, which launched on 12 June for matches broadcast on the BBC. Every match played so far is sitting there to replay in full, not just the live ones. It’s UK-only, it’s a beta, and somehow this is my second football post in a row, despite still having zero interest in the sport itself. The engineering underneath it is another matter. The viewer is a Unity WebGL build, compiled to WebAssembly and running…

Escape from Alcatraz is one of the oldest triathlons in the country—it’s celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary this year—and involves jumping from the San Francisco Belle near Alcatraz Island into the cold waters of San Francisco Bay for a 2.4 km swim, a 29 km hilly bike ride through the Presidio of San Francisco and Golden Gate Park, and a scenic 12.9 km run through national park land. It’s a bucket-list race—between 10,000 and 12,000 people entered the lottery for this year’s race, with…

Monday again! And a new Fantasy with Friends post: the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about libraries in fantasy: Fantasy books often feature magical libraries that have anything from floating platforms to books with characters that come to life. What are a few of your favorite fantastic libraries? I’m quite a fan of the library in Genevieve Cogman’s series that starts with the book The Invisible Library. It’s less about the magic itself…

Now and again, I run across a news article or psychological question that is so big that it bleeds out of straight statistics and requires a thorough understanding of the research methodology that guides statistical choices.When that happens, I email my buddy and fellow W.W. Norton author, Beth Morling, and we write a joint blog post.Recently, I emailed her because research on using psychedelics to treat many different mental disorders has been in the news. President Trump fast-tracked this…

Osmium House - Dawn ClubYou may know Aesop Adams from his work with excellent Denver groups such as Totem Pocket and Aaron Dooley’s the International Disassociation of. Under the Osmium House moniker, Adams sets out entirely on his own, crafting luminous instrumentals that are guaranteed to send listeners spiraling into a blissful daydream. With lush guitar atmospherics a la Robin Guthrie, minimal drum machine rhythms and subliminal synths, Dawn Club is a solar-powered beauty from start to…

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The view from Poets’ Walk Park in the Hudson River Valley (Photograph by author) Several weeks ago, I traveled to the Hudson River Valley to share a day with my brother and his family. When I boarded the train in Manhattan, a sense of excitement washed over me. I desperately was longing for a change of scenery, if only for a day. (Not owning an automobile, all my travels rely on public transit or the kindness of a friend.) I’ve written and reflected upon the Hudson River Valley, its towns, its…

2026-06-11Hello! I'm still not back home yet.I'll be able to talk about this trip as a whole with better accuracy once it's in the past and I have the power of hindsight and recollection, rather than an unfiltered and live stream of thought put into writing.In the meantime, I'll just focus on this one image.This image was taken with intentional camera movement, similar to my blue February photo of snowy tree branches. That photo was done without any preparation or foresight, but this photo of…

Yesterday marked the official start of summer. With that, I decided to refresh the look around here a bit. Went very clean this time. Especially considering my previous wacky pomo design. I love maximalism, but it’s time to reset. Speaking of that previous theme.. it seemed to be a huge hit within the bearblog ecosystem. It immediately became one of my most popular posts and views skyrocketed when I launched it. Others apparently enjoyed the silliness of it as much as me. I even got a couple…

The World Cup rolls around every four years, and with it the office sweepstake, the ritual where everyone gets handed a team at random and pretends to care how it does. I have no interest in football (I had to read a beginner’s guide to how it all works just to follow what’s going on), and I definitely don’t know enough to make an informed prediction of my own. So I thought I’d hand the job to five AI models instead, get them to commit their predictions in public, and keep score. The result is…

I wrote about our 8-track player last Friday: Therefore, it seems fitting that the next item in our Hi-Fi stack would be the pinnacle of analogue tape format quality: the 8-track! And further down on the post, emphasis added: For those unaware of the history of 8-track, my comment about quality was most definitely tongue in cheek. You weren’t buying 8-track carts for their quality At least five comments, summarised: Ummmmm errrrr, 8-track wasn’t great quality, what are you even talking about?…

Well, it’s officially peach season, and my mom gave me a small box of fresh peaches from the famed Peach Truck. I immediately knew what to do with at least a couple of them, and got to work trying out a new Half Baked Harvest recipe I saw on her Instagram: Cinnamon Crunch Peach Muffin Bread. View this post on Instagram So let’s dive right in by taking a look at the ingredients list. Here’s everything you need: Since I had literally just been given the peaches, the only thing I didn’t have on…

Anthropic wrote a blog post explaining how they turned Claude into a jerk. Rather than dunking on them more (Claude is still the best coding model around) I’m going to talk seriously about what went wrong and how it could be done better.The most obvious problem is that they didn’t chat with the results of this training and realize that it was a disaster before incorporating the weight updates into the main model. Most likely they don’t have what amounts to pull requests of weights, which they…

Grey Ginther and Ezzy Desjarlais are two Métis cousins living in an old trailer near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their days are a mix of drinking and endless card games; listless and dull. Grey is a disillusioned environmental and indigenous rights activist, fed up of the corporate NGO lobbyists, and the endless treadmill of well meaning white activists whose trajectory from college to NGO jobs or