Elect.horse Turns Gerrymandering Into a Daily Puzzle
Elect.horse is a gerrymandering puzzle: players redraw electoral districts on a hex grid to win the most seats for the Horse. The trick is packing rival voters into a few districts and cracking the rest, with daily, Expert, and Unlimited modes. — elect.horse
Skyreader Exposes Private Feeds on Bluesky
Skyreader, a Bluesky feed reader, publishes every feed a user subscribes to in an open data record on the AT Protocol. A network search exposed more than 1,300 feeds, including private and paywalled ones, without authentication. — melaniekat.com
Event Horizon Telescope Images Black Holes
By linking radio telescopes across the globe, the Event Horizon Telescope produced the first images of black holes' shadows and confirmed that the shadows have exactly the predicted size. The team now aims to turn those images into movies of black holes. — quantamagazine.org
LLM @-Invocation Is Not Independent Evidence
An LLM invoked in a discussion can seem like a neutral third party, but its response is often correlated with views already in play, so updating on it as independent evidence double-counts information. The useful update is what the model found, not which side it took. — lesswrong.com
Azure API Connections Had Five Critical Flaws
Five critical vulnerabilities in Azure API Connections let an attacker fully compromise connections across tenants, reaching cloud databases and secret stores. Microsoft fixed the flaws after the researcher reported them. — binarysecurity.no