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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-05-23.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Google's AI Search rollout is breaking basic queries, completely failing to define words like "disregard" and leaving users with a massive blank space.
▸ • Anthropic's Claude Mythos model is finding zero-day vulnerabilities faster than developers can patch them, uncovering over 10,000 flaws in a single month.
▸ • The NTSB was forced to shut down its public database after internet sleuths used AI to reconstruct dead pilots' voices from crash spectrograms.
Google's new AI Overviews are struggling with the basics. Searching for words like "disregard" or "ignore" now returns a massive blank space and a confused AI summary instead of a simple dictionary snippet. It's a bold strategy to just disregard the user's query entirely.
Project Glasswing is yielding terrifyingly good results. Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model found over 10,000 zero-day vulnerabilities in a month, including a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD. The AI is now discovering critical bugs faster than human developers can actually patch them.
The NTSB temporarily pulled its public docket system offline after internet sleuths did the unthinkable. Using AI models, users managed to reconstruct the cockpit audio of a fatal UPS crash from a published PDF spectrogram, bypassing federal laws that protect pilot privacy.
Google's new "anything-to-anything" AI model is out in the wild. To test its capabilities, The Verge used it to deepfake a kid's stuffed deer, making it look like the plush toy went on a lavish vacation. The future of AI is apparently just highly produced toy propaganda.
Apple just published a fascinating blueprint on how they use formal verification for their post-quantum cryptography algorithms (ML-KEM and ML-DSA). They translate their C code into a language called Cryptol, then into Isabelle, to mathematically prove correctness against NIST specifications. It's a masterclass in high-assurance security engineering.
Ruby's object model looks elegant from the outside, but under the hood, it's a wild ride of C-level machinery. This deep dive explores how MRI/CRuby actually implements `include`, `prepend`, and method lookups. Spoiler alert: inheritance is literally just a linked list of internal structures.
KanBots v1.0 is a new open-source desktop app that runs parallel AI agents (Claude Code or Codex) on every card. Each agent gets its own git worktree, and you can set them on autopilot to split tasks and review each other's work while you sleep.
Because someone had to do it, Rubish is a Unix shell written entirely in pure Ruby. It's the kind of mad scientist project that we can't help but respect, even if we wouldn't dare run our production servers on it.
A great technical look at the engineering behind Warp's agentic terminal. The piece explains how they solved the "fuzzy diff problem" and built an action-result architecture to finally give the 50-year-old terminal a brain.
In a beautiful twist of irony, law enforcement successfully intercepted traffic, seized domains, and arrested the operator of a VPN service where criminals "believed themselves to be safe." Turns out, the police can do a little hacking, too.
Despite Elon Musk's best efforts to push his "truth-seeking" AI, a new report shows Grok is barely making a dent in federal AI usage records. It seems the government isn't quite ready for a chatbot with a built-in edge-lord persona.