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2026-04-30

• 10:05 UTC Amazon Connect Talent vs. bias law – Amazon Connect Talent vs. bias law Excellent post from Corey Quinn, which I agree with 100%: Amazon Connect Talent was just announced. It conducts AI-powered conversational interviews with candidates, generates "anonymized competency scores," and surfaces ranked candidates to recruiters who "make the call." Fun fact: in New York City, that is an Automated Employment Decision Tool under Local Law 144. AEDTs require an annual independent bias audit with publicly posted results, plus at least ten business days of notice to candidates before use. Illinois, Colorado, and the EU AI Act impose adjacent obligations. The launch materials mention none of this. The compliance posture appears to be: candidate names are stripped from recruiter dashboards, therefore bias is solved. That is not how any of this works. Proxies for protected class -- speech patterns, zip codes, education history, the resume already sitting in your ATS -- are exactly what bias audits exist to measure. I don't think the product is bad. I think the announcement is conspicuously missing the guidance customers need before they can deploy it in NYC without violating Local Law 144 on day one. (The day's other news so far: Amazon Connect now ships as a four-SKU family, and there is a new design philosophy called "humorphism" with its own .com. Both feel small next to the above.) If you're selling automated hiring decisions in 2026, the bias-audit conversation belongs in the launch. Tags: bias law amazon aws recruiting regulation automation ai
• 09:09 UTC Far-right narrative not the majority view in Ireland – Far-right narrative not the majority view in Ireland Here's the bad news: A report by the Hope and Courage Collective, which works to build resilience in communities against rising far-right hate and disinformation, has found a widening gap between public attitudes and political discourse [in the media]: a relatively small number of far-right actors disproportionately influence public political debate through online amplification, visible protests, and repeated narratives. Public attitudes are becoming steadily more inclusive, but political rhetoric risks legitimising scapegoating and that the far-right ... "is shaping the conversation". But on the other hand, these survey results are downright heartwarming: Year-on-year datasets tracking changes in public sentiment in Ireland between 2024 and 2025 show that 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, which is up 2% up from 64% in 2024. 79% believe working-class people are struggling due to systemic inequality which is also up 2% from 77% in 2024. Those who believe wealthy people are successful because they were given more opportunities than others has risen from 63% in 2024 to 69% in 2025. The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024. 80% agree that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities face greater barriers to success than white people, up 5% up from 75% in 2024. Tags: ireland discourse far-right right-wing politics surveys culture culture-wars propaganda disinformation

2026-04-28

• 09:21 UTC zizmor – zizmor "a static analysis tool for GitHub Actions. It can find and fix many common security issues in typical GitHub Actions CI/CD setups." Tags: lint dependencies github security ci-cd static-analysis zizmor

2026-04-27

• 11:44 UTC The fastest Linux timestamps – The fastest Linux timestamps lol -- "TL;DR: We can speed up timestamps on x86 Linux by 30% and maintain the same precision as the standard system clock by implementing our own timers without relying on vDSO. Almost nobody should do this" This is good info, I had to implement fast timestamps a few years back in Java and this would have been useful. Tags: time optimization performance linux libc speed clocks
• 08:51 UTC Frequent infections in nursery help toddlers build up immune systems – Frequent infections in nursery help toddlers build up immune systems The paper is "Germ factories or immune boot camps? Infection and immunity in childcare settings". tl;dr: Young children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don’t, but they will go on to have fewer illnesses during early school years. A typical one-year-old starting nursery will experience around 12–15 respiratory infections, two gastrointestinal illnesses (diarrhoea and vomiting), and one or two rash-causing infections in the first year alone – which will all have a substantial knock-on effect for working parents. Employers need to recognise that it’s normal for parents of young children to regularly need to take time off work to care for their children, and will also be more prone to getting sick themselves – but this will improve as the child ages. Children who attend nursery at a young age experience more infections from age one to five than those who remain at home until starting school – but then once they’ve started school, this pattern is reversed as children without prior childcare experience get sick more often. The paper is here: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/95b322b6-aef4-4b17-bf23-60aa7f5938b1 Tags: germs infection immunity immune-system children parenting childcare kindergarten kids diseases sickness
• 08:48 UTC New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper – Jeff Geerling – New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper - Jeff Geerling Not sure I'm at the point where I need a 10 gigabit ethernet USB adaptor, but this is good to have bookmarked Tags: ethernet usb networking hardware via:hn reviews 10gbe

2026-04-23

• 11:52 UTC Razor1911 – Razor1911 Legendary demo group Razor1911's eponymous demo, celebrating 40 years on the demoscene. Amazing stuff and extremely nostalgia-triggering for an old C=64 scenester like myself! (via dec23k) Tags: demos demoscene commodore-64 history nostalgia amiga razor1911

2026-04-21

• 09:14 UTC how a roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down vercel’s entire platform – how a roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down vercel's entire platform Damn, this is an absolute indictment of the state of security in AI tooling: February 2026. An employee at Context.ai, one of those AI productivity tools that promises to "supercharge your workflow," downloads a Roblox cheat. Not a sophisticated zero-day. Not a state-sponsored attack. A Roblox cheat. The download contains Lumma Stealer, an infostealer that grabs session cookies, credentials, everything. That employee had access to sensitive internal systems. March 2026. The attacker uses Context.ai's compromised infrastructure to pivot into a Vercel employee's Google Workspace account. This Vercel employee had signed up for Context.ai's "AI Office Suite" using their enterprise credentials and granted "Allow All" permissions. Let that sink in for a second. A Vercel engineer gave a third-party AI tool full access to their corporate Google account. April 19. Guillermo Rauch posts the thread confirming everything. Environment variables [...] were stored in plaintext. Accessed. Exfiltrated. tl;dr: Context.ai employees should not be using company devices to access Roblox cheats; exfiltratable environment variables should not be usable to access a customer's Google account. The scope of these credentials was obviously way too broad. This isn't just a Context.ai issue, this is systemic. Tags: security infosec credentials google context.ai roblox fail

2026-04-20

• 12:17 UTC Cooperative DCs – Cooperative DCs "A Future Vision of Data Centres: From Big Tech Builds to Community-Owned Cooperatives": in Belgium, Nubo Cooperative offers an email service, cloud storage, digital calendar and domain name, all run on local, Nubo-owned servers. When you purchase any of these services, you become a member of Nubo and can participate in decision-making as part of the cooperative. “This allows users to place trust in the structure that manages the services,” Nubo writes on its website. It compares this to a private company, where “the lack of transparency makes trust impossible”. The cooperative commits to allocating profits to achieve social objectives rather than using them to enrich shareholders. This is actually a very interesting idea... Tags: community datacenters cooperatives society nubo coops tech hosting cloud

2026-04-16

• 16:18 UTC Thoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up – Thoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up Good post on a classic C10K error scenario -- exhausting the ephemeral port range Tags: ports unix ops sysadmin c10k scaling bluesky outages

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