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March 16, 2026

March 16, 2026

Honey, wake up, the best hot take on AI just dropped. https://t.co/Wg80zBR59e

— John Hultquist (@JohnHultquist) March 16, 2026


POV: You use Codex to analyze a repository downloaded from GitHub, and the moment you open it, you get hacked without even realizing it. https://t.co/iNqfQy0Wfn

— itewqq (@lyq_sqsp) March 16, 2026


(S)AGE: Persistent encrypted memory for AI that runs locally https://t.co/GtTYIeM1bK via @producthunt #sage

— l33tdawg (@l33tdawg) March 13, 2026

https://www.producthunt.com/products/s-age?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social


You do not need to crack NATO's systems if you can just text someone's old boss and ask nicely. The attackers focus on people who work in politics, the military, intelligence, or diplomacy, as well as journalists who cover security, defence, Russia, or Ukraine, lawyers or… https://t.co/fjBBxoe4RG

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) March 15, 2026


Omg Pride and Prejudice. https://t.co/jqSZmEHrtf

— Fanbact✰™ (@ywnbact) March 15, 2026


I’m going to keep harping on this. Meta’s push to remove encryption and lobby for age verification laws feel like two sides of a very ominous coin. https://t.co/LhsT2fUs30

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) March 14, 2026


Laying off 15% of my Claude code agents due to AI

— Arthur Spirling (@arthur_spirling) March 15, 2026


There will be no WW3.

They've abandoned numbered releases and switched to a live service model with seasonal events.

— Klara (@klara_sjo) March 16, 2026


😂 he’s complaining about the low ROI on bribing Kushner https://t.co/Uqbkz5w2Mf

— Sid Prabhu (@sidprabhu) March 15, 2026


10+ CVEs in GStreamer https://t.co/T8xFjtYtze
a dependency of the tracker-extract package, which GNOME uses to automatically parse metadata in new files. Among other things, this service indexes all files in the user's home directory without any user interaction.

— Open Source Security mailing list (@oss_security) March 16, 2026

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/16/2


This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion… https://t.co/2bq79w6tUR

— Mark Gadala-Maria (@markgadala) March 15, 2026


Russians will now need a license from the FSB to use VPN services, said Andrey Svintsov, the deputy chairman of the State Duma's Committee on Information Policy.

— Kyiv Insider (@KyivInsider) March 13, 2026


NEW: The story behind how the CIA turned to an old friend—a longtime Chevron executive and Delcy Rodriguez fan—for advice on who should run post-Maduro Venezuela.

This one is worth your time (with @joel_schectman @cmatthews9) https://t.co/qbvbG0KG2e

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) March 15, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/chevron-venezuela-cia-moshiri-c88670fc?st=RrJmwM&reflink=article_copyURL_share


Between 2006 and 2026, the IEDs learned how to (a) fly and (b) see. Which is exactly as terrifying and cyberpunk as it sounds. https://t.co/jZ8Wtt2V1A

— Marko Jukic (@mmjukic) March 15, 2026


"... he doesn't know that the information conveyed to him about Mojtaba Khamenei matters".

Another reminder that US intelligence assessments of the Iranian regime don't really matter. Donald believes what he wants to believe. https://t.co/1rgOS1XYNe

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) March 15, 2026


https://t.co/kLmAe596oN pic.twitter.com/iRg1By7wlO

— Joe (@JoePostingg) March 14, 2026


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— depths of wikipedia! (@depthsofwiki) March 15, 2026


Thank you! It is great honor that method from Poland has became the basic language of computers/smartphones/AI, saving storage/time/energy for everybody.https://t.co/Rk6KHiBzcX pic.twitter.com/VrsA6SIL3n

— Jarek Duda (@duda_jarek) March 15, 2026

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems


The whole world needs to know about this! Seriously. We all know JPG (or JPEG), the digital format that shrunk file sizes and changed how we store photos forever. It’s the reason the world fell in love with sharing images. But now, it’s being replaced by JPEG XL. And it’s time… pic.twitter.com/Ypi1uSKhkN

— Maciej Kawecki - This Is IT (@kawecki_maciej) March 15, 2026


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— toe, lover (@carobunga) March 14, 2026


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