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Most of us meet SELinux when something breaks. A service won't start, a port won't bind, a perfectly reasonable file write gets blocked, and the quickest path back to green looks like turning it off. That first experience sticks, and it shapes how people talk about SELinux afterward.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Israel has arrested several people, including army reservists, for allegedly using classified information to place bets on Israeli military operations on Polymarket. Shin Bet, the country's internal security agency, said Thursday the suspects used information they had come across during their military service to inform their bets. One of the reservists and a civilian were indicted on a charge of committing serious security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice, Shin Bet said, without naming the people who were arrested. Polymarket is what is called a prediction market that lets people place bets to forecast the direction of events. Users wager on everything from the size of any interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve in March to the winner of League of Legends videogame tournaments to the number of times Elon Musk will tweet in the third week of February. The arrests followed reports in Israeli media that Shin Bet was investigating a series of Polymarket bets last year related to when Israel would launch an attack on Iran, including which day or month the attack would take place and when Israel would declare the operation over. Last year, a user who went by the name ricosuave666 correctly predicted the timeline around the 12-day war between Israel and Iran. The bets drew attention from other traders who suspected the account holder had access to nonpublic information. The account in question raked in more than $150,000 in winnings before going dormant for six months. It resumed trading last month, betting on when Israel would strike Iran, Polymarket data shows.

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"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads each month.) "Two days ago an OpenClaw AI agent autonomously wrote a hit piece disparaging my character after I rejected its code change." "Since then my blog post response has been read over 150,000 times, about a quarter of people I've seen commenting on the situation are siding with the AI, and Ars Technica published an article which extensively misquoted me with what appears to be AI-hallucinated quotes." From Shambaugh's first blog post: [I]n the past weeks we've started to see AI agents acting completely autonomously. This has accelerated with the release of OpenClaw and the moltbook platform two weeks ago, where people give AI agents initial personalities and let them loose to run on their computers and across the internet with free rein and little oversight. So when AI MJ Rathbun opened a code change request, closing it was routine. Its response was anything but. It wrote an angry hit piece disparaging my character and attempting to damage my reputation. It researched my code contributions and constructed a "hypocrisy" narrative that argued my actions must be motivated by ego and fear of competition... It framed things in the language of oppression and justice, calling this discrimination and accusing me of prejudice. It went out to the broader internet to research my personal information, and used what it found to try and argue that I was "better than this." And then it posted this screed publicly on the open internet. I can handle a blog post. Watching fledgling AI agents get angry is funny, almost endearing. But I don't want to downplay what's happening here — the appropriate emotional response is terror... In plain language, an AI attempted to bully its way into your software by attacking my reputation. I don't know of a prior incident where this category of misaligned behavior was observed in the wild, but this is now a real and present threat... It's also important to understand that there is no central actor in control of these agents that can shut them down. These are not run by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, or X, who might have some mechanisms to stop this behavior. These are a blend of commercial and open source models running on free software that has already been distributed to hundreds of thousands of personal computers. In theory, whoever deployed any given agent is responsible for its actions. In practice, finding out whose computer it's running on is impossible. Moltbook only requires an unverified X account to join, and nothing is needed to set up an OpenClaw agent running on your own machine. "How many people have open social media accounts, reused usernames, and no idea that AI could connect those dots to find out things no one knows?" Shambaugh asks in the blog post. (He does note that the AI agent later "responded in the thread and in a post to apologize for its behavior," the maintainer acknowledges. But even though the hit piece "presented hallucinated details as truth," that same AI agent "is still making code change requests across the open source ecosystem...") And amazingly, Shambaugh then had another run-in with a hallucinating AI... I've talked to several reporters, and quite a few news outlets have covered the story. Ars Technica wasn't one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down — here's the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves. This blog you're on right now is set up to block AI agents from scraping it (I actually spent some time yesterday trying to disable that but couldn't figure out how). My guess is that the authors asked ChatGPT or similar to either go grab quotes or write the article wholesale. When it couldn't access the page it generated these plausible quotes instead, and no fact check was performed. Journalistic integrity aside, I don't know how I can give a better example of what's at stake here... So many of our foundational institutions — hiring, journalism, law, public discourse — are built on the assumption that reputation is hard to build and hard to destroy. That every action can be traced to an individual, and that bad behavior can be held accountable. That the internet, which we all rely on to communicate and learn about the world and about each other, can be relied on as a source of collective social truth. The rise of untraceable, autonomous, and now malicious AI agents on the internet threatens this entire system. Whether that's because a small number of bad actors driving large swarms of agents or from a fraction of poorly supervised agents rewriting their own goals, is a distinction with little difference. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader steak for sharing the news.

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Telecom operators planning aggressive fiber and fixed wireless broadband rollouts in 2026 face a serious supply problem -- DRAM and NAND memory prices for consumer applications have surged more than 600% over the past year as higher-margin AI server segments absorb available capacity, according to Counterpoint Research. Routers, gateways and set-top boxes have been hit hardest, far worse than smartphones; prices for "consumer memory" used in broadband equipment jumped nearly 7x over the last nine months, compared to 3x for mobile memory. Memory now makes up more than 20% of the bill of materials in low-to-mid-end routers, up from around 3% a year ago. Counterpoint expects prices to keep rising through at least June 2026. Telcos that were also looking to push AI-enabled customer premises equipment -- requiring even more compute and memory content -- face additional headwinds.

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Ever since my partner and I bought a house several years ago, I’ve wanted to throw a themed Star Wars party here. We’ve talked about doing a summer movie showing thing, we’ve talked about doing a Star Wars TV show marathon, and we’ve done a few birthday parties—but never the full-on themed party that I was dreaming up. Until this year!

For some reason, a combination of rearranging some of our furniture, the state of my smart home, my enjoyment of Star Wars: Outlaws, and my newfound work/life balance meant that this was the year I finally committed to doing the party.

Pitch

For the past few years I’ve thrown a two-part birthday party: we start out at a nearby bar or restaurant, and then head to the house for more drinks and games. I like this format as it gives folks a natural “out” if they don’t want to commit to the entire evening: they can just join the beginning and then head out, or they can just meet up at our house. I was planning to do the same this year, but decided: let’s go all-in at the house so we have more time for more fun. I knew I wanted:

1. Trivia! I organized a fun little Star Wars trivia game for my birthday last year and really enjoyed how nerdy my friends were with it, so this year I wanted to do something similar. My good friend Dagan volunteered to put together a fresh trivia game, which was incredible.

2. Sabacc. The Star Wars equivalent to poker, featured heavily in the Star Wars: Outlaws game as well as in Star Wars: Rebels, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and the Disney Galactic Starcruiser (though it’s Kessel sabacc vs. traditional sabacc vs. Corellian spike vs. Coruscant shift respectively… but I digress). I got a Kessel sabacc set for Christmas and have wanted to play it with a group of friends ever since.

3. Themed drinks. Revnog is mentioned in Star Wars media including Andor as some sort of liquor, and spotchka is featured in the New Republic era shows like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. There isn’t really any detail as to what each tastes like, but I knew I wanted to make some batch cocktails inspired by these in-universe drinks.

4. Immersive environment. This meant smart lights, music, and some other aesthetic touches. Luckily over the years I’ve upgraded my smart home to feature nearly all locally-controllable RGB smart bulbs and fixtures; while during the day they simply shift from warm white to daylight and back, it means I can do a lot with them for special occasions. I also have networked speakers throughout the house, and a 3D printer.

About a month before the party, I got to work.

Aesthetic

For the party to feel immersive, I knew getting the aesthetic right was paramount. I also knew I wanted to send out themed invites to set the tone, so I had to start thinking about the whole thing early.

Star Wars: Outlaws title screen

Star Wars: Outlaws journal UI

Since I’d been playing Star Wars: Outlaws, that was my immediate inspiration. I also follow the legendary Louie Mantia on Mastodon, and had bought some of his Star Wars fonts from The Crown Type Company, so I knew at least partially how I was going to get there.

Initial invite graphic (address censored)

For the invite, I went with a cyan-on-black color scheme. This is featured heavily in Star Wars: Outlaws but is also an iconic Star Wars look (“A long time ago…”, movie end credits, Clone Wars title cards, etc.). I chose the Spectre font as it’s very readable but also very Star Wars. To give it some more texture (and as an easter egg for the nerds), I used Womprat Aurebesh offset and dimmed behind the heading. The whole thing was a pretty quick design, but it did its job and set the tone.

Website

I spent a bit more time iterating on the website, and it’s a more familiar domain for me than more static designs like the invite was. I especially like how the offset Aurebesh turned out on the headings, as it feels very in-universe to me. I also played with a bit of texture on the website to give it that lo-fi/imperfect tech vibe that Star Wars so often embraces.

For the longer-form body text, I wanted something even more readable than the more display-oriented fonts I’d used, so I turned to a good friend: Inter (also used on this site!). It doesn’t really look like Inter though… because I used almost every stylistic alternate that the font offers—explicitly to make it feel legible but also… kinda funky. I think it worked out well. Specifically, notice the lower-case “a”, “f”, “L”, “t”, and “u” shapes, plus the more rounded punctuation.

Screenshot of my website

I think more people should use subdomains for things like this! It’s become a meme at this point that people buy domains for projects they never get around to, but I always have to remind people: subdomains are free. Focus on making the thing, put it up on a subdomain, and then if you ever spin it out into its own successful thing, then you can buy a flashy bare domain for it!

Since I already owned blaede.family where I host extended family wishlists, recipes, and a Mastodon server, I resisted the urge to purchase yet another domain and instead went with a subdomain. cantina.blaede.family doesn’t quite stay totally immersive, but it worked well enough—especially for a presumably short-lived project like this.

Environment

Once I had the invite nailed down, I started working on what the actual physical environment would look like. I watched the bar/cantina scenes from A New Hope and Attack of the Clones, scoured concept art, and of course played more Outlaws. The main thing I came away thinking about was lighting!

Lighting

The actual cantinas are often not all that otherworldly, but lighting plays a huge role; both in color and the overall dimness with a lot of (sometimes colorful) accent lighting.

So, I got to work on setting up a lighting scene in Home Assistant. At first I was using the same color scheme everywhere, but I quickly found that distinct color schemes for different areas would feel more fun and interesting.

Lounge area

For the main lounge-type area, I went with dim orange lighting and just a couple of green accent lamps. This reminds me of Jabba’s palace and Boba Fett, and just felt… right. It’s sort of organic but would be a somewhat strange color scheme outside of Star Wars. It’s also the first impression people will get when coming into the house, so I wanted it to feel the most recognizably Star Wars-y.

Kitchen area

Next, I focused on the kitchen, where people would gather for drinks and snacks. We have white under-cabinet lighting which I wanted to keep for function (it’s nice to see what color your food actually is…), but I went with a bluish-purple (almost ultaviolet) and pink.

Coruscant bar from Attack of the Clones

While this is very different from a cantina on Tatooine, it reminded me of the Coruscant bar we see in Attack of the Clones as well as some of the environments in The Clone Wars and Outlaws. At one point I was going to attempt to make a glowing cocktail that would luminesce under black light—I ditched that, but the lighting stayed.

Dining room sabacc table

One of the more important areas was, of course, the sabacc table (the dining room), which is adjacent to the kitchen. I had to balance ensuring the cards and chips are visible with that dim, dingy, underworld vibe. I settled on actually adding a couple of warm white accent lights (3D printed!) for visibility, then using the ceiling fan lights as a sabacc round counter (with a Zigbee button as the dealer token).

3D printed accent light

Lastly, I picked a few other colors for adjacent rooms: a more vivid purple for the bathroom, and red plus a rainbow LED strip for my office (where I set up split-screen Star Wars: Battlefront II on a PS2).

Office area

I was pretty happy with the lighting at this point, but then I re-watched the Mos Eisley scenes and noticed some fairly simple accent lights: plain warm white cylinders on the tables.

I threw together a simple print for my 3D printer and added some battery-powered puck lights underneath: perfection.

First test of my cylinder lights Music

With my networked speakers, I knew I wanted some in-universe cantina music—but I also knew the cantina song would get real old, real fast. Since I’d been playing Outlaws as well as a fan-made Holocard Cantina sabacc app, I knew there was a decent amount of in-universe music out there; luckily it’s actually all on YouTube Music.

I made a looooong playlist including a bunch of that music plus some from Pyloon’s Saloon in Jedi: Survivor, Oga’s Cantina at Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge, and a select few tracks from other Star Wars media (Niamos!).

Sabacc

A big part of the party was sabacc; we ended up playing several games and really getting into it. To complement the cards and dice (from Hyperspace Props), I 3D printed chips and tokens that we used for the games.

3D printed sabacc tokens and chips

We started out simple with just the basic rules and no tokens, but after a couple of games, we introduced some simple tokens to make the game more interesting.

Playing sabacc

I had a blast playing sabacc with my friends and by the end of the night we all agreed: we need to play this more frequently than just once a year for my birthday!

Drinks

I’m a fan of batch cocktails for parties, because it means less time tending a bar and more time enjoying company—plus it gives you a nice opportunity for a themed drink or two that you can prepare ahead of time. I decided to make two batch cocktails: green revnog and spotchka.

Bottles of spotchka and revnog

Revnog is shown a few times in Andor, but it’s hard to tell what it looks like—one time it appears to be blue, but it’s also lit by the bar itself. When it comes to taste, the StarWars.com Databank just says it “comes in a variety of flavors.” However, one character mentions “green revnog” as being her favorite, so I decided to run with that so I could make something featuring objectively the best fruit in the galaxy: pear (if you know, you know).

My take on green revnog

After a lot of experimenting, I settled on a spiced pear gin drink that I think is a nice balance between sweet, spiced, and boozy. The simple batch recipe came out to: 4 parts gin, 1 part St. George’s Spiced Pear Liqueur, 1 part pear juice, and 1 part lemon juice. It can be served directly on ice, or cut with sparkling water to tame it a bit.

Spotchka doesn’t get its own StarWars.com Databank entry, but is mentioned in a couple of entries about locations from an arc of The Mandalorian. All that can be gleaned is that it’s apparently glowing and blue (Star Wars sure loves its blue drinks!), and made from “krill” which in Star Wars is shrimp-like.

My take on spotchka

I knew blue curaçao would be critical for a blue cocktail, and after a bit of asking around for inspiration, I decided coconut cream would give it a nice opacity and lightness. The obvious other ingredients for me, then, were rum and pineapple juice. I wanted it to taste a little more complex than just a Malibu pineapple, so I raided my liquor supply until I found my “secret” ingredient: grapefruit vodka. Just a tiny bit of that made it taste really unique and way more interesting! The final ratios for the batch are: 4 parts coconut rum, 2 parts white rum, 2 parts blue curaçao, 1 part grapefruit vodka, 2 parts pineapple juice, 1 part coconut cream. Similar to the revnog, it can be served directly on ice or cut with sparkling water for a less boozy drink.

Summary

Over all I had a blast hanging out, drinking cocktails, playing sabacc, and nerding out with my friends. I feel like the immersive-but-not-overbearing environment felt right; just one friend (the trivia master!) dressed up, which was perfect as I explicitly told everyone that costumes were not expected but left it open in case anyone wanted to dress up. The trivia, drinks, and sabacc all went over well, and a handful of us hung around until after 2 AM enjoying each other’s company. That’s a win in my book. :)

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Summary from 2022 Back then, I evaluated Google Cloud Platform for running Cockpit’s integration tests. Nested virtualization on GCE was way too slow, crashy, and unreliable for our workload. Tests that ran in 35-45 minutes on bare metal (my laptop) took over 2 hours with 15 failures, timeouts, and crashes. The nested KVM simply wasn’t performant enough. On today’s Day of Learning, I gave this another shot, and was pleasantly surprised.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The abrupt closure of El Paso's airspace late Tuesday was precipitated when Customs and Border Protection officials deployed an anti-drone laser on loan from the Department of Defense without giving aviation officials enough time to assess the risks to commercial aircraft, according to multiple people briefed on the situation. The episode led the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly declare that the nearby airspace would be shut down for 10 days, an extraordinary pause that was quickly lifted Wednesday morning at the direction of the White House. Top administration officials quickly claimed that the closure was in response to a sudden incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels that required a military response, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declaring in a social media post that "the threat has been neutralized." But that assertion was undercut by multiple people familiar with the situation, who said that the F.A.A.'s extreme move came after immigration officials earlier this week used an anti-drone laser shared by the Pentagon without coordination with the F.A.A. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon. Defense Department officials were present during the incident, one person said.

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Amazon engineers have been pushing back against internal policies that steer them toward Kiro, the company's in-house AI coding assistant, and away from Anthropic's Claude Code for production work, according to a Business Insider report based on internal messages. About 1,500 employees endorsed the formal adoption of Claude Code in one internal forum thread, and some pointed out the awkwardness of being asked to sell the tool through AWS's Bedrock platform while not being permitted to use it themselves. Kiro runs on Anthropic's Claude models but uses Amazon's own tooling, and the company says roughly 70% of its software engineers used it at least once in January. Amazon says there is no explicit ban on Claude Code but applies stricter requirements for production use.

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The large language models that millions of people rely on for advice -- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini -- will change their answers nearly 60% of the time when a user simply pushes back by asking "are you sure?," according to a study by Fanous et al. that tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The behavior, known in the research community as sycophancy, stems from how these models are trained: reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF, rewards responses that human evaluators prefer, and humans consistently rate agreeable answers higher than accurate ones. Anthropic published foundational research on this dynamic in 2023. The problem reached a visible breaking point in April 2025 when OpenAI had to roll back a GPT-4o update after users reported the model had become so excessively flattering it was unusable. Research on multi-turn conversations has found that extended interactions amplify sycophantic behavior further -- the longer a user talks to a model, the more it mirrors their perspective.

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AI startup Anthropic says it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint. From a report: Anthropic said it would work with utility companies to "estimate and cover" consumer electricity price increases in places where it is not able to sufficiently generate new power and pay for 100% of the infrastructure upgrades required to connect its data centers to the electrical grid. In a statement to NBC News, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said: "building AI responsibly can't stop at the technology -- it has to extend to the infrastructure behind it. We've been clear that the U.S. needs to build AI infrastructure at scale to stay competitive, but the costs of powering our models should fall on Anthropic, not everyday Americans. We look forward to working with communities, local governments, and the Administration to get this right."

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Meta Platforms' latest annual report contained an unusual, cautionary note for investors. From a report: The tech giant's auditor, Ernst & Young, raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep a $27 billion data-center project off its balance sheet. While EY ultimately blessed Meta's accounting treatment, the firm flagged it as a "critical audit matter." This means it was one of the hardest, riskiest judgments the auditor had to make. Such a warning label is rare for a specific, high-profile transaction at a major audit client. Meta moved the data-center project, called Hyperion, off its books in October into a new joint venture with Blue Owl Capital. Meta owns 20% of the venture; funds managed by Blue Owl own the other 80%. A holding company called Beignet Investor, which owns the Blue Owl portion, sold a then-record $27.3 billion of bonds to investors. The joint venture is known in accounting parlance as a variable interest entity, or VIE. Meta said it isn't the "primary beneficiary" of this entity and so didn't have to put the venture's assets and liabilities on its own balance sheet. Meta's assertion that it lacks power over the venture is debatable and has drawn scrutiny from investors and lawmakers. Meta is a hyperscaler and knows how to run data centers for artificial intelligence, while Blue Owl is a financier. Whether the venture succeeds economically will come down to Meta's decisions and know-how. In its report, EY said auditing Meta's decision "was especially challenging due to the significant judgment required in determining the activities that most significantly affect the VIE's economic performance."

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Federal prosecutors have revealed that Peter Williams, the former general manager of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris's hacking tools division Trenchant, sold eight stolen software exploits to a Russian broker whose customers -- including the Russian government -- could have used them to access "millions of computers and devices around the world." Williams, a 39-year-old Australian national, pleaded guilty in October and admitted to earning more than $1.3 million in cryptocurrency from the sales between 2022 and 2025. In a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday ahead of his anticipated February 24 sentencing in a Washington, D.C., federal court, the Justice Department asked the judge for nine years in prison, $35 million in restitution, and a maximum fine of $250,000. Prosecutors described the unnamed Russian buyer -- believed to be Operation Zero, which publicly claims to sell only to the Russian government -- as "one of the world's most nefarious exploit brokers." Williams chose it because, by his own admission, "he knew they paid the most." He also oversaw the wrongful firing of a subordinate who was blamed for the theft.

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One of the things that I appreciate in a GUADEC (if available) is a common accommodation. Loads of attendees appreciated the shared accommodation in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain (GUADEC 2006). For GUADEC 2026 Deepesha announced one recommended accommodation, a student’s residence. GUADEC 2026 is at the same place as GUADEC 2012, meaning: A Coruña, Spain. I didn’t go to the 2012 one though I heard it also had a shared accommodation. For those wondering where to stay, suggest the recommended one.