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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 22/09/2026

David Pollak shows how Spice Labs, Inc.'s tool creates CBOMs automatically for doing a post-quantum cryptography audit. youtu.be/kvzw-49tpPs Full list of file types supported at: github.com/spice-labs-i...

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Discover Post Quantum Crypto Risks With CBOMs

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Census will be a battleground for the future of politics and much more, and tech scholar extraordinaire danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social has a new book coming out about it. This will surely be essential reading. I've pre-ordered my copy: www.danah.org/data-are-mad...

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 12/09/2026

In 1983, Thomas C. Schelling argued that it would be cheaper for the world to accommodate global climate change than to try to prevent it. Richard Tol published an article about it. "The neglected contributions of Thomas C. Schelling to the economics of climate change" arxiv.org/abs/2607.04322

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The neglected contributions of Thomas C. Schelling to the economics of climate change

The rich have emitted the bulk of greenhouse gases. The poor suffer the bulk of the impacts. Climate change is a transfer from poor to rich. Climate policy is a transfer from rich to poor. Why, Schell...

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 03/09/2026

In Memoriam: Richard E. Stearns (1936-2026) Stearns was one of the fathers of computational complexity theory. cacm.acm.org/news/in-memo...

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In Memoriam: Richard E. Stearns (1936-2026) – Communications of the ACM

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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AI can write a patch in seconds. A human maintainer still has to decide whether to accept it. That gap is the open source story of the next five years. New ACM TechBrief 🧵 dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 01/09/2026

@acmpolicy.bsky.social has published a new TechBrief on Open Source Software and the impact of AI. AI makes submitting code cheap, while reviewing it remains human and slow, and the same models that patch vulnerabilities can also find them for attackers. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

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ACM TechBrief: Artificial Intelligence’s Effects on Open Source TechBrief

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/08/2026

Samuel Tunick faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search last year. He called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy,” in an interview with The New York Times about the incident.

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U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 18/08/2026

bulk_extractor 2.2.0 is out! This release fixes CVE-2026-24857 and adds a standalone 64-bit Windows executable, Windows raw-device input, runtime scanner plug-ins, improved Wi-Fi PCAP preservation, and extensive reliability improvements. github.com/simsong/bulk... #DFIR #DigitalForensics #OpenSource

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Release BE v2.2.0 · simsong/bulk_extractor

What's Changed Update continuous-integration-pip.yml by @simsong in #479 Update identify_filenames.py by @h-ssh in #482 Update LICENSE.md by @simsong in #478 add missing include by @rick-gnous in ...

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 13/08/2026

Developed with Codex. I saw exceptions from bulk_extractor’s winpe scanner and asked Codex to reproduce them, trace execution, find the cause, and prepare a tested fix. It did: github.com/simsong/bulk... A thread 🧵

Graphic titled Developed with Codex: AI-assisted software maintenance. A flow shows logfile, trace, fix, and regression test for bulk_extractor PR 674.

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 11/08/2026

#bulk_extractor beta 2.2.0 has been published on github. This version closes more than 100 open issues and improves reliability and performance. Thanks to Codex and Copilot for all of their help. Please give this release a try! #DFIR github.com/simsong/bulk...

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Release BE v2.2.0beta1 · simsong/bulk_extractor

What's Changed Update continuous-integration-pip.yml by @simsong in #479 Update identify_filenames.py by @h-ssh in #482 Update LICENSE.md by @simsong in #478 add missing include by @rick-gnous in ...

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 05/08/2026

All the scammers want to migrate to Signal to send me a private message. So annoying.

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 02/08/2026

I am looking for help to test bulk_extractor release 2.2.0. The new release closes over 83 open issues and resolves CVE-2026-24857. Most of the work was done by AI with my guidance. The progress has been phenomenal. #DFIR Here's what's been fixed: github.com/simsong/bulk...

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simsong/bulk_extractor

This is the development tree. Production downloads are at: - simsong/bulk_extractor

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 31/07/2026

Is anyone in my network an expert on exhibit design for science museums?

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Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Every time I post my novel outside Bluesky I have to mention that "Cover and story are not AI," and that they're made by us, humans, Niko, the cover artist, and/or me, the author and cover creator. I have to constantly remind some readers that my novels are human-made. What an era. #booksky #books

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 22/07/2026

I reviewed The Shockwave Rider, a classic sci-fi novel from the early 1970s that could have been written yesterday open.substack.com/pub/database...

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The Shockwave Rider (Review)

The classic sci-fi novel from the early 1970s that could have been written yesterday...

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Reuven M. Lerner @lernerpython.com · 04/07/2026

Dictionaries in #Python remember their insertion order, but equality ignores the ordering: d1 = {'a':10, 'b':20, 'c':30} d2 = {'b':20, 'c':30, 'a':10} d1 == d2 # True!

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 03/07/2026

There's a fun article in today's Data Colada blog that discusses the many places metadata is stored on MacOS and Microsoft Excel, and why this is all relevant in the Francesca v. Harvard lawsuit on data falsification. datacolada.org/136 Also some side comments on @benedelman.org

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 03/07/2026

What a great way to start the morning with an email from Sara. Or Xanna. Or whomever… Summer in #Seattle open.substack.com/pub/saraabra...

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 23/06/2026

Our intern Sunny Bell just put out her first article on the Sabinok Substack! It's about AI in PropTech - Property Technology. Check it out! sabinok.substack.com/p/five-start...

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Five Startups Pushing AI into Proptech

Proptech has been slow to adopt AI, but that’s changing: A growing number of startups are developing AI-based systems targeted for the proptech industry.

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 16/06/2026

Great article in Foreign Policy Journal about the potential impact of the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision to prohibit noise infusion as a privacy protection method. www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2026/06/14/t...

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Trump Administration Ban On Statistical Noise Threatens To Gut Census Bureau Data Output

The Trump administration has issued a Commerce Department order banning "noise infusion," a key privacy protection technique the Census Bureau has relied on

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 11/06/2026

The Park Service has created a public comment form regarding President Trump's proposed arch. For those interested, submit your feedback! parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm....

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National Park Service - PEPC - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement -Submit Comments

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 09/06/2026

ACM has published a Tech Brief on Agentic AI dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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ACM TechBrief: Agentic AI | ACM Other Books

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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I would love a Garfinkel scientist get together! It would be my dream to coauthor a paper together: Garfinkel, Garfinkel, Garfinkel, Garfinkel & Garfinkel

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 03/06/2026

I am so tired of reading posts that start "Someone..."

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 03/06/2026

I am so tired of reading posts that start "Someone..."

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 27/05/2026

Richard A. Tapia (1939-2026) joined his two passions in a lecture, “Math at Top Speed: Exploring and Breaking Myths in the Drag Racing Folklore,” delivered at universities and mathematics-awareness events for decades. cacm.acm.org/news/in-memo...

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In Memoriam: Richard A. Tapia (1939-2026) – Communications of the ACM

Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing.

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Katie Stone @abqkatiestone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It’s always a good day to get into nature.

A white woman in a bike helmet in a forest

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Katie Stone @abqkatiestone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Really enjoyed this account of the NeXT years by Geoffrey Cain. We were part of this era, and I am positive my family never really believed (or understood) me when I said our work was part of creating the world wide web. Now they can read all about it. 🤣 bookshop.org/p/books/stev...

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Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary

The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 29/04/2026

"Style is everything." (Best quote I wrote down from BasisTech's Demo Day.)

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Spaf @spaf.me · 23/04/2026

Computing lost a giant with the recent death of Michael O. Rabin. Here is the "In Memoriam" that @simson.net and I wrote for "Communications of the ACM": cacm.acm.org/news/in-memo...

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In Memoriam: Michael O. Rabin – Communications of the ACM

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 22/04/2026

Tech Night at the Pops goes back to the 1890s, and predates Boston Symphony Hall. I was fascinated to learn the history and read the original programs! Read along with me at www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1... @MIT

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A cheerful hullaballoo

Alumni have been celebrating their MIT ties at Tech Night at Pops since 1898—at times with “too much enthusiasm to suit the leader of the orchestra.”

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 10/04/2026

A friend was intrigued at how I have AI coding agents ask me questions to develop a piece of software, so I wrote up my methodology for him. If people are interested, I can show how to use this methodology develop a simple in-browser video game. databasenation.substack.com/p/why-i-ask-...

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Why I ask AI coders to ask me questions

I’ve been using a whole host of AI program to write code over the past two years, but I’ve developed a style that is very different from other programmers with whom I’ve spoken.

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Katie Stone @abqkatiestone.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Today at 9am MT our skunk episode streams from Childrenshour.org but we are on the radio somewhere all day. Including right now! Our Stations page at our site has times of broadcasts and links. Let the 🦨 Skunk episode bring you joy and happiness. We need it!

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The Children's Hour - Kids Public Radio

Fun and educational public radio shows and podcasts for kids of all ages

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Simson Garfinkel @simson.net · 28/01/2026

We have cats and dogs as pets in the US. If we lived in a world without cats, could we imagine them? Probably not? So imagine another world that has a third animal that people commonly have as pets — an animal that doesn't exist today. What would that animal be like?

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