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Today's topics:

VeraCrypt blocked by code-signing - VeraCrypt maintainer Mounir Idrassi says Microsoft terminated his long-used Windows driver signing account with no warning or appeal, freezing Windows releases. Keywords: VeraCrypt, code signing, Windows drivers, Secure Boot, supply chain trust.

Anthropic Glasswing AI security push - Anthropic’s Project Glasswing uses an unreleased Claude Mythos 2 Preview model with partners to find and help patch high-severity vulnerabilities faster than most humans. Keywords: AI security, zero-days, vulnerability research, critical infrastructure, disclosure.

Read Git history before code - A developer argues the fastest way to assess a new codebase is to start with Git history to spot churn, ownership concentration, bug hotspots, and risky revert patterns. Keywords: Git, churn, hotspots, maintainability, engineering risk.

Markdown notes as context graph - A plain Markdown knowledge base with Obsidian-style links can behave like a lightweight graph database that improves AI outputs by preserving project decisions and context. Keywords: knowledge base, Markdown, wikilinks, context engineering, LLM.

Side projects fuel engineering growth - An essay connects enterprise “skyscraper” engineering discipline with “shed” side projects, arguing personal building time prevents burnout and sharpens judgment. Keywords: side projects, burnout, systems thinking, experimentation, career.

Open-source agent shifts ownership - Mario Zechner moved the open-source coding agent ‘pi’ under Earendil, keeping an MIT core while signaling potential paid or proprietary add-ons. Keywords: open source, governance, licensing, MIT, sustainability.

DIY robot vacuum learns poorly - Two roommates built a low-cost robot vacuum and trained a behavior-cloned CNN, but real-world navigation stayed inconsistent—highlighting how data quality beats model tweaks. Keywords: robotics, behavior cloning, dataset quality, autonomy, edge cases.

Music-reactive LEDs meet mel scale - A decade-long open-source LED music visualizer improved by mapping audio to the mel scale, making limited LED strips feel more ‘musical’ to humans. Keywords: DSP, mel scale, visualization, perception, LEDs.

Revision 2026 demoscene highlights - A full recording of Revision 2026’s PC Demo compo preserves the demoscene’s latest real-time graphics craft and a much-discussed finale for wider viewing. Keywords: demoscene, real-time rendering, PC demo, archive, creative coding.

Artemis II far-side Moon photos - NASA released Artemis II lunar flyby images, including a striking in-space solar eclipse and far-side views, underscoring Orion’s crewed deep-space readiness. Keywords: NASA, Artemis II, Orion, Moon far side, eclipse imagery.

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