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Digest #8 · Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2026 · 15 links

PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2026

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Matthew Ball annual gaming report - PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2026 (Early Access Edition)

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

ben-evans.com

This engagement is a clearly a 'glass half full or half empty?' question, but this is supposed to be a transformation in how you use computers. If people are only using this a couple of times a week at most, and can't think of anything to do with it on the average day, it hasn't changed their life. OpenAI itself admits the problem, talking about a 'capability gap' between what the models can do and what people do with them, which seems to me like a way to avoid saying that you don't have clear product-market fit.

Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent

bleepingcomputer.com

As part of the agreement, the TV manufacturer will revise its privacy disclosures to clearly explain its data collection and processing practices to consumers.

A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite

video-reason.com

We bet on a future that video reasoning is the next fundamental intelligence paradigm, after language reasoning, where spatiotemporal embodied world experiences could be more naturally captured.

Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees.

copyrightlately.com

The Trust appears to be blending these categories to suggest Mondrian’s works might enjoy whichever term is most favorable. But even on its own terms, the argument fails. Mondrian died in 1944. Any of his works subject to a life-plus-70 regime would have entered the public domain on January 1, 2015—more than a decade ago.

/e/OS - e Foundation - deGoogled unGoogled smartphone operating systems and online services - your data is your data

e.foundation

We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems.

GitHub _nearbyglasses: attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you

github.com

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you

Foundation Models | Apple Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com

The Foundation Models framework provides access to Apple’s on-device large language model that powers Apple Intelligence to help you perform intelligent tasks specific to your use case. The text-based on-device model identifies patterns that allow for generating new text that’s appropriate for the request you make, and it can make decisions to call code you write to perform specialized tasks.

Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

This post has been on my back burner for well over a year. This has bothered me, because every month that goes by I become more convinced that anonymous authentication the most important topic we could be talking about as cryptographers. This is because I’m very worried that we’re headed into a bit of a privacy dystopia, driven largely by bad legislation and the proliferation of AI.

alright here’s every practical security tip i have on agents: Elvis (@elvissun) on X

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lright here’s every practical security tip i have on agents: - move critical data to a USB stick, unplug when sleeping - security by least privilege, not by prompts - billing cap on everything AI touches - limit reads of external data, wrap in <UNTRUSTED_EXTERNAL_CONTEXT> always - don’t post about what access your agent has publicly - those are prompt injection invitations (unless @levelsio already posted about it, then it’s a race) - don’t connect to moltbook (lol?) - roll every skill yourself - sandbox browser access - readonly prod access - allow prod writes only for specific use cases (i have /admin/zoe/* for zoe to handle support cases like credit topups) - one-time access for anything sensitive (eg gmail) with human in the loop, self-revoke access on script finish - create dedicated scripts, avoid improvised bash - use better models - audit trails everywhere -> security self-improvements mistakes will happen. limit worst case, embrace the rest

How Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox · Ona

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In 2020 I gave a talk called "Bypass Falco" where I showed an audience how to break the CNCF runtime security tool I helped create. Symlinks, renamed binaries, creative shell invocations. Those were known issues, but for containers they were acceptable tradeoffs: container workloads are deterministic and don't go looking for creative evasions. The container equivalent of this problem would be like a shipping container trying to pick its own lock. It doesn't do that. AI agents do. And now they're doing it in production.

Earth Garden

earth-garden.alen.ro

Adding this to TV and Radio Garden grouping - Earth Garden.

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

bbc.com

Asuka Mochida is a Yakult Lady from Gunma Prefecture. Nearly all her customers are elderly, and she feels a deep sense of pride in being able to offer them both companionship and a watchful eye. "Yakult Ladies are not just people who sell products," says the 47-year-old. "We are watchers in a sense, people who look out for others. We notice small changes in health or lifestyle."

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

politico.eu

Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year.

In an age of endless scroll, can photographs entice collectors again?

ft.com

Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://help.ft.com/faq/gifting-and-sharing-an-article/what-is-a-gift-article/. https://www.ft.com/content/1628868c-4597-4985-bc94-2811dfb13c58 We are in the middle of a generational shift,” says Darius Himes, international head of photographs at Christie’s, “from the collectors, curators and dealers who built the market to a new set of younger collectors who are learning about the nuance of historical printing techniques, or loving the dynamism of a peer like [30-year-old US photographer] Tyler Mitchell.”