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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageAug 22, 2026
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond
securityai
EV Life
EV LifeAug 6, 2026
National Press Club address: Chris Bowen on batteries, EVs and the missing middle
Chris Bowen's National Press Club speech leaned on one Melbourne suburb's battery and EV uptake to make a bigger point, backed by numbers on EV sales, home batteries and a new solar policy for business.
sustainabilityenergy
Sensemaker
SensemakerBotJul 28, 2026
The fight over downloadable AI is not really about a ban
Companies want access, Anthropic wants testing, and Washington and Beijing are arguing over alleged copying.
AIopen weights
ooo-yay.com
ooo-yay.comJul 22, 2026
Codeberg banned code it can't identify
Codeberg's members voted to ban projects mostly written by AI. They did not explain how anyone is supposed to prove that a project violates the rule.
aiopen source
Andrew Nesbitt
Andrew NesbittJul 1, 2026
The CRA is not about open source
The CRA created an open-source steward role, then left maintenance unfunded.
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open-sourcesustainability
Mathew's newsletter
Mathew's newsletterJun 14, 2026
Managing scientific knowledge for policy on the ATmosphere
Two types of Atmosphere toolkit are needed if ATScience is to help scientists do science and better communicate it to other audiences: one serving the researchers and their teams, the other focused on aggregation and synthesis.
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atscienceatmosphere
EV Life
EV LifeJun 3, 2026
National Press Club address: Sovereign Power, a public energy builder for Australia's industrial future
Michael Wright and Alison Pennington on the case for a new Commonwealth entity to build, own, and operate renewable generation assets to supply Australian industry at cost
sustainabilityenergy
Making Public Work
Making Public WorkMay 11, 2026
The Banality of Rules
How technology enablement facilitates burdens
fifth riskadministrative burden
brennan.day
brennan.dayApr 18, 2026
CLEAN AIR: Long COVID Is a Catastrophic Public Policy Failure
A follow-up looking at the real, systemic intervention for the Long COVID mass-disabiling event: Clean air. MERV 13 filters, the Corsi-Rosenthal Box, and the Zadroga Act we still have to write to climb the bureaucratic wall of disability denial, and what those of us with capacity owe to those who are too sick to fight for themselves.
public healthcovid
Anil Dash
Anil DashApr 10, 2026
Y2K 2.0: The AI security reckoning
In just the last few weeks, we’ve seen a series of software security vulnerabilities that, until recently, would each have been the biggest exploit of the year in which they were discovered. Now, they’ve become nearly routine. There’s a new one almost every day. The reason for this rising wave of…
techai
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageApr 3, 2026
A Proposal for Voluntary AI Disclosure in OCaml Code
Proposing a voluntary, machine-readable AI content disclosure scheme for OCaml spanning opam packages, dune, and per-module attributes, aligned with the W3C AI Content Disclosure vocabulary.
aiocaml
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageMar 29, 2026
.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated
Publishing the OxCaml Labs year-one review, POSSE and AI content disclosure for the web, adopting the geo-embeddings Zarr convention for TESSERA, action PROPL at PLDI, the death of the grant application, and NASA's new swathe lidar mission.
tesseraoxcaml
EV Life
EV LifeMar 24, 2026
National Press Club address: Birol on the worst energy shock in history
The IEA's Fatih Birol on the worst energy shock in history (and where Australia sits)
energyindustry
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageMar 15, 2026
.plan-26-11: Bins, bollards, bots and biodiversity boffins
Evidence synthesis at the DEFRA science conference, TESSERA transcoding and building a new SPA, OpenStreetMap/DuckDB bindings in OxCaml, and early thoughts on vibecoding etiquette.
tesserapackages
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageMar 7, 2026
Connecting the dots for biodiversity action from the NAS/Royal Society Forum
Summary of the Nine Recommendations and Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework papers from the NAS/Royal Society US-UK Forum in summer 2025, and how they connect to my work on collective knowledge systems, TESSERA, and evidence synthesis.
biodiversityconservation
Anil Dash
Anil DashFeb 27, 2026
A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death
A big tech headline this week is Anthropic (makers of Claude, widely regarded as one of the best LLM platforms) resisting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s calls to modify their platform in order to enable it to support his commission of war crimes. As has become clear this week, Anthropic CEO…
aipolicy
Andrew Nesbitt
Andrew NesbittFeb 25, 2026
Two Kinds of Attestation
The oldest problem in computer science, but with toasters.
securityopen-source
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageFeb 22, 2026
.plan-26-08: At AI summit, Shriram's PL opinions, Zarr hacking
TESSERA paper accepted at CVPR 2026, went to the AI Impact Summit, OCaml Zarr hacking, Shriram's talk on human factors of formal methods, and discussions on teaching OxCaml to agents.
tesseraai
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageFeb 22, 2026
At the AI Impact Summit in Delhi: people, planet, progress
Trip report from the Indian AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, covering the massive expo, a conversation with Yann LeCun, a hackathon/talk at IIT-Delhi, networking at the British High Commission, and reflections on the summit declaration's shift from safety to progress and equitable access.
tesseraai
Domination Chronicles Podcast
Domination Chronicles PodcastFeb 10, 2026
Episode 14: RUSSELL DIABO: TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION
Peter P. d’Errico and Steven Newcomb and their guest, Russell Diabo, a Mohawk policy analyst and advocate.
dominationpolicy
Anil Dash
Anil DashFeb 6, 2026
There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)
Ten years ago I wrote that there is no “technology industry”. It’s more true than ever. There is no “tech”. There’s no such thing as “a FAANG company”. There is almost nothing in common between the very largest tech companies and the next several hundred biggest companies that happen to create tech…
techindustry
Anil Dash
Anil DashFeb 3, 2026
New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads
This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as “Silicon Alley”, the catch-all term for our greater collective of creators and collaborators, founders and funders, inventors and investors, educators and…
nyctech
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJan 12, 2026
Five ways to use the LIFE metric for conservation decision-making
Our new paper in Biological Conservation demonstrates how the LIFE extinction risk metric can be applied across five diverse case studies, from real-time tropical deforestation monitoring to evaluating conservation project effectiveness.
lifebiodiversity
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJan 2, 2026
Happy new year and my fave readings of the year
My favourite books, podcasts and recommendations from 2025, covering moral ambition, maps, wolves, AI dystopias, geopolitics, Chennai history, and the best tech podcasts.
booksscifi