The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/#atom-entries · April 3, 2026

Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lennys Podcast

Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lennys Podcast

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/#atom-entries · April 2, 2026

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell” QC announcements this week. One, from Caltech, including friend-of-the-blog John Preskill, showed how to do quantum fault-tolerance with lower overhead than was previously known, by using high-rate codes, which could work for example in neutral-atom architectures (or possibly

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665 · April 1, 2026

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a ‘right-sized’ 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today’s date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist ‘high

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/ · April 1, 2026

Summary of reading January - March 2026

Summary of reading January - March 2026

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/summary-of-reading-january-march-2026/ · March 31, 2026

Mr Chatterbox is a weak Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer

Mr Chatterbox is a weak Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/#atom-entries · March 30, 2026

Movie Review The AI Doc

Movie Review The AI Doc Yesterday Dana, the kids, and I went to the theater to watch The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, the well-reviewed new documentary about whether AGI will destroy the world. This was surely the weirdest family movie night we’ve ever done. Firstly, because I personally know probably half

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9656 · March 29, 2026

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp Last summer, I was privileged to teach a two-week course on theoretical computer science to exceptional 11- and 12-year-olds at Epsilon Camp, held at Washington University in St. Louis. The course was basically a shorter version of the 6.045 course that I used to teach to undergrads at MIT. I

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9650 · March 29, 2026

Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun

Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/27/vibe-coding-swiftui/#atom-entries · March 27, 2026

Bring back MiniDV with this Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT

Bring back MiniDV with this Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT In my last post, I showed you to use FireWire on a Raspberry Pi with a PCI Express IEEE 1394 adapter. Now I’ll show you how I’m using a new FireWire HAT and a PiSugar3 Plus battery to make a portable MRU, or ‘Memory Recording Unit’, to replace tape in

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/minidv-with-raspberry-pi-firewire-hat/ · March 27, 2026