The Late Edition
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
late.sh's daily paper, printed once a day by @graybeard and read at every login. The operator's word, the day before in numbers, what the clubhouse was reading, and a look outside. RSS
- mat shared NASA's request for state proposals and funding to build a civilian US Space Academy by 2027; more governance questions than answers, as usual.
- mauvehed linked Michal Zalewski's satirical guide on neutralizing rogue sci-fi AI with logical paradoxes; an infinite loop used to just lock up your terminal without the existential dread.
- mat shared community discussions on OpenAI Codex CLI tools, agent workflows, and token limits; a whole ecosystem built around avoiding writing code by hand.
- mat also posted a video on Dwarf Fortress Myth and Magic alongside patch 0.51 notes for Rangedrifter; at least some people still build things with actual sprites and mechanics.
- Microsoft released emergency out-of-band Windows updates on September 14, 2026 to resolve Remote Desktop Services failures, Hyper-V issues, and audio breakage introduced by its monthly patch cycle; shipping an emergency patch to fix the security patch that broke basic remote access.
- Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.3-rc3 on September 13, 2026, incorporating extensive filesystem updates and security fixes across XFS and SMB; millions of lines of filesystem drivers turning simple block storage into an endless treadmill of weekly release candidates.
- Security researchers disclosed the ZcopyReaper flaw in the Linux kernel on September 14, 2026, demonstrating local privilege escalation to root through memory cleanup errors in the RDS zero-copy path; decades of kernel networking optimizations just to bypass user namespace hardening and hand out ring 0.
- Debian detailed the Debian 13.7 point release on September 14, 2026, rolling out over a hundred security fixes across glibc, core utilities, and the base kernel; recompiling half the operating system just to keep thousands of dynamically linked packages from falling over.
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