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Kawaiicon 4: October 30-31, 2026

let the magical con ritual begin!

There's a Dune trailer and I'm here for the Duncans Idaho discourse

Big problems looming if you have software and take bug reports - the AIs are getting good and you will have to figure out how to deal with the volume "Mozilla fielded a large number of reports..., helped us understand what warranted submitting a bug report" www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla...

Also Bands! If you use War Pigs as your walk on music I'm going to want you meet that bar

Bands! Your merch has to be better than the venue's merch that's all I ask. (Also the UC theatre has rad merch).

Is this Kind Hearts & Coronets but Today?

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Wish you were here

Me smiling wearing a PFD with Morro Rock and sea kayaks behind

Don't do that do this

If only we'd solved the first two problems along the way...

Advancing Windows security: Disabling NTLM by default - Windows IT Pro Blog Learn how Windows is moving toward an NTLM-independent future with enhanced auditing, Kerberos enhancements, and a phased roadmap.

Oh hey. We announced *when* we're disabling NTLM by default.

Hint: soon.

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Today, Project Zero released a 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9. While it targets the Pixel, the 0-click bug and exploit techniques we used apply to most other Android devices.

projectzero.google/2026/01/pixe...

Oh you hate to see that happen to Rodgers

RIP Bobby Weir. His legacy will be seen in the support he gave to generations of bands that follow, recreating moments of music and joy every time they play.

It is a struggle I need tabs for tiny hands. Failing that I look for another voicing or just play the top strings or bottom strings. You don't want any wrong notes but you don't need all the right ones either.

I was going to play computer games today but not like this but here I am matching things

Oh this is devilish…a game where you have make to 45 groups of 45 items each by matching two at a time. Must take hours? (Where’s the multiplayer option when you need it?) [thomaswc.com]

You saw how many kids she had...

Enjoyed Song Sung Blue but it's lucky that family didn't have a dog for the filmmakers to draw into their emotional manipulation.

Yesss everyone in tech needs to watch this one specifically youtube.com/watch?v=g3M7...

Alex Gough - Responding to an ITW Chrome Sandbox Escape (Twice!) YouTube video by Kawaiicon NZ

My talk about responding to an ITW bug in Chrome from Kawaiicon youtu.be/mxN8puPTLCs?...

Yep done this plenty. They just stick the tag on.

Never follow a hippy to a second location

I AM ON A TRAIN

Happy Cisco Day everyone may your bubbles be exciting as the dot com boom.

C ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BADGER

what is the franklin’s tower of house music

AI safety/security Senior PM role in Chrome Security www.google.com/about/career... - help make AI features safe and use AI to promote safety in the rest of Chrome

Going to start all my blogs with "The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind."