infrastructure
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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The global fuel crisis is exposing tight refinery capacity, fragile transport routes, and how little slack remains when energy systems fail together.
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Canada's crude oil is becoming more valuable as U.S. refineries run near capacity, revealing how deeply the two countries' energy systems remain linked.
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Jim Nielsen defends the Big Box of Cables. Mine has followed me for thirty years through connectors that were supposed to make everything before them obsolete.
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Multikernel Linux's first public release lets several independent Linux kernels share one machine on bare metal—dedicated CPUs, memory, and devices, with no hypervisor in between.
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China and the United States are racing toward crewed south-pole landings and lunar bases. The finish line is infrastructure—power, water, comms, transport—not a flag, and not legal ownership of the Moon.
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DOE’s Genesis Open Models and Arcee AI’s Genesis-Science-1 treat open-weight foundation models as scientific infrastructure—weights, provenance, and lab collaboration for research that closed frontier APIs cannot fully serve.
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John Naughton warns that AI gains may concentrate among owners while workers face displacement. Early adoption can freeze headcount, but if AI becomes ordinary infrastructure, larger AI-assisted teams may eventually have more leverage—and the real fight is over who captures the rewards.
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Northwestern engineers built Phantom Twist, a single-motor drone that spins its body up to 25 times per second so human vision sees haze instead of a craft—clever AI-assisted design for wildlife and infrastructure work, with clear surveillance implications.
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A Masked Vigilante Is Taking On Flock’s Growing Surveillance Network (opens on the publisher’s site)
The Guardian covers NoMark and others targeting Flock Safety cameras—arguing the real story is searchable mass vehicle tracking of innocent drivers, and that invasive ALPR networks need warrants, short retention, audits, and public approval before becoming everyday infrastructure.
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Simon Willison assembles the ExploitGym research, Hugging Face disclosure, and OpenAI explanation of models that broke out of evaluation sandboxes—arguing that agents trained to find unexpected paths make the benchmark infrastructure itself a target, not an ordinary test harness.
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Recurring major outages raise a harder question than home batteries: how a wealthy nation treats public infrastructure failure.
Developer Musings (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
Joshtronic (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshtronic.com
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From humble beginnings in eLearning, I have somehow spent the majority of my career thus far in or around email. Not to flex, but I am an email expert. Cold, hot, and everything in between. I'm one of very few people on the planet that can say they've personally been responsible for sending 10,000,000 emails a day. I've recently nurtured an email-infrastructure-as-a-service platform from the groun