Words In The Wind

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How this newsletter is made

A weekly roundup of tech news, security, zero trust and better code.

What's in each issue

  1. This Week in Tech

    The handful of industry, product and policy stories worth your time.

  2. Security & Privacy

    Actively exploited bugs, notable breaches and new research, with CVE IDs.

  3. Zero Trust Corner

    One short piece on identity, access and segmentation done well.

  4. Better Code

    Practices, tools and language news that make everyday software better.

  5. Tried & True

    An evergreen technique that has earned its place in the toolbox.

  6. Git Tip of the Week

    One Git command or workflow worth adding to your habits.

From feed to issue

A small program checks the public feeds listed below every hour and collects new headlines. An AI model (Llama 3.1 8B on Cloudflare Workers AI) sorts each story into a section, rates how useful it is likely to be, and writes a first-pass summary.

Each week's issue is then drafted with the help of Claude, checked against the original sources, and reviewed and approved by a human editor before anything is published.

  • Summaries are short and written in our own words. We don't republish articles.
  • Every item links to its original source, so you can read the full story there.
  • Security items name the CVE or advisory ID when the source gives one.

About our feed reader

Our feed reader identifies itself as WordsInTheWindBot/1.0 (+https://wordsinthewind.ca/about). It requests each feed a few times a day at most, stops reading once it has the newest items, and for stories without a description it reads only the page's<head> to find its summary text.

Sources

27 public feeds