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H&R Block's tax software installs a root CA certificate with an embedded private key, creating a TLS backdoor that allows man-in-the-middle attacks. The certificate remains installed even after softwa...
Deno, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime created by Node.js founder Ryan Dahl, is facing significant challenges including layoffs and a decline in momentum. The article discusses the company's struggle...
Tinybox is an offline AI device capable of running 120B parameter models locally, developed by the Tinygrad team. It represents a significant step toward accessible, high-performance edge AI without c...
A reflective piece by Armin Ronacher (creator of Flask) discussing the long-term evolution of software projects and the importance of patience in development. The article explores how foundational tec...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that blocking the Internet Archive to prevent AI training would be ineffective while causing irreversible damage to web history preservation. Legal actions ta...
Ubuntu 26.04 will end the 46-year-old Unix tradition of silent sudo password prompts, requiring visual feedback for password entry. This change addresses security concerns where users might not realiz...
OpenAI has announced its acquisition of Astral, the company behind key Python open-source tools like uv, ruff, and ty. The Astral team will join OpenAI's Codex team, with both companies emphasizing co...
Solod is a new programming language that's a strict subset of Go designed to compile to readable C11 code. It eliminates Go's garbage collection and hidden allocations while maintaining Go's syntax an...
Tokio Console is a new debugger and diagnostics tool specifically designed for asynchronous Rust programs, built by the Tokio team. It provides a wire protocol using gRPC and protocol buffers to strea...
The article discusses the issue of 'phantom binary dependencies'—hidden dependencies on precompiled binaries that are not recorded in manifest files, posing risks to software sustainability and securi...
The article discusses using SSH certificates for signing git commits as a more secure alternative to OpenPGP or X.509 certificates. It highlights how SSH certificates, signed by a trusted authority, c...
This article explores the fundamental principles of fusion power generation and profiles the startups developing various approaches to achieve commercial fusion energy. Fusion technology promises abun...
Researchers have confirmed the presence of all four DNA bases in asteroid Ryugu samples, solving the mystery of why previous studies failed to detect them. The discovery provides new insights into how...
New court filings reveal Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon's national security concerns about its AI technology, arguing the government's case relies on technical misunderstandings. The documents ...
The Trump administration is reshaping nuclear energy regulation to boost power for AI, with inexperienced Silicon Valley appointees like Seth Cohen downplaying safety concerns and sidelining career ex...
Google's Gemini AI assistant now offers limited task automation capabilities on Pixel and Galaxy devices, allowing it to interact with food delivery and rideshare apps. While currently slow, clunky, a...
The article argues against using child protection measures as a pretext for implementing broader internet access control systems. It highlights how such approaches often lead to excessive surveillance...
Grafeo is a new fast, lean, and embeddable graph database written in Rust, designed for high performance and low resource usage. It emphasizes simplicity and efficiency, making it suitable for embeddi...
The article explores how LLM coding assistants are revealing a fundamental division between developers who value the craft of programming versus those focused on practical results. It examines two per...
A developer laments how generative AI has degraded the educational and creative value of capture-the-flag events, as participants now rely on AI tools instead of critical thinking. This forces challen...
A Home Assistant user shares a practical approach to predicting home electricity usage using historical patterns to optimize energy costs. The method analyzes half-hourly usage data from similar time ...
cURL is removing support for the RTMP protocol due to its proprietary nature, lack of testing, and security concerns. The protocol, originally used with Adobe Flash, has seen declining relevance as HT...
This article explores how to implement infinite lists in Lean theorem prover without using unsafe or partial functions, addressing common misconceptions about Lean's recursion limitations. The author ...
The author argues that the classic Unix philosophy—often summarized as 'do one thing well'—is outdated and inconsistently defined, reflecting broader systemic issues in computing culture. They critiqu...
This blog post presents a 'maximally minimal' proposal for view types in Rust, addressing a common pain point where developers need to temporarily borrow a field from a struct while still having mutab...
A compliance startup, Delve, faces serious allegations from an anonymous Substack post claiming it misled hundreds of customers into believing they were compliant with privacy and security regulations...
A California jury found Elon Musk liable for misleading Twitter investors through his tweets about bot accounts during the acquisition period, which artificially depressed the stock price. The class a...
A co-founder of Halide, a popular iPhone photography app, is suing his former partner for allegedly taking source code to Apple after being hired. The lawsuit claims the partner was fired for financia...
Director Valerie Veatch's exploration of AI art communities revealed how generative models like OpenAI's Sora frequently produce racist and sexist imagery, while many AI enthusiasts remain indifferent...
This article provides an introductory guide to FFmpeg, a widely-used multimedia framework for handling audio and video processing. It covers basic commands and concepts for beginners looking to get st...
antiX-26 has been released, a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian Trixie that uniquely offers five different init systems including runit, sysVinit, dinit, s6-rc and s6-66. The distribution...
Pigeon's Device is a C programming technique similar to Duff's Device, using switch-case fall-through for conditional execution based on a mode parameter. It originated in an MS-DOS program for compar...
March 21, 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the first tweet posted by Jack Dorsey. The article reflects on Twitter's evolution into X under Elon Musk's ownership, including workforce cuts, controvers...
Hachette Book Group has decided not to publish the horror novel 'Shy Girl' due to concerns that AI was used to generate the text. This represents one of the first major cases of a publisher rejecting ...
Nvidia's major conference failed to impress Wall Street investors, who remain concerned about a potential AI bubble despite the company's strong industry positioning. The article analyzes the disconne...
A jury found that Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while attempting to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the company. The ruling centers on Musk's public statements about Twitter's bot prob...
Kodiak AI CEO Don Burnette argues that deploying autonomous trucks is only half the challenge, with the other half being building a viable business model and operational network. While competitors foc...
This article explores how Git version control integrates with AI coding agents, emphasizing that agents' fluency with Git commands enables more ambitious development workflows. It covers essential Git...
Simon Willison used Claude AI to decompile and analyze the 39KB Turbo Pascal 3.02A executable from 1985, creating an interactive artifact that breaks down the binary into labeled segments with decompi...
Amazon is reportedly developing a successor to its failed Fire Phone, with a potential 2026-2027 release window. The rumored Fire Phone 2 would feature AI capabilities, deep Alexa integration, and a d...