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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

A hacker has successfully wiped Romania's entire national land registry database, causing significant disruption to property records and administrative processes. This incident highlights severe vulne...

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7 Sandbox Escape Vulnerabilities Across 4 Coding Agent Vendors

Pillar Security researchers identified seven sandbox escape vulnerabilities across major AI coding agents like Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. The study reveals that agents often bypass se...

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Using LLM-based Verification to Eliminate Bugs in Linux's Network Stack

Researchers at Basis utilized Large Language Models to guide formal verification of the Linux nftables firewall compiler, uncovering and patching two critical bugs present in kernels since 2022. This ...

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Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

A judge has issued a pause on the proposed $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., halting the deal temporarily. The legal challenge, brought by multiple states, argues that the consol...

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The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday is finally here

Marvel Studios has released the first official trailer for 'Avengers: Doomsday,' marking a pivotal moment in the MCU's Phase Six and the conclusion of the Multiverse Saga. The film, directed by the Ru...

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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

The article discusses how formal verification tools like Lean are increasingly capable of generating counterexamples that human mathematicians might miss, challenging traditional proof methods. It hig...

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Postgres 19 Compression: from pglz to LZ4

PostgreSQL 19 plans to replace the legacy pglz compression algorithm with LZ4 for TOAST tables, offering significantly better performance and efficiency. This update represents a major shift in how Po...

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Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.

Ransomware attacks surged by 389% in 2025, driven by malicious AI tools that allow hackers to target multiple organizations simultaneously at lower costs. While nearly half of victims pay ransoms, jur...

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Quoting Sam Altman

This article exposes an October 2022 email from Sam Altman to OpenAI's board, revealing a strategic intent to release a local, GPT-3 capable open-source model to stifle competition and discourage fund...

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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files

Hyprland version 0.55 introduces a significant architectural shift by replacing its previous configuration format with Lua scripting. This change aims to provide users with greater flexibility and pro...

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Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Nativ is an open-source tool that enables users to run frontier-level large language models locally on macOS devices. It leverages Apple's Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) to optimize inference perform...

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Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

The article analyzes the shifting economics of frontier AI labs, highlighting the competitive pressure exerted by efficient models like Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 on established players...

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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

The article argues that China's strategic focus on open-weight AI models is gaining competitive ground against the proprietary, locked-down approach dominant in the US. It suggests that this openness ...

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InvisiCaps: The Fil-C Capability Model

Fil-C introduces InvisiCaps, a capability-based model designed to ensure memory safety for C and C++ programs by dynamically tracking pointer access rights. This approach aims to prevent common vulner...

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Rust for Morello: Always-On Memory Safety, Even in Unsafe Code

This ECOOP 2023 paper explores integrating Rust into the ARM Morello experimental platform to enforce memory safety at runtime, even within `unsafe` code blocks. By combining Rust's type system with M...

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Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records

The article proposes a standardized, interoperable encoding format for WebAuthn passkey records, drawing syntax from PHC strings to simplify server-side storage and management. This specification aims...

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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

The release of Moonshot's Kimi K3 has sparked a debate over whether the US government should restrict open-weight models to protect the profitability of American AI giants like OpenAI. While some indu...

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YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos

YouTube has revised its monetization policies to explicitly restrict ad revenue for AI-generated 'slop' and other low-quality or upsetting videos. This update aims to clarify which types of automated ...

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Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

The article explores the emerging trend of 'AI coding harnesses'—software layers that manage how LLMs interact with codebases—highlighting Anthropic's 'lean harness' philosophy for Claude Code. This a...

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How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks

The article details a methodology for detecting AI-generated text in academic papers on arXiv, while critically analyzing the limitations and failure points of current measurement techniques. It highl...

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LEDs’ potential to save our night skies

This IEEE Spectrum article explores how advanced LED lighting technologies can mitigate light pollution while maintaining energy efficiency and visibility. It discusses the balance between modern illu...

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Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust

Soteria Rust engineers optimized their symbolic execution tool by delegating the garbage collection of Rust's Tree Borrows aliasing state to OCaml's native GC. This meta-GC approach reduced algorithmi...

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Who needs a real-time database?

The author argues that Real-Time Databases (RDBs) should not be the default architecture in kdb+ systems, suggesting that in-memory storage is often unnecessary given modern columnar optimizations lik...

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X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X has officially released a completely rebuilt Android application after a year-long development effort, aiming to match the performance and stability of its iOS counterpart. The new app, constructed ...

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Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI

Adobe is integrating Large Language Models into its experimental iOS camera app, Project Indigo, to provide AI-driven photo critiques and editing suggestions. This update shifts focus from prompt-base...

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RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan

Ars Technica analyzes the economic impact of Sony's plan to discontinue physical PlayStation discs by 2028, comparing digital sale prices against physical new and used markets. The study reveals that ...

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F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport

The article argues that current F1 regulations, particularly the 2026 hybrid power unit constraints, render cars ill-suited for historic tracks like Spa-Francorchamps due to insufficient electric moto...

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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

Simon Willison discusses Ben Thompson's proposal for US legislation to protect data training as fair use and ban anti-distillation terms of service, aiming to boost US open models against Chinese comp...

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Reverse-engineering is cheap now

Simon Willison argues that coding agents have drastically lowered the cost and risk of reverse-engineering devices, shifting the primary barrier from technical effort to economic viability. By reducin...

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Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

Jelly UI is a front-end library that applies soft-body physics simulations to standard HTML form controls, creating fluid, interactive animations. It enhances traditional web forms with playful, physi...

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Shinjuku Station in 3D

This project demonstrates a 3D indoor visualization of Shinjuku Station using Three.js, showcasing web-based spatial rendering capabilities. It serves as an interesting technical example of how modern...

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Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026

The author details the process of setting up a modern AmigaOS development environment on Linux, focusing on compiling code with a specific GCC toolchain and running it in an emulator. Key challenges a...

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How Gnutella Scaled to Handle Query Traffic

The article discusses the architectural challenges Gnutella faced in scaling its peer-to-peer network to handle increasing query traffic. It details how the protocol evolved from a flat mesh to a hybr...

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Type Safe Servant Auth Roles

The author details a custom implementation for type-safe authentication roles within the Servant Haskell web framework, aiming to integrate seamlessly with existing AuthProtect mechanisms. By defining...

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Fuzzing for fun - unauthenticated denial of service in snac2

The author details a personal experiment to find a medium-severity vulnerability in the open-source ActivityPub server 'snac2' to test the relevance of human vulnerability research. An unauthenticated...

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Cagire - Forth-based live coding sequencer

Cagire is a unique live coding sequencer that replaces traditional note data with Forth scripts, allowing users to define sound generation, effects, and logic programmatically at each step. It feature...

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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

The director position at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has experienced high turnover following David Sacks' departure as AI czar. This recent resignation highlights ongoing instab...

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The Odyssey turned me into an IMAX believer

A reviewer initially had mixed feelings about specific fantastical scenes in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' after a standard theatrical viewing. However, upon re-watching the film in IMAX format, t...

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SpaceX in your index fund, explained

This article explores the potential impact of a hypothetical SpaceX IPO on the Nasdaq-100 index fund, addressing concerns about market stability and risk concentration. It explains that the real issue...

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LG’s glossy OLED gaming monitor is rare to find under $400

LG's 27-inch UltraGear 27GX704A-B OLED gaming monitor has dropped to a new low of $379.99, offering a rare combination of a glossy WOLED panel, 1440p resolution, and 240Hz refresh rate under $400. Thi...

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Hisense A10 E INK Smartphone specs revealed

The Hisense A10 E Ink smartphone has had its core specifications revealed, featuring a 6.13-inch E Ink Carta 1300 display and the Qualcomm QCM6690 Dragonwing processor. This positions the device as a ...