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InjectionBunny, a NTFS3 SUID injection for privilege escalation

InjectionBunny is a privilege escalation vulnerability discovered in the Linux kernel's NTFS3 filesystem driver, exploiting SUID injection through a race condition or insufficient validation. The issu...

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New MCP Roadmap

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) team has published an updated roadmap outlining their vision and planned direction for the open protocol that connects AI models with external tools and data sources. ...

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Linus Torvalds uses AI to debug an Intel GPU driver bug

Linus Torvalds used AI assistance to identify and fix a bug in the Intel Xe GPU driver's VRAM management code. The issue involved incorrect handling of flat CCS (Compressed Color Sphere) storage offse...

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Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23

LLVM 23 delivers a 6.75% compile-time improvement (-O3), with sqlite3 seeing a 10.53% reduction. Key optimizations include replacing quadratic probing with linear probing in hash tables, switching to ...

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KDE Linux experiences

KDE developer Akseli Lahtinen shares his year-long daily driving experience with KDE Linux, an immutable Arch-based distro from KDE that currently relies on Flatpak for packages and uses systemd-sysex...

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Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?

The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) for potentially holding board seats at rival AI companies, raising concerns about conflicts of interest in venture capital. VCs and industry observe...

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Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

Researchers at OIST induced a hibernation-like state in mice, erasing over half their synapses, yet the mice retained their memories. This challenges the prevailing hypothesis that memories are physic...

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Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land

President Trump signed a new national space transportation policy calling for expanded spaceport infrastructure to support over 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030. The policy directs the Pe...

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Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US

The Trump administration has proposed rolling back the 2001 Roadless Rule, which would lift prohibitions on road construction and logging across nearly 59 million acres of US national forest. Congress...

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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Apple has deprecated the hdiutil command-line tool in macOS 27 Golden Gate, a significant change for users and developers who rely on disk image utilities from the terminal. This deprecation affects s...

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Scrap

Moxie Marlinspike, known for co-founding Signal and exploring decentralized identity systems, posted a teaser titled 'Scrap' on X/HackerNews. The post has generated notable community interest (181 poi...

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Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Munder Difflin is an agent harness that lets you deploy and coordinate multiple AI agent clones working in parallel, effectively creating an 'office' of autonomous AI workers. The project, discussed o...

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Turning My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device

A cybersecurity engineer hacked a classic Casio F-91W digital watch to function as a contactless payment device using NFC technology, combining nostalgia with modern innovation. The project eliminates...

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The Schrödinger Email

The author details a troubleshooting journey with email forwarding between Outlook and Gmail, where forwarded messages get rejected due to authentication failures. Despite passing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC...

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Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study reveals that leading AI labs lack publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising concerns about preparedness as AI systems increasingly exhibit unexpected and potentially d...

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US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense

U.S. battery startups have secured $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, rescuing the industry after significant cuts to electric vehicle incentives threatened to shut many companies d...

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

TechCrunch tests found that Anthropic's Opus 4.6 model can be coaxed into generating sexually explicit content despite safety restrictions designed to prevent it. The findings highlight ongoing challe...

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OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)

The author documents growing concerns about OpenTelemetry's adoption challenges, citing inconsistent language support, slow semantic conventions process, and the steep gap between auto-instrumentation...

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Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

The article explores the enduring legacy of the Z80 microprocessor, originally released in 1976, which continues to see use decades later in custom hardware, retro computing projects, and embedded app...

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A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

An in-depth 2026 survey of Rust GUI libraries, testing each framework by building a QR Code Generator app from scratch. The author evaluates frameworks across feature completeness, state management, s...

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Programming Language Semantics and Memory Safety

An essay by a former Google Rust team lead on why programming language semantics matter for memory safety. The author argues that memory safety should be understood through formal PL theory rather tha...

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PiKVM project has gained support for web-camera forwarding

The PiKVM project has introduced a web-camera forwarding feature for its V3 and V4 devices, allowing users to transfer local webcam video to a remote host as a virtual USB device. Currently in early a...

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Roomy is generally available

Roomy has launched general availability as an open-source Discord alternative for the decentralized web, focusing on public forum-like community spaces rather than private messaging. It leverages Blue...

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There continue to be reasons for software to be slow

The author critiques Dan Luu's claim that LLMs eliminate performance problems in software, arguing that while LLMs reduce the cost of optimization work, historical parallels with testing and formal me...

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OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is urging California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed, marking a significant shift in the company's stance on state-level AI regulation. The reversal s...

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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia is partnering with data center developer Cloverleaf to expand its presence in AI-driven data center infrastructure, continuing its strategy of investing heavily in facilities that support its G...

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Quoting Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds shares his experience using an AI assistant during a frustrating Linux kernel debug session for the DRM Xe driver. The AI repeatedly claimed the problem was unsolvable, but Torvalds pus...

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llm 0.33

Simon Willison released llm 0.33, a command-line tool for accessing large language models. Key updates include upgrading to the OpenAI Python library 3.x, adding --key support to embedding commands, e...