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LuaRocks Security Incident September 2026

LuaRocks.org suffered a remote code execution vulnerability exploited multiple times between July and August 2026, with the fix deployed on September 26th coordinated through CISA. All credentials and...

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EX-ARRR: Sailing the 0-click Seas

A researcher discovered a 0-click heap overflow vulnerability in Apple's EXR image parser running inside a privileged daemon, which fires automatically when an iMessage is received and bypasses BlastD...

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Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper

The author documents how LG WebOS actively retaliates when users block vendor telemetry—locking down the app store with cryptic error codes like E5.48.XV until tracking servers are unblocked. The post...

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What Improves Developer Productivity at Google? Code Quality (2022)

A study of Google developers identifies code quality as the strongest causal factor driving developer productivity, based on panel data with 39 factors and lagged analysis. Other significant factors i...

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Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates

The Bevy iOS ecosystem dropped Swift packages from its crates, replacing hand-written bridges (Swift C symbols, Objective-C wrappers, swift-bridge) with objc2 generated bindings. Installation is now s...

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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

GitHub's Primer team migrated from CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules to address growing performance challenges as component count exploded. The shift eliminates client-side runtime styling costs and SSR perfor...

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Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

The article advocates for decoupling Go code from GitHub, suggesting that developers should avoid tight dependencies on GitHub APIs and services. It likely provides practical guidance on how to design...

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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

An opinion piece examining how modern technology—particularly AI and complex software systems—has normalized inexplicable failures that users and engineers have grown to accept as routine. The article...

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Ember-1

Fireworks.ai announced Ember-1, a new AI model or inference offering aimed at improving speed and efficiency for running open-source language models. The release generated significant discussion on Ha...

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In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

A scientific breakthrough related to understanding the origins of life was reportedly made in a modest motel room setting. The discovery highlights how impactful research can emerge from unexpected en...

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Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming

Valve has introduced Pyrowave, an experimental video codec in the Steam client beta, designed for high-bandwidth, low-latency streaming over LAN. Developed by Hans-Kristian Arntzen, Pyrowave uses the ...

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Teaching GPU programming in p5.js: now with compute shaders

Dave Pagurek introduces compute shaders to p5.js, making GPU programming education more accessible by building on p5.js's existing scaffolded learning approach. The update moves beyond the classic ver...

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Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development

Thorsten Ball predicts that AI will render human code review and unit tests largely obsolete, shifting the developer's role from writing code to solving business problems and architecting systems. He ...

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Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to have a one-on-one dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House, marking a notable meeting between two figures who have recently found themselves on opposi...

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Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music

Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter for Engram, a sampler and groovebox that uses locally-running custom AI to transform and hallucinate audio into experimental sounds. Unlike consumer AI mus...

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The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

The Verge examines the growing graveyard of ambitious smart home devices, spotlighting the June Oven as a cautionary tale. Despite being built by former Apple engineers with impressive features like A...

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2026 in LLMs (so far)

Simon Willison reviews key 2026 LLM developments, highlighting November 2025 releases Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 as incremental but meaningful upgrades that made coding agents reliably usable day-to-...

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When did Google get so weird?

An opinion piece questioning the direction of Google's product and cultural shifts over time. The article likely critiques recent changes in Google's services, search quality, or corporate direction b...

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On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

NeoVim has been found to delete Vim undo files due to a lack of duty of care toward users' data. The issue highlights a compatibility problem between the two editors when they interact with the same u...

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Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

A practical DIY guide on how to replace degraded batteries in rechargeable bike lights, likely covering battery desoldering, identifying compatible replacements, and basic repair techniques for extend...

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One month without AI

A developer shares his personal experience of taking a month away from AI coding tools, arguing that over-reliance on AI makes developers lazy and less skilled. He describes how AI autocomplete and co...

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postmarketOS rebrands as Nura

postmarketOS, the Linux-based mobile OS focused on device longevity, has rebranded as Nura after a 1.5-year community selection process. The new name derives from Nuraghe, ancient Sardinian stone stru...

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Syncing Rust GCC backend or how to test Murphy's law

The author describes the challenges of syncing the Rust GCC backend (rustc_codegen_gcc) repository with the main Rust compiler repository using git subtree, a feature that doesn't work well with large...

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Reverse Engineering the iPod Classic's Undocumented Mikey Chip

An engineer reverse engineered the undocumented Mikey chip (I2C address 0x72) in the iPod Classic that handles Apple wired earbud remote buttons, brute-forcing through all 256 mode register values to ...

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How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

The Trump White House released a 162-page report criticizing the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History for 'ideological capture,' targeting exhibits like one on Benjamin Franklin's enslave...

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Audible is translating European Audiobooks to English

Audible is expanding its catalog by translating Audible Originals from various European languages into English, with the translations done by human narrators rather than AI. This move signals Audible'...

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Kobo 6.0 beta is breaking Kobo e-readers

The Kobo 6.0 beta update is causing performance issues on e-readers, including slowdowns and Overdrive Libby incompatibility. Users looking to downgrade face the risk of losing all data, making the si...

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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

OpenAI agents scanned the UNCTAD statistics website over 16,000 times between April and June, likely while attempting to retrieve public data through an API they didn't have direct access to. The inci...