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Citizen Lab reveals AdFection — the first public zero-click spyware attack delivered via targeted online ads. Discover-Tech, an Israeli firm, operates Controlium, a platform that fingerprints devices ...

Researchers from Together Computer introduce HybridAgent, an LLM-based agent framework that performs reasoning in latent space while expressing actions through text. This approach combines the efficie...

RepRapMicron is an open-source micro-scale 3D printer project designed to print extremely small features, potentially at the micron level. The GitHub wiki documents a community-driven effort to create...

An in-depth exploration of Java sealed classes and their role in enabling exhaustive pattern matching, a feature introduced in Java 17+. The article demonstrates how sealed classes restrict inheritanc...

Servo 0.6.0 release includes 417 commits with CSS Grid support enabled by default, significantly improving website rendering. The update also ships new web platform features like touch-action and colo...

Anthropic has granted external evaluator METR "employee-like access" to its facilities and systems, marking the first implementation of a September pledge by Dario Amodei that was also supported by ri...

Former Savannah police officer Amber Harpe was fired after sharing her Flock surveillance system login with her ICE agent husband, Tyler Harpe. He conducted 983 searches tied to 97 license plates—over...

Florida's homeowners associations and condo associations are exacerbating the housing crisis by imposing rules and restrictions that limit housing flexibility and affordability. The article examines h...

Legal experts warn that despite Meta's recent language changes to its terms of service, the company still retains broad permissions to scrape user content. The updated terms appear to soften the wordi...

An open-source sub-micrometer 3D motion control platform for precision positioning, hosted on GitHub. The project enables fine-grained mechanical manipulation at the sub-micron scale, targeting applic...

Sphinx is a FOSS hook that integrates into AI coding agent workflows by presenting developers with a quiz on their AI-generated code before each production deployment. The tool ensures developers actu...

The author reports a serious Android accessibility bug where touch exploration breaks for all screen readers until a reboot, after receiving dismissive responses from Google's Disability Support. Thro...

The author introduces a novel reverse-direction borrow checker for the experimental Valen programming language, which traverses functions backward instead of forward—a departure from conventional shar...

An in-depth technical analysis of the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, examining its microcode and datapath circuitry to explain how floating-point addition and subtraction are implemented at th...

ranet3 is an open-source SD-WAN implementation that provides high-performance IPsec mesh networking with policy-based routing via SRv6 and latency-aware routing through embedded Babel. It emphasizes i...

The article introduces ASMC (Assembly Model Checker), a tool that integrates Ghidra's PCode semantics with CBMC (C Bounded Model Checker) to enable formal verification of assembly code. The tool lifts...

QML support has been added to C and Zig projects, introducing a declarative UI paradigm that coexists with existing imperative code. This enhancement aims to improve development workflows for portable...

The article surveys a series of concerning attacks on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) including Intel SGX and AMD SEV, arguing that TEE security claims are tenuous due to CPU complexity and side...

This is the first installment of a continued C++ safety article series honoring the late Rainer Grimm, whose blog is being carried on by fellow experts. It introduces the core problem that C++ lacks m...

The article explains how hybrid images merge two pictures into one that appears different at close versus distant viewing distances, using Fourier analysis to isolate high and low frequencies. It conn...

Anthropic announced it will commit 5% of its shares to a newly created 'public benefit fund' structured as a wholly-owned entity, with an option to add 2% more for every 50% increase in company valuat...

Disney has agreed to hire the vast majority of Character.AI's remaining workforce as part of a stalking horse bid. The arrangement means another company could still emerge with a higher offer for the ...

Rep. Ritchie Torres introduced the Power To The Players Act, which would direct the FTC to regulate that consumers own games they pay for rather than merely license them. The bill aims to address the ...

Cities are increasingly moving to regulate or restrict robotaxi operations, signaling a shift in the autonomous vehicle landscape. The article traces regulatory history back to Nevada's pioneering 201...

Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus IDE now support full dynamic package functionality, enabling users to create and install components and extensions without rebuilding the entire IDE. The implementatio...

A Reddit user reported that Namecheap seized and disabled all of their domains, sparking discussion in the sysadmin community. The post gained significant traction on HackerNews with 376 points and 18...

An introductory article explaining parser combinators, a functional programming technique for building parsers by combining small parsing functions into complex ones. The post discusses the theoretica...

DeepSeek has launched a new search and fetch API priced at $0.75 per 1000 successful requests, providing developers with an affordable web search integration option. The move positions DeepSeek compet...

The author shares their experience using ARP and arp-scan to map devices on their home network, discovering IP addresses, MAC addresses, and manufacturers. The article provides a beginner-friendly exp...

Jo Franchetti delivers a raw, first-person account of systemic harassment she endured throughout her tech career, challenging the industry's tendency to place the burden of adaptation on women rather ...

An engineer shares the 'Brain Sandwich' framework for working with AI: understand the problem with your own brain first, delegate implementation to AI, then use your brain again to review and refine t...

Jeremy Scheff reflects on his journey from resisting AI coding agents to reluctantly trying them, where he was amazed at their ability to fix bugs, optimize code, and refactor with ease. He muses on t...

A YouTube video exploring the challenges of running real-time software on Linux, likely examining the technical difficulties and practical considerations involved in achieving real-time performance on...

Nathan Ho presents EvoGrain, a refined algorithmic sound design system combining L-systems and granular synthesis to generatively create audio. The project builds upon his earlier work in this space, ...

The author describes using brute-force superoptimization to find an optimal formula for extracting the lowest set bit from a float, eliminating a costly branch for powers of two. Rather than relying o...

Carolyn Marvin was arrested in Philadelphia for disorderly conduct after deliberately blocking an Uber delivery robot and refusing to move. She told local media she was protesting delivery robots for ...

Lenovo's Legion Go S with SteamOS is on sale at Best Buy for $999.99, down significantly from its original $1,579.99 price. The handheld features a Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB storage, a...

The Amazon Kindle Oasis e-reader has returned to stock on Amazon's US store for a limited time. Units are brand new and priced reasonably, following previous periods of being out of stock.