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Node2Shell has evolved into HTTP2Shell, a critical vulnerability impacting many HTTP libraries and applications. The bug (CVE-2026-111497) specifically affects Python packages that use the Brotli comp...
SpaceX appears to have restored full Starshield service to Ukraine after a 10-day throttle that disrupted military drone operations. The restriction followed political tensions between Elon Musk and V...
Researchers have finally explained the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC), a 1,000-mile wispy cloud on Mars first observed in 2018. Published in Nature Geoscience, the study reveals the cloud forms via...
Astral announced an experimental integration between uv and ty, combining Python's fastest package manager with its type checker. The integration enables first-class support for PEP 723 inline depende...
eMudhra, a major Indian certificate authority, suffered two separate PKI failures in October 2026 — trivially recoverable private keys in its ECC hierarchy and mass revocations on its RSA hierarchy fo...
Go 1.26 introduces an experimental simd/archsimd package and Go 1.27 adds a portable simd package, enabling developers to write normal Go code that compiles to SIMD instructions for processing multipl...
Block, Jack Dorsey's company, released Dessa, a new full-duplex voice model trained entirely on human speech that runs locally on a single NVIDIA GPU rack. The model reportedly captures natural human ...
Two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language powering a majority of the internet, posed a significant threat to web infrastructure. The near-catastrophic event highlights the...
Developers are showcasing creative applications for Apple's first foldable iPhone, including retro cassette players, virtual notebooks, flight trackers, and a digital toaster. These apps demonstrate t...
Research from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory reveals that the Laurentide Ice Sheet may have begun re-expanding ~2,000 years ago after reaching its minimum size ~3,600 years ago...
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, mandating disclosure labels on AI-generated ads including images, videos, audio, and text. The...
Apple is hosting a 'Pro and Tell' event on October 28th focused on MacBook Pro updates, with strong expectations for a long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro featuring OLED display. Additional expected ...
The article examines whether AI investments are delivering measurable returns beyond the technology sector, noting that while tech companies show productivity gains, broader economy shows no significa...
A longitudinal retrospective covering twelve years of attempts to make SQLite distributed, examining projects ranging from early clustered forks to modern shared-nothing approaches. The author reflect...
C++26 was disapproved in its ISO balloting, falling short of the required 66.66% threshold with only 60% of P-Members voting in favor and 41% of member bodies casting negative votes. Twelve countries ...
Wild linker 0.11.0 brings Wasm linking by default, major GNU linker script improvements enabling Linux kernel module support, and significant Mac port progress. The release also includes performance o...
Recently discovered vulnerabilities in the open-source programming language PHP forced website owners to urgently patch or take their sites offline. The incident has sparked concern that AI tools will...
Instacart has hired an investment bank to evaluate options and held acquisition talks with DoorDash and Uber, according to The Information and Bloomberg. Instacart, valued at over $13 billion with a 2...
A new study reveals that xAI's Grok overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two models disagreeing in over 90% of nearly 500 election races analyz...
BBC's Blue Planet III is intentionally retaining imperfect, raw footage to distinguish itself from AI-generated content that often appears overly polished. Executive Producer Elizabeth White revealed ...
Onyx Boox unveiled its 2026 lineup spanning pocket-sized e-readers, compact color tablets, and larger note-taking devices. The new devices run Android 16 with upgraded octa-core processors and feature...
A developer created a honeypot website called Steal My Bitcoin to test whether attackers are actively exploiting a recently discovered PHP RCE vulnerability that caused widespread concern. The site in...
A GitHub project called gpu-unlock explores enabling or improving FP/BF16 instruction throughput on NVIDIA 3000-series graphics cards, likely through unofficial means. The discussion on Hacker News ge...
Doug Hoyte shares his personal journey of learning quantum physics, acknowledging his initial confusion and walking readers through key concepts in an accessible way. The article went viral on Hacker ...
The author analyzes why the php2shell PHP vulnerability has not seen mass exploitation despite the release of PoCs. They argue that successful exploitation requires precise knowledge of the target's P...
An opinion piece warning users that log files attached to bug reports or support requests can contain sensitive personal information beyond expected error details, such as usernames, clipboard content...
The author created kirigami, an Emacs package that unifies folding across different modes (Tree-sitter, Hideshow, Outline, Org, Vdiff) behind a single consistent keybinding interface. It solves the pr...
The article explores how the original SimCity could run on an Intel 386SX at just 16 MHz, examining the clever software optimizations that made large-scale city simulations possible on extremely limit...
Scrawl is a screen recording and annotation tool by Kit Langton that captures clicks, drawings, and voice on your Mac or mirrored iPhone screen, transcribes speech per frame, and crops to relevant win...
MongoDB engineers describe the challenge of maintaining consistent APIs and behaviors across dozens of native driver implementations in different programming languages. Rather than using thin wrappers...
The 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey gathered responses from nearly 1,800 developers across 80 countries, marking the ninth edition since 2009. The survey covers developer demographics, learning pa...
Dan Luu discusses Michael Malis's pgrust project, a Rust rewrite of PostgreSQL, arguing that we should be more ambitious with the software we build. Despite widespread skepticism toward AI-generated o...
The Boox Palma 2 Pro is a $400 smartphone-sized E Ink e-reader aimed at readers who want a dedicated reading device in a portable form factor. It targets users looking to reduce phone screen time whil...
A roundup of notable AI agents that integrate directly into text messaging platforms, ranging from general-purpose assistants to specialized agents tailored for families, travel planning, and workplac...
LG's C6 OLED TV is already on sale ahead of Black Friday, with the 55-inch model dropping to an all-time low of $999.99, a $400 discount available through Amazon, Best Buy, and LG directly. The C6 bri...
The Verge explores design lessons the upcoming touchscreen MacBook could learn from the Lenovo Yoga 9n, a 16-inch 2-in-1 convertible with stylus support. The article highlights how Arm-based processor...
A roundup article covering AI projects and startups that failed or fell short of expectations, including Apple's delayed Siri AI improvements and OpenAI's troubled 'super app' launch. The piece serves...