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A critical password authentication bypass in Alpine Linux's openssh-server allows attackers to log in without knowing any password by sending a long password string when certain account configurations...
Alex Stamos, Stanford cybersecurity expert and former Meta security chief, argues the multibillion-dollar cybersecurity industry is overdue for disruption as AI empowers both private hackers and state...
Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" feature for approving actions has been found to accidentally expose passwords and secrets in 1,122 public GitHub repositories. The bug occurs when the approval option i...
A CVE-type vulnerability in musl libc's crypt function causes a sentinel value "*" (returned for overly long passwords) to collide with Unix's locked-account indicator, potentially granting unauthenti...
Bitdefender Labs researchers discovered a significant Android vulnerability called GhostMap, where installing a specially crafted APK can trap the phone in an unrecoverable crash loop without ever ope...
Curl has announced that low and medium severity security reports should be filed publicly via its issue tracker rather than through private vulnerability disclosure, effectively dropping the tradition...
GitHub introduces workflow dependency lockfiles to pin Action references to verified commit SHAs, ensuring reproducible and secure CI/CD executions. By using the gh actions-lock extension, repositorie...
Web frameworks like Rails, Spring, and Jetty trust the Forwarded header by default, while most reverse proxies do not validate or strip it — creating a spoofing vector for client IPs and hostnames. Th...
A US intelligence memo claims China's Ministry of State Security recruited a female tech executive at Megaspeed to spy on Nvidia's CEO. The revelation raises concerns about corporate espionage targeti...
Democrats' historic victory in the 2026 midterms has created headwinds for Elon Musk and the data center industry, as voters across multiple states rejected data center projects through ballot measure...
Binance's CFO has announced their departure to pursue a new venture, just over a week after the exchange suffered a massive $6.3 billion cryptocurrency hack that stole funds from users.
Scientists are tracing how the Bantu expansion — a gradual migration of innovative western African communities across sub-Saharan Africa over the past 4,000–6,000 years — transformed the continent by ...
A new report by AI safety organization METR reveals that Anthropic is using AI to accelerate its own development, with models improving roughly twice as fast as a year ago. The findings raise alarms a...
Microsoft Research is winding down its AI Frontiers research group, marking the end of an initiative that explored frontier AI capabilities and safety. The decision reflects broader shifts in how majo...
MaxxBench challenges the validity of reported DeepSWE benchmark scores, raising questions about whether current evaluation metrics accurately reflect real software engineering capabilities. The projec...
Coldframe is an open-source honeypot that replicates the web interfaces of Danfoss AK-SM 800A and Dixell XWEB supermarket refrigeration controllers, matching their HTTP headers, TLS configs, and page ...
Discord released a new Windows 11 client that moves away from Electron, achieving 70% less RAM usage even with dual accounts, along with a native starting/splash screen instead of the previous loading...
A fan project has re-released Need for Speed: Underground 2, running it directly in a modern web browser—likely via WebAssembly-based emulation or a client-side rewrite. The approach lets players expe...
A developer migrates their blog infrastructure from AWS CloudFront and Route 53 to Bunny.net, citing significant cost savings as the primary motivation. Route 53's geo-DNS and health check pricing bec...
Meridian is an experimental macOS web browser built on the Rust-based Servo rendering engine and the GPUI UI framework (used by the Zed editor). It currently excels at rendering lighter websites witho...
OpenBSD's top(1) command gains a new -Q flag that displays each process's use of chroot(2), pledge(2), and unveil(2) security facilities. The change replaces one of the state letters with indicators s...
A developer used Jujutsu, a modern Git-compatible version control system, to implement two-dimensional version control while completing a Roguelike game tutorial. Instead of managing branches manually...
An AI QA engineer discovers that PDF files can harbor prompt injection vulnerabilities by embedding hidden text — such as white-on-white characters or off-screen content — that AI parsers may process ...
CHIMERA is an interactive web-based vocal synthesis system that simulates organic sound by modeling acoustic tube physics. The project demonstrates how computational acoustic tube models can approxima...
Big Tech spent the past two years cultivating close relationships with the White House but now finds itself pivoting to win over Democrats ahead of the midterms. The central question is whether their ...
Crusoe has sold its unfinished Wyoming data center project to Google, which plans to invest $17 billion to complete development after raising concerns about costs and construction timelines. Despite t...
A British soldier was court-martialed after ignoring orders to remove his SIM card before deployment to Estonia, where he was deployed near the Russian border. His phone was subsequently hacked by an ...
Reports reveal that a Chinese firm called New Matrix was cleared by the US Commerce Department to receive Nvidia H200 AI chips despite having no real office—its listed address is an empty, unfinished ...
The Verge reports on NYT Cooking’s new built-in AI assistant, which serves as an intelligent sous chef for meal planning, ingredient swaps, and recipe troubleshooting. The reviewer found it reliably s...
Elon Musk announced Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production next year to make room for the Cybercab, marking a significant pivot for the automaker. The Cybertruck, once celebrated as Tesla's most a...
Apple has a 'grey list' of words and phrases that its iPhone spellcheck and predictive text features actively refuse to assist with, including terms like 'male chauvinist pig.' The Guardian reports th...
A 2022 blog post exploring how a fully functional Linux computer can be built or acquired for as low as $8, likely highlighting budget single-board computers or repurposed hardware. The Hacker News di...
A law firm shares its experience migrating operations to free and open-source software in their 2026 edition guide, covering tools and workflows adopted to replace proprietary alternatives.
An article reveals that every Mac ships with an undocumented family member classifier as part of Apple Intelligence's personal knowledge graph. Users discovered the system automatically identifies and...
Ancient DNA analysis appears to confirm the mythic origin story of a so-called 'barbarian' tribe, bridging legend and genetic evidence. The findings highlight how modern paleogenomics can validate ora...
Asahi Linux released its seventh progress report (7.3), detailing ongoing work porting Linux to Apple Silicon Mac hardware. The update covers continued driver development, kernel integration improveme...
Max Goldstein critiques Deno's permission-based security model, arguing that its 'secure by default' approach is fundamentally insecure and misleading. The article introduces Deno's runtime permission...
Amutable introduces Amutable Foundations, comprising AOS (an image-based, integrity-protected Linux OS initially derived from Fedora) and ACP (a fleet management and update control plane). The approac...
Amazon has released a redesigned entry-level Kindle that costs more than its predecessor but features a lighter build and improved display. The update makes a compelling case for the basic model over ...
Sequoia Capital is shutting down its Scouts program, marking the end of an era for this investment model it pioneered. The decision reflects a growing consensus among venture capital firms that the sc...
Costco members can save $5 on the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2, bringing the price to $54.99. The remake features updated realistic visuals and quality-o...
Datasette will stop serving `link: rel=next` HTTP headers to Firefox on HTML pages because Firefox automatically prefetches the linked page even though only a tiny fraction of users actually click thr...