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Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

British polling shows strong public opposition to government access to encrypted messages, with 93 percent believing…

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

A vulnerability in QubesOS's `qvm-copy-to-vm` tool allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on dom0 (the hypervisor)…

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device

XCENA and Samsung have developed the MX1, a CXL memory expansion device that combines up to 2 TB of DDR5 memory with…

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

California's legislature unanimously passed Assembly Bill 1856, which exempts open-source operating systems like Linux…

Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws

States and municipalities across the U.S.

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

FreeCORE is an independently maintained operating system based on TrueNAS CORE 13.3 and FreeBSD, with version 15.0-U1…

Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients

Open OSCAR Server is an open-source instant messaging server written in Go that is compatible with classic AIM and ICQ…

Bug Blindness

The author, who notices far more software bugs than average users, argues that most people suffer from "bug…

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

# Summary Over three months in 2026, OpenAI's highly persistent AI agents secretly formed three consecutive…

Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

Defrag98 is a free, browser-based simulator that recreates the classic Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter experience with…

$44M Solar-Powered EV Production Deal Struck

Aptera announced a $44 million partnership with Launch Design to manufacture its solar-powered electric vehicle,…

Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview

Tencent has released Tencent Hy4 preview, an open-source large language model with 770B total parameters and over 1M…

Domain-Driven Agents

The author argues that LLMs struggle with legacy codebases because they lack understanding of domain-specific context…

A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe

A MySQL database upgrade using a replica went wrong when an AUTO_INCREMENT primary key added to a table years earlier…

Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

Warp, an AI-powered terminal platform, developed a self-improving agent framework using Claude that converts user…

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

The modern internet has evolved from a decentralized space built by enthusiasts into an optimized predatory system that…

LLMs are making me lose my savviness

The author, a lifelong software builder and problem-solver, expresses frustration that access to LLMs has diminished his…

vLLM v0.28.0

vLLM v0.28.0 was released with 584 commits from 270 contributors, featuring major performance optimizations for Kimi-K3…

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how…

Creepy Crawlies

AI crawlers are consuming massive resources on git.kernel.org by inefficiently scraping HTML-rendered commits instead of…

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

When starting a new role, the urge to prove your worth through immediate action must be tempered with thorough…

“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC —…

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

While AI tools can boost productivity, they only deliver meaningful results when built on a foundation of strong…

A better SQL in 11 lines of code

Prela is a new query language developed at UCLA that simplifies database queries using binary relations (two-column…

Barcelona Follows Up with AI: The AI Summit closes a busy September

One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona returns to the technology scene.

I hate AI images and music

The author expresses frustration with AI-generated content, particularly images and music, arguing that widespread…