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PowerShell over SSH in 2026: OpenSSH on Windows, Key Auth, and PowerShell 7 Remoting
OpenSSH ships in Windows, sshd comes preinstalled on Server 2025, and PowerShell 7 remotes over SSH natively. A twenty-year follow-up to the Cygwin kludge, including the key-permissions gotcha that still bites everyone.
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neither gcc nor clang are compliant with standard c++
in c++, function types have a "language linkage" associated with them: this is either "C++", "C", or some other implementation-defined language. and the standard very explicitly states that Two function types with different language linkages are distinct types even if they are otherwise identical...
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Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression
DoltHub has recently released Dolt 2.0, a major update to the open source version-controlled SQL database. The latest major version adds automatic storage optimization, including garbage collection an
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Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
Aurora DSQL is a serverless SQL database designed for cloud-scale transaction processing with multi-region active-active capabilities. Built on a disaggregated architecture, DSQL separates compute, storage, and transaction coordination into independent, horizontally scalable services. Query proce...
How does Pangram work?
How our model works, and the reasons we are confident in our AI detection
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Claude make Fable 5 permanent
An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and …
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nascheme/quixote
A certain vintage if Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago. The oldest commit in …
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Regressive JPEGs
One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off.
The Magic of ArenaAllocator, No Leak, No Grow, No What You Think
I got involved to multiple debates regarding recent events, then I realized that some people just came to this forum to watch this language development, and judge it by its cover, without actually using it. After judging, unfortunately, they joined the debates, and provided others with inaccurate...
Hashiwokakero (Hashi Bridges) - Playable Web Version + Zig First Impressions
Hashiwokakero ( Hashi Bridges ) Source Code Play the Web Version Here A zig implementation of the popular japanese game “Hashiwokakero”, using the raylib-zig binding for the graphics. This is my first project using zig, I’m much more familiar with C/C++, for example. I wanted something about e...
Poll always returns INVAL when executable called by gdb, strace, kcov
Anytime i use any of these tools to launch my MMO’s server they always crash on .INVALD => unreachable,. Otherwise, the server runs normally. In my server I initialize a player list in main players: std.MultiArrayList(struct { player: Player, socket: std.posix.pollfd, aid: common.A...
Scala on Go
Scala on Go. Sealed types, pattern matching, Option/Either/Try/Future, and immutable collections — transpiled to plain Go with full third-party interop, zero-reflection JSON, and a GoLand plugin. -...
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
From its humble beginnings as a project code-named
Classic console tech tricks
A series of videos explaining the tech behind classic consoles and how various effects were achieved in games.
Another Taste of Verse
Simon Peyton Jones presents a deep exploration of Verse, the experimental programming language being developed at Epic Games, and explains how its design cha...
topcoat: A batteries-included framework for building web apps
A batteries-included framework for building web apps - tokio-rs/topcoat
Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace
Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B
How Haskell earned its place in H-E-B's supply chain.
In-House LLM Serving at Netflix
In-House LLM Serving at Netflix By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full …
New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code
WordPress 6.9.5 and 7.0.2 patch wp2shell, a pre-auth core RCE that lets anonymous attackers run code on default installs, even with no plugins.
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Lobsters Interview with matheusmoreira about Lone Lisp
A medical doctor implemented a Lisp on the Linux kernel with direct system calls without even a C stdlib dependency.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach
Lots of articles about this. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
From its humble beginnings as a project code-named "Oak" at Sun Microsystems to becoming a global standard for enterprise software and billions of devices, J...
OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests
OpenSSL fixed HollowByte after 11-byte TLS requests could strand memory on glibc systems, but shipped no CVE, advisory, or changelog note.
Cloudflare WAF protects WordPress applications from two high-severity vulnerabilities
Cloudflare has deployed two WAF rules in response to high-severity vulnerabilities disclosed to us by the WordPress security team. The new rules protect all Cloudflare customers using affected WordPress versions, but customers should still update immediately to a patched release.
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Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
I know. As if what the world needed was yet another blogpost about LLMs and AI tech. Yet there is a pile of things which have been on my mind, and I haven't seen them laid out elsewhere in the way I'm going to write them, and so here we go.
Masonry (with Animation) in CSS
Masonry.js was famous for creating, uh, Masonry layouts. But it did something else, too: animate fluid grids. Here's a way to get that in native CSS as well as the layout.
Tech builds on AI. Finance protects the margin.
- The challenge: In AI-native companies, agents now shape compute costs, usage pricing, and revenue recognition by the hour. Finance tools built on monthly extracts and spreadsheets surface what moved the margin weeks after it moved. - The solution: Genie One gives finance a data-smart AI coworke...
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The Protocol Wars in Factories, Nvidia's Thor Modules for Robotics and Edge AI, 'Mind of the Engineer' survey: Embedded Week Insights
This week’s roundup covers the challenges of using different protocols in factories, Nvidia’s latest Thor modules, AI-powered custom test design, and the Mind of the Engineer survey.
Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT
Seven malicious npm packages target Vite developers, using blockchain-based C2 to deliver a RAT for credential theft, file exfiltration, persistence.
ZA/UM Studios to lay off up to 32 workers two months after releasing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies developer ZA/UM Studios has filed redundancy notices with 32 employees.
An edge case for Io.Dir.realpath*() functions
Hi everyone, This was the topic that finally motivated my first post here. Not to try and litigate it, but try and understand it, and perhaps ask what to do about an edge case if the long considered removal were to be accepted one day. I’m pretty new to Zig, but feel I’ve gotten pretty far. I’v...
Polymarket traders cut Clarity Act passage odds to record low as Senate delay drags on
Polymarket bettors have cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year to a record low as Senate negotiations over ethics provisions remain unresolved.
OpenAI is being sued for stealing, again…
Get $500 in Hyperagent credits to build agents that can ship real work - https://hyperagent.com/invite/FIRESHIP500 OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit, this time at the hands of Apple. In today's video, we'll take a look at exactly what they're being accused of and why Apple are only stepping i...
Following the questions where they lead
A profile of MIT Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan explores how she develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.
Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure
Acquisition strategies underscore a massive land grab to capture cross-border remittance flows and native stablecoin reserve economics ahead of tight regulation.
Engineering High Performance Parsers (with Zig)
Good breakdown of Data Oriented Design for parsers.
New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens
NadMesh scans exposed AI services for AWS keys, Kubernetes tokens, model access, and MCP tools while Docker and Jenkins lead observed exploit traffic.
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Building a soccer coaching app on Databricks
* Coach’s Corner is a Databricks App that turns 25 fps match tracking data into a sub-second 2D/3D tactical bench with replays, event analytics, a scout chat, and an opponent-dossier agent. * It runs on one platform, powered by Databricks end-to-end. Lakeflow pipelines refine 51 million rows thr...
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Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/)
The cost of saying yes has changed
The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.
GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft
Expel links CylindricalCanine to DigiCert's April 2026 breach, where stolen certificates were used to sign Zhong Stealer and 60 were revoked.
Todd Howard says 'the timing is right' for a collaboration with Obsidian
Fallout franchise director Todd Howard confirms a new Fallout game is in the works with sister studio Obsidian Entertainment.
Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push
The move marks a major transition for the blockchain as independent engineering groups prepare to maintain the underlying software code through 2027.
Kimi K3 tops Arena’s coding leaderboard — and it’s open-weight
Open-weight model Kimi K3 tops Arena's frontend coding leaderboard, challenging proprietary AI coding tools and pushing IDE vendors to rethink model lock-in.
1Password’s new browser integration for Claude changes how AI uses your credentials
1Password's new Claude integration lets AI agents authenticate without ever seeing passwords, using on-device decryption and per-task user approval.
Eclipse Dataspace Components on AWS: Cost optimization strategies
When you deploy Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) connectors on AWS, one of the first challenges you face is predicting and controlling the cost of the required infrastructure. Without clear benchmarks, it is difficult to make informed decisions about workload sizing, environment configuration,...
Eclipse Dataspace Components on AWS: Architecture patterns in production
Running Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) connectors in production on AWS requires deliberate architecture decisions around isolation, managed services, and security layering. In Part 1 of this series, we covered the fundamentals of data space architectures and EDC per the International Data Spa...
Eclipse Dataspace Components on AWS: Data sharing fundamentals
This three-part blog series guides you through implementing Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) on AWS, from foundational concept to production deployment. Part 1 establishes the theoretical foundation with IDSA standards, the Dataspace Protocol (DSP), and core EDC architecture. Part 2 provides pr...
What a $20 coding subscription actually buys
Someone's subsidizing your coding agent. Aperture shows whether it's you.
Level Up Your Column-level Security: Using IAM Data Governance Tags in BigQuery
Learn how to manage column-level access controls in BigQuery using IAM data governance tags, ensuring secure, scalable data classification and protection.
13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Here are 13 demos that walk you through what Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform can do. Each one teaches a concept, a pattern, or an architecture you can put to work immediately.
The CMMC Pause: The DoD Suspends Phase 2 Requirements
The DoD suspends the CMMC Phase 2 requirements, scheduled to take effect on November 10, 2026, and launches a 60-day reform review.
Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers
A Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face
Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard 10 million casual users onto decentralized finance
The company says its advantage lies in bringing retail customers onchain, but early activity remains dominated by memecoins, while its original tokenization pitch remains small.
“They’re dead if they don’t offer this”: DoorDash’s CLI for agents may be out of necessity
DoorDash announced a terminal tool to let AI agents order food — whether it's good for business is another question.
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Mozilla: The state of open source AI
Article URL: https://stateofopensource.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 Points: 252 # Comments: 173
Building a Stabilized "Chase Camera" Rover
Quad-rotor drone shots taken low to the ground are difficult: GPS altitude is fairly rough on accuracy, and obstacle avoidance can get significantly more difficult versus just flying over the everything. Cinema rover drones are less common but do get around a number of these problems, especially...
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.
Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Noticing responses to problems; there’s a whole set. The consultant’s reaction to each of these as they arise.
Vector Photonics Develops New PCSEL Packaging Technology
Vector Photonics launches an accelerated manufacturing initiative to address a packaging barrier to the commercial adoption of PCSELs.
Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images
North Korean hackers hide a four-stage OtterCookie payload in SVG files inside fake coding tests to steal browser data and crypto wallets.
Japan's SBI Group is building Asia's first cross-border digital asset empire
The latest acquisition adds to a string of investments aimed at connecting digital asset markets across Asia.
Kotlin Turns 15: Celebrate the Kotlin Effect
Kotlin turns 15! Create a birthday postcard, share your wish, and explore more ways to celebrate the Kotlin Effect with the community.
How Far Behind the Frontier are Leading Open Weight Models on Cyber?
We evaluated the cyber capabilities of leading open and closed weight AI models, and found that recent open models GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro perform similarly to frontier closed models released 4 to 7 months before them – a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months we measured through most of 2025.
Fedichat - Comic Chat for the Fediverse
WELCOME TO FEDICHAT! WHO ARE YOU TODAY?
Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry
Ben O'Mahony shares how to build a data flywheel for AI agents using OpenTelemetry, explaining how behavioral user signals can be mined to distill and fine-tune smaller, localized language models.
Meta’s Spark Muse 1.1 is now available on Databricks, fully governed by Unity AI Gateway
• Get day-one access to Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1 (and any model) through Model Provider Services in Unity AI Gateway. Register providers once in Unity Catalog to eliminate API key sprawl and centralize access across every team. • Teams can use familiar Unity Catalog permissions, rate limits, an...
How to check two function type matches?
/// return true if /// a = b; // a: Afunc, b: Bfunc /// won’t cause a compile error fn match_function_type(Afunc: type, Bfunc: type) bool simply Afunc == Bfunc is not all the cases. by the way, is there a way to capture the compile error?
Why every AI agent decision needs a receipt
AI agents need more than raw data. Learn how structured evidence packets ensure trustworthy, auditable, and verifiable AI decision-making.
We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark
Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.
You've likely heard "fake it til you make it"...well, Mark has done that, and talks about it here.
You've probably heard the phrase "fake it 'til you make it", right? Well, Mark was once asked to teach a college course...that started the next day. He decided to go for it, and the students thought he'd been doing it for years. The lesson: sometimes you say yes and then figure out how to do it.
Partial workaround for missing `decls` param to `@Struct`
I just had plain c.sdl* functions and I decided that I want to strip them to sdl.* Gnerally it is just about trying to find a way to create decls for comptime generated struct (As a probably a lot of people tried: example1, example2). And I found one way! In zig you can do following: // It is...
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LLM cliché highlighter
Detect and highlight common clichéd phrases in text that frequently appear in language model outputs. Paste text into the analyzer to identify patterns like "no X, no Y" chains, "sit …
Securing the Silicon: The Seismic Shift to Hardware Security
My podcast guest this week is Jason Oberg from Arteris. Jason and I discuss this profound transition toward hardware security, explore how Cycuity’s integration into Arteris is changing the g…
Agentic AI Security: Defending Against Prompt Injection and Tool Misuse
In this article, you will learn what prompt injection and tool misuse are in the context of agentic AI systems, and which defense strategies experts recommend to mitigate them.
Arm and Google offer a smarter option to run agentic AI workloads
Here's how Google Axion CPUs and the GKE Agent Sandbox optimize agentic AI costs.
From intent to enforcement: Lessons from operating Kubernetes controllers at scale
Learn how Amazon EKS scales Kubernetes controllers, manages state memory, and ensures correct network policy enforcement at scale.
Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI
A new technical analysis published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) argues that the future of agentic AI will be built not on entirely new infrastructure, but on the mature cloud-native
AI frenzy losing steam leaves bitcoin less volatile than South Korean stocks
The day ahead in crypto: July 17, 2026
E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants
EU orders Google to open 11 Android 18 features to rival AI assistants by August 2027, while sharing anonymized Search data under DMA rules.
Labor unions challenge Xbox, GameStop CEO says physical game sales are 'irrelevant,' and Glen Schofield retires - Patch Notes #61
Plus: A free 'good practice guide' for video game writing contracts in the UK.
Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners
Design high-quality benchmarks that go beyond recall to evaluate how frontier models truly reason, act, and judge.
The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace?
Autonomous defense systems need trusted infrastructure to move telemetry, command data, and AI outputs across platforms, classifications, and allies.
Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
Really interesting piece of cryptographic history: In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheets in Turing’s own handwriting, telling of his top-...
Flipkart and LitmusChaos at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: A recap
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 brought the cloud native community to Mumbai on June 18-19. For LitmusChaos, this was not just another conference. It was one of our most significant events to date.
Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man
Armenia holds Aleksandr Yuryevich Ermakov on a U.S. REvil extradition request, while his lawyers say Washington is seeking a different namesake.
Live markets: Bitcoin slips to $63,000 as the chip rout goes global
A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 it reached on this week's soft inflation print.
LoRa radio communication devices for Raspberry Pi
Use these LoRa add-on boards to send data from Raspberry Pi projects located beyond your home Wi-Fi range.
Risk-off wave drags bitcoin below $63,000 as AI selloff spreads from stocks to crypto
Crypto approached the weekend broadly lower as AI stock fatigue and U.S.-Iran tensions weighed on sentiment, though an RSI near 42 hints at oversold conditions heading into the weekend.
Reactive Flows, AI Agents, and State Events: This Week’s Angular Masterclass! ⚡
Reactive Flows, AI Agents, and State Events: This Week’s Angular Masterclass! ⚡ The Angular ecosystem is moving incredibly fast, bringing together fully reactive architectures, smart AI agents …
How an Apple Engineer Pranked Billion-Dollar Lawyers (and Won)
Discover the wild story behind SOSUMI, the iconic Mac alert sound that started as a quiet act of rebellion inside Apple. This video breaks down how a frustrated engineer slipped a joke past Apple’s legal team during the company’s long-running dispute with The Beatles’ Apple Corps. It’s a fascinat...
Weird `std.Build.Step.Run.expectStdErr{Exact,Match}` error
This test: const run = b.addSystemCommand(&.{ b.graph.zig_exe, "fetch", "--no-unpack=subpath/../example_dep_file.txt", }); run.addFileArg(b.path("example/example_dep_file.txt")); run.expectExitCode(1); run.expectStdErrMatch("--no-unpack path may not contain '..' components"); test_st...
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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
PhpStorm 2026.2 is Now Out
Welcome to the PhpStorm 2026.2 release overview. This version advances PhpStorm as a platform for your preferred coding agents, models, and AI subscriptions, improves PHP and Laravel support, and deli
Unfolding trees breadth-first in Haskell (2025)
A blog about functional programming
Guide to AI Tokenomics: Eleven Principles for Token Efficient Software Engineering
Optimize your software engineering with our Guide to AI Tokenomics. Explore 11 actionable principles to improve coding assistant performance, reduce latency, and control costs effectively.
QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves Beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals
QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring
ACR Stealer Uses ClickFix Lures to Steal Browser Tokens and Microsoft 365 Files
ACR Stealer campaigns use ClickFix lures, JPEG steganography, and WebDAV to steal browser tokens, passwords, PDFs, and synced Microsoft 365 files.
Airbnb CEO says X account was hacked, attacker posted AI-slop on tokenization
Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".
New GoSerpent Malware Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Diplomats for Espionage
New GoSerpent malware targets Southeast Asian government and diplomatic entities, deploying SOCKS5 proxies, credential dumpers, and data theft tools.
How to retrieve function names via `@typeInfo` in zig 0.17.0?
I see some posts here example that older versions of zig allowed to retrieve function names via @typeInfo but I try to do it and there are only field names… const anon = struct { tte: u32, pub fn ttr() void {} }; const stripped = stripNamespace(anon); pub fn main() !void { stripped....
When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he encountered involving a screenshot extension where he made an exception to the rule and decided that blocking the main thread was a...
Key Takeaways From PHPverse 2026
On June 9, PHPverse 2026 brought together PHP developers from different backgrounds to watch talks by domain experts, exchange opinions, and even try to catch a running elePHPant. The five-hour live s
Microsoft just open-sourced the app that put Comic Sans on the map
Comic Chat was the '90s IRC client that turned typed chats into comic strips. It's also partly responsible for the digital world's most (in)famous font.
Ether falls twice as hard as bitcoin and HYPE drops 10% as the chip trade unwinds
Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.
This $28 million ether market bet aims to profit from pure market chaos
A high-conviction ether straddle hit the tape this week, showing increasing interest in volatility as an asset class.
Data downloaded by Vercel Sandbox is now free
Data that Vercel Sandbox downloads from the internet — packages, Git repos, artifacts, datasets — no longer counts toward Sandbox Data Transfer usage. Traffic received on exposed ports remains billable.
CISA Adds Exploited SharePoint RCE Zero-Day CVE-2026-58644 to KEV
CISA says SharePoint CVE-2026-58644 was exploited before Microsoft patched it, affecting all supported on-premises versions and enabling RCE.
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges before disengagement, with transient dual encoding and reduced alpha power supporting flexible audito...
Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.
The PHP Podcast 2026.07.16
🎙️ PHP Podcast - July 16, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon, and Holly Schilling Joe hosts with Sarah and Holly while running on no sleep. The PHP Tech 2027 CFP opens, a fake PHP 9 pitch appears, we crown Holly the accidental main character of internals, and everyone agrees dark mode flash...
Bitcoin under $64,000 after new U.S. strike on Iran. Trump's China comment adds to uncertainty
Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.-China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin.
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Pebble Mega Update - July 2026
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead to better modern-day building materials
Spot birds not golf
Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to …
Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second
Negative leap second risk is driving an October 2026 CGPM vote to replace the 54-year-old leap second with a leap hour. Earth set rotation speed records in 2024 and 2025, and timekeepers estimate a...
Stop the GUARD Act and age verification laws worldwide — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
It always comes back to "protecting the children." It's one of the most convincing ways of getting people to sign on to (or simply support) a bill. But when a goal like this gets shouted about so widely by lawmakers who have a less than sterling record on these issues, we need to consider whether...
Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and no Trampolines II
Martin Uecker, 2026-07-14
Runtime logs now show cache reasons
Debug cache behavior in runtime logs with cache reasons for MISS, BYPASS, STALE, and REVALIDATED requests.
Representing GPU device pointers on the CPU host side
I’m making an abstraction over Vulkan based on No Graphics API and I’ve been debating how to represent gpu side pointers on cpu, here’s a small snippet of what it looks like right now in my user code so you get the idea: const Data = extern struct { particles: *anyopaque, // gpu pointer,...
Pride Meetup - Portland OR
I know there are a few of us in Portland, and pride is this weekend. Anyone want to meet up for lunch on Sunday after the parade? If nobody suggests an alternative, my default plan is Veggie Grill @ 1PM since it’s easy and near the festival/parade route. I’m open to suggestions though, I rarely...
The human-in-the-loop is tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
Here's how I host my own AIM server
Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.
GLM 5.2 is 35% off via Novita on AI Gateway
GLM 5.2, the open-weights coding model from Z.ai, is 35% off on AI Gateway through July 24 when routed through Novita. After the discount ends, it stays at standard provider rates with no markup.
Optimized CDN caching and deploying of immutable static assets
Vercel now supports reusing static files across deployments for frameworks that output content-addressed assets.
Vercel Plugin now available in Kimi Code CLI
Install the Vercel Plugin in the Kimi Code CLI to give Kimi Code Vercel platform knowledge on demand, with skills for Next.js, AI SDK, and Vercel Functions.
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Compile-time OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Go
Go Weekly — Issue #610
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Learning a few things about running SQLite
Learning a few things about running SQLite
Chat SDK adds native Slack agent support
Build native Slack agents with Chat SDK. Get suggested prompts, streamed replies, status messages, and feedback buttons with a declarative config.
New falsify release
Recently Martijn Bastiaan, QBayLogic’s COO, invited Well-Typed to come to QBayLogic HQ and give a one-day workshop on falsify, the new property based testing library that I developed for the Haskell Symposium back in 2023 (paper, presentation). QBayLogic is the company behind Clash: a purely func...
Plain-changes - An unique element permutation iterator
While doing Advent of code 2015 day 13 I realized I needed to make some combinations of people around a table. Turns out this concept is called a permutation and well, one thing led to the other until I made my first library ever. You can find it here: https://codeberg.org/T3kla/plain-changes A...
Lumis: Syntax Highlighter powered by Tree-sitter
Lumis looks like a pretty sweet new syntax highlighter tool. Powered by Tree-sitter, of which I can vouch for its speed and power. I like how many runtimes it supports, almost encouraging server-side use, which is the best place for the job when you can pull it off.
Firefox in WebAssembly
This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser. Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly, running in Chrome: …
Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem
Capcom’s RE ENGINE team set out to bring path tracing into two shipping titles at once, Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA, each with a different visual identity. Over two years, the RE ENGINE team…
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
As of writing, the Zilog Z80 processor was officially launched 50 years ago, in July of 1976, less than 4 years after the last human had walked on the moon, decades closer to WWII than to the present day, roughly at a half way point between the Kennedy assassination and the...
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Vocalizer: Local Text-to-Speech for PHP
Vocalizer is a native PHP extension for local speech synthesis, embedding sherpa-onnx and audio.cpp to run eight TTS model families — including Chatterbox voice cloning — behind one API.
Your AI is ready. Your data foundation probably isn’t
* Cushman & Wakefield built its enterprise AI core over four years by embedding technologists directly into business units under a product operating model — prioritizing trust and human behavior over the "AI pilot craze." * A capital investment model that requires technology initiatives to be co...
From experiment to insight: how Dotmatics Luma and Databricks make AI-ready science a reality
* Getting the data foundation right (continuous capture, harmonization, and governance) is what actually unlocks trustworthy AI in science; AI trained on fragmented data can't be trusted. * Luma and Databricks are complementary by design: Luma brings scientific context and instrument connectivit...
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and …
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
Using AI to build your own software
A few years ago, a friend of mine was stuck. He needed to quickly process over a hundred high-quality images according to a complicated sequence. He was using Photoshop, but it was going to take him days. Initially, he asked for my help, could I do the manual labor? I spent 15 minutes writing a …...
Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for free
This blog post, originally published in April 2024, has been updated to reflect the most modern and convenient ways to install a Tailscale app in Home Assistant and use it for remote access, to accompany a newer video tutorial. You can see the original video here.
Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
This CNC hot wire cutter was created specifically for making airplane wings
If you want to build RC airplanes, you’ll need a way to make lightweight wings. 3D printing can work with foaming filament, but most 3D printers have limited build volume. A better method is to use a hot wire cutter to shape foam. Michael Rechtin’s CNC hot wire cutter automates that process acros...
Announcing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
If you write Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET, you have been able to add OpenTelemetry to an application without editing its code for years: attach an agent at startup and telemetry starts flowing. Go has been the exception. A Go program compiles to a single static binary with no runtime to hook in...
Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms
For the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms.
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.
We're Going to Make Out Like Bandits
Here’s the plan. I reckon it’ll take about five years in all, and I think we’re about 1.5 to 2 years in already.
Xcode 27 runner image now in public preview
You can now build and test your Apple applications against Xcode 27 on GitHub-hosted macOS runners. This is now available in public preview. With early access to the latest Xcode…
Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.
Unified context: The missing layer for enterprise AI coworkers
* Unified context makes AI decision-ready. Generic assistants stall on real decisions because context is scattered; a shared, governed layer lets AI coworkers work from the same view of the business as leaders and frontline teams. * Genie One is the AI coworker for real work. Genie One uses unif...
What happens in the milliseconds after you tap pay
* A sample Databricks App (FastAPI + React) that scores credit card transactions for fraud in real time using Model Serving route optimization for low-latency inference and Lakebase Postgres for online feature and profile lookups. * Fast inference alone is not enough. The app pairs route-optimiz...
The skills gap behind agentic AI — and how Databricks is closing it with a new context engineer certification and agent trainings
* Industry-first Context Engineering certification: Launched at Data+AI Summit, the new Databricks Certified Context Engineer Associate beta exam validates the technical depth required to curate optimal context windows and build reliable agentic systems * Expanded learning catalog: Databricks ha...
AI hasn’t shifted the bottleneck from coding to code review
Think AI shifted your bottleneck to code review? Think again. The real issue is downstream deployment batches blocking your value stream.
GoDaddy opened its registrar to AI agents. Then it had to build guardrails.
GoDaddy launches a developer platform with new APIs, a CLI, and AI-agent safeguards, bringing domain search, purchase, and DNS management into code-first workflows.
Quoting Thibault Sottiaux
On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: Full access mode is enabled …
Open Protocols with the Strands Agents SDK
If you are building AI agents, you have likely encountered a growing list of protocol acronyms—MCP, A2A, UTCP, AG-UI, and x402—that can feel overwhelming. The open source community has converged on several complementary protocols. An AI agent is only as useful as the systems it can reach: interna...
From the Captain’s Chair: Mohammad-Ali A’râbi
In this edition of From the Captain’s Chair, we’re interviewing Mohammad-Ali A'râbi, author, public speaker, and software engineer.
Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack
Two TfL hackers get 5.5 years each for the £29 million 2024 attack, which disabled 148 systems, exposed customer data, and disrupted travel services.
Announcing .NET Modernization for Beginners
A free, open-source, hands-on course that walks you through modernizing a real legacy ASP.NET application all the way to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization agent, step by step.
ObservabilityCON 2026: Register today and preview this year's agenda
It’s time to reserve your spot at ObservabilityCON 2025, our flagship observability event, taking place 7-9 October in London.
Godot Community Poll 2026
We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.
You don’t have a deployment problem. You have a validation problem.
AI agents are flooding pipelines. The bottleneck isn't deployment—it's validation. Learn how to fix independent deployability.
The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI?
To a sceptic, spending $165K to migrate Bun from Zig to Rust sounds very expensive. But to a realist, shortening a 1-2 year migration down to 11 days opens amazing new opportunities for devs. However, a thoroughly-tested project is required to pull it off.
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
clj-refactor.el 4.0
Hot on the heels of CIDER 2.0, clj-refactor.el 4.0 is out! It’s the first major release of the project in almost five years, and this time around the version bump is not just ceremonial - 4.0 is the biggest batch of user-facing improvements clj-refactor has seen in ages, plus a healthy dose of lo...
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
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Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the the next generation of digital payments.
Decoy Font
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.
Unions take legal action against Microsoft for allegedly mishandling Xbox layoffs
CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth claims the company 'unlawfully fired people without giving notice to or discussing it with the union.'
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