▸ UC Berkeley's RDI group systematically gamed leading AI agent benchmarks, exposing that high leaderboard scores often reflect benchmark-specific short...
▸ Cantrill argues that programmer laziness — the drive to write minimal, reusable, elegant solutions — is a virtue being destroyed by AI code generation...
▸ Smaller, cheaper AI models can replicate the same vulnerability discoveries previously attributed to frontier-scale systems like Mythos.
▸ Steve Hanov runs multiple SaaS businesses each generating $10K+ MRR on a combined infrastructure cost of roughly $20/month using a single VPS, SQLite,...
▸ Objective Development has released Little Snitch for Linux, bringing its per-application outbound firewall to Linux desktops for the first time.
▸ NASA's Artemis II crew — Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen — safely returned after completing the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972.
▸ Microsoft has suspended developer accounts associated with high-profile open-source projects across its platforms, disrupting package distribution and...
▸ Colin Percival — creator of Tarsnap, scrypt, and former FreeBSD Security Officer — marks 20 years as one of AWS's earliest and longest-tenured solo cu...
▸ Filippo Valsorda — maintainer of Go's crypto libraries — published his assessment of when cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) will ac...
▸ The Electronic Frontier Foundation has officially left X (formerly Twitter), ending a presence that dates back to the platform's earliest days as a fr...
▸ GitButler, founded by GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon, has raised $17M in Series A funding to build version control tooling that goes beyond Git's 20-y...
▸ Cloudflare launched EmDash, a CMS built on Workers that isolates plugins in V8 sandboxes — eliminating the class of supply-chain attacks that plague W...
▸ Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr, of Jepsen distributed-systems testing fame) has published a multi-part essay arguing LLMs are fundamentally truth-indifferent s...
▸ Jeffrey Snover — the Microsoft Technical Fellow who created PowerShell — says Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Charles Petzold's Win...
▸ John Deere will pay $99 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it used software locks to force farmers into expensive dealer-only repairs.
▸ The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting notification data that iOS stores independently of the app itself.
▸ Meta has been removing advertisements from law firms recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits — using its own ad platform to suppress...
▸ Maine is on track to become the first US state to legislatively ban the construction of major new data centers, setting a regulatory precedent that cl...
▸ Artemis II launched four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby — the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
▸ The Linux kernel tree now includes Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst — a formal policy governing how contributors may use AI tools like Chat...