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  • AI advocates filed an FTC complaint accusing companies of burning books by training on copyrighted literature without permission. Microsoft warned of active exploitation of a critical Entra ID flaw, already patched. Hackers poisoned Rust crates to steal credentials. GitHub’s CTO apologized after a second outage, pledging an overhaul. U.S. cyber officials urged patching TrueConf, a Russian video tool, due to attacks by Ukrainian hacktivists.

    Created Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:20:21 +0000
  • Bun 1.4 slashes CPU and memory usage while adding 1,500 Node.js tests. X.Org Server 26.1 RC1, the first feature release in five years, moves to Meson. OPKSSH open-sources SSH single sign-on via OpenID Connect. Go’s standard library now runs freestanding across 31 packages. Odin’s assembler proves assembly can be fully type-checked, and double-double pairs two doubles for 31-digit precision at roughly 9x cost.

    Created Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:22:53 +0000
  • GitHub blamed an eight-hour outage on autoscaling failure and a VS Code retry storm. Baidu said Chinese buyers want domestic AI chips over supply chain fears, denting Nvidia’s hopes. A breach at a third-party operator exposed guest data at 120 Quest hotels. NASA found SpaceX’s Moon crash left a 29-meter double crater. And HMRC’s low-code push cost ÂŁ657M—proving low code isn’t cheap.

    Created Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:16:02 +0000
  • The Trump administration has deleted or altered nearly 400 federal datasets, hitting health data hardest and threatening public health decisions. US officials are pushing for wider medical data access, while HIPAA leaves apps, DNA tests, and wearables exposed. Diesel refining margins hit a record $100 a barrel as the fuel-supply crunch worsens.

    Created Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:14:39 +0000
  • An AI agent found a Snowflake bug and another exploited it in a bug bounty. GitHub had an outage with 50% of repo downloads failing, hitting Copilot. Mozilla added ad-blocking to Firefox for iOS. A cybercriminal is selling millions of records allegedly stolen from Azure customers, including McDonald’s and Vodafone. The UK gave Capita a pandemic role despite pension failures. Gartner says agentic AI costs could quintuple by 2028.

    Created Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:16:42 +0000
  • A cyberattack on Sogang University leaked personal data of nearly 180,000 people, including former President Park Geun-hye. Researchers also exposed a real-time phishing kit impersonating PayPal and Apple, intercepting card numbers and codes. A critical n8n vulnerability (CVE-2026-33696) allows editor-level remote code execution via a single HTTP request.

    Created Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:16:27 +0000
  • Latent reasoning models often skip hidden reasoning on logical tasks, relying on training data; for math, decoders recovered correct intermediate steps up to 93% of the time, offering a prediction-confidence signal. GHC’s Dependent Haskell work advanced with visible forall in GADTs and namespace-specified imports. A 1983 paper on automation ironies warns automation can burden operators, urging human-AI collaboration.

    Created Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:24:24 +0000
  • Ukrainian officials found an Nvidia AI chip in a Russian missile, urging stricter export controls. Autonomous AI attacks on critical infrastructure now pose a ‘clear and present danger,’ experts warn. Trump plans to revert Navy catapults to steam power. France’s tax authority admitted a data breach after 2M records were offered for sale. Trezor also confirmed a logistics breach exposing 13,000 customers.

    Created Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:13:39 +0000
  • Brazil ordered Discord to block live streams nationwide after a teenager died following alleged criminal incitement. OpenAI previewed an ultrafast API tier for GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware, hitting 750 tokens per second. Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, a cheaper coding/agent model. Anthropic extended its US business-AI lead at 43.5% vs OpenAI’s 39.7%. X open-sourced its “For You” ranking code and added shadowban-check tools.

    Created Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:16:21 +0000
  • Kalshi is in talks to raise over $750M at a $40B valuation, up from $22B in May, with Sequoia and Wellington leading. Apple hired American Airlines veteran Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs. The UK plans to regulate AI-driven gene synthesis to stop bioweapons. xAI released Grok 4.6, claiming parity with GPT-5.6 Sol, priced at $2/$6 per million tokens.

    Created Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:19:28 +0000