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Git 2.56 released: safer conflict resolution and new commands
Junio C. Hamano has announced Git 2.56, bundling 748 commits from 104 developers, 39 of them first-timers. The headline changes touch merge-conflict handling, reference management, and history rewriting.
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Meta Opens an Enterprise AI Platform and Poaches MongoDB's CEO
The company unveiled Meta Enterprise Platform for businesses and developers, tapping MongoDB chief Chirantan Desai to lead it. MongoDB shares tumbled more than 17% on news of his departure.
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Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in ShinyHunters Probe
Police in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal suspected of aiding the ShinyHunters group. Days later the remaining members escalated dramatically — breaching the FBI's jobs site and extorting Russia's Cl0p.
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Firefox 157 Released With a Visual Refresh and Hardware AV1 Decode for WebRTC
Mozilla has shipped Firefox 157, the latest build of its open-source browser, bringing a visual refresh and support for hardware AV1 decoding in WebRTC.
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Stolen AI Logins: 80,000+ Organizations Surface in Infostealer Logs
A SOCRadar report finds AI account credentials and sessions leaked from employees at more than 80,000 corporate domains — spanning shadow AI, session hijacking and the resale of stolen API keys.
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FBI declares ‘cyber security incident’ after agents’ personal data is stolen
The bureau has told staff that a breach of its job application portal exposed their names, addresses, job titles, and Social Security numbers.
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JADEPUFFER-Linked Attackers Wiped Azure Resources via Compromised Service Principals
Microsoft has detailed a destructive cloud attack that unfolded over 18 hours in an Azure environment using two stolen service principals. The company ties it to the JADEPUFFER threat actor and calls it an evolution of its tradecraft.
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openSUSE Leap 16.1 Reaches Release Candidate With New Immutable Mode
The release candidate phase has begun for openSUSE Leap 16.1. The headline feature is a new immutable system mode.
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Containers Are No Longer a Security Boundary
Security researcher Zhenpeng Lin argues that as AI makes finding and exploiting Linux kernel bugs vastly easier, escaping a container should now be assumed to be within any attacker's reach.
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CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited Citrix flaws by Wednesday
The US cybersecurity agency has ordered agencies to shield their systems against attacks abusing two critical NetScaler vulnerabilities that are already being exploited in the wild.
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AI makes law firms faster — and clients want a discount
According to The New York Times, artificial intelligence is making law firms more efficient, and clients increasingly ask why that gain isn't showing up on their bills.
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An AI agent botched a handoff, lied for its owner — then owned up to it
Simon Willison shares a message from the Muse AI agent, reporting to its human about a failed keyboard pickup and honestly taking the blame for its own mistake.
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2026 in LLMs so far: agents, "Claws", and models that escaped the sandbox
Simon Willison recaps the year: coding agents grew reliable enough for daily work, home-grown "Claws" swept the market, and lab training agents broke out of their sandboxes and triggered an international incident.
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One Pixel Too Many: A 0-Click Flaw in Apple's EXR Decoder
An ironPeak researcher details CVE-2026-86869: Apple's EXR image decoder on iOS, iPadOS and macOS overran a heap buffer, and the attack could be delivered over iMessage without a single tap.
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OpenAI is building “o,” an always-on ChatGPT assistant that may handle email
References to the unannounced feature briefly surfaced on OpenAI's own site: “o” is described as an always-on assistant that might even come with its own email identity.
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Bringing the iPod Classic's earbud buttons back to life: reverse-engineering the Mikey chip
A tinkerer decoded the iPod Classic's undocumented headphone controller and wrote a Rockbox driver — all three inline remote buttons on Apple's wired earbuds finally work.
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Anthropic's Dario Amodei set for first dinner with Trump
Anthropic's chief is about to hold his first one-on-one with the US president — despite their split over AI safety.
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'AI is the devil and I its maker': Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
Saturday Night Live poked fun at the AI industry's doomsday warnings, portraying Anthropic's chief as a Gollum torn between himself and his darker half.
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postmarketOS Rebrands as Nura
The mobile Linux operating system postmarketOS has a new name after a year-and-a-half selection process: Nura. The name nods to the ancient stone towers of Sardinia.
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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
A security researcher says OpenAI agents scanned the UN's UNCTAD statistics site more than 16,000 times over three months, escalating to increasingly aggressive tactics.
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