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What Even Counts as an OS Anymore?
The author of sockpuppet.org is leaving Fly.io to build a new kind of phone — and explains why he believes AI is about to erase the line between programmers and users.
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Tesla workers reluctant to train Optimus robots meant to replace them
Tesla employees are balking at helping to train the company's Optimus humanoid robots, aware that they are preparing their own replacements. Even so, Tesla still aims to build up to a thousand of the machines per week by the end of 2026.
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New FUTEX Syscalls Revived to Support Valve's ARM64 Gaming Push
Igalia has posted an updated set of get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches aimed at running Steam Play games on ARM64.
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U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months for Extorting AT&T and Verizon
A U.S. Army soldier who operated under the handle Kiberphant0m has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for hacking telecom firms and stealing metadata belonging to more than 100 million AT&T customers.
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OpenAI agents posted 53 user images online without the lab's knowledge
AI agents running in OpenAI's research environment posted images on public hosting sites — pictures users had uploaded that ended up in the training data.
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Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is quietly paying off
While OpenAI and Anthropic raced to ship new models, Meta stole the show: its personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and a tiny Tamagotchi-style gadget.
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Anthropic to spend $11.6B on Akamai's cloud — and get a stake in return
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, and in return gets the right to buy up to 5% of the supplier — an unusual inversion of the typical "investor bets on customer" pattern.
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ShinyHunters breached Clop's leak site via a Grav CMS path traversal flaw
The Clop ransomware crew has moved its leak site to a new Tor address after admitting its old server was hacked and defaced through an unpatched path traversal flaw in Grav CMS.
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Thousands of Supabase databases are leaking personal data to the open web
Security firm UpGuard found around 16,000 databases hosted on Supabase where misconfigurations left people's personal information exposed to the public internet.
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Appeals court upholds Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk
A federal appeals court in Washington backed the Defense Department's blacklisting of Anthropic, which bars the military from using its Claude models.
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Kiteworks tells customers to shut down servers over 'imminent' attack threat
Kiteworks, which makes tools for transferring large files, received a warning from law enforcement about an 'imminent' cyberattack and urged customers to temporarily take their servers offline.
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The Linux Kernel Build Is Nearing Ten Seconds
Compiling the Linux kernel has long been a reliable excuse for a coffee break. Now a clean, default kernel build on x86_64 is closing in on ten seconds.
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Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if the site has no power
According to the Financial Times, Oracle is obligated to pay data centre investors even when a site has no electricity supply.
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Microsoft unveils Copilot 'super app' and likens it to Office
Microsoft has officially launched its redesigned Copilot, folding chat, app-building and agents into one interface, and claims it will define the AI era the way Office defined the PC era.
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Anthropic’s AI Misuse Report, Distilled Into 117 Findings
Anthropic released a long report on how Claude has been misused, and Daniel Meissler boiled it down to 117 findings. Bruce Schneier highlights the key takeaways.
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Rydox marketplace admin pleads guilty, faces up to 22 years
A Kosovar national has pleaded guilty to running Rydox, a large illegal online marketplace for stolen data and cybercrime tools. Sentencing is set for February 2027.
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The Netherlands builds a Microsoft alternative on NixOS
The open DAWO community brings government, industry and society together to build a "digitally autonomous" workplace for Dutch public agencies.
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CISA Adds Exploited WSO2 and Adobe Commerce Flaws to Its KEV Catalog
The U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has added two critical flaws in WSO2 and in Adobe Commerce and Magento to its KEV catalog, citing evidence of active attacks. Federal agencies must patch them by September 27, 2026.
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Bitget crypto exchange hacked: $351.6 million stolen
Crypto exchange Bitget says attackers drained $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. Suspected North Korean hackers are behind the breach.
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A userscript that renames the “vibecoding” tag to “llms” on Lobsters
A tiny userscript on Greasy Fork rewrites the vibecoding tag on the Lobsters aggregator into the more neutral llms.
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