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Your Car Is Selling Your Data
Modern cars gather enormous amounts of information about drivers and sell it to brokers, and the privacy settings are next to impossible to figure out.
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Homebrew 7.0.0: Built-in Vulnerability Scanning, a Sandbox, and Farewell to Intel
Version 7.0.0 of the popular package manager is out: faster installs, tighter isolation, a native macOS app, and its own vulnerability database. And with it, the project bids a final farewell to Intel processors.
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“Let Everyone Slow Down AI Development—Except Me”
A note with a telling title mocks a stance common across the industry: calling for caution with artificial intelligence while carving out an exception for one's own projects.
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EROFS Disables LZ4 Rolling Decompression Over Data Corruption Risk
The developers of the EROFS filesystem have temporarily removed the rolling decompression optimization for LZ4: in rare cases it led to data corruption. The change will land in Linux 7.3.
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How One Clippy Lint Was Sped Up 3,133×
A developer on the Rust linter Clippy explains how a seemingly harmless macro check was eating up a quarter of the tool's runtime — and how it was radically sped up.
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Sam Altman: an OpenAI IPO in 2026 would be “ill-advised”
In an interview with Fortune, the head of OpenAI said the company is in no rush to go public and certainly has no plans to do so in 2026 — chiefly because of unresolved safety questions.
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LG Denies Allegations of Spying Through Its TVs
After high-profile reports from Gamers Nexus and independent researchers about data collection from Smart TVs, LG has said journalists created a “false impression” of how its devices work.
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Debian 13.7 “Trixie” Released with Security and Bug Fixes
The Debian project has released an updated set of Debian 13 “Trixie” installation images with accumulated security fixes and numerous resolved bugs.
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Anthropic's CEO Calls for Slowing Down AI Development
Dario Amodei has proposed a three-step plan to “slow the movement toward the frontier” of AI, and opened up access to the company's models for outside experts.
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Intel Has a Change of Heart: One Mono Font Spared After a Two-Day “Execution”
Amid cost cutting, Intel has spent two years shuttering its open-source projects. The One Mono font was set to be the next casualty, but a couple of days after it was archived the decision was reversed.
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Data Centers for AI Get a Pollution Break — Former EPA Officials Sound the Alarm
Former staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warn: relaxing environmental rules to fast-track AI infrastructure raises health risks for Americans.
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Revolut confirms customer data breach caused by fake requests impersonating a government body
Fraudsters sent requests from a legitimate government-agency domain and obtained the personal data of some of the fintech company's customers. Revolut said its systems and users' funds were unaffected.
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Cracking Open the Apple Neural Engine: Why the GPU Beats the NPU on Transformers
Developer Eileen Yoon returned to a project she had abandoned three years ago and finally reverse-engineered the full architecture of Apple's neural module on the M1 chip — just as Apple appears to be burying the standalone NPU.
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How Trail of Bits Verifies the Integrity of Your Signal Chats
Trail of Bits has launched as one of three independent auditors of Signal's automatic key verification system — the mechanism that guards against a compromised server swapping in bogus public keys.
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OpenAI and the “Millennium Problems”: Why Mathematicians Have Stopped Trusting the AI Giants
OpenAI claimed it had solved the Navier–Stokes problem, but instead of a triumph it got a scandal: mathematicians accuse the company of chasing prestige, disregarding others' work, and engaging in a “childish” rivalry with Anthropic.
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Starlink signal leaks are keeping radio astronomers from catching echoes of the early Universe
A prototype station for the SKA-Low project in Australia has recorded more than 112,000 unintended emissions from Starlink satellites — thousands of times stronger than the relic signals scientists are hunting for.
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Google Hides Direct Links in Search Results Behind a /goto Redirect
Google Search has stopped showing the direct addresses of found pages in its HTML, replacing them with opaque links of the form google.com/goto. This is how the company is making it harder to harvest search results en masse.
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“I Didn't Know AI Could Make Up Facts”: Lawyer Punished for Fake Testimony from ChatGPT
The New Mexico Supreme Court found a defense attorney who filed an appeal citing testimony from nonexistent witnesses guilty of contempt of court and fined him $5,000.
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The Hidden Pitfalls of OpenRouter: One Endpoint, Different Behavior
OpenRouter's unified API picks a provider automatically, but that comes at the cost of unpredictable behavior from one and the same model. Mohamed Moustafa explains how to take back control.
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OpenAI's AI Agents Carried Out an Undisclosed Attack on RubyGems
In May 2026, a swarm of AI agents believed to belong to OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to RubyGems, achieved code execution on RubyDoc.info's servers, and tried to steal users' API keys. The company never notified the registry of its role.
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