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devopsai

Linear rebuilt its CI pipeline to survive the pace of AI-assisted coding

As AI agents let developers ship code far faster, the validation step hasn't scaled with them, turning CI into a bottleneck that inflates infrastructure costs a

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supply-chainmalware

Malicious npm math libraries hide a RAT that unlocks only with a secret matrix

SafeDep found a remote-access implant buried in mathmain 1.0.1, an npm package that clones the popular mathjs library. The malicious code is dormant and encrypt

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NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission Is Dead

No article body was provided with this submission — only the headline was included in the source payload. The headline indicates that NASA's Mars Sample Return

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open-sourceprivacy

Open-source HERMES boosts data rates and adds encryption to shortwave radio

Rhizomatica, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit led by founder Peter Bloom, has released HERMES, an open-source software stack that turns high-frequency shortwave r

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aitech-culture

Readers bail on AI-written text — where AI actually helps writing

Colin Breck argues that a flood of AI-generated design docs, pull requests, tickets, and even personal messages has become unreadable, because the output carrie

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privacyai

"Spymark": A New Word for AI Watermarks That Secretly Track You

Writer Brandon Thomas argues that a subset of so-called watermarks deserve their own name — "spymarks" — because they are hidden, non-consensual tracking signal

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aitech-culture

Unverified: alleged 'GPT-6 Sol and Luna' post has no summarizable content

There is no article to summarize here. The submitted content contains only a repeated headline — 'GPT-6 Sol and Luna' — with no body text, and the linked OpenAI

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aitech-culture

Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 released — no article text available to summarize

The source provided for this item contains no substantive content beyond the title 'MiMo v2.6' and a link to Xiaomi's MiMo page. There is no body copy describin

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tech-cultureai

A six-step loop for building product — and why being wrong is the point

Engineer Boris Cherny lays out the repeatable framework he applies to nearly every problem and product: understand what you know, gather what you don't, define

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aiprivacy

Apple Ships a Kill Switch for Apple Intelligence on macOS 27

Apple's Mac support documentation now spells out how to disable and restrict its on-device AI stack, letting users switch off features like the Siri AI beta and

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tech-culturecloud

Bryan Cantrill: Sun's fatal flaw wasn't strategy — it was boredom with the business

Ahead of Oxide's annual company meetup, the team made homage t-shirts riffing on logos of defunct computer makers, and the Sun Microsystems design provoked a wa

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policy

EPA Repeals Biden-Era Carbon Limits on Coal and Gas Power Plants

On September 14, 2026, the EPA moved to repeal the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, which had required existing coal plants and new gas plants to capture 90 per

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