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Bitwarden's Quiet Pivot: New PE-Style CEO, Vanishing 'Always Free' Promise
Bitwarden has undergone a series of unannounced changes that suggest a strategic shift toward an acquisition exit. Longtime CEO Michael Crandell quietly moved t
Click (2016): a browser experiment that narrates your every move
Click is a 2016 interactive web project at clickclickclick.click that turns ordinary browser telemetry into an unsettling running commentary. As a visitor click
Cloudflare puts Anthropic's Mythos Preview to work hunting bugs in its own code
Cloudflare tested Anthropic's security-focused Mythos Preview model against more than fifty of its own repositories under Project Glasswing, and reports a meani
Computer security pioneer Peter Neumann dies at SRI
Peter Neumann, the longtime SRI International researcher whose work shaped the field of computer security and trustworthy systems, has died. According to a mess
Cursor's Composer 2.5 leans on targeted RL feedback and synthetic tasks
Cursor has shipped Composer 2.5, an upgrade to its in-editor coding agent built on Moonshot's open-source Kimi K2.5 checkpoint. The release focuses less on raw
Eric Schmidt's AI pitch booed by University of Arizona graduates
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt drew sustained boos during a University of Arizona commencement speech when he framed artificial intelligence as the next great t
FBI Seeks Nationwide License Plate Reader Access, Procurement Docs Show
Procurement records reviewed by 404 Media reveal the FBI is pursuing a contract for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPR) data. Such access
Files.md: A minimalist, local-first Markdown alternative to Obsidian
Files.md is an open-source personal knowledge management tool built around plain Markdown files stored locally, pitched as a deliberately stripped-down alternat
FTC hits Shutterstock with $35M penalty over dark-pattern subscription traps
Shutterstock has agreed to pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it ran its subscription business on deceptive terms for years. The agency found the st
Haiku OS boots on Apple M1 Macs, with rough edges
Haiku, the BeOS-inspired open-source operating system, has reached a milestone on Apple Silicon: it now boots to the desktop on an M1 MacBook Air, running bare
Hotkey-driven KVM: switching between Mac and Linux without leaving the keyboard
Alex Plescan rigs up a single-monitor, single-peripheral workflow for a MacBook and a Linux desktop using two ingredients: an MSI MPG 321URX monitor whose built
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: A Side-by-Side Reference for Four Lisp Dialects
A comparative reference sheet maps the syntax and semantics of Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, and Emacs Lisp across dozens of categories, from compilation and RE