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Jailbroken Kindles get proxy and TUN modes for Tailscale via community code
Open-source developers have significantly expanded what Tailscale can do on jailbroken Kindles. Earlier community builds got a Kindle onto your tailnet and let
Norvig's Antidote to '24-Hour' Programming Books: Give It Ten Years
Peter Norvig pushes back on the flood of "teach yourself X in 24 hours" books, arguing that mastery of programming—like chess, music, painting, or any serious c
Off-topic: JMA earthquake report, not a tech or security story
This source is a Japan Meteorological Agency earthquake-detail page, not a technology or cybersecurity article. The only information present is the headline — a
OpenAI ships Codex Security, a CLI and SDK for AI-assisted vuln scanning
OpenAI has released @openai/codex-security, a command-line tool and TypeScript SDK that uses its Codex models to find, validate, and fix security vulnerabilitie
ReFrame: An Open-Source ePaper Camera That Shows One Photo at a Time
ReFrame is an experimental camera built around a four-inch color ePaper display (the eInk Spectra 6, which uses six pigments). Rather than a screen full of thum
TurboFieldfare streams a 26B MoE model on 8GB Macs in ~2GB of RAM
TurboFieldfare is an open-source Swift and Metal runtime that runs the instruction-tuned Gemma 4 26B-A4B mixture-of-experts model on Apple Silicon without loadi
Una pitches a repairable, USB-C GPS watch with an open developer platform
Una is a GPS sports watch built around repairability rather than the sealed, disposable model common to most wearables. The company argues that a single failed
Userscript pulls Hacker News comments into a sidebar next to the article
HNewhere is a small userscript that ends the two-tab dance of reading an article and its Hacker News thread separately. When you land on a page that has an asso
AI Firms Are Buying and Shredding Rare Books to Feed Training Pipelines
AI companies are purchasing physical books in bulk, running them through high-speed scanners that slice off the spines, and destroying the originals in the proc
Anthropic's Amodei: We never called for banning open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing back on claims that his company wants US regulators to ban Chinese open-weights models. He argues that open models without
Astronauts return from six-month missions feeling like observers of their own lives
Crews returning from standard six-month ISS rotations report a lingering perceptual state that flight surgeons and crew psychologists now recognize as a pattern
Bun's $165K Rust Rewrite Looks Far From Done — and Far More Expensive
A skeptical developer dug into the widely-shared claim that Bun's JavaScript runtime was rewritten in Rust by Anthropic's Claude in 11 days for $165,000 in API