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Microsoft collapses Windows Insider channels to two, kills gradual rollouts in Beta
Microsoft is restructuring the Windows Insider Program into two channels, Experimental and Beta, replacing the current Dev/Canary/Beta split that the company co
OpenAI folds Codex into main GPT-5.5 line, ends separate coding model
Romain Huet confirmed that OpenAI has discontinued the separate Codex model branch as of GPT-5.4, merging coding-specialized capabilities into the unified flags
OpenAI rolls out Privacy Filter to scrub sensitive data from model interactions
OpenAI announced a Privacy Filter feature designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information and other sensitive data before it reaches model tra
OpenAI tells devs: don't port GPT-5.4 prompts to GPT-5.5, rebuild from scratch
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 in the API alongside a prompting guide that explicitly warns against treating it as a drop-in replacement for gpt-5.2 or gpt-5.4. The gui
Overthinking as sabotage: when scope creep kills personal projects
Kevin Lynagh argues that personal projects fall into two camps: ones he just builds and finishes, and ones he sabotages by surveying prior art, expanding scope,
Palantir staff break internal silence over ICE work and Trump-era contracts
Current and former Palantir employees are openly questioning the company's trajectory under the second Trump administration, with internal conversations now fra
Pre-Stuxnet 'fast16' malware surfaces, targeted engineering software years before 2010
Researchers have identified a previously undocumented malware family dubbed 'fast16' that predates Stuxnet and was aimed at engineering software environments. T
Reviving abandoned side projects with Claude Code: a YouTube Music shim case study
A developer revisits a long-shelved personal project — a shim exposing YouTube Music through the OpenSubsonic API — and uses Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to finish
RTL8159 USB adapters bring cheaper, cooler 10 GbE — if your USB port can keep up
A new wave of 10 GbE USB adapters built on Realtek's RTL8159 chip is undercutting Thunderbolt-based 10G dongles on price, size, and heat. Jeff Geerling tested a
Troy Hunt Hits 500 Weekly Updates, Reflects on the Cost of Working on Your Own Terms
Troy Hunt marks his 500th weekly update video with a more personal entry than usual, prompted by an audience question on whether he's happy with the path he and
Trump dismisses NSF's National Science Board, gutting agency oversight
The Trump administration has removed the members of the National Science Board, the 24-person body that sets policy and provides oversight for the National Scie
UNC6692 abuses Teams helpdesk impersonation to drop Snow malware suite
Mandiant has attributed a new intrusion set to UNC6692, a threat group pairing email-bombing pressure tactics with Microsoft Teams messages from fake IT helpdes