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Germany Recruits Skilled Workers, Then Loses Them to Bureaucracy and Language Barriers
Germany draws skilled migrants but struggles to keep them, according to research from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) presented in Berlin. Surveying
GitLost: Prompt Injection in GitHub's Agentic Workflows Leaks Private Repos
Noma Labs found that GitHub's newly launched Agentic Workflows — which pair GitHub Actions with a Claude- or Copilot-backed AI agent that reads issues and calls
Herdr: a tmux-style terminal multiplexer built to wrangle coding agents
Herdr is a single-binary terminal multiplexer aimed squarely at people running multiple AI coding agents at once. Like tmux or Zellij, it offers split panes, ta
Hidden backdoor in Tenda router firmware grants unauthenticated admin access
Multiple versions of Tenda networking firmware ship with an undocumented authentication backdoor, tracked as CVE-2026-11405, that hands full administrative cont
Knockoff: a local browser extension that filters Amazon's fake pseudo-brands
Knockoff is a free browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that strips trademark-squat pseudo-brands—think ALL-CAPS gibberish names like SZHLUX or HORUSDY—out
Kokoro Runs High-Quality TTS Locally on CPU — Even a Decade-Old One
Kokoro is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that produces convincing, multilingual speech entirely on a CPU, keeping audio generation local and off t
'l' aims to be a drop-in runtime for the k and q languages
A new runtime called 'l' is positioning itself as a compatible replacement for the k4 and q languages long associated with kdb+ and time-series analytics. The p
LineageOS Publishes Live Dashboard of Anonymized Install Stats
LineageOS, the community-maintained open-source Android distribution, runs a public statistics dashboard at stats.lineageos.org. It aggregates anonymized check-
Microsoft Guts idTech Engine Team at id Software in Sweeping Xbox Layoffs
Microsoft is reportedly eliminating most or all of the engineers working on idTech, the game engine developed at id Software that has powered decades of first-p
MIT Releases SICP Video Lectures from 1986 Under Creative Commons
MIT OpenCourseWare hosts the complete set of twenty video lectures for 6.001, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, taught by Hal Abelson and Geral
Much of the 'Microplastics in Your Blood' Panic May Be a Measurement Error
Environmental chemist Cassandra Rauert argues that a lot of what the public thinks it knows about microplastics inside the human body rests on shaky measurement
Netherlands' €50M Tulp Fund lures 34 top researchers, 29 tied to the US
The Dutch government's newly created Tulp Fund has awarded its first grants, bringing 34 senior researchers to Dutch institutions. Of those, 29 currently come f