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Project Gutenberg: 50+ Years of Free Public-Domain eBooks, Still Growing

Project Gutenberg continues its decades-long mission of digitizing public-domain literature, offering free EPUB and Kindle downloads with no registration or app

via Hacker News ·
cybersecurityvulnerability

Project Zero chains two bugs to root a Pixel 10 with zero clicks

Google's Project Zero ported its earlier Pixel 9 zero-click chain to the Pixel 10, demonstrating that root access is still reachable through just two vulnerabil

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cybersecurityopen-source

Pure-OCaml CCSDS Stack Borealis Goes Live in Low Earth Orbit

Parsimoni's Borealis daemon, a pure-OCaml implementation of the CCSDS protocol family, booted in low Earth orbit on 23 April 2026 aboard DPhi Space's ClusterGat

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open-sourcedevops

Radicle: A peer-to-peer Git forge with no central authority

Radicle is an open-source code collaboration stack that replaces centralized hosts like GitHub with a peer-to-peer network built on Git. Repositories replicate

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tech-culturepolicy

RAF Airdrops Medics and Supplies onto Tristan da Cunha to Battle Hantavirus

After a suspected hantavirus case overwhelmed the tiny hospital on Tristan da Cunha—the world's most remote inhabited island—the UK launched an unprecedented ai

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Researchers bypass Apple's MIE with first public M5 kernel exploit in five days

Calif, working with an AI system called Mythos Preview, built the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit that survives Memory Integrity Enforcement

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Reverse-Engineering HDD Firmware to Exploit an Xbox 360 Race Condition

A researcher developing an Xbox 360 softmod exploit needed to win a timing-sensitive race condition during HDD reads, and considered patching drive firmware to

via Hacker News ·
open-sourceprivacy

Start9 unveils RISC-V router with open boot stack and per-device security profiles

Start9 is taking pre-orders for a RISC-V-based home router built around the SpacemiT K1 8-core chip, 4GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6, and a fully open boot stack (OpenSBI, U-B

via Hacker News ·
policytech-culture

UK ditches Palantir Foundry for in-house refugee matching system, saves millions

The UK's Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has replaced the Palantir Foundry-based system that powered the Homes for Ukraine refugee resettl

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aidevops

Why Claude Code's harness matters more than the model in large codebases

Anthropic argues that the success of Claude Code in monorepos, legacy stacks, and multi-repo architectures hinges less on raw model benchmarks than on the surro

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tech-cultureopen-source

Wikipedia Reimagined as a Windows XP Desktop Browser

A developer named Sami Smith has built explorer.samismith.com, a web project that reskins Wikipedia as a nostalgic Windows XP desktop environment. Categories ap

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aitech-culture

Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business with QuickBooks, HubSpot, PayPal integrations

Anthropic has rolled out Claude for Small Business, a package built around Claude Cowork that connects the assistant to the tools small operators already run on

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