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MIT President: Endowment Tax and Federal Pullback Shrink Research, Grad Pipeline
MIT President Sally Kornbluth told the campus community that despite Congress partially restoring research agency funding earlier this year, federal dollars are
NGINX heap overflow CVE-2026-42945 enables unauthenticated RCE via rewrite module
A critical heap buffer overflow in NGINX's ngx_http_rewrite_module, present since 2008, allows unauthenticated remote code execution against servers that use re
One Developer's Migration From US SaaS to a European-First Digital Stack
A developer documents swapping out US-based cloud and SaaS tools for European equivalents, motivated less by cost than by digital sovereignty concerns: data res
Open Source Resistance: Maintain Your OSS Dependencies on the Clock
A new manifesto, Open Source Resistance, argues that engineers who maintain open source projects their employers depend on should simply do that maintenance dur
Princeton ends 133-year proctor ban as AI cheating overwhelms honor code
Princeton's faculty voted Monday to require instructor proctoring at all in-person exams starting July 1, dismantling an honor system that has run on student se
Python core devs revert incremental GC after pathological real-world slowdowns
Python 3.14 and 3.15 are rolling back the incremental garbage collector after users surfaced cases where seemingly innocuous workloads triggered quadratic-time
Reverse-engineering and emulating the Fisher-Price Pixter, two decades later
Dmitry Grinberg documents a complete teardown, reverse-engineering, and emulation of every Fisher-Price Pixter variant — the monochrome 2000 original, Pixter Pl
Ripping Out the Modem and GPS From a 2024 RAV4 to Kill Telemetry at the Source
A RAV4 Hybrid owner documents physically removing the Data Communication Module (DCM) and built-in GPS from a 2024 model year car to stop Toyota's constant tele
S-100 Virtual Workbench: A Browser-Based Retro Computing Sandbox
The S-100 Virtual Workbench is a web-hosted project recreating the experience of working with S-100 bus computers, the modular hardware standard that defined ho
Scorched Earth 2000 Resurrected as Browser Game via ChatGPT Port
A JavaScript port of Scorched Earth 2000, the multiplayer artillery game originally built by the KAOS Software Team, has surfaced on the web. Version 1.1 dated
Strapping an RTX 5090 to an M4 MacBook Air via Thunderbolt eGPU and a Linux VM
A developer documents the absurd-but-functional project of connecting an NVIDIA RTX 5090 to an M4 MacBook Air through a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe dock. Because macOS
Stripe pressure pushes Kickstarter to ban adult content, creators say
Kickstarter quietly rewrote its Mature Content rules around May 11 to prohibit a broad slate of NSFW material, including photo-realistic sexual imagery, implied