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Curl's Daniel Stenberg: Anthropic's Mythos Found Just One Real Bug

Anthropic's much-hyped Mythos model, billed in April 2026 as dangerously capable at uncovering security flaws, was given a shot at curl through the Linux Founda

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cybersecurityopen-source

Elevator: Static x86-64 to AArch64 Binary Translation Without Heuristics

Researchers have introduced Elevator, a binary translator that converts complete x86-64 executables to AArch64 entirely ahead of time, without requiring source

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policyprivacy

EU Targets Addictive Design in TikTok, Instagram to Shield Minors

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans to act against engagement-driving features on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook later this year, nami

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privacyidentity

Gmail Signup Now Demands Outbound SMS From Your Phone, Killing Anonymous Accounts

Google has quietly tightened Gmail account creation: the QR code shown during registration now instructs the user's phone to send an outbound SMS to Google rath

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aitech-culture

Google Unveils Googlebook: AI-First Laptops With Deep Gemini Integration

Google has teased Googlebook, a new line of laptops positioning Gemini AI as the core operating layer rather than a bolted-on feature. The marketing pitch frame

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cybersecuritymalware

Instructure Pays ShinyHunters After Twin Canvas Breaches Hit 275M Users

Instructure paid an undisclosed ransom to ShinyHunters after the group breached Canvas twice in under two weeks, exposing data tied to roughly 275 million users

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tech-culture

Kraftwerk's Radioactivity at 50: From Sci-Fi Hymn to Anti-Nuclear Anthem

Kraftwerk's 1975 album Radio-Activity, reissued for its 50th anniversary, cemented the Düsseldorf quartet's shift into fully electronic music and showcased thei

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aiopen-source

Needle: A 26M-Parameter Model Distilled from Gemini for On-Device Tool Calling

Cactus Compute has released Needle, a 26-million-parameter model distilled from Gemini 3.1 that specializes in single-shot function calling. Built on a new "Sim

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supply-chainopen-source

Obsidian Launches Automated Plugin Reviews and Safety Scorecards

Obsidian has launched Obsidian Community, a new directory and developer dashboard replacing its previous GitHub-based plugin submission flow. With over 4,000 co

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tech-culturecybersecurity

Operation: Epic Furious — Hacker News post points to bare landing page

A Hacker News submission titled "Operation: Epic Furious" links to epicfurious.com, but the page itself contains nothing beyond the operation's name. No descrip

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open-sourcetech-culture

OrcaSlicer Fork Restores Cloud Printing for Bambu Lab Hardware

A community fork of OrcaSlicer published under the FULU Foundation reinstates full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers, letting users send jobs over the

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tech-culturepolicy

Petition Urges NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to Stop Blocking the Wayback Machine

A public petition is pressuring major news outlets to reverse decisions that prevent the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from preserving their journalism. Si

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