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Permacomputing: 10 Principles for Sustainable, Resilient Digital Practice

Permacomputing borrows from permaculture's ethics of Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share, translating them into ten design principles aimed at reducing the

via Hacker News ·
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Rowhammer Jumps to NVIDIA GPUs, Yielding Full Host Compromise

Three independent research teams have demonstrated Rowhammer attacks against NVIDIA Ampere GPUs that escalate from GDDR memory bitflips to full control of the h

via Schneier on Security ·
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SpaceX dials back Falcon 9 cadence as Starship takes over the manifest

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch rate is starting to ease off after years of relentless growth. The company flew 165 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, up from 134 in 2024 and

via Ars Technica ·
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The Hacker News Opens Submissions for CyberStars Awards 2026

The Hacker News has launched the Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026, a global recognition program aimed at surfacing the often-invisible work behind successful cyb

via The Hacker News ·
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Three PyPI packages drop ZiChatBot malware that uses Zulip chat APIs as C2

Kaspersky uncovered three malicious PyPI packages — uuid32-utils, colorinal, and termncolor — uploaded in a one-week window in July 2025 and collectively pulled

via The Hacker News ·
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TSMC locks in 30-year offshore wind deal as Taiwan's gas supply buckles

TSMC signed a 30-year power purchase agreement covering the entire output of Northland Power's Hai Long offshore wind project, more than 1 gigawatt across three

via Ars Technica ·
vulnerabilityopen-source

Twelve critical vm2 sandbox escapes expose Node.js hosts to RCE

Researchers disclosed twelve critical vulnerabilities in vm2, the popular Node.js library used to run untrusted JavaScript inside a proxied sandbox. Every flaw

via The Hacker News ·
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Two Decades of Cyber: 20 Inflection Points From Stuxnet to ChatGPT

Dark Reading frames the modern cybersecurity era through 20 pivotal events, anchored at one end by Stuxnet's 2010 demonstration that code could physically destr

via Dark Reading ·
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Valve drops Steam Controller CAD files under CC non-commercial license

Valve has published CAD files for its newly shipping Steam Controller and Puck, including .STP and .STL exports of the external shell plus engineering diagrams

via Hacker News ·
vulnerabilityopen-source

vm2 sandbox escape via WebAssembly exception handling enables host RCE

CVE-2026-26956 lets attackers break out of vm2, a Node.js sandbox library pulling 1.3M weekly npm downloads, and execute arbitrary code on the host. The flaw hi

via BleepingComputer ·
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Willison: The line between vibe coding and agentic engineering is blurring

Simon Willison reflects on a shift in his own AI-assisted coding practice. He previously drew a sharp line between 'vibe coding' — accepting AI output without r

via Simon Willison ·
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Windows Phone Link Abused to Siphon SMS and Defeat 2FA

Attackers are weaponizing Microsoft's Phone Link feature, the built-in Windows utility that pairs a PC with a mobile device for messaging and notifications, to

via Dark Reading ·