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A Field Guide to Not Losing Money in Code: Patterns for Fintech Engineering
A new open community handbook lays out the engineering patterns that keep money systems trustworthy, organized around three rules: don't invent data, don't lose
AI Tackles the 'Dark Art' of RF Chip Design, Beating Human-Made Circuits
Radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs)—the chips that let phones, satellites, and radar send and receive signals—have resisted the kind of automated synthe
Anonymous account mass-drops AI-fuzzed 0-days for libssh2, FFmpeg, c-ares and more
An anonymous GitHub user has consolidated a dozen standalone proof-of-concept repositories into a single archive of vulnerability research, publishing exploits
AWS Lambda adds MicroVMs: Firecracker-isolated, stateful sandboxes for untrusted code
AWS has launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless primitive aimed at applications that must run code they didn't write — AI coding assistants, interactive note
BBC switches off Long Wave, ending the era of its oldest broadcast service
The BBC is retiring Long Wave radio, the transmission technology behind its longest-running service and once the main way it reached the whole country. Radio 4'
California's 3D Printer Surveillance Bill Advances Despite EFF Warnings
The California State Assembly has passed AB 2047, a measure requiring 3D printers to run print-monitoring software aimed at blocking the already-illegal, rarely
DeepSeek Open-Sources DSpark, a Speculative-Decoding Stack for Faster Inference
DeepSeek has released DSpark, a speculative-decoding method that speeds up text generation by roughly 60–85% without touching the underlying model architecture
How the WWII US Army Mass-Produced Plastic Ocarinas as Soldier Morale Gear
During World War II, the US military didn't just ship weapons and rations to the front — it also handed out thousands of plastic ocarinas to keep troops enterta
John Gruber remembers Om Malik, the blogger who became tech journalism's elder statesman
Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and venture investor, has died after a prolonged battle with heart failure. In this personal tribute, John Grube
Jolla revives its Sailfish Linux phone with a community-voted, privacy-first handset
Jolla is taking pre-orders for a new Linux phone shipping October 2026, pitched as a successor to its original 2013 device and built around Sailfish OS 5 rather
Meta Keeps Suing Its Own Whistleblower — Even for Sitting Silently Onstage
Sarah Wynn-Williams, former head of Facebook's international relations team, published a bestselling memoir, Careless People, detailing misconduct she says she
Mythos Hype Cools: AI Zero-Day Hunting Is Real, Costly, and Gated
Anthropic's Claude Mythos was pitched as a watershed for automated zero-day discovery and exploitation, and early access partners under the locked-down "Project