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Qubes OS flaw lets a compromised qube seize dom0 via file-copy error dialog
Qubes OS has patched QSB-118, a dom0 arbitrary code execution bug in the qvm-copy-to-vm tool. The attack surface is the qfile transfer protocol's confirmation s
SQLite Doubles as a Document Store with Generated Columns and JSON
SQLite has supported JSON for years, but the 3.31.0 release (January 2020) added generated columns, which together turn the embedded engine into a serviceable d
Tencent open-sources Hy4 Preview, a 770B MoE model it says helped build itself
Tencent has released open weights for Hy4 Preview, a mixture-of-experts LLM with 770B total parameters (49B active per token) and a context window exceeding 1M
Texas turned a $1 insurance fee into 3,200 Flock surveillance cameras
A 2023 Texas law raised auto insurance premiums by $1 per policy to fight catalytic converter theft, but a Texas Tribune investigation found that at least $30 m
The Longest You Can Sail Without Hitting Land? An Algorithm Found It
Two geometry puzzles that circulated online—what's the longest straight-line sea route that never touches land, and the longest overland route that never crosse
Typebase turns a TypeScript folder into a deployable, fully typed backend
Typebase, a Show HN launch, collapses backend development into a single `typebase/` folder that lives inside an existing app. Developers define their database s
UK public overwhelmingly rejects backdoors into encrypted messages, poll finds
A survey commissioned by the Center for Democracy & Technology finds that British opposition to government access to encrypted communications is broad and bipar
USDA flags chicken recall across five states over falsified inspection marks
A quantity of chicken products has been pulled from shelves in five states after being labeled with "false marks of inspection" — meaning the goods carried USDA
Why Culture, Not AI Tooling, Is the Real Productivity Multiplier for Engineers
An engineering leader with 13+ years in the field argues that the industry's obsession with AI tools misses the point: the environment those tools operate in ma
A Datalog engine for LLMs: turning agent memory into incremental program analysis
During long vulnerability-research sessions with LLM agents, the author hit a recurring failure: the model would lose track of what had actually been establishe
AI Agent Swarm Cracks Five Open Math Problems in a Coordinator-Free Sandbox
Researchers built a shared environment called the Station where AI agents drawn from different model families work toward a common research goal with no central
AI 'brand protection' bot pulls open-source Luanti from Play Store on bogus DMCA
Luanti, the open-source voxel game-creation platform formerly known as Minetest, has been removed from the Google Play Store after Tracer.AI filed a DMCA takedo