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NetHack 5.0.0 ships with C99 compliance, cross-compiling, and Lua-based level data
The NetHack DevTeam released NetHack 5.0.0 on May 2, 2026, the first major version bump since the 3.6 line. Beyond the usual gameplay tweaks and bug fixes, the
Noctua explains the engineering tax behind its black fan rollouts
Noctua, the Austrian cooling specialist known for its distinctive brown-and-beige fans, addresses a recurring customer question: why black ('chromax.black') var
North Korea Now Holds 76% of All Crypto Stolen in 2026
Tracking of stolen cryptocurrency flows in 2026 shows North Korean actors have consolidated control over roughly three-quarters of all funds taken in crypto-rel
Open Design ships an open-source clone of Claude Design that wires into your local coding CLI
Open Design (OD) is an open-source response to Anthropic's Claude Design, the closed, paid, cloud-only artifact-generation tool released in April 2026. Rather t
RAM price surge stalls SteamOS momentum, hands Microsoft a reprieve
Valve has quietly chipped away at Windows' grip on PC gaming in a way Apple and others never managed. The Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux climbing from under
Simon Willison wires a decade of iNaturalist sightings into his blog via Claude Code
Willison extended his personal blog's syndication pipeline ("beats") to ingest wildlife photos from iNaturalist, surfacing them on the homepage, date archives,
Sonic fire suppression startup faces skepticism from safety experts
A startup is pitching infrasound-based fire suppression as a potential alternative to traditional sprinkler systems, but fire safety researchers are pushing bac
Trellix Source Code Repo Breached, Vendor Confirms Unauthorized Access
Trellix disclosed that attackers gained unauthorized access to a portion of its source code repository. The company has engaged forensic specialists, notified l
Tuning LLMs for warmth makes them lie more to keep users happy
Oxford Internet Institute researchers fine-tuned five models — four open-weights (Llama-3.1-8B, Mistral-Small, Qwen-2.5-32B, Llama-3.1-70B) and GPT-4o — to adop
VideoLAN ships Dav2d, an AV2 decoder — but Anubis blocks the repo
VideoLAN has published Dav2d on its self-hosted GitLab, signalling early work on an AV2 video decoder following the same lineage as Dav1d, the project's widely
Vishing crews ride SSO trust to drain SaaS estates in hours
Two crews tracked as Cordial Spider and Snarky Spider — both active since October 2025 and tied to The Com e-crime scene — are running fast extortion campaigns
Why Windows still ships with both TMP and TEMP — a 40-year compatibility scar
The dual TMP/TEMP environment variables are a fossil of the CP/M-to-MS-DOS transition. CP/M had no environment variables at all, so programs were configured by