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Zed hits 1.0: Rust-built, GPU-rendered editor bets on AI-native collaboration
Zed has declared its editor stable at version 1.0 after five years of development. Built by the team behind Atom, Zed deliberately rejects the Electron/Chromium
BlueNoroff Weaponizes Fake Zoom Calls, Recruits Victims as Bait for Next Targets
North Korea-linked BlueNoroff is running a social engineering campaign that lures victims into bogus Zoom meetings, then leverages those compromised accounts to
DOJ cites Comey's '86 47' seashell Instagram post as evidence in indictment push
Former FBI director James Comey posted an Instagram photo in 2025 showing seashells arranged to spell '86 47' — restaurant slang that most commonly means to rem
Drone pilot's lawsuit forces feds to drop no-fly zones over moving ICE vehicles
DHS quietly expanded its no-fly-zone authority in January 2026 to cover not just federal buildings but Department of Homeland Security ground vehicles in motion
Ex-NSA Chief Revisits Snowden Leaks: Regrets and Lessons 13 Years On
The NSA director who led the agency during Edward Snowden's 2013 disclosures has gone on record with reflections on the incident more than a decade later. The p
FCC fast-tracks ABC license review after Kimmel joke about Melania Trump
The FCC has ordered Disney to file early renewal applications for all ABC-owned TV station licenses by May 28, an unusual move given that none of those licenses
GPT-5.5 Codex System Prompt Bans Mentions of Goblins, Gremlins, and Pigeons
Simon Willison highlights a peculiar directive surfaced from OpenAI Codex's base_instructions for GPT-5.5: the model is told never to reference goblins, gremlin
Japan Airlines pilots humanoid robots for baggage handling at Haneda
Japan Airlines will deploy humanoid robots at Tokyo's Haneda Airport starting May 2026 in a trial running through 2028, aimed at offsetting a domestic labor sho
LiteLLM pre-auth SQLi flaw under active exploitation, secrets harvested
A critical SQL injection vulnerability in LiteLLM, tracked as CVE-2026-42208, is being actively exploited to extract API keys and provider credentials from the
Microsoft's VibeVoice ASR runs locally on Mac, transcribes an hour in under 9 minutes
Microsoft quietly released VibeVoice in January 2026, an MIT-licensed speech-to-text model in the Whisper lineage with speaker diarization baked into the model
pip 26.1 ships lockfiles and dependency cooldowns
Python's default package installer gets two long-requested capabilities in 26.1. The new `pip lock` command resolves a dependency tree and writes it to a `pyloc
Ransomware Crews Turn on Each Other, Spilling Rivals' Stolen Data
Infighting among ransomware operators has escalated into open data warfare, with competing crews dumping each other's exfiltrated victim caches onto leak sites.