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Finland Reinvents the Library as Civic Infrastructure — Sewing Machines Included
While public libraries shutter across the US and UK, Finland is doing the opposite: expanding a network of more than 700 branches for 5.6 million people and ref
Hackers Hijack Brazil's Emergency Alert System, Push 'Misanthropy' Warning
On Saturday morning, mobile phones across several Brazilian states—starting in Paraná and spreading to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro—received a bogus "Extreme Al
Inside Bayer's PRINCE: engineering an agentic RAG system for drug research
Bayer and Thoughtworks built PRINCE, a cloud platform that turns decades of preclinical safety study reports into a conversational research tool. The system tac
IPv6 Crosses 50% of Google's Users — But the Number Depends Who's Counting
Google's continuous measurement of how many of its users reach its services over IPv6 has passed 50% for the first time, a milestone that confirms the protocol
Linux kernel finally rips out strncpy after 6 years and 360+ patches
The Linux kernel has removed the long-deprecated strncpy() function entirely, landing in what the source describes as the Linux 7.2 merge window. The cleanup to
Loupe: open-source iOS app shows exactly what apps can fingerprint about you
Loupe is a free, open-source iOS and iPadOS app that demonstrates the device-fingerprinting surface available to any third-party app. It reads live values from
MIT-born $40 home test grinds ticks to flag Lyme in 15 minutes
LymeAlert, a $40 at-home kit launching in August, tests the tick rather than the person. Users drop up to five ticks into a container with a built-in grinder, t
No article body provided — only a headline on slow breathing and brain function
There is nothing here to summarize beyond the headline: the supplied 'article content' is just the title of a Cell/Neuron paper, 'Slow breathing modulates brain
South Korea's arms-export boom (source text unavailable)
No article body was supplied for this item — only the Politico headline 'The rise of South Korea's weapons business' was passed in, and the live URL could not b
StartupWiki pitches a free, AI-powered alternative to Crunchbase
A new Show HN post introduces StartupWiki, a startup-research directory positioned as a no-cost alternative to Crunchbase. The site describes itself as an AI-po
Tesco sues Broadcom for £100M, says VMware perpetual licenses were stranded
UK supermarket chain Tesco has taken Broadcom and reseller Computacenter to court, alleging breach of contract over support for VMware software it already owns.
The Zoom localhost flaw was really a CORS misunderstanding
Plenty of web developers fundamentally misread how CORS works, and the 2019 Zoom vulnerability is a textbook case. Zoom ran a local web server on localhost:1942