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Pentagon reportedly cites AI overreliance in Iran school strike — source text missing

No article body was supplied for this item — only the headline, which states that the Pentagon attributed a missile strike on a school in Iran in part to overre

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ReBarUEFI: A firmware mod that unlocks Resizable BAR on unsupported motherboards

ReBarUEFI is an open-source UEFI DXE driver that forces Resizable BAR support onto older systems whose firmware never officially shipped with it. The feature le

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Reverse-Engineering a Victorian Clock Tower's Mystery Microcontroller

When Portobello's community trust Action Porty bought the town's abandoned 1877 police station but couldn't figure out how to set its three-faced clock tower, a

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ShinyHunters claims FBI breach, says it stole PII on every employee and applicant

The extortion crew ShinyHunters says it broke into FBI systems and made off with personal records on the bureau's entire workforce and applicant pool. A group r

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Unreal Agent claims 40% cheaper coding runs via async tool handling

Unreal Labs has released Unreal Agent, an agent harness it says cuts operating costs by up to 40% versus OpenAI's Codex and up to 20% versus Pi on production wo

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Waymo pays riders $2.85 to pair robotaxi trips with public transit

Waymo is launching a "transit rewards" program in the San Francisco Bay Area that credits riders with $2.85 in Waymo Cash — the price of a San Francisco bus far

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Why AI-Written Code Rots — and Takes Developer Judgment Down With It

The author pushes back on the fashionable claim that reading and writing code are becoming obsolete. The core problem with AI-generated code, they argue, is mai

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Why It's Time to Retire SAML — an Auth Protocol Built on XML Quicksand

A Trail of Bits engineer who spent years building SSO products on SAML argues the protocol has outlived its usefulness and should be deprecated in favor of Open

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Why OpenAI Could Clone Jev's Classifier Trick Overnight

TypeSafe's Jev has become the AI world's fastest-adopted model by reframing a large language model as a general-purpose classifier: rather than generating free

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WordPress patches unauthenticated path traversal that can chain to RCE

A flaw in WordPress's `get_page_template()` page-template resolution lets an unauthenticated attacker force the inclusion of an arbitrary readable local `.php`

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Academic Lab Bets on Local AI: Frontier Models on a Single 24GB GPU

Tim Dettmers argues that the future of AI research belongs to resource-constrained university labs, not GPU-rich frontier companies, and his group is making the

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AI cracks a 1941 Enigma message that stumped cryptanalysts for 20 years

A German Army Enigma message from 10 July 1941 — logged as Nr. 172, callsign MVUEH — that had resisted every attempt at solution since 2005 has finally been bro

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