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Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with effort controls and dynamic workflows

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade over 4.7 that holds the same price while posting gains across coding, agentic, and reasoning benchmarks. Early pa

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cybersecurityopen-source

Bijou64: A varint encoding where canonicality is the format, not a check

Ink & Switch's bijou64 is a variable-length integer encoding designed to make the canonicalization bug class structurally impossible. Conventional varints like

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tech-culture

Blue Origin New Glenn explodes during static fire test

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reportedly suffered a catastrophic failure during a static fire test, according to a NASASpaceflight post shared on X. The linked

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open-sourcetech-culture

Coalton brings Haskell-style static typing to Common Lisp

Coalton is a statically typed functional language that runs on top of Common Lisp, blending Lisp's macro-driven flexibility with type system ideas borrowed from

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policytech-culture

EU hits Temu with €200M DSA fine over unsafe products on platform

The European Commission fined Chinese marketplace Temu €200 million ($232M) under the Digital Services Act, finding the platform failed to adequately assess and

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open-sourcetech-culture

Fixing Wi-Fi Roaming on OpenWRT with usteer and 802.11k Neighbor Reports

A home OpenWRT setup running four Cudy AX3000 access points with separate 2.4GHz (WPA2, for IoT) and 5GHz (WPA3) SSIDs suffered from sticky-client problems, par

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aitech-culture

Frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of real-world fact-checks, study finds

A study presented 1,000 recent user-submitted claims from fact-checking platform Lenz to five frontier models, asking each for a verdict on a True / Mostly True

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cybersecurityvulnerability

GitHub Bans Researcher Behind Windows Zero-Day Drops, Promises July Retaliation

Microsoft has banned the GitHub account of researcher Nightmare-Eclipse (also known as Chaotic Eclipse), who has published at least six unpatched Windows zero-d

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tech-culture

Hacker News submission 'The Permanent Upper Crow' lacks substantive content

The linked Hacker News submission points to a page titled 'The Permanent Upper Crow' hosted on a personal subdomain. The available content consists only of the

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open-sourcetech-culture

How a Weekend KiCad Project Became the nice!nano Keyboard Empire

Nick Winans recounts building the nice!nano, an nRF52840-based Pro Micro-compatible microcontroller board for wireless DIY keyboards, during his college freshma

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Inside Claude Code: Undocumented Hook Fields, YOLO Classifier, and Hidden Config

A deep read of the Claude Code npm package (version 2.1.87) surfaces a substantial set of configuration options Anthropic's official docs never mention. The aut

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tech-culture

Lego Resale Franchise Accused of Stealing Collector's $200K Hoard

A collector alleges that Bricks and Minifigs, a national Lego resale franchise, took possession of a roughly $200,000 personal Lego collection without proper co

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