Muse Let Local Code Inherit the Agent's Reach
Meta hot-fixed a Muse control that let unprivileged Mac code redirect dictation, capture agent authentication material, and borrow the assistant's trusted reach.
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ZXdesk Fits a Desktop Into 48K
ZXdesk puts windows, menus, storage backends, apps, and 50Hz dragging on a 1982 ZX Spectrum by measuring the hardware instead of trusting folklore.
A Laser Reopens RP2350's Secure Debug
Ledger Donjon used photon-emission microscopy, two laser faults, and a rescue reset to reopen Secure debug and recover the RP2350 challenge secret.
Cloudflare Pulls 100TB Out Of The Hash Ring
Cloudflare recovered more than 100TB of RAM by changing a Rust data layout, trimming virtual nodes, and rolling out a smaller cache-routing ring without a global flush.
Copilot Rewrites The Runtime Without A Flag Day
GitHub used agents to port Copilot's shared runtime from TypeScript to 832,000 lines of Rust. The more useful story is how it kept shipping throughout.
Quantum Keys Enter Linux
A new Linux crypto patch series turns post-quantum key exchange from a standards document into kernel infrastructure that protocol authors can actually test.
SteamOS 3.9 Rebuilds The Deck's Foundation
Valve's first SteamOS 3.9 preview refreshes the handheld's Linux, Plasma, Wi-Fi, hibernation, and virtual-machine foundations.
The Right to Think Badly
AI can make an idea sound finished before we have finished thinking. Some awkwardness is worth keeping.
Rust Lets Polonius Into Nightly
Rust's next borrow checker is now on nightly, giving developers a real shakeout period for flow-sensitive borrowing before stabilization.
Fake CVEs Need Real Friction
A fabricated batch of SQLite vulnerability reports shows why security automation needs verification gates, not just faster ingestion.
GitHub Makes Stacked PRs Native
GitHub's public preview of stacked pull requests turns a long-running review workaround into first-party developer workflow.
NetBSD 11 Keeps Portability Practical
NetBSD 11.0 adds RISC-V support, a fast x86 MICROVM kernel, better Linux syscall compatibility, and the kind of old-machine care that still matters.
Linux Quirks A Few Bad SATA Links
Linux 7.2-rc6 is set to disable SATA link power management for several Western Digital drives that can disappear after boot.
EBCDIC Still Owns The Migration Plan
Oracle's new EBCDIC compatibility work is a reminder that mainframe migration fails when old byte ordering is treated as a data-conversion footnote.
Anthony Makes The Linux Desktop Listen
Red Hat Developer highlighted Anthony, a local AI voice-control layer that turns GNOME desktop actions into spoken commands.
pvcli Gives OHTTP A Debugging Handle
Cloudflare's pvcli gives OHTTP, CONNECT proxying, and future MASQUE work a curl-like test harness for privacy-preserving protocols.
Kubernetes Failover Needs A Service Plane
A CNCF Linkerd multicluster demo shows why spare Kubernetes clusters need service identity, routing, and failure behavior to matter.
Auto-CPUFreq Makes Power Tuning Visible
Auto-CPUFreq 3.1 adds GUI monitoring and tighter laptop power controls, turning Linux power tuning into something operators can inspect.
BGP Origin Loses Its Alibi
Cloudflare found widespread BGP ORIGIN rewrites, showing how an old routing attribute can still bend Internet path selection.
Dependabot Adds A Three-Day Brake
GitHub's new Dependabot cooldown waits three days before version-update pull requests, giving fresh package releases time to collect scrutiny.
PyPI Closes The Old Release Door
PyPI now rejects new files on releases older than 14 days, narrowing a supply-chain path where a compromised publisher could poison a long-stable version.
Buzz Gives Agents Their Own Keys
Block's open-source Buzz puts humans, AI agents, workflows, and Git events into one signed workspace, with scoped agent identities instead of borrowed human accounts.
Cloud Regions Still Have Physical Edges
A Google Cloud europe-west4-a outage showed that managed cloud services can still share a facility-level dependency, even when the rest of a zone and region look healthy.
Dusseldorf Gives OAST A Private Callback Plane
Microsoft's open-source Dusseldorf project turns out-of-band application security testing into private infrastructure for capturing DNS, HTTP, and HTTPS callbacks.
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