Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Good Feed Goes Unpunished
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts,...
Read moreDay: Oktober 16, 2026
Critical BlockStrap flaw lets hackers run code on Magento servers
Researchers warn that hackers could soon exploit a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-103849) affecting Magento and Adobe Commerce, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary PHP code on store...
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The 10€ Gamepad
We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSimdJson 0.1.17 on CRAN: Updates
A brand new release 0.1.17 of the RcppSimdJson package is now on CRAN, and has been built for r2u and on r-universe. RcppSimdJson wraps the fantastic...
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‘We f**ked up’: 1 day into Wardogs Season 2, the Blue team bribery bonus is being dropped
Bulkhead's effort to make life better for the Blues worked a little too well.
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US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers “ownership,” not “a license”
There are still significant hurdles ahead, both technical and legislative.
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In the Search for Exoplanets, Some Failures Are A Success
Astronomers used decades of archival data and new radial velocity measurements to search for exoplanets around a neaby binary star, 70 Oph AB. They didn't find...
Read more17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries
Just shy of two weeks since a dozen vulnerabilities were published for the X.Org Server and XWayland, more than one dozen vulnerabilities were made public today...
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Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
The bug is fixed, but privacy concerns remain.
Read moreIntroducing GNOME OS Preview
The GNOME Project has provided GNOME OS for some time; until now, the project only provided a "Nightly" edition that was built from the latest commits and...
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Google EnvHarness Enables Self-Evolving Agents to Learn in Dynamics Environments
Google researchers open sourced EnvHarness, a framework that dynamically adapts agent-training environments to an agent's weaknesses without modifying the agent, environment, or evaluation system. According to...
Read moreHow Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base
With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s...
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