How to Use SCons to Build Software Projects [Full Handbook]
If you’ve ever wrestled with Makefile syntax, fought tab-versus-spaces bugs, or tried to make a build system work across Linux, macOS, and Windows, SCons is worth...
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Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in April 2026
Welcome to our April 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! Our reports outline what we’ve been up to over the past month, highlighting items of...
Read moreChina prepares cargo, crew, and deep space missions, as commercial sector steps towards reusability
China is preparing to launch both cargo and crew missions to its Tiangong space station, as a new cargo freighter is tested in low-Earth orbit and...
Read moreA Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: ‘They’re going to make it look like suicide’
“I picked up the hammer, stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood’s Two Tribes, got myself psyched up and went outside.”
Read moreThe artist who created 40 in-game paintings for Minecraft did one of Jack Black as Steve for Minecraft Movie 2, and it’s pretty fantastic
The sequel has started filming in New Zealand.
Read moreAfter Replacing TeamPCP Malware, ‘PCPJack’ Steals Cloud Secrets
PCPJack makes innovative use of parquet files for stealthy, pre-validated target discovery as it canvasses multiple cloud environments.
Read moreNASA Welcomes Paraguay as 67th Artemis Accords Signatory
Credit: NASA The Republic of Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday during a ceremony in Asunción, becoming the latest nation to commit to the shared...
Read moreHow to Disable Google’s Gemini in Chrome
Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it....
Read moreThe World of Darkness grows bigger with a first look at Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish and a Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Rageborn reveal
Lucky you! You’ve got a look at two World of Darkness games in one today (that’s the Vampire: The Masquerade universe, for those asking). First is...
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Dirty Frag: a zero-day universal Linux LPE
Hyunwoo Kim has announced the Dirty Frag security flaw, a local-privilege-escalation (LPE) vulnerability similar to the recently disclosed Copy Fail flaw: Because the embargo has now...
Read moreUtah Wants Websites To See Through VPNs. That’s Not How VPNs Work.
Utah has a long track record of short-sighted internet policymaking, but the latest example really does take things to a new level of stupid. As of...
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