You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of
There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your...
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There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to...
Read moreAn automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked
Tumblr users were left scrambling on Wednesday after dozens of accounts were banned in the same afternoon by an automated system. Numerous users contacted The Verge...
Read moreSonatype Launches Guide to Enhance Safety in AI-Assisted Code Generation
Sonatype Guide is a real-time guardrail system that sits between AI coding tools and the open-source ecosystem, ensuring AI-generated code uses safe, valid, and maintainable dependencies....
Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.28 on CRAN: Micro-Maintenance
Version 0.0.28 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN today, has been uploaded to Debian and built for r2u. The (nice) documentation site has been refreshed too. RcppSpdlog...
Read moreOnce again, ULA can’t deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit
For the fourth time in a little more than a year, the US Space Force needs to send up a new satellite to replenish the military’s...
Read moreMicrosoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11
If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply...
Read moreWine 11.5 Release Is Big: Syscall User Dispatch Feature Supported On Linux
Wine 11.5 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release for this software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Most...
Read more‘A Rigged and Dangerous Product’: The Wildest Week for Prediction Markets Yet
As the prediction market boom continues, backlash is growing, too, with Arizona filing criminal charges against Kalshi and public outcry after Polymarket traders threatened a journalist.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Jumbo Flying Squid in the South Pacific
The population needs better conservation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
Read moreWriter denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use
Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday, that...
Read moreWidely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack
Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing supply chain attack that could have wide-ranging consequences for...
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