Górny: why Gentoo?
Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a lengthy article explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linux distribution, in response to a thread on Mastodon:...
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Critical Gogs RCE Vulnerability Lets Any Authenticated User Execute Arbitrary Code
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, that allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code under certain...
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The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time, out today, wants you to figure out what the greatest RPG of all time really is
Have you played The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time? I mean, you have to, right, it's The Remake of the...
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Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake
Percona, which makes a popular open-source database-as-a-service (DBaaS), celebrated its 20th birthday this week with a rebrand, a new supporting The post Percona celebrates 20th birthday...
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Setting up a permanent lunar presence needs investment in biology
In December 1972, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent 75 hours on the lunar surface during Apollo 17. They drove a rover, conducted three spacewalks and...
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SCIM in HashiCorp Vault standardizes provisioning in platforms
HashiCorp Vault 2.0 adds beta SCIM support, letting organizations standardize user and group provisioning from external identity platforms into Vault.
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The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using...
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The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more
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Why OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring forward deployed engineer teams
Companies adding AI to their products often think that a powerful model is the key to successful integration. This assumption The post Why OpenAI and Anthropic...
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CD Projekt Red reveals huge The Witcher 3 sales milestone, which helps explain why a third expansion is in development 11 years later
Why is CD Projekt Red making a third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, more than a decade after the original game was released? A...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, not to be confused with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, sees North Korea invade South Korea
By this point, I'm convinced the Call of Duty series is a sick experiment testing the limits of mass deja vu. Infinity Ward, the makers of...
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Planet Zoo 2 is on the way later this year, adding in aquatic animals as a big win for mola mola lovers
Truth be told, in the leadup to the proper reveal of Planet Zoo 2, with developer Frontier Developments not so subtly teasing it, my immediate thought...
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