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Court sides with Pentagon: Anthropic stays on the supply-chain risk list

Sep 27

▸ A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, leaving the label in place while the underlying case gr...

AI / ML Politics / Regulation Defense / GovTech clear_take

GPT-6 lands. The real story is Luna at half the price.

Sep 27

▸ OpenAI released GPT-6 in two variants — Sol (heavier reasoning) and Luna (fast, cheap) — with Luna priced at half of GPT-5.6 Luna.

AI / ML Backend / APIs clear_take

Jury: Facebook's OAuth scopes were a promise it broke

Sep 27

▸ A San Mateo jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about how third-party app developers could harvest their data during the Cambridge Analytic...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

The Pentagon just admitted an AI target list killed civilians

Sep 27

▸ A Pentagon internal review found U.S. forces struck an Iranian school after Project Maven flagged it as an IRGC facility using outdated data.

AI / ML Defense / GovTech clear_take

AI agents found real vulns on Hugging Face. The traces are public.

Sep 27

▸ Researchers ran OpenAI-powered agents against Hugging Face and published the full transcripts of how the agents found and chained real vulnerabilities...

AI / ML Security / Privacy clear_take

The 25 Gbit headline hides the real number: symmetric

Sep 27

▸ Init7's Swiss plan is 25 Gbps down AND 25 Gbps up — the up number is what actually changes what you can build at home.

Cloud / Infrastructure Politics / Regulation clear_take

Steam Machine v2: The Linux gaming bet Valve already won before shipping

Sep 27

▸ Valve's second Steam Machine ('Newell Nucleus') ships into a market it had to build itself — and Proton already did the hard part.

Open Source Hardware / Chips clear_take

Fraud Has a Code Smell: What Engineers See Before the Indictment

Sep 27

▸ David Newgas's HN essay reframes a question every engineer at a hot-then-cold startup eventually asks — and the answer is usually 'the signals were in...

Startups / Launches Career / Industry clear_take

Switzerland's nuclear U-turn is really a data center capacity story

Sep 27

▸ Swiss parliament voted to scrap the 2017 ban on new nuclear plants — the legal architecture of the Energiestrategie 2050 just lost its keystone.

Cloud / Infrastructure Politics / Regulation clear_take

Om Malik ran a premortem on his own life. Engineers should steal the move.

Sep 27

▸ Om Malik — GigaOm founder, one of the first bloggers treated as a real tech journalist — published a post titled '1966–2026' on om.co. It's his own ob...

Career / Industry clear_take

Claude Opus 5.5 lands with agent-first coding and cheaper long runs

Sep 25

▸ Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5, positioning it as its top agentic coding model with longer autonomous runs and tighter tool-use fidelity.

AI / ML DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

New Outlook is 10x slower than Classic. The architecture explains why.

Sep 25

▸ Microsoft's new Outlook takes ~10 seconds to perform actions Classic Outlook completes instantly, per Windows Latest benchmarking on the same hardware...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Frontend / UI clear_take

Linux finally kills strncpy() — 360 patches, six years, one footgun gone

Sep 25

▸ Linux 7.2 removes the last call to strncpy() from the kernel, ending a six-year cleanup that touched ~360 patches across every subsystem.

Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

GLM-5.2 Runs Locally: The Closed-Lab Moat Keeps Shrinking

Sep 25

▸ Zhipu's GLM-5.2 dropped as open weights and Unsloth shipped quantized GGUFs the same week — the model that competes with GPT-5 and Claude 4.6 now fits...

AI / ML Open Source clear_take

10,000 GitHub Repos Are Shipping Trojans. Vet Before You Clone

Sep 25

▸ An independent researcher fingerprinted ~10,000 GitHub repos serving credential stealers, crypto wallet drainers, and RATs disguised as gaming cheats,...

Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

Italy reverses its nuclear ban — and the AI data-center map just shifted

Sep 25

▸ Italy's parliament approved a framework to reintroduce nuclear power, ending a ban in place since the post-Chernobyl 1987 referendum.

Cloud / Infrastructure Politics / Regulation clear_take

Claude Code skips AGENTS.md unless telemetry is on

Sep 25

▸ A developer found Claude Code only loads AGENTS.md context files when the OTEL telemetry flag is enabled — turn telemetry off, and your agent instruct...

AI / ML Security / Privacy DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

Volkswagen Blocks GrapheneOS — Your Car App Now Audits Your OS

Sep 25

▸ Volkswagen's MyVW app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS, citing Google's Play Integrity API as the gatekeeper.

Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

Let's Encrypt went down. Half the internet's TLS renewals went with it.

Sep 25

▸ Let's Encrypt's status page logged a multi-hour degradation today, with ACME issuance and OCSP responders intermittently failing.

Security / Privacy DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

What VSCode Remote-SSH actually does to your servers

Sep 25

▸ VSCode Remote-SSH quietly downloads a full Node.js runtime to every host you connect to, then runs a long-lived server as your user.

Security / Privacy DevOps / Platform Engineering explainer
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