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Prusa: Bambu's slicer fork has been violating AGPL for years

Jun 7

▸ Josef Prusa publicly accused Bambu Lab of shipping BambuStudio — a fork of the AGPL-licensed PrusaSlicer — without releasing complete corresponding so...

Open Source Hardware / Chips clear_take

Meta's smart glasses ship a full face-recognition stack — locally

Jun 6

▸ Reverse engineering of Stella v273.0.0.21 reveals three face models, a SQLite-backed vector index, and cosine-similarity matching wired up on-device.

Security / Privacy Hardware / Chips clear_take

Researchers triangulated a GPS jammer from orbit — and named the building

Jun 6

▸ A new arXiv paper pinpoints a high-power GNSS interference source in Kaliningrad to roughly a 200m radius using only commercial LEO satellite snapshot...

Security / Privacy Defense / GovTech explainer

Ladybird Bets the Browser on Swift — and Files for Non-Profit Status

Jun 6

▸ Ladybird is migrating from C++ to Swift as its primary language, citing memory safety and modern ergonomics over Rust's borrow-checker friction.

Frontend / UI Open Source clear_take

Anthropic open-sources its AI vuln-hunting harness — code, prompts, scaffolding

Jun 6

▸ Anthropic released `defending-code-reference-harness`, the reference implementation behind its internal AI-assisted vulnerability discovery work — pro...

Open Source AI / ML Security / Privacy clear_take

Oura admits to government data demands — but won't say how many

Jun 6

▸ Oura confirms it receives government requests for user biometric data but refuses to publish a transparency report disclosing how many.

Security / Privacy Hardware / Chips clear_take

Netherlands locks DigiD to EU operators — sovereignty trumps procurement

Jun 6

▸ The Dutch government will require DigiD — the national identity platform used by 14M+ citizens for tax, healthcare, and municipal services — to be ope...

Cloud / Infrastructure Politics / Regulation clear_take

Microsoft yanks Claude Code from employees, eats its own Copilot

Jun 6

▸ Microsoft is canceling internal Claude Code subscriptions and steering engineers back to GitHub Copilot.

DevOps / Platform Engineering AI / ML clear_take

Your Dotfiles Are Not a Distro: The Omarchy Reckoning

Jun 6

▸ A widely-shared abyss.fish post argues DHH's Omarchy is a curated Arch install script with theming, not a Linux distribution in any meaningful technic...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source clear_take

Gemma 4 QAT: int4 weights without the perplexity tax

Jun 6

▸ Google released quantization-aware-trained Gemma 4 checkpoints that hold near-bf16 quality at int4, cutting VRAM ~4× versus the base release.

AI / ML Open Source clear_take

Microsoft puts durable execution inside Postgres

Jun 6

▸ Microsoft dropped pg_durable, an Apache-2 Postgres extension that runs Temporal-style durable workflows as a database operator — no separate cluster, ...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Backend / APIs Open Source clear_take

Anthropic admits the loop is closing: AI is now building AI

Jun 5

▸ Anthropic published a framework treating recursive self-improvement (RSI) as a near-term operational problem, not a 2030 thought experiment.

Politics / Regulation AI / ML clear_take

Cloudflare Just Bought The JavaScript Build Chain

Jun 5

▸ Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the Evan You–led company that maintains Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and oxc — the core of modern JS tooling.

Open Source Frontend / UI clear_take

The throughput trap: why 'AI makes me 10x faster' is the wrong metric

Jun 5

▸ Nolan Lawson argues AI made him a better engineer precisely because he stopped trying to use it to go faster.

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Red Hat's npm packages got popped. Cooldowns would've caught it.

Jun 5

▸ Multiple @redhat-cloud-services npm packages were compromised, joining axios, TanStack, and a growing list of 2025 supply chain hits.

Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

Meta's glasses now ID strangers in real time. The opt-out is theater.

Jun 5

▸ Meta shipped facial recognition to Ray-Ban Display glasses behind a feature flag called 'Familiar Faces' — on-device matching against a user-built con...

Hardware / Chips Security / Privacy clear_take

Starship v3 flies: SpaceX's third-gen vehicle clears its first real test

Jun 5

▸ SpaceX launched its Starship v3 prototype — the first flight of the redesigned third-generation vehicle, with stretched tanks, upgraded Raptor 3 engin...

Hardware / Chips Defense / GovTech clear_take

U.S. export rules now reach into research papers — co-authors are the catch

Jun 5

▸ New Commerce Department interpretation extends export-control rules to academic publishing when foreign co-authors from restricted countries are invol...

Open Source Politics / Regulation clear_take

Trump Mobile's auth-free API leaked customer addresses and phones

Jun 5

▸ Trump Mobile confirmed an exposed API endpoint leaked customer names, phone numbers, and home addresses to anyone who knew the URL.

Security / Privacy Backend / APIs clear_take

Lumafield's CT scans reveal how BYD actually builds cars cheaper

Jun 5

▸ Lumafield ran industrial CT scans on BYD components and found integration, not corner-cutting, is the cost advantage.

Career / Industry Hardware / Chips clear_take
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