▸ OpenAI's Codex CLI has started encrypting the prompts sent to sub-agents, meaning users can no longer see what their own agent is telling itself.
▸ LG monitors are silently installing OnScreen Control on Windows machines through Windows Update, with no prompt and no opt-in.
▸ Flux.ai, the VC-backed AI PCB design startup, hired Fenwick & West to send a demand letter to Adafruit — the 20-year-old open-hardware community stapl...
▸ KDE Plasma 6.5 (scheduled for late 2026) will be the final release shipping a working X11 session — 6.6 drops it entirely.
▸ A developer used linear regression to derive per-image quantization tables, producing JPEGs smaller than what libjpeg or MozJPEG output at equivalent ...
▸ Poul-Henning Kamp — FreeBSD contributor, Varnish creator, and the man who put 'bikeshedding' into every engineer's vocabulary — has published his fare...
▸ A Stack Exchange data query shows monthly questions on Stack Overflow have fallen to levels last seen in 2009, the year after launch.
▸ Sumner Evans argues Conventional Commits forces every developer to write structured metadata for a downstream tool that most teams don't actually run.
▸ A new arXiv paper systematically ablates the Q, K, V projection trio and finds that two-projection and even shared-projection variants match full QKV ...
▸ NASA and Roscosmos told ISS crew to shelter in the Russian segment while repairs continue on the Zvezda module's persistent air leak.
▸ South Korea is moving to require online communities to AI-scan every uploaded image for illegal content before it goes live — client-side or server-si...
▸ Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash hits 51% on SWE-Bench Pro with only 5B active parameters — territory previously owned by frontier models 10x its size.
▸ Apple has sent legal letters to dozens of former employees who jumped to OpenAI, warning them about confidentiality and non-solicit obligations.
▸ AOAV audit found UK media failed to disclose defence-sector affiliations for so-called 'military experts' in nearly 60% of appearances.
▸ Apple rejected a third-party dictation app for using the Accessibility API to insert text into other apps — the exact use case the API was built for.
▸ Microsoft is shipping per-device swiotlb pools in the WSL 2 kernel, eliminating a global bounce-buffer lock that was throttling virtiofs and virtio-pr...
▸ A UK Biobank study of 60,977 adults found sleep regularity predicts all-cause mortality risk roughly twice as strongly as sleep duration.
▸ An AWS user whose normal bill is under $5 woke up to an estimated $1.7 billion charge, and they're not alone — Reddit is filling with similar reports.
▸ Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX together would clear $1.4T of public-market cap — roughly 3% of the S&P 500 in three tickers.
▸ UC Berkeley CS professors report a measurable jump in failing grades, correlating with heavy AI use in coursework and weaker math fundamentals.