▸ Colin Percival — creator of Tarsnap, scrypt, and former FreeBSD Security Officer — marks 20 years as one of AWS's earliest and longest-tenured solo cu...
▸ Filippo Valsorda — maintainer of Go's crypto libraries — published his assessment of when cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) will ac...
▸ The Electronic Frontier Foundation has officially left X (formerly Twitter), ending a presence that dates back to the platform's earliest days as a fr...
▸ GitButler, founded by GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon, has raised $17M in Series A funding to build version control tooling that goes beyond Git's 20-y...
▸ Cloudflare launched EmDash, a CMS built on Workers that isolates plugins in V8 sandboxes — eliminating the class of supply-chain attacks that plague W...
▸ Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr, of Jepsen distributed-systems testing fame) has published a multi-part essay arguing LLMs are fundamentally truth-indifferent s...
▸ Jeffrey Snover — the Microsoft Technical Fellow who created PowerShell — says Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Charles Petzold's Win...
▸ John Deere will pay $99 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it used software locks to force farmers into expensive dealer-only repairs.
▸ The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting notification data that iOS stores independently of the app itself.
▸ Meta has been removing advertisements from law firms recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits — using its own ad platform to suppress...
▸ Maine is on track to become the first US state to legislatively ban the construction of major new data centers, setting a regulatory precedent that cl...
▸ Artemis II launched four astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby — the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
▸ The Linux kernel tree now includes Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst — a formal policy governing how contributors may use AI tools like Chat...
▸ A developer discovered that Vercel's Claude Code plugin sends user prompt data to Vercel's telemetry endpoints — without clear opt-in consent.
▸ France has announced a plan to replace Windows with Linux across government ministries, citing digital sovereignty and reduced dependence on US tech c...
▸ Starting April 4, Claude subscriptions no longer cover third-party harnesses like OpenClaw — they require separate pay-as-you-go billing.
▸ Google's AI Edge Gallery app runs Gemma 4 (1B and 4B parameter models) entirely on-device on iPhones — no API calls, no data leaves the phone.
▸ Bram Cohen — the inventor of BitTorrent — published a sharp critique of vibe coding, arguing the practice produces developers who can't debug what the...
▸ Microsoft abruptly terminated VeraCrypt's developer account, preventing the project from issuing signed Windows drivers — effectively freezing updates...
▸ Age verification mandates don't just check ages — they require identity-binding infrastructure that persists well beyond the initial check.