▸ A researcher found Claude Code silently injects hidden system-prompt markers whose content varies with your ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and system timezone.
▸ Citizen Lab confirms an MEP on the European Parliament's spyware committee was hacked with Pegasus — the investigator became the target.
▸ OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom silicon, designed with Broadcom and fabbed at TSMC — inference-only, not training.
▸ Anthropic's next-gen 'Mythos' model is being released only to U.S. organizations the federal government has pre-vetted — no public API, no individual ...
▸ F-Droid published an advisory that Play Store apps are impersonating F-Droid client builds and shipping spyware to users who think they're getting the...
▸ Virginia's SB 854 bans the sale of precise geolocation data outright — not just requires opt-in, but prohibits the transaction entirely.
▸ Three repos trending on GitHub in the same week — pi-dynamic-workflows (547), openbrief (356), and make-pages-interactive (329) — all bet on workflows...
▸ A proposed White House rule would let political appointees override peer review on federal research grants across NIH, NSF, DOE, and DARPA.
▸ California's AB 3D printer surveillance bill would force manufacturers to log serial numbers, owner identities, and material purchases into a state re...
▸ UK's Online Safety Act, EU's age-verification pilot, and a dozen US state laws now require platforms to verify user age — which in practice means veri...
▸ The Supreme Court ruled geofence warrants — Google dragnets that sweep every device in a geographic box — trigger Fourth Amendment protections.
▸ F-Droid published a formal security advisory classifying Google's Android Developer Verification as malware — unremovable, phones home, gates app exec...
▸ Since kernel 6.9, `cryptsetup luksSuspend` no longer removes the master key from kernel memory — the whole point of the command.
▸ Rocket Lab is acquiring Iridium, folding a 66-satellite constellation, L-band spectrum, and a profitable enterprise customer book into the same compan...
▸ Spain's government has ordered a blacklist of Palantir across public bodies and is pressuring private firms to follow — the first EU member state to n...
▸ Gergely Orosz's 2022 post-mortem on the Pollen collapse — a UK events startup whose CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Callum Wright shut the company day...
▸ OpenRouter raised $113M Series B at a reported $1.5B valuation, validating model-routing as a permanent layer in the AI stack.
▸ LLMs commoditize the generic engineering skills that powered the last hiring boom — syntax, boilerplate, glue code.
▸ Git was designed to be decentralized; GitHub re-centralized it and most developers stopped noticing.
▸ GitHub disabled the account of a security researcher who published proof-of-concept exploits for unpatched Windows vulnerabilities, citing policy on a...