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Honda Civic's Android software packages signed with AOSP test keys allow arbitrary code execution via USB physical access, making it a target for Evil Maid attacks.
The modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel "zinnia" written in Rust has achieved booting on real x86_64 hardware. It features POSIX-compliant system calls and a modular driver design.
The open-source solar system simulator "Gravity" has been released. It allows visual learning of gravity and orbital principles through 24 interactive animations. Based on actual observation data, it is attracting attention as an educational tool that stimulates children's scientific curiosity.
Google's Eric Biggers updates Linux kernel AVX-512 xor_gen() to v2 achieving up to 43% faster RAID5/RAID6 parity benefiting Btrfs and others
A second wave of malware attacks has been confirmed in the Arch Linux AUR. The first wave infected over 1,500 packages. The second wave uses code obfuscation to evade detection, employing more advanced techniques.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has completely banned noise infusion (a core method of differential privacy) in statistical products from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This article explains the outcome of the controversy over the balance between accuracy and privacy.
Syntropy, a new language treating programming as handiwork, challenges the AI code-generation trend, prioritizing deep human understanding and creative joy.
Intel has released version 2.5.12 of its Linux thermal control daemon, Thermald. The standout feature is initial support for the ARM architecture, contributed by Qualcomm engineers.
A case study of developing a Game Boy Advance game “2048” in the programming language Zig explores how cross-compilation and easy toolchain management make it well-suited for retro game development.
The "iptv-org/iptv" repository on GitHub is drawing attention, offering an M3U playlist of public IPTV channels worldwide. Viewable instantly with VLC, the legal status is clearly stated. Explore the potential of a community-driven TV revolution.
GitHub struggles to handle explosive traffic from AI-assisted coding and agentic development workflows, causing worsening availability issues. Processing 1.4 billion commits per month, Azure migration is underway.
The open-source Windows-compatible OS ReactOS has confirmed operation of the 1998 game Half-Life. While memory limits and crash issues remain, it demonstrates progress in compatibility.
Wine 11.11 released. Adds layered window support and alpha modifier support to Wayland driver. Includes SymCrypt bundle and 25 bug fixes.
Hacker group ShinyHunters exploited Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day CVE-2026-35273, breaching over 100 organizations, including the University of Nottingham, where 40 GB of data was stolen. Google threat intel confirms.
Apple's security team rewrote the TrueType font hinting interpreter from C to Swift, achieving an average 13% performance improvement and releasing the source code.
A comparative experiment of React code review using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. The difference in effect between same-session, separate-session, and cross-review is small, revealing that the introduction of a review process itself is dominant.
Google Linux kernel expert Eric Biggers has implemented an AVX-512-optimized xor_gen() function for software RAID, achieving up to a 41% performance improvement on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X.
Apple has open-sourced "container," a tool for running Linux containers as lightweight VMs on macOS, written in Swift and optimized for Apple Silicon, supporting OCI images.
Medical AI tool "OpenMed" released on GitHub. Enables entity extraction and PII anonymization from clinical text on-device. Includes over 1,000 specialized models, offered under Apache-2.0.
Complete overview of runtime initialization before Rust binary’s main function runs. Also introduces new mutable data techniques using the ctor crate and linktime project.