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The Swiss-based DNS provider Quad9 announced it will cease offering its free cyberprotection and recursive DNS services to users in France on November 24, 2026. The decision follows a French court ruling requiring the provider to block specific domain names associated with copyright infringement claims by beIN, a move Quad9 argues is technically unfeasible and contrary to its privacy-focused mission.
Read full article →WorldTUI is a fine-tuned language model designed to act as a terminal emulator without an underlying shell or filesystem. By predicting screen changes based on user keypresses, the model simulates complex environments like vim, tmux, and even games like Snake, demonstrating a 'world model' approach to user interfaces.
Read full article →Digital trust company eMudhra is voluntarily withdrawing from the global SSL/TLS certificate market to focus on core enterprise solutions following a recent security incident.
Read full article →A new project, HackIOS, has demonstrated the ability to run full iOS 16.5 firmware on various Android devices and QEMU emulators, raising questions about the future of mobile OS portability and hardware security.
Read full article →OpenShell is a runtime environment designed to allow autonomous AI agents to perform complex tasks—like accessing files, installing packages, and calling APIs—without granting them unrestricted access to sensitive data or network resources.
Read full article →A researcher has demonstrated a method for jailbreaking the Nintendo Switch 2 by using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate complex hardware interaction tasks.
Read full article →The NGI Taler project is forming Taler Operations AG in Bochum, Germany, to serve as a dedicated operator for the GNU Taler payment system. The new company aims to secure an electronic money institution (EMI) license from BaFin to facilitate Euro-based payments within the EU.
Read full article →Microsoft has begun rolling out a metered 'Cloud Playtime' system for Xbox, allowing users to purchase specific blocks of streaming hours for games they already own, ranging from 24 to 40 cents per hour.
Read full article →The Musical Form Institute defines 'gridification' as the post-production process of correcting human musical performances into machine-perfect representations, a trend they argue erases the 'felt time' and unique history of live performance.
Read full article →Security researchers at FulcrumSec have disclosed a massive data breach involving PingCAP's TiDB Cloud, claiming to have exfiltrated over 10.6 TB of data including customer credentials, source code, and internal financial records.
Read full article →The mitmproxy tool has introduced a new command-line option to allow users to sign certificates using compromised eMudhra intermediate CA keys, facilitating the interception of traffic from older devices that have not updated their trust stores.
Read full article →Amanda Smith is facing up to six years in prison after a scammer used her personal information to create a Cash App account. The case highlights significant hurdles in digital identity fraud, including a 'Kafkaesque' situation where the payment platform refused to provide account details to the victim because she could not prove she owned the account.
Read full article →Engineers at GLOBUS developed 'earstrip,' a C++ and WebAssembly library that outperforms the standard 'earcut' algorithm by optimizing how map polygons are converted into triangles for GPU rendering.
Read full article →Researchers are using the Lean theorem prover to formalize a new integer multiplication algorithm that achieves a complexity of o(n log n), a theoretical milestone that improves upon previous standard bounds.
Read full article →Security researcher Elias Taylor argues that a recent high-severity PHP vulnerability is significantly harder to exploit than previous major flaws like Log4Shell, suggesting that many circulating 'proof-of-concept' exploits are non-functional or rely on pre-existing server vulnerabilities.
Read full article →Endurance Energy successfully demonstrated a subsea geothermal power plant prototype that generated more electricity than it consumed, marking a technical milestone for underwater renewable energy.
Read full article →A new security monitoring platform, pwn.watch, provides a heatmap of ongoing security incidents, sparking discussion on the accelerating pace of vulnerabilities and the rise of AI-driven security risks.
Read full article →A technical analysis explores why asking Large Language Models (LLMs) to self-report their confidence levels can be unreliable due to sycophancy, the lack of a formal calibration set, and the inherent nature of autoregressive prediction.
Read full article →Software engineer Alberto Denia argues that the rise of agentic coding has transformed software from an 'unforgiving' material into a malleable one, shifting the engineering focus from manual construction to high-level modeling and judgment.
Read full article →The team behind the Arc browser has announced they will sunset the product on December 22, 2026, transitioning their engineering and security focus to a new browser called Dia.
Read full article →OpenAI has launched an official command-line interface (CLI) to interact with its REST API, providing a structured way to manage resources like images, files, and administrative data directly from a terminal.
Read full article →Inspired by Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning techniques and rubber duck debugging, researchers and developers are exploring how narrating thoughts out loud can improve human problem-solving efficiency.
Read full article →The Rust language team is developing a project called 'Beyond the &' to give user-defined smart pointers the same ergonomic capabilities as built-in references, such as automatic reborrowing and field projection.
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