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Malicious VS Code extension exfiltrates 3,800 GitHub internal repos
GitHub confirmed that an employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension, giving attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories before the company isol
OpenAI Readies Confidential IPO Filing at $850B Valuation
OpenAI is set to confidentially file its draft IPO prospectus as early as Friday, working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on what could become one of the
Phosphene: Open-source video wallpaper engine built on Apple's private framework
Phosphene is a macOS Tahoe menu bar app that lets users set arbitrary video files as desktop and lock-screen wallpapers, slotting them into the native System Se
Python 3.15's quieter wins: TaskGroup.cancel, thread-safe iterators, ContextDecorator fixes
Beyond the headline features like lazy imports, Python 3.15 ships several smaller quality-of-life improvements worth knowing. asyncio.TaskGroup gains a cancel()
Restored Trinity Test Footage Reveals the First Microseconds of the Atomic Age
A new book drawing on Los Alamos archives surfaces rarely-seen photography from the July 1945 Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear device. Berlyn Bri
Seattle Shield: Police-Run Intel Network Loops in Amazon, Facebook, FBI, ICE
Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network run by the Seattle Police Department since 2009, quietly connects local police with Amazon, Facebook, FBI agents
SpaceX Files S-1, Setting Stage for Long-Awaited Public Offering
SpaceX has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC, the formal prospectus required before a U.S. company can sell shares to the public. The filing, lod
Vivaldi 8.0 ships Unified UI overhaul and six preset layouts
Vivaldi's 8.0 release replaces the browser's previously layered chrome with a single continuous surface the team calls Unified. Tabs, toolbars, panels, and cont
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max pushes into agentic territory
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.7-Max, positioning the model as a frontier-class system built specifically for agentic workloads rather than pure chat. T
Apple wires Apple Intelligence into VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control
Apple previewed a round of accessibility updates that lean heavily on its on-device Apple Intelligence models. VoiceOver's Image Explorer and Live Recognition w
Auto-Identity-Remove: Scripted Monthly Opt-Outs Across 500+ Data Brokers
A new open-source tool automates the tedious process of removing personal information from people-search sites and data brokers. Auto-identity-remove runs on ma
CISA Contractor Exposed AWS GovCloud Keys and Internal Credentials on Public GitHub
A Nightwing contractor working for CISA maintained a public GitHub repository called 'Private-CISA' that exposed administrative credentials to three AWS GovClou