The Wire
Curated cybersecurity and tech news — AI-summarized, source attributed.
Andy Pavlo Leaves CMU Full-Time to Lead New ClickHouse Labs Research Group
Carnegie Mellon database professor Andy Pavlo is joining ClickHouse to found and lead ClickHouse Labs, an industry research team modeled on the likes of IBM Res
Before the Tap: Milwaukee's Hand-Lettered Transit Passes, 1937–1992
Milwaukee claims to have invented the weekly transit pass, launching an experiment in 1919 that became permanent by 1921. What makes the passes notable to desig
California's DROP platform forces data brokers to honor bulk deletion requests
As of August 1, California's Delete Request Opt-out Platform (DROP) is enforceable, requiring the state's roughly 600 registered data brokers to honor consumer
eBay's Executive-Fueled Stalking Campaign Ends in $56M Payout
In 2019, a group of eBay employees waged a cyberstalking and harassment campaign against Ina and David Steiner, the Massachusetts couple behind EcommerceBytes,
EU Age-Verification App Requires Hardware-Bound Keys, Sparking Openness Fears
The EU's open-source age-verification project has confirmed that hardware-bound attestation is a non-negotiable part of its design, not just an implementation q
Fasttracker II Reborn: A Portable C/SDL2 Clone of the DOS-Era Music Tracker
A developer has released version 2.22 of an open-source, from-scratch clone of Fasttracker II, the classic MS-DOS music tracker beloved in the demoscene and chi
Fitting an Autoregressive Language Model into 25KB on a 1975 8-Bit CPU
A hobbyist project squeezes a working next-token language model onto a MOS 6502, the 8-bit chip behind the Apple II and BBC Micro. The entire system lives in 25
In Defense of Obsidian: Why 'What Has PKM Accomplished?' Is the Wrong Question
This is a point-by-point rebuttal to Brennan Kenneth Brown's essay questioning whether note-taking and personal knowledge management (PKM) tools have produced a
Kakehashi runs macOS ARM binaries on Linux natively to dodge pricey CI
Kakehashi is an experimental userspace translation layer that executes Darwin Mach-O binaries built for Apple Silicon on Linux aarch64. Rather than emulating in
MiniMax Open-Sources H3, an Omni-Modal Video Model That Runs on a 3060
MiniMax has released H3, the third generation of its Hailuo video line and the first the company has shipped with open weights. ComfyUI added native support the
Nix and NixOS Come to NVIDIA's DGX Spark AI Workstations
A community project from developer graham33 brings the Nix ecosystem to NVIDIA's DGX Spark (and the compatible Asus Ascent GX10). It supports two paths: running
Rust may add Move and Forget traits to replace Pin and guarantee destructors
Rust's type system has always assumed two things about every value: it can be relocated in memory, and it can be discarded via mem::forget without running its d