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Canada Quietly Signs UN Cybercrime Treaty It Once Rejected as a Surveillance Pact
In a mid-July announcement timed for minimal attention, Ottawa signed the UN Convention against Cybercrime, framing it around child protection and human rights
Cursor strips dollar costs from usage page and CSV, zeroes them out in its API too
Cursor pushed a change on July 31, 2026 that makes usage reporting token-only for all self-serve tiers, including Teams. The dollar Spend metric and Cost column
Elena: A 2.6kB Library for Web Components That Render Before JavaScript Loads
A developer with nearly a decade of experience building enterprise design systems has open-sourced Elena, a 2.6kB library aimed at fixing the chronic weaknesses
Go's Collections Working Group Proposes Generic Sets, Maps, and Heaps for 1.28
A newly formed Go Collections working group — including longtime language stewards Robert Griesemer, Ian Lance Taylor, and Alan Donovan — is proposing to fill a
Heap corruption crashes ripgrep's musl builds under heavy concurrent searches
A bug report against ripgrep 15.2.0 documents intermittent SIGSEGV crashes in the statically-linked x86_64-unknown-linux-musl build when scanning very large dir
lcamtuf's 'Severance': A Layoff Call Where the Workers Are AI Agents
Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf) delivers a short satirical sketch staged as a corporate layoff video call. Two managers, Mark and Christine, deliver the familiar scri
NetBSD 11.0 ships with three unpatched security bugs — and says so openly
After a long delay, the NetBSD project has released version 11.0, and it's doing something unusual: shipping with three known, unfixed security issues and docum
New 'I ♥ RSS' directory rallies fans of the open syndication format
Developer Andrew Shell has launched "I ♥ RSS," a public directory where people who use and advocate for RSS can list their websites. The project offers a badge
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The submission contains only a headline ("The Absurdity of Albert Camus") and no article text. The content field simply repeats the title followed by an instruc
Off-topic: a mindfulness essay on tolerating the present moment (not a tech story)
This is a personal-development essay, not technology or security reporting. Its premise: humans are chronically uncomfortable with simply existing. Sit still fo
OpenAI says an unreleased 'Astra' model cracked ten long-open math problems
OpenAI published ten new results to problems in pure mathematics and theoretical computer science that had seen no progress on their main result for a decade or
Premier League Kicks Betting Logos Off Shirt Fronts for 2026-27
A ban on front-of-shirt gambling sponsorship took effect for the 2026-27 Premier League season, removing betting-company logos from the front of all 20 clubs' j