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Mullvad's deterministic exit IP assignment leaks a per-key fingerprint
Mullvad assigns each server multiple exit IPs and picks one deterministically from a user's WireGuard public key rather than randomly per connection. A research
Ontario audit: AI medical scribes routinely garble prescriptions and patient facts
Ontario auditors evaluating AI Scribe tools used by physicians found pervasive accuracy failures, with 60% of the systems reviewed mixing up prescribed medicati
OpenAI brings Codex coding agent to the ChatGPT mobile app
OpenAI has integrated Codex, its code-generation and software engineering agent, directly into the ChatGPT mobile app. The move pushes agentic coding workflows
Project Gutenberg: 50+ Years of Free Public-Domain eBooks, Still Growing
Project Gutenberg continues its decades-long mission of digitizing public-domain literature, offering free EPUB and Kindle downloads with no registration or app
Project Zero chains two bugs to root a Pixel 10 with zero clicks
Google's Project Zero ported its earlier Pixel 9 zero-click chain to the Pixel 10, demonstrating that root access is still reachable through just two vulnerabil
Pure-OCaml CCSDS Stack Borealis Goes Live in Low Earth Orbit
Parsimoni's Borealis daemon, a pure-OCaml implementation of the CCSDS protocol family, booted in low Earth orbit on 23 April 2026 aboard DPhi Space's ClusterGat
Radicle: A peer-to-peer Git forge with no central authority
Radicle is an open-source code collaboration stack that replaces centralized hosts like GitHub with a peer-to-peer network built on Git. Repositories replicate
RAF Airdrops Medics and Supplies onto Tristan da Cunha to Battle Hantavirus
After a suspected hantavirus case overwhelmed the tiny hospital on Tristan da Cunha—the world's most remote inhabited island—the UK launched an unprecedented ai
Researchers bypass Apple's MIE with first public M5 kernel exploit in five days
Calif, working with an AI system called Mythos Preview, built the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit that survives Memory Integrity Enforcement
Reverse-Engineering HDD Firmware to Exploit an Xbox 360 Race Condition
A researcher developing an Xbox 360 softmod exploit needed to win a timing-sensitive race condition during HDD reads, and considered patching drive firmware to
Start9 unveils RISC-V router with open boot stack and per-device security profiles
Start9 is taking pre-orders for a RISC-V-based home router built around the SpacemiT K1 8-core chip, 4GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6, and a fully open boot stack (OpenSBI, U-B
UK ditches Palantir Foundry for in-house refugee matching system, saves millions
The UK's Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has replaced the Palantir Foundry-based system that powered the Homes for Ukraine refugee resettl