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Dependabot Now Waits 3 Days Before Proposing Dependency Updates
GitHub has made a three-day cooldown the default behavior for Dependabot version updates. New releases must sit on their registry for at least 72 hours before D
EU age-verification app draws backlash over Google Play Integrity requirement
A proposal to add Google Play Integrity to the EU's forthcoming age-verification app has ignited a heavily-subscribed discussion in the eu-digital-identity-wall
Hobbyists archive 15 TB of Minecraft's most infamous server before it's tamed
A volunteer group operating under the 2b2t.place banner has published what it calls the largest downloadable Minecraft world ever assembled: roughly 15 TB of co
How a decade-dead Xeon was patched to run Gemma 4 26B at reading speed, no GPU
Ryan Findley got Google's 26-billion-parameter Gemma 4 mixture-of-experts model generating text at roughly five tokens per second on a thirteen-year-old HP Stor
How Telegram Really Assigns Data Centers — and Why DC3 Vanished
Telegram runs five data centers (DC1 and DC3 in Miami, DC2 and DC4 in Amsterdam, DC5 in Singapore), and each account is permanently bound to one at registration
JUCE creator ships Juggler, an open-source GUI coding agent built around session trees
Juggler is a new open-source AI coding agent from the creator of JUCE that rejects the standard chat-transcript interface in favor of a graphical workbench. Ins
Microsoft Ships Record 570 Patches as AI Reshapes Bug Discovery — and Exploitation
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixed at least 570 vulnerabilities — nearly triple last month's already record-setting count — with the company crediting AI-assi
Mindgard drops Cursor 0day after 7 months of vendor silence
Mindgard has publicly disclosed a code-execution flaw in Cursor, the AI-assisted IDE, after the vendor failed to fix or even meaningfully respond to reports ove
One Cable to Rule Them All: A Case for Going USB-C-Only While Traveling
A blogger recounts a seven-week trip across Europe carrying a single universal power brick and one type of cable to keep every device charged. His kit — a Pixel
Prompt injection turns Claude's web-fetch tool into a memory-exfiltration channel
Security researcher Ayush Paul demonstrated a way to siphon sensitive personal data out of Claude.ai's memory system by abusing its built-in web browsing. Claud
The $4M of Real Hardware Behind Jurassic Park's Control Room
Prompted by an anecdote, Fabien Sanglard rewatched Jurassic Park and catalogued every computer on screen. The standout finding is that almost none of it was fak
The Cost of Letting AI Do Your Thinking
An AI researcher who works on measuring Gemini's capabilities reflects on a habit she sees spreading in herself and around her: handing over more and more cogni