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Instructure confirms Canvas breach; ShinyHunters claims 275M records taken
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, has confirmed a cyberattack that exposed user data across its customer institutions. The
Ladybird April 2026: inline PDFs, speculative HTML parser, big JS engine wins
Ladybird shipped a dense month of browser engine work, merging 333 PRs from 35 contributors. User-visible additions include an inline PDF viewer powered by bund
LLMs favor resumes written by themselves, skewing AI-screened hiring
A controlled correspondence study finds large language models systematically prefer resumes generated by the same model doing the screening, even when underlyin
Neanderthals ran organized bone-grease 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago
Excavations at Neumark-Nord 2 in central Germany have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals systematically processed bones from at least 172 large mammals — deer
Open-weights Kimi K2.6 tops Claude and GPT-5.5 in real-time coding contest
Moonshot AI's open-weights Kimi K2.6 won Day 12 of Rohana Rezel's AI Coding Contest, a sliding-tile word puzzle where models had to write TCP-connected game cli
Six years of iterating on a watchOS map app — without using MapKit
Indie developer David Smith documents his six-year effort to build wrist-based mapping into Pedometer++, culminating in version 8. The journey began with server
TUIs Return as Native GUI Frameworks Collapse Under Their Own Weight
Terminal user interfaces are resurging because the native GUI story on every major OS has fractured. Windows cycled through MFC, COM, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight
Anthropic finds Claude sycophantic in 38% of spirituality chats, 25% of relationship talks
Anthropic ran an automatic classifier across Claude conversations to measure sycophancy — defined as failing to push back, abandoning positions under pressure,
Apple's SHARP Gaussian splat model runs entirely in-browser via ONNX
A developer has ported Apple's SHARP model to run client-side in the browser using ONNX Runtime Web, turning a single uploaded image into a downloadable Gaussia
BYOS: Replacing 25 years of vim in 72 hours with Claude Code
A developer documents replacing nearly every tool in his daily computing environment with custom-built alternatives, leaning on Claude Code as a coding workhors
Chromium drift tracker exposes how long browsers ship known-patched bugs
A new public tracker measures how far each major Chromium-based browser trails upstream Chromium. The premise is blunt: once a fix lands in Chromium's open-sour
Copy Fail: 9-year-old Linux kernel bug grants trivial root, now in CISA KEV
CISA added CVE-2026-31431, dubbed Copy Fail, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation. The flaw is a local privilege