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Forgejo 16.0.4 Patches Critical RCE Affecting All Versions Through 16.0.3
Forgejo, the community-run fork of the self-hosted Git forge Gitea, has shipped 16.0.4 to fix a vulnerability its maintainers classify as a critical remote code
Hitachi's new EcoCute heat pumps let owners sync hot water with solar tariffs
Hitachi Global Life Solutions is rolling out a new Y-series of residential EcoCute water heaters in Japan starting November 2026, running on natural CO2 refrige
In Defense of the Big Box of Cables
A blogger riffs on a viral social post from Tyler Gaw, who declared that after a decade of untouched cables finally proving useful, no one should ever be allowe
Mexican Teen Builds DIY Sound-Wave Fire Extinguisher That Snuffs Flames in Seconds
A 16-year-old student in Altamira, Tamaulipas, has built a working fire extinguisher that uses sound instead of chemicals or water. Ángela Karime Venegas Hernán
Nine streaming subscriptions now cost $702/year more than in 2021, up 61%
A price-tracking site, HonestlyRanked, has quantified streaming inflation by pricing a fixed basket of nine flagship on-demand services — Netflix, Disney+, Hulu
NTSB Reads Out Both Black Boxes From Miami 767 Cargo Runway Excursion
The NTSB has successfully recovered and read out the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A freighter that ra
Off-topic submission: open-access music theory textbook, no summarizable content
The supplied source is not a cybersecurity or technology article. It is the landing page of "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom," an open-access music
One WebGPU Shader Can Freeze Any Mac — and Apple Won't Call It a Bug
A researcher known as Auberon López has documented a browser-based denial-of-service technique dubbed the "Deathray" that hangs Apple Silicon Macs with nothing
Open-source "proof of capture" camera signs real photos with steganography, not metadata
A day after Apple unveiled Apple Reference Image—its scheme for cryptographically proving a photo came from a real camera rather than a generator—developer Mery
OpenAI's Agents API Exposes the Codex Harness as a Managed Service
OpenAI has opened up the runtime behind Codex as a hosted product called the Agents API. Instead of building their own orchestration loop, developers hand OpenA
PlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres that keeps real Postgres on every shard
PlanetScale has opened a platform preview of Neki, a horizontally sharded Postgres offering built on the sharding expertise the company developed running massiv
Shopify abandons React Native, says coding agents make native cheap again
Shopify is reversing the mobile-platform bet it made in 2020, when it standardized on React Native to avoid building every feature twice. The company says the c