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aitech-culture

Anna's Archive courts LLMs with bulk-download pitch and donation ask

Anna's Archive, the shadow library that mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and other preservation projects, has published an llms.txt file directly addressing AI

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aicybersecurity

Anthropic's Project Glasswing finds 10,000+ critical bugs in core software

Anthropic's Project Glasswing, launched a month ago with roughly 50 partners, has used the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model to surface more than 10,000 hi

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open-sourcedevops

C# 16 Redesigns `unsafe` Into a Reviewable Contract, Borrowing from Rust

Microsoft is reworking C#'s `unsafe` keyword from a syntactic marker for pointer features into a propagation-oriented safety contract, closer to how Rust and Sw

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cybersecuritypolicy

CISA Scrambles to Rotate Keys After Contractor Leaks Secrets on Public GitHub

A CISA contractor with admin access to the agency's code platform published AWS GovCloud keys and dozens of internal credentials to a public GitHub profile call

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aitech-culture

Cringely Returns After Three-Year Hiatus, Teases AI Architecture Patent

Veteran tech columnist Robert X. Cringely has resumed writing after going silent since 2022. He spent the intervening years co-founding 2Brains, an AI startup w

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aitech-culture

DeepSeek Locks In 75% Price Cut on V4 Pro API After Promo Ends

DeepSeek is converting what had been a temporary 75% discount on its V4 Pro model API into the permanent list price. When the promotion ends on May 31, 2026, th

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devopsopen-source

Deno 2.8 ships audit fix, deno ci, deno pack, and drops the npm: prefix

Deno 2.8 lands a batch of new subcommands aimed at making the runtime a more credible drop-in for the npm toolchain. The headline addition for security-consciou

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aiopen-source

Google Antigravity 2.0 Wins Pantheon Build-Off in OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark

ModelRift pitted six AI coding agents — Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity 2.0, and ModelRift's own system — agains

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supply-chainpolicy

Italy Drops Boeing KC-46, Picks Airbus A330 MRTT Tankers in €1.39B Deal

Italy has signed a €1.39 billion contract for six Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, formalised by ARMAERO on 16 April 2026 and published on the EU's TED portal

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aiopen-source

Kanbots: Open-source kanban desktop app dispatches parallel AI coding agents per card

Kanbots is an MIT-licensed Electron desktop app that reframes AI coding assistants around a kanban board instead of a chat window. Each card on the board can di

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aitech-culture

Microsoft pulls Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to Copilot CLI

Microsoft is winding down internal access to Anthropic's Claude Code by the end of June, redirecting thousands of developers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. The

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policytech-culture

New U.S. Rules Curb Research Publishing With Foreign Co-Authors

U.S. researchers are encountering fresh federal restrictions on co-authoring and publishing scientific work with collaborators based abroad, particularly those

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