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Geoffrey Cain's new book revisits Steve Jobs's forgotten 12 years at NeXT

Journalist Geoffrey Cain's forthcoming book Steve Jobs in Exile, out 19 May 2026, examines the period from 1985 to 1997 when Jobs ran NeXT Computer after being

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aiopen-source

GGUF Bundles Models Well, But Tool Grammars and Think Tokens Are Missing

GGUF, the single-file model format used by llama.cpp, consolidates everything safetensors and Ollama spread across multiple files: weights, tokenizer data, chat

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tech-cultureopen-source

Jason Scott's ASCII: A Long-Running Chronicle of Digital History

ASCII is the personal weblog of Jason Scott, the archivist behind textfiles.com and a prominent figure at the Internet Archive. The site has served for years as

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privacycybersecurity

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

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aipolicy

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

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aidevops

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

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open-sourcetech-culture

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

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cybersecurityvulnerability

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

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cybersecurityopen-source

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

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open-sourcedevops

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

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tech-culturepolicy

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

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cybersecurityvulnerability

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

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