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Reverse-Engineering HDD Firmware to Exploit an Xbox 360 Race Condition
A researcher developing an Xbox 360 softmod exploit needed to win a timing-sensitive race condition during HDD reads, and considered patching drive firmware to
Start9 unveils RISC-V router with open boot stack and per-device security profiles
Start9 is taking pre-orders for a RISC-V-based home router built around the SpacemiT K1 8-core chip, 4GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6, and a fully open boot stack (OpenSBI, U-B
UK ditches Palantir Foundry for in-house refugee matching system, saves millions
The UK's Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has replaced the Palantir Foundry-based system that powered the Homes for Ukraine refugee resettl
Why Claude Code's harness matters more than the model in large codebases
Anthropic argues that the success of Claude Code in monorepos, legacy stacks, and multi-repo architectures hinges less on raw model benchmarks than on the surro
Wikipedia Reimagined as a Windows XP Desktop Browser
A developer named Sami Smith has built explorer.samismith.com, a web project that reskins Wikipedia as a nostalgic Windows XP desktop environment. Categories ap
Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business with QuickBooks, HubSpot, PayPal integrations
Anthropic has rolled out Claude for Small Business, a package built around Claude Cowork that connects the assistant to the tools small operators already run on
Cisco to Cut Under 4,000 Jobs While Pivoting Investment Toward AI Infrastructure
Cisco announced a Q4 workforce reduction affecting fewer than 4,000 employees, less than 5 percent of its global headcount, with notifications beginning May 14.
Claude Design users lose project access after canceling, but export tool recovers data
A Hacker News poster reports losing access to their Claude Design projects after canceling a Claude Code Max subscription to try Codex, breaking an expectation
Dutch suicide hotline 113 leaked visitor metadata to Google and Microsoft
Stichting 113, the Netherlands' suicide prevention foundation, was caught piping sensitive visitor telemetry to Google and Microsoft without consent, according
Emacsification: When AI Agents Make All Software Personal
The author, frustrated by the lack of a decent macOS Markdown viewer, used Claude to generate a custom SwiftUI app (MDV) in roughly 30 minutes of interactive wo
Fired twin contractors allegedly wiped 96 federal databases on their way out
Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 34-year-old brothers with prior federal convictions for wire fraud, are accused of destroying 96 databases belonging to a Washington,
How Google Built a Unified Cloud IDE After a Decade of Editor Fragmentation
For most of its history, Google left IDE choice to individual engineers, with leaders like Jeff Dean arguing that mandating a common editor would only breed res