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Chatto, a self-hostable Slack/Discord rival, goes open source at v0.4
Chatto, a group chat app built solo over the past year as an alternative to Slack, Teams, and Discord, has been released as open source with support for self-ho
China hands death sentence to Nanjing official over $325M in bribes
A court in Changzhou has sentenced Yang Youlin, a 69-year-old former Nanjing city official, to death for accepting more than 2.2 billion yuan ($325M) in bribes
Davit: a free, native SwiftUI front-end for Apple's container platform
Davit is an open-source (MIT) macOS app that puts a native graphical interface on Apple's own container engine, letting developers run Linux OCI containers on A
Dua Lipa launches a permanent banned-books library inside Porto's Livraria Lello
Pop musician Dua Lipa has opened the Manifesto Library, a permanent collection of banned and censored books housed in Porto's historic Livraria Lello bookshop.
EU Mandates In-Cabin Driver Attention Cameras in All New Cars From July 2026
From July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must ship with an Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) system under the bloc's General Safety
GAO Warns DOE Rules Out Cheaper Nuclear Cleanup Options Too Early
The Government Accountability Office reports that the Department of Energy is dropping potentially lower-cost approaches to cleaning up its nuclear waste and co
Germany Recruits Skilled Workers, Then Loses Them to Bureaucracy and Language Barriers
Germany draws skilled migrants but struggles to keep them, according to research from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) presented in Berlin. Surveying
GitLost: Prompt Injection in GitHub's Agentic Workflows Leaks Private Repos
Noma Labs found that GitHub's newly launched Agentic Workflows — which pair GitHub Actions with a Claude- or Copilot-backed AI agent that reads issues and calls
Herdr: a tmux-style terminal multiplexer built to wrangle coding agents
Herdr is a single-binary terminal multiplexer aimed squarely at people running multiple AI coding agents at once. Like tmux or Zellij, it offers split panes, ta
Hidden backdoor in Tenda router firmware grants unauthenticated admin access
Multiple versions of Tenda networking firmware ship with an undocumented authentication backdoor, tracked as CVE-2026-11405, that hands full administrative cont
Knockoff: a local browser extension that filters Amazon's fake pseudo-brands
Knockoff is a free browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that strips trademark-squat pseudo-brands—think ALL-CAPS gibberish names like SZHLUX or HORUSDY—out
Kokoro Runs High-Quality TTS Locally on CPU — Even a Decade-Old One
Kokoro is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that produces convincing, multilingual speech entirely on a CPU, keeping audio generation local and off t