The Wire
Curated cybersecurity and tech news — AI-summarized, source attributed.
Cloudflare Workers creator built a custom Austin home wired for LAN parties
Kenton Varda, tech lead of Cloudflare's Workers platform and the engineer behind Cap'n Proto and Google's open-sourced Protocol Buffers, and his wife Jade Wang,
Cold War Fix Lives On: The CH-53's Rotor Blades Watch Themselves with Radiation
The CH-53 Sea Stallion, a heavy-lift military helicopter in service since 1966, has always faced a hard safety problem: catching hairline cracks in its rotor bl
Copperhead brings agentic AI to PCB design with gated, commit-per-stage pipeline
Copperhead is an open-core CLI that applies the agentic coding pattern to hardware design, editing KiCad files directly rather than generating code. From a plai
Court frees TWEET and the bird logo — but X keeps its grip on TWITTER
A Delaware federal court has signaled that X abandoned two of Twitter's most recognizable brand assets — the word 'tweet' and the blue bird logo — clearing a pa
Full 2.8T-param Kimi K3 runs on one MacBook at 1 token/sec, streamed off 4 SSDs
Deltafin is an experiment in brute-forcing a frontier model onto consumer hardware. This fork runs Moonshot's full Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of
GrapheneOS post asserts copyright should be abolished — no argument attached
The source is a single-line social media post from the GrapheneOS account stating that copyright 'does more harm than good and should be abolished.' No supporti
Hacker turns a programmable e-ink reader into a real network printer
A developer bought an Xteink X3 e-ink reader because its CrossPoint firmware was fully programmable, then grew tired of the clunky upload flow that required joi
How the Buddha Became Two Christian Saints
The Catholic and Orthodox churches once venerated saints Barlaam and Josaphat, whose legend follows an Indian prince, Josaphat, kept in luxurious isolation by a
"I-have-ADHD" skill forces coding agents to lead with the answer, cut the fluff
A developer has published an open-source skill for AI coding assistants that reshapes how those tools respond, prioritizing the actual answer over the conversat
Inception's Mercury 2.5 bets diffusion LLMs can win on latency and cost
Inception Labs has released Mercury 2.5, which it calls the largest diffusion language model ever trained and the most capable diffusion LLM available. Unlike t
LG smart TVs log Wi-Fi, audio, and viewing data — even offline and in standby
An investigation by Gamers Nexus, working with Level1Techs and independent security researchers, found that LG OLED TVs continuously collect and transmit data a
LibreOffice hits record downloads by making 'no AI' a selling point
LibreOffice 26.8, released August 26th, became the suite's most-downloaded update ever, topping 1 million installer downloads in a single week (excluding Linux