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deSEC Offers Free, Open-Source DNS Hosting Built Around Security
deSEC is a free DNS hosting service that pitches security as its core design goal. It runs entirely on open-source software and is backed by SSE, and the operat
Dutch central bank shifts 86 tonnes of gold out of US and Canada, citing 'geopolitical unrest'
De Nederlandsche Bank has relocated 86 of the 313 tonnes of gold it held in New York and Ottawa, moving the bullion to the Bank of England between March and Aug
EEBench puts AI circuit design to the test with real SPICE simulations
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra demo of a KiCad session put electronics design in front of a mainstream model launch, but the team behind EEBench argues the harder questio
Engineer Cracks RSA-260 After 35 Years; 2048-Bit Keys Still Safe
Eric Lu, an engineer at Cognition, says he has factored RSA-260, the 260-digit (862-bit) semiprime from RSA Security's 1991 factoring challenge that had stood u
Europe's central banks pull gold from North America, citing geopolitical risk
The Dutch central bank has relocated 86 of the roughly 313 tonnes of gold it held in the US and Canada to London, framing the move as resilience-building for a
Flip Your .gitignore: Block Everything, Then Whitelist What Belongs
The conventional .gitignore is a blocklist — commit everything by default, then scramble to exclude junk like .DS_Store, node_modules, IDE configs, or worse, le
How 3M Buried the Truth About PFAS in Human Blood for Decades
PFAS — the so-called 'forever chemicals' now detectable in the blood of nearly every person and animal on Earth — were pioneered by 3M, which used them in produ
IBM's 'Bob' Enters the Agentic Coding Race, Betting on Legacy Modernization
IBM is pitching Bob as an agentic development assistant that goes beyond autocomplete, positioning it against tools like Copilot and Cursor. Its headline featur
Mullvad Kills Its Public Encrypted DNS, Redirects Funding to Quad9
Mullvad is retiring the public DNS-over-HTTPS servers it has run since 2022, arguing it makes little sense to duplicate work that the Quad9 Foundation already d
Nitter Rebounds: More Live Instances Now Than Before the Takedowns
Nitter, the privacy-focused alternative front-end for Twitter/X, has quietly recovered from the wave of shutdowns that gutted its public instance network. A com
Open-Source eInk Bike Computer Trades Sensors for Sunlight-Readable Simplicity
A new open-source cycling computer, OpenTrailPaper, pairs a 4.7-inch e-paper display with a single board carrying GPS, capacitive touch, a front light, USB-C, a
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hits OpenRouter at $10/$50 per million tokens
OpenAI's new flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, went live on OpenRouter shortly after its September 4, 2026 release. OpenAI positions it for heavy end-to-end work—adv