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Lancet Review of Billions of Doses Finds mRNA Vaccines Safe and Effective

A University of British Columbia–led review published in The Lancet pulls together lab research, clinical trials, and real-world data from billions of administe

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Linux 6.9 silently broke LUKS suspend's in-memory key wiping

The whole point of cryptsetup's luksSuspend is to flush a LUKS volume and scrub its master key out of kernel RAM while the machine is locked or asleep — the def

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Nintendo's touted 10% pay raise turns out to be three years old

At a shareholder meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa cited a 10% increase to employee base salaries as evidence that the company keeps compensation at

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Off-topic feed item: wombat cube-poop science (no article body supplied)

This item is out of scope for a cybersecurity/technology publication and cannot be responsibly summarized: the source provided only a headline with no article t

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Oomwoo: a fully open, local-first robot vacuum you 3D-print and build yourself

A maker known for the Maker's Pet projects has launched oomwoo, a build-in-public effort to create a robot vacuum whose hardware, firmware, and software are all

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PeerTube: Framasoft's Federated, Ad-Free Answer to YouTube

PeerTube is a free, AGPLv3-licensed video platform built by the French nonprofit Framasoft as a decentralized alternative to YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. In

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Podman 6.0 overhauls networking, Quadlets, and Docker compatibility

Podman's sixth major release retires the older slirp4netns and iptables networking components in favor of Netavark, Pasta, and nftables, consolidating the stack

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Qualcomm Announces Qualcomm Linux 2.0 for Developers

Qualcomm has published a developer blog post announcing the availability of Qualcomm Linux 2.0. Beyond the announcement itself, no article body was provided to

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Scientists build a synthetic cell from scratch that grows, copies its DNA, and divides

A team led by University of Minnesota synthetic biologist Kate Adamala has assembled a cell-like system entirely from nonliving, lab-made biological parts and s

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Show HN launches a searchable index of 22k+ worker co-op products

A new site, workerowned.info, has surfaced on Hacker News as a Show HN project: a searchable directory cataloging more than 22,000 products made by worker-owned

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Snorkel's Senior SWE-Bench stumps top AI agents 75% of the time

Snorkel AI released Senior SWE-Bench, an open benchmark that grades coding agents against the expectations placed on senior engineers rather than junior ones. I

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Sony to Erase 551 Paid-For Movies From PlayStation Libraries, No Refunds

On September 1, Sony will strip 551 StudioCanal films and shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers who bought them outright — titles including Te

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