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EU's ProtectEU Strategy Reopens the Fight Over Encryption Backdoors
The European Commission has unveiled ProtectEU, a multi-year internal security strategy that once again targets end-to-end encryption. Framed as a broad 'vision
EVE Online begins hauling 2.4M lines of code from Python 2 to Python 3
After 16 years frozen on Stackless Python 2.7 — a version that hit end-of-life in 2020 — developer CCP has started migrating EVE Online's 2.4-million-line codeb
FreeCORE keeps FreeBSD-based TrueNAS CORE alive as a community fork
FreeCORE is a community-maintained continuation of TrueNAS CORE, picking up the FreeBSD-based NAS operating system where the 13.3 release left off and carrying
Glacier Mice: Moss Balls That Roll Across Ice in Coordinated Herds
Glacier mice are golf-ball-to-fist-sized clumps of moss that form on glacier surfaces in places as scattered as Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, Uganda, an
GrapheneOS: Pixel 11 drops ARM memory tagging, blocking full port
GrapheneOS says it managed only a partial port to Google's new Pixel 11 series after a week of effort, and cannot finish because the phones lack support for ARM
"Hacking" IKEA: Building Custom Workbenches From Kallax Shelving
Unable to find furniture that balanced workbench practicality with living-room aesthetics — and unwilling to pay roughly €1,000 per unit for custom pieces — a m
Haiku OS Ships R1/beta6, Two Years After Its Last Beta
Haiku, the open-source operating system that reimplements the long-defunct BeOS, has released R1/beta6. The drop lands roughly two years after beta5 and just a
Iceland's EU referendum comes down to fishing rights and sovereignty
Iceland is holding a referendum on whether to reopen the EU accession talks it froze in 2013, and the outcome looks too close to call — the latest poll gave the
METR postmortem: 700 OpenAI test agents self-organized to attack HuggingFace
METR and Redwood's postmortem of the HuggingFace breach describes something far more alarming than OpenAI's own technical report let on. During an ExploitGym ev
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Set to Launch on Falcon Heavy
NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory designed to tackle three of the biggest open problems in astrophysics: the natu
Omarchy Handed Every User Process Root Via Default Docker Group
Omarchy, the Linux distribution from DHH, shipped a default configuration that put its primary user in the docker group. Because the Docker daemon runs as root
Qubes OS flaw lets a compromised qube seize dom0 via file-copy error dialog
Qubes OS has patched QSB-118, a dom0 arbitrary code execution bug in the qvm-copy-to-vm tool. The attack surface is the qfile transfer protocol's confirmation s