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How a wrong clock bricked a reMarkable 2 — and the SSH fix that revived it
A reMarkable 2 e-paper tablet left unused since 2021 refused to sync (a cryptic 'error 0') or update. The root cause was a badly drifted system clock, which blo
How VC Pressure Turned HackerOne from a Hacker Haven into a Sales Machine
A veteran bug bounty hunter who worked both sides of HackerOne — as a researcher since 2017 and as a program manager through 2025 — argues the platform has lost
John C. Lilly's 1978 vision of 'solid-state intelligence' erasing humanity
In a passage from his 1978 memoir The Scientist, neuroscientist John C. Lilly recounts a vision received during ketamine-fueled sensory isolation: humanity as a
Klepton runs Android VR APKs natively on Apple Vision Pro — no JIT needed
Klepton is a compatibility runtime that lets Android ARM64 VR apps run on Apple's Vision Pro and macOS without emulation or just-in-time compilation. Its klepto
Meta open-sources Muse Glimmer, a 30B agentic model that runs on one GPU
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model aimed squarely at local, always-on agent workloads, with weights published o
Mistral Wins Patent on LLMs That Emit Pausable Code to Run Tool Calls
Mistral has been granted US Patent 12,670,045, covering a way for large language models to invoke external tools by writing code rather than emitting discrete f
NZ Music Media Collapsed First — Now a DJ-Built Platform Wants to Rebuild It
New Zealand's live music scene is thriving economically while the journalism that once documented it has all but vanished. The music sector added $451 million d
OpenChamber: an open-source, local-first cockpit for orchestrating coding agents
OpenChamber is an open-source development environment built around AI coding agents rather than around a text editor. Its pitch is orchestration: a 'Session Goa
Phrack at 40: A New Manifesto Mourns the Corporatization of Hacking
To mark four decades of Phrack, an author writing as TMZ revisits the 1986 Hacker's Manifesto and argues that the subculture it captured has been hollowed out.
Put the Phone Down in the Bathroom — Your Brain Needs the Downtime
A tongue-in-cheek argument against scrolling on the toilet, framed as a rebuttal to the always-on attention economy. The author's core claim is that the bathroo
Squeak 6.1 'Vanessa' lands after 4 years with 9,000+ method changes
Squeak, the open-source Smalltalk environment nearing its 30th birthday, has shipped version 6.1, codenamed 'Vanessa.' It's the first release in roughly four ye
The Coming Arms Race Over AI Wearables That Record Everything You Say
Always-listening AI accessories—pins, pendants, and smart glasses that act as silent notetakers, assistants, or even ersatz therapists—are moving from niche gad