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OAuth converts consent into standing permission
A blog that declares lang=en-GB refuses to localize its British references, and the HTML lang tag drives more than spelling.
crustc ports rustc to C and builds it with GCC
crustc is C code you compile with GCC into a working Rust compiler, a demo for cilly, the author's Rust-to-C backend that adapts to any C compiler.
Spain rips Palantir out of its data pipelines
Spain's Moncloa has told SEPI firms including Telefónica, Indra and Navantia to stop contracting with Palantir over data sovereignty concerns.
Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway turns a 401 into a 402
Cloudflare's planned Monetization Gateway would charge agents per request at the edge via x402, turning a 401 into a 402 payment prompt. Waitlist only.
The trust boundary already moved
F-Droid warns Google's Android Developer Verification moves control over what runs on your device to a central registry, with enforcement set for September 30.
AI could make you a stranger to the machines you depend on
An essay on losing the familiarity of the struggle that taught engineers how their machines work, as AI absorbs the fiddly work that used to teach it.
Security teams mislabeled the GPU bubble
How Moondream's Photon engine hides the GPU decode bubble with pipelined decoding, overlapping CPU bookkeeping under the next token's forward.
Flock's real attack surface was never the camera
Flock's exposed cameras are the obvious flaw, but the real attack surface is the nationwide search system that logs car movements with few guardrails.
Your three memory vendors are one vendor
Consumers sue Samsung, SK hynix and Micron in California, alleging the three DRAM makers coordinated supply and pricing to push memory prices up 700%.
Age verification does not verify age
The KIDS Act would pressure platforms to collect identity or biometric data while age estimation remains unreliable.
Mythos AI cleared for distribution, no validation report
The US cleared Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 for over 100 institutions on a Commerce letter citing talks and commitments, with no validation report behind it.
The breach was the network working as intended
Medium blocked the Polish letter Ś because Windows represented Right Alt+S as Ctrl+Alt+S, colliding with the editor's Ctrl+S handler.