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aitech-culture

If You're Not Reading LLM Code, Move the Rigor to Specs and Tests

The author argues that if an organization mandates LLM-driven coding to maximize speed, engineers can reasonably stop reading generated code—treating their high

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open-sourcetech-culture

Microsoft releases oldest known DOS source code, predating MS-DOS branding

Microsoft has published what it calls the earliest discovered DOS source code, going further back than its prior historical releases. The drop includes the 86-D

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open-sourcetech-culture

Prusa accuses Bambu Lab of AGPL violations in BambuStudio slicer fork

Josef Prusa, founder of Prusa Research, has publicly accused Bambu Lab of violating the AGPL license terms of PrusaSlicer, the open-source slicing software that

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cybersecurityidentity

Scammers Exploit Microsoft's Account Notification Address to Blast Phishing Emails

Spammers have spent months abusing [email protected] — the internal address Microsoft uses to deliver 2FA codes and account alerts — to p

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cybersecurityprivacy

Trump Mobile confirms customer data was exposed via third-party provider

Trump Mobile has acknowledged that customer information — including names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order IDs — was publicly accessible o

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open-sourcetech-culture

Turning an old laptop into a distraction-free writerdeck with Debian and tmux

A writer repurposes an aging System76 Galago Pro into a dedicated writing machine by stripping away the modern desktop entirely. Instead of running a window man

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tech-culture

A desk split in two: separating digital work from analog thinking

A developer describes reworking his home office around two changes. First, he rotated the desk to face the room rather than the wall after noticing every histor

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aitech-culture

A One-Page Site Asks the Question Nobody Wants Answered: Is AI Profitable?

A minimalist single-page site, isaiprofitable.com, poses a pointed question without offering an answer beyond its title. The framing alone has resonated on Hack

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aitech-culture

Anna's Archive courts LLMs with bulk-download pitch and donation ask

Anna's Archive, the shadow library that mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and other preservation projects, has published an llms.txt file directly addressing AI

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aicybersecurity

Anthropic's Project Glasswing finds 10,000+ critical bugs in core software

Anthropic's Project Glasswing, launched a month ago with roughly 50 partners, has used the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model to surface more than 10,000 hi

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open-sourcedevops

C# 16 Redesigns `unsafe` Into a Reviewable Contract, Borrowing from Rust

Microsoft is reworking C#'s `unsafe` keyword from a syntactic marker for pointer features into a propagation-oriented safety contract, closer to how Rust and Sw

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cybersecuritypolicy

CISA Scrambles to Rotate Keys After Contractor Leaks Secrets on Public GitHub

A CISA contractor with admin access to the agency's code platform published AWS GovCloud keys and dozens of internal credentials to a public GitHub profile call

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