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OpenAI ships Codex Security, a CLI and SDK for AI-assisted vuln scanning

OpenAI has released @openai/codex-security, a command-line tool and TypeScript SDK that uses its Codex models to find, validate, and fix security vulnerabilitie

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open-sourcetech-culture

ReFrame: An Open-Source ePaper Camera That Shows One Photo at a Time

ReFrame is an experimental camera built around a four-inch color ePaper display (the eInk Spectra 6, which uses six pigments). Rather than a screen full of thum

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aiopen-source

TurboFieldfare streams a 26B MoE model on 8GB Macs in ~2GB of RAM

TurboFieldfare is an open-source Swift and Metal runtime that runs the instruction-tuned Gemma 4 26B-A4B mixture-of-experts model on Apple Silicon without loadi

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tech-cultureopen-source

Una pitches a repairable, USB-C GPS watch with an open developer platform

Una is a GPS sports watch built around repairability rather than the sealed, disposable model common to most wearables. The company argues that a single failed

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open-sourcetech-culture

Userscript pulls Hacker News comments into a sidebar next to the article

HNewhere is a small userscript that ends the two-tab dance of reading an article and its Hacker News thread separately. When you land on a page that has an asso

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aitech-culture

AI Firms Are Buying and Shredding Rare Books to Feed Training Pipelines

AI companies are purchasing physical books in bulk, running them through high-speed scanners that slice off the spines, and destroying the originals in the proc

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Anthropic's Amodei: We never called for banning open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing back on claims that his company wants US regulators to ban Chinese open-weights models. He argues that open models without

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tech-culture

Astronauts return from six-month missions feeling like observers of their own lives

Crews returning from standard six-month ISS rotations report a lingering perceptual state that flight surgeons and crew psychologists now recognize as a pattern

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aiopen-source

Bun's $165K Rust Rewrite Looks Far From Done — and Far More Expensive

A skeptical developer dug into the widely-shared claim that Bun's JavaScript runtime was rewritten in Rust by Anthropic's Claude in 11 days for $165,000 in API

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Casa Grande residents petition for oversight of city's Flock surveillance cameras

Deflockcg.com hosts the petition for Deflock Casa Grande, a nonpartisan civic campaign pushing back against the Arizona city's rollout of Flock Safety surveilla

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Court Tosses Google's DMCA Claim Against Search Scraper SerpAPI

A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA Section 1201 lawsuit against SerpAPI, a service that scrapes Google Search results and repackages them as an unofficial

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tech-culturepolicy

Delayed Gratification: The Print Magazine That Waits Three Months to Cover the News

Delayed Gratification is a quarterly print magazine built on a deliberately contrarian premise: rather than chasing breaking news, it revisits events roughly th

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