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Engineered HIV vaccine coaxes primate immune systems into rare broadly neutralizing antibodies

Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Scripps Research, and IAVI report an HIV vaccine that, in rhesus macaques, produced the strongest HIV-figh

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vulnerabilitycybersecurity

Exposed admin APIs handed full control of 676k trucks on Volvo-Eicher fleet platform

A researcher found that My Eicher — the telematics and fleet-tracking platform run by VE Commercial Vehicles, a Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture serv

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open-sourcedevops

Go 1.26 ships Green Tea GC by default — and you can watch it work

Go 1.25 introduced a new garbage collector called Green Tea, and Go 1.26 promoted it to the default. The collector is designed for cache-friendliness, and its b

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privacyopen-source

GrapheneOS Opens the Donation Firehose: Cards, Crypto, and Banks in 8 Countries

GrapheneOS, the privacy-hardened Android-based operating system, funds its development entirely through donations to its non-profit Foundation. The money covers

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aiopen-source

How Linear Attention Evolved from Softmax to Kimi Delta Attention

This technical walkthrough demystifies the DeltaNet family of linear attention mechanisms by deriving them step by step, showing that each variant is a small, m

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open-sourcedevops

Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation: Rebuilds in Milliseconds, Not Seconds

A member of Zig's core team walks through how the language's incremental compilation now works well enough for daily production use. The system detects which in

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aiopen-source

Kimi K3: Moonshot ships 2.8T-param open-weight MoE, trailing only Fable 5 and GPT-5.6

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 2.8 trillion total parameters but only 104 billion activated per token, native vision, and a o

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aiopen-source

Kimi K3: The First Frontier Model to Drop RoPE Entirely for NoPE

Kimi K3, released as an open-weight model, is a production-scale version of last year's Kimi Linear, blown up from 48B to 2.8 trillion parameters — currently th

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aiopen-source

Kimi Linear: Hybrid Attention That Beats Full Attention With 75% Less KV Cache

Moonshot AI's Kimi Linear is a hybrid attention architecture that its authors claim is the first linear-attention design to beat full attention in head-to-head

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Misago dumps React for HTMX to kill the double-render problem in its forum

The Misago forum project is tearing out React.js in favor of HTMX, arguing that a server-rendered architecture with sprinkles of client interactivity fits forum

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tech-cultureprivacy

Netflix exec sues, says ketamine-therapy confession at 'trust' retreat cost him $1.1M job

Kevin Baillie, former VP and head of creative at Netflix's visual effects division, is suing the company for wrongful termination. At a January 2026 company ret

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One missing underscore in a Kik subpoena jailed an innocent Canadian for 18 months

A 2018 child-luring investigation that started in Wisconsin collapsed on a single-character error. Forensics on a 12-year-old victim's phone identified her adul

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