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Dark Reading Opens May Caption Contest for Security Cartoon
Dark Reading is running another installment of its Name That Toon caption contest, inviting readers to submit captions for a new security-themed cartoon. Winner
Dolphin propulsion, mushroom urine sensors, and Roman ship repairs
Ars Technica's monthly science roundup surfaces six stories that didn't get standalone coverage in April. The headline item: University of Osaka researchers ran
French teen detained for selling 11.7M records stolen from ANTS gov portal
French prosecutors have detained a 15-year-old accused of breaching France Titres (ANTS), the agency that issues administrative documents, and offering the stol
Instructure investigating breach at Canvas LMS provider, second incident in months
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system used by schools and universities worldwide, confirmed a cybersecurity incident attributed
macOS VMs hit 98% host CPU speed, run usable on 2 cores and 4GB RAM
Benchmarking macOS 26.4.1 in a VM on an M4 Pro Mac mini host shows virtualization overhead is minimal for most workloads. Single-core CPU performance hits 98% o
NetHack 5.0.0 ships with C99 compliance, cross-compiling, and Lua-based level data
The NetHack DevTeam released NetHack 5.0.0 on May 2, 2026, the first major version bump since the 3.6 line. Beyond the usual gameplay tweaks and bug fixes, the
Noctua explains the engineering tax behind its black fan rollouts
Noctua, the Austrian cooling specialist known for its distinctive brown-and-beige fans, addresses a recurring customer question: why black ('chromax.black') var
North Korea Now Holds 76% of All Crypto Stolen in 2026
Tracking of stolen cryptocurrency flows in 2026 shows North Korean actors have consolidated control over roughly three-quarters of all funds taken in crypto-rel
Open Design ships an open-source clone of Claude Design that wires into your local coding CLI
Open Design (OD) is an open-source response to Anthropic's Claude Design, the closed, paid, cloud-only artifact-generation tool released in April 2026. Rather t
RAM price surge stalls SteamOS momentum, hands Microsoft a reprieve
Valve has quietly chipped away at Windows' grip on PC gaming in a way Apple and others never managed. The Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux climbing from under
Simon Willison wires a decade of iNaturalist sightings into his blog via Claude Code
Willison extended his personal blog's syndication pipeline ("beats") to ingest wildlife photos from iNaturalist, surfacing them on the homepage, date archives,
Sonic fire suppression startup faces skepticism from safety experts
A startup is pitching infrasound-based fire suppression as a potential alternative to traditional sprinkler systems, but fire safety researchers are pushing bac