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Reviving abandoned side projects with Claude Code: a YouTube Music shim case study
A developer revisits a long-shelved personal project — a shim exposing YouTube Music through the OpenSubsonic API — and uses Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to finish
RTL8159 USB adapters bring cheaper, cooler 10 GbE — if your USB port can keep up
A new wave of 10 GbE USB adapters built on Realtek's RTL8159 chip is undercutting Thunderbolt-based 10G dongles on price, size, and heat. Jeff Geerling tested a
Troy Hunt Hits 500 Weekly Updates, Reflects on the Cost of Working on Your Own Terms
Troy Hunt marks his 500th weekly update video with a more personal entry than usual, prompted by an audience question on whether he's happy with the path he and
Trump dismisses NSF's National Science Board, gutting agency oversight
The Trump administration has removed the members of the National Science Board, the 24-person body that sets policy and provides oversight for the National Scie
UNC6692 abuses Teams helpdesk impersonation to drop Snow malware suite
Mandiant has attributed a new intrusion set to UNC6692, a threat group pairing email-bombing pressure tactics with Microsoft Teams messages from fake IT helpdes
USB Cheat Sheet: Untangling the Generation, Lane, and Cable Mess
A developer's frustration debugging a phantom bug — caused by misreading USB terminology — produced a compact reference for the standard's notoriously confusing
Western Software Skills Erode as Outsourcing and AI Hollow Out the Talent Pipeline
The piece draws a parallel between the decades-long offshoring of Western manufacturing and what the author argues is now happening to software engineering. Jus
Why a Folding Bike Beats a Regular Bike for Commuting
A London commuter reflects on 11 years with a Brompton folding bike, framing it as a piece of personal infrastructure he wishes he'd adopted decades earlier. Th
Why Alzheimer's Research Keeps Stalling Despite Decades of Investment
Freakonomics examines why Alzheimer's disease has proven so resistant to therapeutic progress despite massive funding and scientific attention. The dominant amy
ADT Confirms Breach After ShinyHunters Vishing Hit Okta SSO, Salesforce Data Stolen
ADT detected unauthorized access to customer data on April 20 and has now confirmed the intrusion after ShinyHunters listed the company on its leak site claimin
Firestarter backdoor on Cisco firewalls survives reboots, patches, and firmware updates
CISA and the UK's NCSC are warning about Firestarter, a custom ELF backdoor planted on Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall appliances running ASA or FTD. The im
Squid Genomes Reveal Deep-Sea Refuges Enabled Survival Through Mass Extinctions
Newly sequenced cephalopod genomes paired with global datasets indicate squid and cuttlefish originated in deep ocean environments more than 100 million years a