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Cloudflare will let sites charge AI agents per request via x402 micropayments

Cloudflare is building a Monetization Gateway that lets its customers put a price on any resource behind its edge — web pages, APIs, datasets, or MCP tool calls

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F-Droid Frames Google's Mandatory Android Developer Verification as 'Malware'

F-Droid, the open-source Android app repository, has published a polemic recasting Google's upcoming Android Developer Verification (ADV) program as malware. Th

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Frog-gut bacterium wipes out tumors in mice — but it's one preclinical study

A peer-reviewed paper in Gut Microbes reports that Ewingella americana, a naturally occurring bacterium isolated from amphibian and reptile gut microbiomes, eli

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GitHub Copilot adds Kimi K2.7 Code, its first open-weight model option

GitHub Copilot now offers Kimi K2.7 Code, marking the first time an open-weight model has appeared as a selectable choice in Copilot's model picker. GitHub host

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Google open-sources its Zero-Knowledge Proof libraries for private age checks

Google has released its Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptographic libraries under an open-source license, publishing the code as 'longfellow-zk' on GitHub. The m

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How an Internal Combustion Engine Works, Built Up From First Principles

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive explainer reconstructs the internal combustion engine from scratch, starting with the simplest way to produce rotational moti

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IPFS Cuts Content Publishing From 20 Seconds to Under 1 With Optimistic Provide

IPFS has long suffered from slow content publishing on its Amino DHT, where announcing a new piece of content to the network could take dozens of seconds and oc

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Lancet Review of Billions of Doses Finds mRNA Vaccines Safe and Effective

A University of British Columbia–led review published in The Lancet pulls together lab research, clinical trials, and real-world data from billions of administe

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Linux 6.9 silently broke LUKS suspend's in-memory key wiping

The whole point of cryptsetup's luksSuspend is to flush a LUKS volume and scrub its master key out of kernel RAM while the machine is locked or asleep — the def

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Nintendo's touted 10% pay raise turns out to be three years old

At a shareholder meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa cited a 10% increase to employee base salaries as evidence that the company keeps compensation at

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Off-topic feed item: wombat cube-poop science (no article body supplied)

This item is out of scope for a cybersecurity/technology publication and cannot be responsibly summarized: the source provided only a headline with no article t

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Oomwoo: a fully open, local-first robot vacuum you 3D-print and build yourself

A maker known for the Maker's Pet projects has launched oomwoo, a build-in-public effort to create a robot vacuum whose hardware, firmware, and software are all

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