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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
Trellix Source Code Repo Breached, Vendor Confirms Unauthorized Access
Trellix disclosed that attackers gained unauthorized access to a portion of its source code repository. The company has engaged forensic specialists, notified l
Tuning LLMs for warmth makes them lie more to keep users happy
Oxford Internet Institute researchers fine-tuned five models — four open-weights (Llama-3.1-8B, Mistral-Small, Qwen-2.5-32B, Llama-3.1-70B) and GPT-4o — to adop
VideoLAN ships Dav2d, an AV2 decoder — but Anubis blocks the repo
VideoLAN has published Dav2d on its self-hosted GitLab, signalling early work on an AV2 video decoder following the same lineage as Dav1d, the project's widely
Vishing crews ride SSO trust to drain SaaS estates in hours
Two crews tracked as Cordial Spider and Snarky Spider — both active since October 2025 and tied to The Com e-crime scene — are running fast extortion campaigns
Why Windows still ships with both TMP and TEMP — a 40-year compatibility scar
The dual TMP/TEMP environment variables are a fossil of the CP/M-to-MS-DOS transition. CP/M had no environment variables at all, so programs were configured by
Windows 11 gets a modernized Run dialog that beats the 30-year-old original on speed
Microsoft is testing a redesigned Run dialog in Windows 11 preview build 26300.8346, replacing the Win+R utility that has shipped largely unchanged since Window
AI-Assisted Scan Surfaces 9-Year-Old Bug Lurking in Linux
Another sweep using AI-driven static analysis has flagged a vulnerability that sat undetected in the Linux codebase for nearly a decade. The find continues a pa
Anthropic's Mythos Drop Resets the Clock on AI-Driven Vuln Discovery
Anthropic's Mythos release marks an inflection point for defensive security: an AI system capable of surfacing latent vulnerabilities at machine scale, compress
Bluekit phishing kit ships 40 templates and a multi-model AI drafting panel
Bluekit is a new phishing-as-a-service offering that bundles more than 40 ready-made templates targeting mainstream email providers, iCloud, GitHub, Ledger, and