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wolfSSL ECDSA flaw lets attackers forge certificates across 5B+ devices

A critical cryptographic validation flaw in wolfSSL (CVE-2026-5194) lets attackers bypass certificate verification by exploiting missing hash digest size and OI

via BleepingComputer ·
tech-culture

A Juggler's Complete Guide: From Zero Balls to Siteswap Notation

A self-taught juggler who practices everywhere from airports to nightclubs lays out a structured progression for learning to juggle three balls. The method brea

via Hacker News ·
cybersecurityvulnerability

Adobe Ships Emergency Patch for Acrobat Reader Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation

Adobe pushed an out-of-band fix for CVE-2026-34621, a vulnerability in Acrobat Reader already being weaponized in the wild. The flaw allows attackers to execute

via The Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

AMD's ROCm Slowly Closes the Gap on Nvidia's CUDA Dominance

AMD continues its long-running effort to make ROCm a viable alternative to Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem, which has locked in the GPU computing market for over a deca

via Hacker News ·
aiprivacy

Apple's AI 'Failure' May Be Its Greatest Strategic Advantage

As AI model capabilities rapidly commoditize - with open-weight models like Gemma 4 matching what was frontier-class performance just 18 months ago - the compan

via Hacker News ·
tech-culturecloud

Bootstrapper runs multiple $10K MRR businesses on a $20/month stack

A solo developer details the exact infrastructure behind multiple profitable SaaS products that collectively cost under $20 a month to operate. The core approac

via Hacker News ·
aitech-culture

Cantrill: LLMs Lack the Laziness That Forces Good Abstractions

Bryan Cantrill argues that LLMs are missing a critical engineering virtue: laziness. Because generating code costs an LLM nothing and it has no stake in future

via Simon Willison ·
aidevops

Claude Code Burns Through Pro Max 5x Quota in 90 Minutes

A detailed bug report reveals that Anthropic's Claude Code CLI can exhaust a Pro Max 5x (Opus) subscription quota in as little as 1.5 hours of moderate use. The

via Hacker News ·
tech-cultureopen-source

Developer Turns NYC Subway System Into a Live Musical Instrument

A creative coding project maps every train line in New York City's subway system to a musical instrument, turning real-time transit data into a generative audio

via Hacker News ·
tech-culturepolicy

Font Awesome's 99% sender score means nothing to Gmail's spam filter

Font Awesome discovered its announcement emails were quietly vanishing into Gmail spam folders despite a 99% reputation score in SendGrid. The team only noticed

via Hacker News ·
aiopen-source

Gemma 4 runs local audio transcription on Mac via MLX

Google's 10.28 GB Gemma 4 E2B model can now transcribe audio files locally on macOS using MLX and mlx-vlm. Simon Willison shared a single uv run command that ha

via Simon Willison ·
tech-culturepolicy

Google Pulls Doki Doki Literature Club from Play Store

Google has removed the popular visual novel "Doki Doki Literature Club" from the Google Play Store. The game, developed by Team Salvato and published by Serenit

via Hacker News ·