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GrapheneOS Signals New Supported Devices Arriving in 2027
GrapheneOS, the privacy- and security-hardened Android-based operating system, says hardware capable of running it should be available in 2027. The statement is
Hijacked Rust crate arrayref pulls typosquatted dep that runs malware at build time
A compromised release of arrayref, a tiny but heavily-used Rust crate, briefly shipped malware to anyone who compiled a project depending on it. On August 20, 2
How US trade politics killed TRON, Japan's bid for a homegrown OS empire
In 1984, University of Tokyo researcher Ken Sakamura launched TRON, a plan to build a single, vertically integrated computing stack spanning everything from was
Huzzah swaps throwaway AI prompts for persistent, declarative pseudocode
Developer Daniel Vaughn is burned out on chatting with coding agents. His complaint isn't that AI writes bad code — it's that the interaction model wastes inten
Intelligence Solves Only Half of Life's Problems — and Not the Half That Matters
Standard psychology defines intelligence as a general capacity to reason, plan, and solve problems, which implies smarter people should navigate life better and
Kagi adds a toggle to strip paywalled links, revamps Stocks widget and Assistant
Kagi's latest changelog rolls out a grab-bag of updates to its paid search engine, but the one drawing attention is a new opt-in setting that automatically drop
Missing Prompt-Cache Controls Inflate Codex-on-Bedrock Bills ~10x
A production bug report against Codex CLI (v0.147.0) shows that its native Amazon Bedrock provider has no way to opt into GPT-5.6's explicit prompt caching, so
Modular Open-Sources the Mojo Compiler and Toolchain Under Apache 2.0
Modular has released the full Mojo compiler, standard library, and supporting tooling as open source under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions, ending f
Position paper: 'Reasoning traces' is a dangerous label for LLM intermediate tokens
A position paper led by Subbarao Kambhampati pushes back on how the field talks about intermediate token generation — the practice of having a language model em
Study: AI help lifts homework scores but drags down exam results
A study reported by The Economist found a split between two measures of student performance: when children used AI assistance on homework, their homework scores
Study of 7,700 workers: fully remote employees report the highest well-being
A study of 7,704 employees at MD Anderson, published in July 2026 in Frontiers in Psychology, upends the assumption behind most return-to-office mandates. Well-
The Lost Era of Sid Meier's Pirates! and Genre-less Game Design
When Microprose backed Sid Meier's Pirates! in 1986, the studio was known for vehicle sims and dry wargames. Pirates! was something else entirely — the first ga