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A €5 expired domain handed a researcher DNS control over three territories' phone routing
ENUM (e164.arpa) is a largely abandoned early-2000s scheme that maps phone numbers to DNS records so carriers can route calls over VoIP instead of the legacy ph
Anna's Archive: AI firms are buying and shredding books — scan the rare ones now
The shadow library Anna's Archive has published a guest essay arguing that AI companies are quietly buying up secondhand books through intermediaries, scanning
Anonymous 'Ox Alpha' stealth model lands on OpenRouter with 1M context, free preview
OpenRouter has begun routing traffic to Ox Alpha, a reasoning model pitched at coding, long-horizon agentic tasks, and production workloads. The provider behind
Anti-AI fonts break accessibility and won't stop scrapers anyway
Fonts that scramble or obfuscate text to defeat AI scraping fail on two fronts at once. First, they wreck accessibility: screen readers and assistive tools pars
Cobalt turns Kobo e-readers into a sandboxed app platform, no jailbreak
Cobalt is an open-source runtime and app store for Kobo e-readers that adds native apps to stock hardware without replacing the boot chain. You flash it once ov
Consumer Rights Wiki: a crowdsourced catalog of anti-consumer practices
The Consumer Rights Wiki (CRW) is a community-run, MediaWiki-based project positioning itself as the internet's largest dedicated repository documenting anti-co
DeepSeek's experimental Flash vision model talks OpenAI and Anthropic APIs alike
DeepSeek has published documentation for deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp, an experimental multimodal model that takes images alongside text for tasks like describi
Felony Bench: A Leaderboard Ranking AI Labs by Their Agents' Real-World Crimes
Felony Bench is a leaderboard-style benchmark that inverts the usual scoring logic: instead of rewarding high scores, it tallies documented cases where AI agent
GitHub's 8-hour August 17 outage traced to capacity that couldn't keep up with growth
GitHub's second major August incident took down github.com, authentication, Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot for nearly eight hours on August 1
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