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OMB Rule Would Let Any Agency Kill Any Federal Grant at Any Time
The Office of Management and Budget is moving an August executive order into formal rulemaking after courts repeatedly struck down the administration's attempts
PrismML's Bonsai Image 4B Squeezes Diffusion Models to Run on iPhones
PrismML has released Bonsai Image 4B, a pair of heavily quantized diffusion models derived from FLUX.2 Klein 4B that fit within the memory budgets of phones and
Racket 9.2 Tightens Pattern Matching, Updates to Unicode 17.0
Racket 9.2 ships with several breaking correctness fixes alongside the usual polish. The match form now enforces equality between repeated variables in non-line
Researcher Threatens Fresh Windows 0-Day Drop as Microsoft Feud Boils Over
A long-running dispute between an independent vulnerability researcher and Microsoft is heading toward another public exploit release, with the researcher signa
Restartable Sequences: The Lockless Trick Unlocking 40x Speedups on Many-Core CPUs
Linux's restartable sequences (rseq), available since kernel 4.18 in 2018, let threads mutate per-CPU data structures without locks or atomics by cooperating wi
Reverse-Engineering a Botched Lawful TLS Intercept on jabber.ru
A security researcher revisits the 2023 jabber.ru incident, in which a lawful interception operation was exposed because whoever ran it forgot to renew the TLS
Rsync maintainers push back on AI-generated contributions
An issue filed against the rsync project carries a blunt title asking contributors not to submit AI-generated or 'vibe-coded' patches to the venerable file sync
Shantell Sans: A Dyslexia-Friendly, Open-Source Answer to Comic Sans
Artist Shantell Martin and type designer Stephen Nixon (ArrowType) built Shantell Sans as a modern reinterpretation of what made Comic Sans culturally sticky: w
specification.website: A Platform-Agnostic Checklist for What a Decent Website Should Do
A new open specification called specification.website attempts to codify what every competent website should implement, organized into ten categories: foundatio
Touring London's Free Public Roof Terraces, From Useful to Pointless
A planning quirk has incentivised City of London developers to bolt free public roof terraces onto new skyscrapers, and the results are wildly uneven. The three
United 767 turns back over Atlantic after passenger names Bluetooth device 'BOMB'
United Flight 236, a Boeing 767-400ER en route from Newark to Palma de Mallorca, reversed course roughly an hour into its transatlantic crossing on Saturday aft
Why Domain Knowledge Beats Coding Skill in the Agentic AI Era
Writing software was never really about writing—it was about constructing a mental model of the domain first, whether payroll garnishments or GTFS transit feeds