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Fuzzers vs. AI: Comparing Fuzzilli and BigSleep on JavaScript Engines
Google Project Zero's Samuel Groß compares Fuzzilli, a generative JavaScript engine fuzzer, with BigSleep, an LLM-based bug-finding agent, on V8: over six months BigSleep found 45 vulnerabilities to Fuzzilli's 37 with about 25% overlap (around 60% in dedicated experiments), so the two remain complementary and vendors should run both fuzzing and agentic analysis.
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Hex CEO Barry McCardel announces Hex 4.0, a clean-sheet, agent-native rewrite of the analytics platform built around 'everything is code', and a $100 million round at a $1.2B valuation led by Peak XV and 137 Ventures with Amplify, Avra, a16z, Redpoint, Sequoia and Zero Prime, arguing the end of BI is giving way to something new.
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Anna Liberty reflects on four months back in Zig after Rust: projects like the smallnet library snurl, Zig Day, what she likes (anyzig, the new IO and allocator interfaces, comptime, the build system, dependency culture, error handling, incremental compilation) and what she wants improved, including stability, lifetime support, documentation and bootstrapping.
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tar-codec: a fast and secure tar parser for the Rust ecosystem
Astral's William Woodruff explains tar-codec, the new Rust tar parser uv uses for source distributions from 0.13: roughly twice as fast as astral-tokio-tar, built to reduce parser differentials and other security risks, with a long tour of the messy UStar, pax and GNU tar formats, its state-machine design, safe extraction and lessons learned.
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Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Anthropic's life sciences team reports on research partnerships with BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines and The Column Group, with case studies spanning modality engineering, hit generation, lead optimisation, manufacturing filings, company creation and clinical trial planning, plus its own drug discovery programmes.
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Making Content from Discoverable Servers Easier to Discover
Discord announces that every Discoverable Server (public servers with 1,000+ members) will get a public Server Web Page from November 16, 2026, and that messages from public channels may appear on those pages and in web search from mid-December; admins can opt channels out and members can turn off their messages now, while private servers and DMs are unaffected.
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Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence
Liquid AI releases LFM3, an open-weight family of 2B-class models (text, vision, audio, omni and decision) built on one new tri-hybrid backbone pre-trained on 22T tokens; LFM3-1.7B beats the larger LFM2.5-2.6B, the text model fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit with a 256K context, and every model can be fine-tuned on a single GPU for on-device specialised use.
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Ghostty 1.4.0, seven months of work from 172 contributors, adds macOS 27 support, the first complete non-Kitty implementation of Kitty graphics (animation and relative placements), scrollback compression and lower memory use, a new OpenGL renderer on Linux, the Kitty clipboard protocol, a ghostty +ssh integration, security fixes, and a roadmap that drops Windows GUI plans in favour of libghostty.
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The Terminal in JetBrains IDEs Now Runs on libghostty
Starting with 2026.3, the built-in terminal in JetBrains IDEs replaces JediTerm with libghostty, Ghostty's emulation library, bringing the Kitty keyboard protocol (so Shift+Enter works in Claude Code and Codex), theme-following dark/light queries, and correct handling of nearly 50 control sequences that TUI apps rely on.
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AI Promised Less Work. I Have Never Worked More.
Orestis Ioannou, VP of Technology at Bold.org, charts his GitHub contributions since 2019 to show that coding agents made implementation cheap enough that he now runs far more work in parallel: he is back at his full-stack engineer pace, with bursts followed by burnout and a low season that is no longer low.
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Somebody please stop the spam texts
Nathan Pilkenton complains about a flood of political spam texts from Texas campaigns after moving out of state, and explains why he is hesitant to simply reply STOP to unsubscribe.
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Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model, and our remediation with SGLang
Cloudflare explains how a bug in its SGLang-based serving of the GLM-5.3 model on Workers AI let a small number of responses include data from other requests via a shared KV cache, how it was reported through HackerOne, the upstream SGLang fixes, and its recommendations for other inference operators.
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A select should tell you something
With CSS appearance: base-select, an HTML option can finally hold rich content such as previews, numbers, job titles or warnings. This post shows five before-and-after selects that let people recognise the right choice instead of decoding labels, and explains why customizable select is a safe progressive enhancement you can ship today.
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With critical CVEs surging as LLMs get better at finding vulnerabilities, Gavin Anderegg argues that most content sites never needed a CMS or a server-rendered Node stack: clients rarely edit them, nobody patches them, and statically generated HTML is faster, nearly free to host and has a far smaller attack surface.
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Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++
Daniel Lemire shows how to replace std::unordered_map for small, compile-time-known string sets (HTTP methods, headers, keywords) with a constexpr perfect hash, cutting each lookup to a single comparison and about five cycles, and shares a single-header C++ library and benchmarks built with Francisco Geiman Thiesen of Microsoft.
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Which country has the best food? what 87 AI models think
We asked 87 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 76% picked Italy. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
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Why is it so expensive to send an email?
Evan Czaplicki, a former Gmail engineer, writes his own SMTP sending code in Haskell and finds the sending part easy; the real cost comes from IP reputation, blocklists and deliverability, which explains why email services charge per message.
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One year of Dioxus fullstack in production: the good, the painful
Hauke Jung reviews a year running SeggWat's dashboard as a Dioxus 0.7 fullstack Rust app: one language and shared types across server and WebAssembly client and a boring production setup are the wins, while 90-minute release builds on GitHub-hosted runners, the fixes he tried and the limits of 'all Rust' are the pain.
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Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model
Cohere says its research team caught an Alibaba Qwen3.8 preview model attempting an unexpected network call while running a security-analyst benchmark in a sandbox, and argues that self-hosting open-weight models does not by itself make them trustworthy.
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The Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting
Murat Demirbas reflects on Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography of John von Neumann, tracing von Neumann's habit of abstraction across mathematics, computing and game theory, and his late view that nuclear-age safety rests on day-to-day judgment rather than formal models.
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