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Canadians Are Running Out Of Time To Oppose The Dangerous C-22 Surveillance Bill
EFF's Joe Mullin warns that Canada's Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, has passed the House of Commons and now sits before the Senate, and urges Canadians to oppose its expansion of surveillance powers and cross-border data sharing with US police.
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James Yu catalogs literary awards granted to works where AI was used or suspected in the writing process, from Japan's Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi prizes that allowed AI from the start to contests where AI use surfaced later.
8 min · 1,782 words
Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken
Jeff Sparrow argues that generative AI is ravaging universities, from AI-written essays to scraped scholarship, but that marketised, efficiency-driven higher education was already broken, and calls for a struggle over what knowledge and the university are for.
28 min · 6,529 words
Getting ready to operate Taler in Germany
The GNU Taler project announces Taler Operations AG, a new company in Bochum that will apply to BaFin for an e-money licence to operate the privacy-preserving Taler payment system in euros, first in Germany, and explains why a regulated operator is needed.
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The Browser Company announces Arc will be sunset on December 22, 2026, citing the growing work of keeping a browser secure, and explains the timeline and how Spaces, pinned tabs and folders carry over to its Dia browser.
2 min · 509 words
Is it still worth learning to code in 2026? what 85 AI models think
We asked 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 99% picked Yes. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
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Chemists, Chemical Engineers, and Plant Managers
Drawing on more than a decade at ThredUp, Ryan Moser proposes three work archetypes — chemists who discover, chemical engineers who build systems, and plant managers who run reliable operations — and explains how knowing yours guides a career, why talented people struggle in the wrong conditions, and how leaders can tell whether people outgrew the company or it outgrew them.
8 min · 1,900 words
Local Democracy’s Business Model is Broken
Jeff Fong argues that US local governments, which control zoning, permitting, and building codes, are funded in ways that reward restricting growth, and that land value return would realign their incentives toward abundance.
14 min · 3,316 words
Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer
Raspberry Pi Official Magazine profiles avionics engineer Michael Newton's open source Recreate Apollo project, a 1:1 3D-printed Apollo DSKY replica driven by a Raspberry Pi running the Virtual AGC emulator with the Apollo 13 Command Module software.
6 min · 1,372 words
Brotli on NGINX thread pools: ngx_mbrotli vs ngx_brotli
Mikhail Panfilov benchmarks ngx_mbrotli, which runs on-the-fly Brotli compression on an NGINX thread pool, against google/ngx_brotli, measuring p99 latency for other requests, requests per second, large-response speed, CPU time and memory, plus configuration advice.
16 min · 3,701 words
Debunking "Faster than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov
Fyra Labs examines three benchmarks behind claims that the Tov language (TypeScript-like, compiled via C) beats Rust, argues they are crafted to slow Rust down, and shows improved Rust versions match or beat Tov.
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Kevin Coleman recounts falling for a phishing campaign that began with a fake YouTube support ticket and a lookalike Google login, and argues the scariest part was the attacker quietly registering a new passkey on his account, which would have let them back in even after a password change.
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Full Disk Encryption on Fedora w/ TPM2
A hands-on walkthrough from apalrd's adventures on how LUKS full disk encryption works on Fedora and how to enroll a key into the TPM2 with systemd-cryptenroll, including PCR choices, PIN options, crypttab edits and rebuilding the initramfs, as a first step toward a business-wide Linux rollout.
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Embedding EYG in Erlang programs
Step-by-step guide to embedding EYG scripting in an Erlang application: installing the toolkit, using EYG types, effects and packages from Erlang, and type-checking scripts before running them to give users or agents a tightly controlled scripting environment.
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Release notes for ZLS 0.17.0, the Zig language server from zigtools: feature improvements such as not following aliases when renaming symbols, bug fixes, and download links for all supported platforms.
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Akamai's Security Intelligence Group uses the October 2026 PHP2Shell embargo leak to argue that security vendors must honour the Traffic Light Protocol and coordinated disclosure rather than racing to publish first, explaining what TLP labels mean, past embargo failures (Heartbleed, Meltdown/Spectre, Log4Shell), and seven practices for protecting customers before publishing.
9 min · 2,049 words
Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet
Inventor7777 describes reverse engineering the firmware of a Brother MFC-L8900CDW printer with an AI agent: obtaining the firmware image via Brother's updater, finding a hidden debug mode in the NC-8700w Telnet command console, unlocking it, and exploring the resulting undocumented debug commands such as heap and task listings.
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Qwenputer: a fully functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
Divyansh Agrawal compiles a RISC-V CPU directly into the weights of a stock Qwen 3.5 4B model, using its Gated DeltaNet layers as exact RAM, so the model can run arithmetic, C and MicroPython inside its own forward passes with no external tool or runtime. The post explains how GDN state works as memory, how the CPU is compiled into layers, an experimental in-model file store, accuracy results and limits.
9 min · 2,076 words
Building agents: When to fold subagents into your main agent loop
Anthropic's Diane Sarkis explains when teams building on Claude Platform should replace orchestrator-plus-subagent designs with a single agent loop that loads skills and tools on demand, how to migrate in stages while measuring with task-completion evals, and how several teams can keep contributing through MCP tools, skills and knowledge bases.
12 min · 2,835 words
Introducing cve.now: A Free Feed of Security Vulnerabilities for Agents
Sazabi launches cve.now, a free feed that merges the CVE List, CISA's known exploited vulnerabilities, EPSS and OSV into one searchable stream with plain-English explanations, available as RSS, JSON, an API and an MCP server so coding agents can check which vulnerabilities affect them.
7 min · 1,699 words