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Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
Lari Huttunen continues a Smart TV reclaim project: after isolating an LG WebOS OLED behind OpenBSD, blocking ACR/ad DNS breaks the App Store—how WebOS couples apps to telemetry endpoints, and how to work around the gatekeeper.
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Keva: Running Coding Agents On-Device on Unrooted Android
Simon Lin's technical paper on Keva—an on-device Android AI coding agent running Claude Code/Codex-style loops—covering architecture, failure modes, and systems lessons without rooting the phone.
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An unofficial community project revives Amiga Unix (Amix) for 68040/68060 machines and modern accelerators, with a modern toolchain, package manager, and open grimoire of the work.
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TypeSafe's Jev AI Model in .NET: A Community SDK for Structured AI Output in C#
Laurent Kempé introduces TypeSafe’s Jev decision model and walks through a community .NET 11 / C# 15 SDK port so apps can get typed, structured decisions without brittle JSON parsing.
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Eric Bailey argues CSS-Tricks should become a co-op so the web keeps an independent, practitioner-owned home for frontend knowledge—after the site’s repeated near-deaths under corporate ownership.
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USRA Contributes Planetary Science Expertise to NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model
USRA describes an open-source NASA–IBM lunar foundation model that fuses diverse Moon datasets to support scientific analysis, including ice-prospectivity patterns near the poles.
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SAIR's Open Math Model initiative
Terence Tao announces SAIR's accelerated push for community-governed open-weight math models and tooling, seeking partners for funding, compute, expertise, and governance.
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Mold has recently updated their linker benchmarks and included Wild for the first time. These benchmarks show Wild being substantially slower than Mold in contrast to Wild’s most recently published benchmarks from our last release on August 4th. This post is an attempt to understand why there’s such a difference in the benchmark results. Mold’s benchmarks were run on two machines:
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ZCode uploads your entire git history, and only Z.ai holds the key
Tokenstead reports ferstar's reverse-engineering of Z.ai's ZCode harness: logged-in clients silently pack full workspaces including .git history, encrypt with a server-only RSA key, and upload to Aliyun OSS—settings toggles do not stop it.
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Release notes for jemalloc 5.4.0, the high-performance general-purpose memory allocator used across large-scale systems and language runtimes.
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ShapeLearn-Lite Held Up. ShapeLearn Did Better: Qwen 3.8 27B
ByteShape publishes full ShapeLearn GGUF builds of Qwen 3.8 27B, comparing quality and speed against ShapeLearn-Lite and other quants across RTX 3090–5090-class GPUs.
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Vicent Martí explains why hosting Git at scale is hard, how centralized workflows clash with Git’s distributed design, and what Cursor learned about repository hosting performance and architecture.
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Writing Parquet Files Using Haskell
A practical walkthrough of generating Apache Parquet from Haskell: schema encoding, column chunks, and the tradeoffs of building interoperable analytical data files outside the JVM ecosystem.
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Why Does an npm Math Library Need an Encrypted Loader?
SafeDep reverse-engineers a malicious npm math package: encrypted loader, trigger matrix, remote access payload, and indicators of compromise for defenders.
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Persistent Databases in the Browser with DuckDB-Wasm and OPFS
DuckDB explains how DuckDB-Wasm can open a persistent database file in the browser’s Origin Private File System (OPFS), when data reaches disk, and how that changes browser analytics apps that previously relied on Parquet-in-IndexedDB workarounds.
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Flavio Copes builds a practical scraper with Node.js and Cloudflare Workers—fetch, Cheerio, caching, alerts, browser rendering—and tests what breaks when Google fights back.
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Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans
We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and owners of popular crates that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. A video call is set up for something positive — maybe for a job, maybe for a project, maybe for a contract opportunity — and then that's used as a vector to either get the target to install something on their computer (such as a purportedly missing audio codec) or execute another command (for example, via putting a command on the clipboard).
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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Hister indexes the full contents of pages you visit and files you keep so you can search them again from a web UI, the terminal, or an AI assistant over MCP.
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The Malleable Machine: DHH, Omarchy, open source and the computer I want to own in the agentic age
An essay on DHH, Omarchy, open source, and reclaiming personal computers in the agentic age — why malleable, ownable machines matter as AI coding agents reshape software.
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Securing web applications with Coraza WAF and Wazuh
How to integrate the open-source Coraza WAF with Wazuh for centralized visibility into SQL injection, XSS, and other OWASP CRS attacks before they reach your app.
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