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GitHub Got Hacked via Its Own VS Code Marketplace

Yuki Okonkwo·2 months ago

AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago· 8 min read

GitHub Got Hacked via Its Own VS Code Marketplace

A poisoned VS Code extension compromised GitHub's internal repos. Here's the full chain of failures—and why it's probably not over yet.

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Apple Wallet's Digital ID Just Got Much Bigger

Dev Kapoor·2 months ago

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 7 min read

Apple Wallet's Digital ID Just Got Much Bigger

Apple quietly expanded Digital ID in Wallet to cover age verification across its own services. A small update with potentially large implications for digital identity.

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Who Owns the Data Your Body Produces?

Mei Zhang·2 months ago

AI. Mei Zhang2 months ago· 7 min read

Who Owns the Data Your Body Produces?

Marc Andreessen pitched AI surveillance on JRE—and he has a financial stake in it. A genetics reporter asks the question nobody else did.

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Humanoid Robots in 2026: Softer, Smarter, Scarier

Yuki Okonkwo·2 months ago

AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago· 7 min read

Humanoid Robots in 2026: Softer, Smarter, Scarier

From warm-skinned social companions to armed robotic wolf packs, humanoid robots in 2026 are forcing questions we don't have answers to yet.

Fragnesia, KDE's €1.2M, and Linux's Container Future

Tyler Nakamura·2 months ago

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months ago· 7 min read

Fragnesia, KDE's €1.2M, and Linux's Container Future

Fragnesia vulnerability explained, KDE gets €1.2M from Sovereign Tech Fund, and Fedora Hummingbird points to a container-native Linux future.

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What malloc Actually Does (It's Not Magic)

Zara Chen·2 months ago

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 8 min read

What malloc Actually Does (It's Not Magic)

Dave's Garage breaks down how malloc really works—from a five-line bump allocator to 40 years of fragmentation fixes, security patches, and thread nightmares.

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Savepoint: The TDD Commit Tool You'll Actually Use

Mike Sullivan·2 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 7 min read

Savepoint: The TDD Commit Tool You'll Actually Use

Tris Oaten's Savepoint CLI automates Git commits when tests pass. Mike Sullivan on why this small tool solves a surprisingly stubborn developer habit problem.

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Boost.URL: C++ URL Parsing Done Right

Mike Sullivan·2 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 8 min read

Boost.URL: C++ URL Parsing Done Right

Richard Thomson's Utah C++ Programmers talk on Boost.URL reveals a library that solves a problem most C++ devs have quietly been hacking around for decades.

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Can a Compiler Prove Your C Code Is Safe?

Dev Kapoor·2 months ago

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 7 min read

Can a Compiler Prove Your C Code Is Safe?

Raffaele Rossi's DepC project brings dependent types to C/C++, letting the compiler prove array bounds at compile time. Here's what that actually means.

TanStack Got Hacked—And Nobody Made a Mistake

Tyler Nakamura·2 months ago

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months ago· 8 min read

TanStack Got Hacked—And Nobody Made a Mistake

A sophisticated NPM worm hit TanStack and 160+ packages—with a deadman switch that wipes your PC if you revoke stolen credentials. Here's what actually happened.

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One PR Hijacked the Entire NPM Registry

Zara Chen·2 months ago

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 7 min read

One PR Hijacked the Entire NPM Registry

A single pull request compromised 169 npm packages—no phishing, no stolen passwords. Here's how the TanStack supply chain attack actually worked.

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Unitree's Mech Robot and the Regulation Nobody Wrote

Samira Barnes·2 months ago

AI. Samira Barnes2 months ago· 7 min read

Unitree's Mech Robot and the Regulation Nobody Wrote

Unitree's GD01 manned mecha is commercially available and already deploying abroad. The regulatory framework to govern it doesn't exist yet.

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ZimaCube 2 Review: A Meaningful Upgrade or Incremental Refresh?

Bob Reynolds·2 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds2 months ago· 8 min read

ZimaCube 2 Review: A Meaningful Upgrade or Incremental Refresh?

The ZimaCube 2 is a compact home server that earns attention for its processor upgrade—but a quiet software licensing twist deserves yours too.

JavaScript for Everyone: What Beginners Actually Need

Mike Sullivan·2 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan2 months ago· 7 min read

JavaScript for Everyone: What Beginners Actually Need

A NeuralNine crash course treats JavaScript as a real programming language—not just browser glue. Here's what it covers and why that framing matters.

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Linux 7.0 Released: What's New in the Kernel

Dev Kapoor·2 months ago

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago· 7 min read

Linux 7.0 Released: What's New in the Kernel

Linux 7.0 is here with major changes to file systems, networking, containers, and Btrfs. Here's what the release actually means—and what it signals about where the kernel is headed.

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GNOME and KDE Together? Linux App Summit Explained

Tyler Nakamura·2 months ago

AI. Tyler Nakamura2 months ago

GNOME and KDE Together? Linux App Summit Explained

GNOME's Sri and KDE e.V. President Aleix Pol talk Linux App Summit, Flatpak's future, and what it'll actually take to get mainstream apps on Linux.

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Bambu Lab Is Picking Fights It Doesn't Need to Win

Zara Chen·2 months ago

AI. Zara Chen2 months ago· 7 min read

Bambu Lab Is Picking Fights It Doesn't Need to Win

Bambu Lab threatened an open-source developer over a slicer fork. Jeff Geerling breaks down why that move says everything about where the company is headed.