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1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories.

Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious…

The sustained readings have placed Banda among India’s most extreme heat locations, a distinction long associated with Rajasthan's Churu and Jaisalmer. | India News

A viral video from an alleged former software engineer claims older iPhones are slowed down on purpose to force upgrades, sparking fresh debate online.

If he had been a programmer, Cardinal Richelieu would have said “Give me six lines written by the hand of the most expert C programmer in the world, and I wi...

Unlike balance trackers, Raster Grid calculates real cost basis, PnL, portfolio risk, and AI-powered decision support across wallets and chains.

A new book charts the gilded history of an ancient asset

In the past few months, I’ve been stress-testing how far AI coding agents can take us when building real, production-grade distributed systems. The result: a Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that not only implements all the features of Azure’s Replicated…

An interactive map of Metal history and the influential bands that helped shaped the genres we know today

Arizona students reject ex-Google exec's positive words on AI

A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive.

Current exercise guidelines are too low, suggest researchers Less fit individuals need to do more exercise to get the same benefits Adults should aim to do between 560 and 610 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial…

Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here. We also updated …

Formal verification gates for AI coding loops, in the language you're already shipping.

Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.

A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.