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Lexroom Raises $50M Series B for Civil-Law Legal AI Engine
4 min read·about 1 hour ago
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npm Account Compromise: 314 Packages, 637 Malicious Versions in 22 Minutes
The npm account 'atool' was compromised on May 19, 2026, publishing 637 malicious versions across 314 packages in two automated waves. The payload, a 498KB obfuscated Bun script, harvests credentials, hijacks CI/CD pipelines, and persists via AI agent hooks and system services.
5 min read·about 1 hour ago
Artificial Intelligence
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Cursor Composer 2.5: RL Training with Textual Feedback and Sharded Muon
Cursor releases Composer 2.5 with improved intelligence and behavior for long-running coding tasks. The model uses targeted textual feedback during RL training, 25x more synthetic tasks, and a new Sharded Muon optimizer with dual-mesh HSDP for efficient scaling.
4 min read·about 4 hours ago
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Exadel Integrates Tangent for Enhanced AI-Driven User Experiences
Exadel has acquired Tangent, a digital experience consultancy, to strengthen its AI-driven digital transformation capabilities. This strategic move aims to blend Tangent's design expertise with Exadel's AI-native engineering, offering a comprehensive service from backend integration to frontend user engagement.
3 min read·1 day ago
Developer Tools
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Legacy Codebase Archaeology: 7 Steps to Read Any Old Code
A practical playbook for understanding legacy codebases, inspired by a developer rebuilding a 1955 Soviet compiler. The 7-stage process—boundaries, harness, bisection, naming, types, tests, and documentation—applies to any inherited code, from PHP to COBOL.
6 min read·2 days ago
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C++26's std::simd: Late to the Party, Outperformed by Alternatives
C++26 ships std::simd, a portable SIMD library, but it compiles 10x slower, runs slower than scalar loops, and can't express critical operations. Real-world projects already use Highway, SIMDe, or ISPC—all better options.
3 min read·2 days ago
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Angular v22 WebMCP Tools: Expose App State to AI Models
Angular v22 introduces experimental WebMCP tools that let developers register AI-callable functions backed by real application state. Instead of scraping the DOM, models like Gemini can directly invoke Angular services and signals for accurate, context-aware responses.
5 min read·2 days ago
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Hosting a Website on an 8-bit AVR64DD32 Microcontroller
A developer hosts a live website on a $1 AVR64DD32 microcontroller with 8 KB RAM, using SLIP over serial and a WireGuard tunnel. The project illustrates minimal TCP/IP implementation and the absurdity of IPv6 adoption gaps.
3 min read·2 days ago
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Choosing AI Models: Size vs. Cost Trade-offs in Practice
This article demonstrates through a concrete recipe example how small and large AI models differ in speed, cost, and output quality. It provides a practical framework for selecting the right model size based on task complexity, volume, and stakes.
4 min read·2 days ago
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Your JS Bundle Is 4000x Bigger Than Quake: 9-Step Audit
A developer shipped a Quake-like game in 64KB. Your web app is 4000x bigger. This 9-step audit cuts bundle size 50-90% in one afternoon using concrete tools like bundle-analyzer, date-fns, and code splitting.
4 min read·2 days ago
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Emulating Atari YM2149 on Amiga PAULA with Zero CPU Overhead
Leonard exploits the Amiga's rarely-used PAULA attached voice feature to emulate Atari YM2149 music without CPU intervention, enabling simultaneous complex effects like a 6682-dot sin-dots record. The trick reverses the intended roles of square wave and envelope to overcome low-resolution modulation issues.
3 min read·2 days ago
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Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Packs 10 PB with 40 Kioxia LC9 QLC SSDs
Dell's PowerEdge R7725xd server now supports up to 40 Kioxia LC9 245.76TB NVMe SSDs, delivering 9.8 PB raw capacity in 2RU. This QLC-based storage density targets AI training, data lakes, and backup workloads, with a full rack hitting 196 PB.
4 min read·2 days ago
Cybersecurity
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TanStack npm Supply Chain Attack: How pull_request_target Enabled a Worm
On May 11, 2026, an attacker exploited pull_request_target and cache poisoning to publish 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* packages. The worm stole credentials and exfiltrated them via Session messenger. Here's exactly how it happened and what you must do.
4 min read·2 days ago
Artificial Intelligence
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Claude on $20 budget fails to earn from Algora bounties — data inside
A developer spent 48 hours and $20 in token costs trying to replicate an AI agent's bounty win. They found the public bounty market is saturated with agents, maintainers gatekeep, and the expected value of submitting is near zero. They open-sourced a tool to find abandoned bounties.
5 min read·2 days ago
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Code Got Cheaper: Why Your Agile Rituals Are Now the Bottleneck
AI has made writing code fast, but development ceremonies like estimation meetings and standups haven't adapted. The bottleneck has shifted from implementation to judgment: deciding what to build and validating results. Teams that ditch outdated rituals and embrace pair prototyping, AI-assisted code review, and retro-focused reflection will ship faster.
3 min read·2 days ago
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Bazel Gets Content-Defined Chunking: 40% Less Data Uploaded
BuildBuddy's remote cache now supports Content-Defined Chunking (CDC), enabling incremental uploads and storage of large build outputs. In benchmarks, CDC reduced data uploaded by 40% and disk cache size by 40% on their own repo. The feature is available in Bazel 8.7 and 9.1+ with the --experimental_remote_cache_chunking flag.
6 min read·2 days ago
Cybersecurity
npm Worm Shai-Hulud: 796 Packages, 20M Weekly Downloads Compromised
A series of npm supply chain attacks, including the self-replicating Shai-Hulud worm, have compromised thousands of packages. The attacks weaponize AI CLIs and exploit developer practices, not AI itself.
5 min read·3 days ago
Cybersecurity
CTF Scene Declared Dead as GPT-5.5 Solves Insane Pwn Challenges
A top CTF player argues that AI models like Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.5 can now one-shot medium and even hard challenges, turning open online CTFs into a pay-to-win automation contest. The scoreboard no longer reflects human skill, and the community is fracturing.
4 min read·3 days ago
Cybersecurity
Frontier LLMs broke open CTF: GPT-5.5 one-shots insane heap pwn
The author argues that frontier LLMs like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.5 have made open online CTFs uncompetitive. AI agents now solve medium and hard challenges, turning scoreboards into orchestration benchmarks. The ladder from beginner to elite is broken, and organizers cannot effectively fight back.
4 min read·3 days ago
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6 SQL Patterns to Catch Transaction Fraud in Any System
A data engineer shares six SQL patterns for detecting transaction fraud, from velocity checks to impossible travel detection. These queries work across credit cards, benefits, e-commerce, and healthcare.
6 min read·3 days ago
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N64 Additive Blending Hack Uses 32-bit Buffer and RSP for Glow Effects
The N64's RDP doesn't clamp additive blending, causing wrap-around artifacts. A workaround uses a 32-bit render buffer with colors scaled to 1/8 intensity, then converts to 16-bit via RSP microcode in 3.1ms.
3 min read·3 days ago
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Erlang/OTP 29.0: Native Records, Quantum-Resistant SSH, New Warnings
Erlang/OTP 29.0 introduces native records (EEP-79), multi-valued comprehensions, and quantum-resistant key exchange in SSH. The compiler adds several new warnings and deprecations, while the SSH daemon now defaults to disabled for shell and exec services.
3 min read·3 days ago
Cybersecurity
Fired hackers captured on Teams recording plotting data destruction
Twin brothers Sohaib and Muneeb, fired from a company, forgot to end a Microsoft Teams recording after a termination meeting. The recording captured them planning to delete databases, destroy backups, and extort customers. One brother was convicted; the other pleaded guilty but is trying to withdraw his plea.
4 min read·4 days ago
Developer Tools
Claude Code's Agentic Search Beats RAG in Large Codebases
Claude Code uses agentic search instead of RAG to navigate multi-million-line codebases. The article details how CLAUDE.md files, hooks, skills, plugins, LSP, and MCP servers form a harness that determines performance more than the model alone. Three configuration patterns from successful deployments are provided.
5 min read·4 days ago
Gyroflow: Open-Source Video Stabilization Using Gyroscope Data
Gyroflow is a cross-platform open-source application that stabilizes video using gyroscope and accelerometer data from cameras or external loggers. It supports real-time preview, GPU acceleration, rolling shutter correction, and plugins for major video editors.
5 min read·4 days ago
Artificial Intelligence
Frontier AI Access Tightens: Compute, Security, and Gov Control
Access to frontier AI models is becoming restricted due to compute scarcity, security concerns, and U.S. government involvement. The article details three compounding trends that will limit who gets to use top-tier AI capabilities, with implications for global developers and companies.
3 min read·4 days ago
Porting Microsoft 3D Movie Maker to Linux: Inside 3DMMEx
After Microsoft released 3D Movie Maker's source code under MIT license, developer Ben Stone forked the project into 3DMMEx and, with Mark Cave-Ayland, ported it to Linux. The port required decompiling AudioMan, replacing assembly with C, and swapping Win32 for SDL.
2 min read·4 days ago
Cybersecurity
Tesla Wall Connector Bootloader Bypasses Firmware Downgrade Ratchet
Synacktiv researchers bypass the anti-downgrade mechanism in Tesla's Wall Connector by exploiting the bootloader's lack of ratchet checks. The attack erases the validated firmware after the partition table is written, then loads an old signed image without triggering the downgrade check.
3 min read·4 days ago
Cybersecurity
Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Hit OpenAI via TanStack npm Supply Chain
A self-replicating npm worm named Mini Shai-Hulud compromised TanStack's release pipeline, affecting OpenAI's corporate laptops. The attacker hijacked GitHub Actions runners to exfiltrate OIDC tokens and publish malicious packages under the @tanstack namespace. OpenAI confirmed no customer data was accessed, but two employee devices were compromised.
3 min read·5 days ago
Developer Tools
Meta Layoffs 10%: Morale at All-Time Low as AI Tracking Divides Staff
Meta is cutting 10% of staff next week, adding to 25,000 layoffs in four years. Employees describe historically low morale, with grievances over pay cuts, mandatory AI tracking software, and forced role changes. The company's record profits contrast sharply with internal discontent.
5 min read·5 days ago