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News, research & announcements from institutions, companies and the press13 items
21 That Privacy Guy 374

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

The iconic Harry Potter Philosopher's Stone scene of Hogwarts acceptance letters bursting in through every opening of a small English suburban house, hundreds of envelopes flying out of the fireplace, streaming through the letterbox in the wooden front door, and pouring through the chimney, envelopes swirling chaotically through the living room mid-air, motion blur on the flying letters, warm interior daylight, wide angle film still (c) Hanff & Co. AB - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/ Reach privacy, DP, security and AI leaders Over 1 million reads in the first month — CPOs, DPOs,…

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16 Cornell University 364

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course by Adrian Sampson on programming language implementation. It covers universal compilers topics like intermediate representations, data flow, and…

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14 Ubiquiti 331

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Enterprise storage has traditionally required costly licensing, proprietary hardware, and complex management. ENAS changes that by delivering a private, local storage platform designed for performance, scalability, and simplicity, all without the overhead typically associated with enterprise infrastructure. The all-new ENAS combines…

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28 Elena Rossini 207

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty

In the past few months I have unwittingly become an expert on all things W Social : the microblogging platform that is a fork of Bluesky and bills itself as Europe’s alternative to X, with identity verification “to fight bots and misinformation” and data hosted in Europe “to promote European digital sovereignty”. Why am I fascinated by…

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08 Model Context Protocol 190

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

Per-user auth is high friction Authorize once, inherit everywhere The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension is now stable. Organizations can centrally manage authorization for MCP…

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04 MIT News 173

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

A new kernel, or core program within an operating system, gives researchers a cleaner view of what’s happening inside a processor. Called Fractal and developed at MIT, the kernel has…

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02 Greybeam 150

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

DuckDB has gone from a research project at CWI Amsterdam in 2019 to one of the most widely adopted databases of the past decade. The list of places it shows up is long: notebooks, ETL…

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25 Let's Encrypt 139

Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today

Updated a few seconds ago acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production), portal.letsencrypt.org (Production) High Assurance Datacenter 1, High Assurance Datacenter 2…

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18 American Express 122

Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems

Architecture Payments Resiliency The American Express core payments ecosystem is a global platform relied on by Card Members and partners around the world. Every day, it…

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31 Daniel Polakovic 79

Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia

It's been two years since my last Zork adventure and I finally got time to finish it. But before I restored my last save, I checked my blog notes and there was one "opened issue"…

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32 DARPA 20

DARPA Heavy Life Challenge

What better place to showcase aviation history in the making than at the world's largest military aviation museum! | 0:30 DARPA Challenges incentivize researchers from across academia,…

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Opinion & Columns

Independent voices — analysis and commentary from the blogosphere33 items
07 Orchid Files Column780

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find such repositories. I have a project on GitHub, and I…

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42 Blue News Column753

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

Swisscom blue News & E-Mail Until June 19, the Federal Palace in Bern will once again be bustling with activity. Numerous important issues will be on the agenda during the summer session of the National Council and Council of States. From June 1 to 19, 2026, the Federal Parliament’s summer session will take place at the Federal Palace. Topics up for debate include the 13th AHV pension, the armed forces, and federal finances. blue News is providing updates from the Federal Palace here in this live feed. Thursday, June 18, 10:47 a.m. Parliament Lifts Ban on New Nuclear Power Plants After Marathon Debate The…

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45 Windows Latest Column662

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

Microsoft’s Outlook for Windows has a notification problem that is hard to ignore. Clicking a Windows 11 notification for a new email is supposed to take you straight to that message. Instead, the new Outlook makes you wait, and the numbers are embarrassing. Windows 11 ships with two versions of Outlook. There is Outlook Classic , the…

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43 Rahul Juliato Column440

Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

Karthik Chikmagalur recently published another of his excellent "Even More Batteries Included with Emacs" posts, digging into lesser-known features that already ship with Emacs today. I wanted to write its mirror image. His post covers the batteries already in the box. Mine covers the ones arriving in Emacs 31. Emacs 31 isn't out yet,…

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49 Submission Directory Column411

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

A hand-picked directory of website submission sites. Find the best places to submit your website, startup, or product, earn quality backlinks, and rank higher across search engines and AI answers. High-authority publishing platform. Links are nofollow, but reach and reposting potential are large. The canonical company profile. Investors,…

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19 Nelson Figueroa Column410

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

I’ve been using Git for so long and I just realized you can ignore files at three different levels and not just with .gitignore . The three files you can use to ignore files are: .gitignore is the usual file where you write files you want to ignore. It’s checked into Git along with the rest of the code. Whatever files you add to it will…

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20 King's College London Column304

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost

Universities and hospitals are repurposing existing drugs through late-stage trials with funded costs up to 90% lower than those taking place in the pharmaceutical industry. This “hidden”…

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30 IEEE Spectrum Column277

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

After dev kit success, Modos’s cofounders offer an e-paper monitor Matthew S. Smith is a contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum and the former lead reviews editor at Digital Trends. Modos is…

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33 Works in Progress Column171

How Alberta Eradicated Rats

Most of us accept rats as a fact of life. They live in tunnels and sewers, gnaw through walls, contaminate food, and resist nearly every attempt to push them back. A 2023 estimate put New…

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50 xvw Column143

Emacs, how it all started for me

I have been using ( badly ) Emacs since around 2008. In this short article, I will try to present the chaotic path that led me to choose Emacs as my main text and code editor. This is…

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44 Redowan Delowar Column122

Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

I’ve been managing my dotfiles with GNU stow for a few years. I even wrote a piece with a corny title about that setup back in 2023. Stow served me well, but managing symlinks across…

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29 TesterArmy Column118

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

TesterArmy continuously monitors the key journeys across your website and mobile app and alerts your team when something breaks. Takes less than 2 minutes. No credit card required. Make…

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38 Przemek Mroczek Column99

The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

RTK's pitch sounds like an absolute developer cheat code: "Cut token usage, keep the same intelligence, pay 1/10 the price." With 60k GitHub stars and counting, the industry is clearly…

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10 Arun Venkatesan Column87

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

On my first trip to Japan, I brought along a JR Rail Pass to take advantage of the subsidized rail transport for tourists. After riding the JR Yamanote Line and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, I…

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12 The Escape Column83

The AirPods Effect

A LITTLE TIME away can be clarifying. When you’ve had a break from a place, you’re able to see it with fresh eyes. You notice things that routine and familiarity had rendered invisible.…

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48 Tim Ferriss Column76

The Harajuku Moment (2024)

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has…

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13 dfdx Labs Column75

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

Robotics research has become cheap and accessible enough that small teams, and even individuals, can now do meaningful research on real hardware. There are two reasons for this. First,…

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06 Mickaël Canouil Column74

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

Another week, another Gribouille release. Gribouille 0.3.0 is narrower in scope than 0.2 , but it brings some wanted controls. The headline is guide control: a single argument now hides…

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11 Simon Willison Column73

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but I’m going to expand on that a…

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01 JVM Weekly Column72

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

On June 15, Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed what a good chunk of the industry had stopped believing: JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects will be integrated into the main OpenJDK…

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37 Agentic Resource Discovery Column68

Agentic Resource Discovery Specification

AI clients are no longer limited to what the model knows. They can use external capabilities — tools, Skills, MCP servers, APIs, workflows, and other agents. We call these capabilities…

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03 Mark Nottingham Column46

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

recent entries all entries feed Hi, I’m Mark Nottingham. I write about the Web, protocol design, HTTP, Internet governance, and more. This is a personal blog, it does not represent anyone…

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05 jxmo Column42

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

So you want to do AI research? It’s true that no one really teaches you how. Not directly, anyway. But it turns out that the way to get started is pretty simple: some combination of (i)…

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46 MacRumors Column19

Apple A12 and A13 Chips: New Unpatchable Exploit

Security research firm Paradigm Shift today published details of a new BootROM vulnerability affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips, along with a working proof-of-concept exploit named…

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39 Skaperiet Column15

Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master

A 3D tool for the maker space Akse is a 3D modelling tool made for kids and teens. Combine primitive shapes, draw your own 2D blueprints — and export the model as an STL…

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Show & Tell

“Show HN” — things people built and shipped3 items
34 Gerrymandle Show HN173

Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts

You are in charge of drawing the district lines for the elections. Click adjacent tiles on the map to group them into a district. Each district must be one connected shape, no islands allowed. Coloured houses show where voters live. Not every tile on the board has one, some are just empty land. A party wins a district by having more…

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17 GitHub Show HN51

Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean

Talos is a WebAssembly interpreter written in Lean 4, named after the bronze giant of Greek mythology who guarded Crete — a mechanical guardian, built to enforce rules. The same definitions…

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