Time is a precious resource for open source maintainers, especially if you aren’t doing it as part of paid work. The constant churn of changing development tools steals a huge chunk of that time. For example, I’m running The other day I wanted to add some functionality, and ran immediately to a huge set of issues with the development tooling we use. Basically everything we rely on is deprecated and has a huge set of security issues. Just to show some: Karma, which we use to run browser tests ... Read more ›
Owners of affected iPhones can stop checking for patches now: the fix for this SecureROM bug comes in a new handset Read more ›
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A few weeks ago, Github decided to disable all Github Actions (including self-hosted runners) access for our open source org (lightningdevkit) for some unknown reason. As some of us happen to work for a company with a large Github corporate account (Block), we tried to escalate through our corporate reps, who informed us that the issue appeared to be some drive-by contributors who weren't org members being flagged for using Actions to do crypto-mining. As the org isn't technically in our corp... Read more ›
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weights model under MIT license, on the same day the US banned Anthropic's Fable 5 for foreign users. Read more ›
Critical BootROM Vulnerability "usbliter8" Exposes Apple A12/A13 Devices to Unpatchable Exploits Researchers at Paradigm Shift have uncovered a severe BootROM vulnerability, dubbed usbliter8, affecting Apple devices powered by A12, S4/S5, and A13 system-on-chips (SoCs). The flaw stems from a hardware-level bug in the Synopsys DWC2 USB controller, combined Read more ›
Fewer pieces, fewer things to fix at 2am. Read more ›
Self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server. Single binary. Zero config. 50+ distros out of the box. Read more ›
A free and open-source minimal web browser written in C, focused on Zero Trust and Zero Knowledge principles. - grisuno/FreeDom Read more ›
UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Firefox for Android - Browser Engine. Last updated 2026-06-16. Read more ›
How good are local LLMs at translation, and do you actually need the cloud? A reproducible benchmark of 24 on-device, self-hosted, and cloud models translating into English, with the low-resource case (Afrikaans) front and centre. The headline: on Afrikaans→English a local 18 GB model lands in a statistical tie with frontier cloud. Same blinded Tatoeba sentences, same prompt, greedy decoding, scored multi-reference with COMET (meaning) and chrF++ (surface). Built to pick a translation model f... Read more ›
The Arch User Repository (AUR) has been subjected to a sustained attack recently. The attacker, [...] Read more ›
Factory Router automatically selects the right model for each task so your team gets the best quality at the lowest cost - maintaining frontier performance while cutting costs by up to 25%. Read more ›
I’ve been running a mixed Proxmox cluster for years – four nodes of wildly different capability, from an Atom x5-Z8350 with 2 GB of RAM (a z... Read more ›
An Android app to scan your documents — simple and respectful - pynicolas/FairScan Read more ›
Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion Read more ›
Production-grade Claude Code skills for shipping real software. By an engineer, for engineers. Read more ›
I'm having a terrible problem with claude opus constantly clobering some of my codebase ..because I'm doing some things that are novel and arent inclded in his training data ..for the last month "ve been fighting the training data which keeps knee jerking claude into a refactor loop because it thinks it recognizes a pattern in my code and then jst 'fixes it' ..I was at my witts end and then I got to use fable for a day and fable pointed it out to me ...my patern is past whats considered to be... Read more ›