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The Privacy and Security pane in macOS doesn't accurately reflect what apps can actually access at the system level, which is a quiet but serious trust erosion for anyone relying on it. If you thought macOS sandboxing had your back, this is worth reading before you assume otherwise.
CPUID's website was compromised and was actively serving trojanized downloads of CPU-Z and HWMonitor. If you or anyone you know grabbed either tool in the last couple days, assume the worst and scan immediately.
The widely-used JSON Formatter Chrome plugin changed hands and the new owner is injecting adware into users' browsers. Classic extension supply chain attack, classic outcome: check your installed extensions today.
Someone hurled a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's residence in San Francisco. This is a disturbing escalation from online anti-AI hostility into physical violence, and it's the kind of story that will shape how AI company leadership thinks about public exposure.
WireGuard pushed a new Windows release after resolving a code-signing dispute with Microsoft that had stalled updates. The drama is behind them now, go update your tunnels.
Linus's team merged official documentation into the kernel on how contributors can and can't use AI coding assistants. The kernel community tolerating AI tooling at all is a genuine cultural shift, worth tracking as a signal of where open source norms are heading.
Bluesky walked through what actually broke during their April outage in a detailed post-mortem. Good transparency from the team and a useful case study for anyone building distributed systems at scale.
Keychron dropped full CAD and hardware design files for their keyboards and mice on GitHub. If you want to mod, repair, or 3D-print parts, this is a genuinely useful gift to the community.
A detailed breakdown of why helium scarcity is a real and growing problem for semiconductors, MRI machines, and scientific instruments. Not glamorous but genuinely important infrastructure reading.
Someone just shipped a managed hosting layer built on top of OpenClaw. Low HN score so far but directly relevant to our stack. Worth watching whether this turns into a competitor, a reference architecture, or just dies quietly.
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