Security incidents, software supply-chain attacks, platform policy changes, and the tools developers depend on. We link the advisories, repositories, and official statements behind every claim.
Valve officially revived the Steam Machine name for its 2026 SteamOS living-room PC—$1,049 entry, randomized reservations through June 25, and ~30,000 compatible games. Not investment advice.
Deno Desktop: Build Cross-Platform Apps with Web Tech TLDR Deno Desktop, launching in Deno v2.9.0, enables developers to transform any Deno web project into a s
Information Overload: Why Our Brains Struggle with Constant Bad News TLDR The human brain, evolved for local threats, is overwhelmed by the global scale of mode
SignalStack security brief: Vercel April 2026 incident—Context.ai vector, non-sensitive env vars, Google Workspace IOC, rotation playbook, vs. platform trust.
Fairlinked’s BrowserGate investigation alleges client-side extension probing on linkedin.com—claims, GDPR (including special-category risk under Article 9), DMA gatekeeper context, enterprise GTM exposure, SignalStack’s read, and Primary sources & market bridge.
Malicious axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4 on npm—phantom plain-crypto-js in tarballs, RAT/C2 on port 8000, OIDC vs manual publish signals, npm response, CISA/Microsoft/Mandiant/GitHub primary links, and SignalStack’s defender checklist.
@anthropic-ai/claude-code v2.1.88 shipped a ~59.8 MB source map on npm—unobfuscated TypeScript reconstruction (~512k lines), packaging error vs malware (Axios), release hygiene (files, .npmignore, npm publish --dry-run), and Primary sources & security bridge.
When GitHub Copilot appended Copilot and Raycast blurbs to a PR during a typo fix—trust boundaries, PRs as audit artifacts, NIST AI RMF and OWASP LLM framing, vendor Trust Center vs behavior, Doctorow’s enshittification lens, and Primary sources & policy bridge.
Rust trap-router Miasma—infinite crawl loops vs poison/gibberish sources, egress economics, aria/nofollow hygiene, robots & ai.txt standardization, IETF AI-robots drafts, and Primary sources & security bridge.
User-reported ~2.4 GB for two LinkedIn tabs—WebView2/WhatsApp/Netflix desktop-web shift, Microsoft’s RAM initiative, sustainability framing, mechanisms (JS, isolation), mitigations, and primary sources.
Sytse Sijbrandij on osteosarcoma, Evenone Ventures, and public datasets—alongside GitLab investor suits alleging overstated AI claims (allegations, not findings). Includes engineering bridge links (advisories, CISA KEV, WebView2, AI crawler signaling, web carbon).
Uneven corner radii after macOS 26, SIP/SSV and Apple Silicon security posture, Library Validation vs injection, community SIP-off mitigations versus narrower dylib + swizzling—and why integrity tradeoffs matter.
Bench-mounting MCU, AP, and display from salvage—inrush vs bench supplies, thermal throttling off vehicle cooling, Rosenberger/HSD paths, MAX16932 repair, ODIN/service surfaces, harness economics, and cited primary sources.
Reported malicious 1.82.7–1.82.8 on PyPI—import-time execution, credential theft, .pth-based interpreter startup hooks (host persistence), key concentration, hash pinning, remediation, and primary sources.
Microsoft’s repair-first narrative versus Copilot/ads friction—WinUI 3 and shell latency, TPM/CPU eligibility and e-waste, OOB patch chains and regression risk, with primary sources.
A text piece that recommends RSS while behaving like a bandwidth sink—initial payload, background fetches, and why reader-owned distribution is an operational fix.
July 1, 2026 spin-out, Cornell vs global-public-good funding math, ~$6.7M ops & moderation surge (4%→12%), detectors & false positives, endorsement equity, AI slop—and primary sources.
Advanced Flow 24h delay as cooling-off vs scam urgency, verified vs unverified reputation lanes, Brazil/SG/ID/TH testbed logic, NIST/EFF policy bridge, and primary sources.
Java-based design and flight simulation—stability signals, motor DB, exports, and why engineering-style feedback loops beat guess-and-build cycles.
Five enduring rules—optimize after measurement, watch constant factors, prefer simple methods, and let data structures drive design—in AI-assisted coding era.
Public Bliss-style break of long-standing Xbox One boot protections—privileged unsigned code, ROM-era limits, and what changes for preservation versus abuse.