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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No413

    Sing-song: A Speakable Encoding for Long Numbers and Keys • Civic Hygiene: Building Technology That Survives Future Misuse • Moderna Reports First Positive Phase 3 Results for mRNA Neoantigen Therapy in Melanoma • A Joke Domain Purchase That Escalated Into Geopolitical Conflict • Why I Still Write My Git Commit Messages by Hand…

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  • Vulnerability Watch No55

    FFmpeg DASH Demuxer Vulnerable to Negative Array Index • FFmpeg AV1 RTP Packetizer Out-of-Bounds Read • FFmpeg VC-2 RTP Packetizer Heap Overflow • Critical FFmpeg RIST Reader Heap Buffer Overflow • FFmpeg MPEG-PS Muxer Stack Buffer Overflow…

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  • Vulnerability Watch No54

    acmailer Authorization Flaw Enables Admin-Level Sub-Accounts • Atarim WordPress Plugin File Deletion Can Lead to RCE • TRENDnet Router Ping Interface Exposed to Command Injection • armeria-xds TLS Verification Flaw Enables MITM Attacks • TRENDnet TEW-823DRU Admin Endpoint Allows Command Injection…

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No412

    Universal health coverage could save 1T and 114k lives a year: study • The Amazon tax • Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative • Mojo is now open source

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  • Framework Release Watch No13

    Laravel 13.26.0 expands queues, filesystems, and Redis support • Laravel 12.67.0 strengthens validation and queue handling

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  • Vulnerability Watch No53

    Kubernetes managed-serviceaccount flaw exposes cluster secrets • OpenSearch Dashboards request flaw enables remote denial of service • Dell PowerStore SDNAS NFS flaw can enable command execution • RabbitMQ Java client nesting bug triggers pre-authentication crashes • RabbitMQ Java client flaw enables massive pre-auth memory allocation…

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  • Tech Layoffs Watch No14

    Postal Center International Cuts 164 Jobs in Restructuring

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  • Tech Layoffs Watch No13

    Howard University Cuts 600 Jobs in Cost Reduction • Rapid7 Cuts 300 Jobs in Restructuring • Dürr CTS Cuts 75 Jobs in Restructuring • Ryder Cuts 73 Jobs in Restructuring • Portillos Cuts 25 Jobs in Cost Reduction

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No411

    What Comes After FOSS? • Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS • AI;DR AI; Didnt Read • Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for 7B • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things…

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