Articles by mikece
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A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta (theverge.com)

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FBI admits buying Americans' location data from data brokers (proton.me)

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Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era (github.blog)

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Things Linux Can Do That Windows Still Can't (itsfoss.com)

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OBS Studio 32.1 Released with WebRTC Simulcast Support (phoronix.com)

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SQLi flaw in Elementor Ally plugin impacts 250k+ WordPress sites (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor (arstechnica.com)

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Most AI chatbots will help users plan violent attacks, study finds (engadget.com)

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AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux for Running LLMs (phoronix.com)

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The App Store Accountability Act (proton.me)

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Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)

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AI Tools Creating "Convenience Loops" That Reshape Developer Language Choices (infoq.com)

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"Future-proofing" PC builds (rubenerd.com)

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AMD Engineer Leverages AI to Help Make a Pure-Python AMD GPU User-Space Driver (phoronix.com)

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Arti 2.1.0 released: Relay and RPC development (torproject.org)

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Why Test Environments Fail and What Top Teams Do to Avoid the Chaos (sdtimes.com)

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Accenture acquires Downdetector as part of $1.2B deal (theregister.com)

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Google Chrome is switching to a two-week release cycle (9to5google.com)

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How to protect your privacy at a protest (proton.me)

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The Gram Editor (rubenerd.com)

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Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers (reclaimthenet.org)

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Age Verification: Protection Tool or Surveillance in Disguise? (itsfoss.com)

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Aliro 1.0 Standardizes Digital Door Keys (Phone Scoop) (phonescoop.com)

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Hyprland 0.54 Released as a "Massive" Update to This Wayland Compositor (phoronix.com)

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Podcasts Lead Am/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First (edisonresearch.com)

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Canonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (phoronix.com)

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Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (nytimes.com)

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Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (dropsitenews.com)

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Microsoft's Copilot Tasks AI uses its own computer to get things done (theverge.com)

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Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level (pcmag.com)

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NATO says iPhones are secure enough to handle classified data (theverge.com)

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Firefox 148.0: Block all AI enhancements with one click (firefox.com)

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Microsoft announces new "mini PCs" for Windows 365 (neowin.net)

12

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)

4

PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump (bloomberg.com)

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FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough to Try This Year (phoronix.com)

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Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs? (theverge.com)

4

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving to OpenJDK 25 by Default (phoronix.com)

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How AI is reshaping developer choice (and Octoverse data proves it) (github.blog)

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Why ODF and Not Ooxml (documentfoundation.org)

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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (greenwald.substack.com)

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Windows 11 is getting a big security update (neowin.net)

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Google Handed ICE User Data Without Court Order (reclaimthenet.org)

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Sparc and Alpha CPU Ports Still Seeing Activity in 2026 with Linux 7.0 (phoronix.com)

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Are We Having the Wrong AI Dreams? (jetbrains.com)

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Go 1.26 Introduces Two Language Changes, New Performance Improvements (phoronix.com)

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Waku: The Minimal React Framework Reaches Alpha (infoq.com)

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Btrfs Brings Experimental Remap-Tree Feature and More in Linux 7.0 (phoronix.com)

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Why demand for code is infinite: How AI creates more developer jobs (stackoverflow.blog)

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XLibre Dev Creates De-Rusted Git Fork (lunduke.substack.com)

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California Wants Gun Blueprints Treated Like Weapons (reclaimthenet.org)

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Wyoming Introduces First-Ever Foreign Censorship Shield Bill (reclaimthenet.org)

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Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers (theregister.com)

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Building vertical microfront ends on Cloudflare's platform (cloudflare.com)

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France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom (itsfoss.com)

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Is America's Cyber Weakness Self-Inflicted? (warontherocks.com)

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Apple Called Out in New 'Encrypt It Already' Campaign (macrumors.com)

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Apple Drops $2B on Israeli AI Facial Tracking Company (gizmodo.com)

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MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)

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Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? (krebsonsecurity.com)

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.NET AI Essentials: The Core Building Blocks Explained (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)

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WhatsApp to let users share recent chat history with new group members (9to5mac.com)

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Wine 11.1 Released in Kicking Off the New Development Cycle (phoronix.com)

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"Content Unavailable" – YouTube's latest attempt at breaking ad blockers (androidpolice.com)

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Gladys West, GPS pioneer and mathematician, dies at 95 (npr.org)

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House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate (reclaimthenet.org)

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Curl ending bug bounty program after flood of AI slop reports (bleepingcomputer.com)

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eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents (arstechnica.com)

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FreeBSD Is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager (itsfoss.com)

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Prisma 7: Rust-Free Architecture and Performance Gains (infoq.com)

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The Zen of Reticulum (github.com/markqvist)

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Upcoming ExFAT Linux Driver Patch Can Boost Sequential Read Performance by ~10% (phoronix.com)

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FreeBSD 15.1 Aims to Have KDE Desktop Installer Option (phoronix.com)

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Gnome 50 Alpha Released with the X11 Code Gutted (phoronix.com)

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Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 Delivers a "12x Performance Boost" with Integrated Graphics (phoronix.com)

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Sadly, I can't recommend KeePassXC anymore (rubenerd.com)

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Haiku OS Pulls in Updated Drivers from FreeBSD 15 (phoronix.com)

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Wine 11.0 Planned for Release Tomorrow with NTSync Support, Better WoW64 (phoronix.com)

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Xfce is great (rubenerd.com)

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Xibo open-source digital signage solution now works with Raspberry Pi 5 (cnx-software.com)

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Being Comfortable with "Trying" (rubenerd.com)

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Local Email Debugging with Mailpit (jeffgeerling.com)

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Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages (github.blog)

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GoPro and Asus Are Making a Co-Branded ProArt Laptop (petapixel.com)

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Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching (theregister.com)

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Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo (jeffgeerling.com)

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Stoolap 0.2 Released for Modern Embedded SQL Database in Rust (phoronix.com)

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A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge (stackoverflow.blog)

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Microsoft engineer clarifies plans to 'eliminate' C, C++ languages by 2030 (techradar.com)

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Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI (stackoverflow.blog)

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44% of Gnome Core Apps Are Written in C, 13% in JavaScript and 10% in Rust (phoronix.com)

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Google to allow Gmail users to change their primary email address (neowin.net)

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Ruby Turns 30: A Celebration of Code, Community, and Creativity (jetbrains.com)

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Prediction for the Future of Desktop Linux in 2026 (itsfoss.com)

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Xerox and Stack Overflow partnered to preserve knowledge and power innovation (stackoverflow.blog)

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Arm stock declines as Qualcomm acquires RISC-V designer Ventana Micro (techradar.com)

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Elementary OS 8.1 Switches over to Wayland Session by Default (phoronix.com)

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Big GPUs don't need big PCs (jeffgeerling.com)

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Schmitt Urges Sanctions over Foreign Censorship Threats to US (reclaimthenet.org)