LocalSend is a free, open-source app for secure local file sharing and messaging over a network without an internet connection. It uses HTTPS encryption and a REST API for secure communication between devices.
AISLE researchers discovered 38 CVEs in OpenEMR, including SQL injection vulnerabilities and IDOR issues, which could have enabled attacks against patient data. AISLE's AI analyzer found these vulnerabilities in just one quarter, significantly faster than prior independent security audits.
VibeVoice is an open-source AI framework for speech synthesis and recognition, supporting multiple languages and long-form audio processing. It includes models for text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition, with features like speaker tracking and customized hotwords.
Google signed a classified deal with the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for any lawful government purpose. The deal doesn't give Google control over how the government uses its AI models.
Google is imposing a developer verification requirement on Android, which critics say is a move to consolidate power and control over the open ecosystem. This change could effectively make Google the gatekeeper for all apps on certified Android devices.
Lumara is an app tracking solar activity, lunar phases, and space weather in real-time from NASA data. It uses Jean Meeus's algorithms and fetches imagery directly from NASA servers, with no data collection.
Paramount will be 49.5%-owned by non-U.S. investors after a planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal includes a $24 billion investment from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, but non-U.S. stakeholders have no voting control.
Anthropic joins Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron to support core development and improve features like the Blender Python API. This partnership enables the Blender team to focus on building tools for artists and creators while maintaining software freedom.
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The author discusses a series of open source supply chain incidents caused by GitHub Actions features behaving as documented, but with unintended consequences. These incidents include credential harvesting, cache poisoning, and malicious package publishing.
Laguna M.1 and XS.2 are agentic coding models built for long-horizon work, with Laguna XS.2 being the first open-weight release. Both models are free to use for a limited time via API and OpenRouter, with weights available under Apache 2.0 license.
Researchers have created a 13B vintage language model called talkie-1930-13b-base trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text to simulate conversations with people from the past. The model's performance is compared to its modern counterpart, with talkie underperforming in some standard LM evaluations but showing similar performance on core language understanding and numeracy tasks.
Using AI coding tools like Claude Code raises complex questions about code ownership, copyright, and regulatory compliance, and developers must document their creative contributions to establish meaningful human authorship. Employment contracts and IP clauses can also impact code ownership, and developers should read their contracts and consider using personal tools and accounts to avoid ...
ASML, a Dutch company, dominates the market for lithography machines used in semiconductor manufacturing. Its machines are crucial for producing the world's smallest chips.
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The Greek government plans to ban anonymity on social media to curb rising toxicity and promote digital democracy. They aim to require platforms to verify users' identities, but critics highlight technical complexity and potential freedom of speech concerns.
GitHub Copilot code review will be billed as AI Credits under a new usage-based model starting June 1, 2026. Private repository reviews will consume GitHub Actions minutes from existing plans, with excess usage billed at standard rates.
The founder built a power meter for sledgehammer strikes, called Intensity Pad, during a paid month off from Shopify. The project aimed to make a fundamental human movement, core flexion, more measurable and trainable.
A single codebase supports Jupyter prototyping, FastAPI deployment, and PyTauri desktop executables. It offers rapid UI development, interactive visualizations, and enterprise-ready security features.
Cybersecurity professionals saw the lowest pay rises in 2025, with 71% globally and 77% in the UK experiencing wage stagnation. This trend is linked to boardroom complacency and a lack of recognition for the growing responsibility and threats in the field.
A woman's period tracking app, Flo, shared her sensitive health data with Meta without consent, violating her trust and potentially selling her data for commercial gain. This highlights a bigger issue in non-medical health tracking software, where there's too much gray area around consent when it comes to selling user health information to advertisers.
A year after Spain's massive blackout, the country has increased its solar power generation and transitioned away from fossil fuels. The blackout led to a shift in focus towards reducing reliance on gas in Spain's grid, with renewable energy now protecting consumers from high gas prices.
The QDay Prize competition failed due to a "Falling With Style-style trick" submission that used random calls instead of quantum calls. This highlights the need for a blameless post-mortem to improve future competitions.
The design of modern cellphones' audio architecture is a legacy of the original Hayes Smartmodem, which introduced a standardized control interface between modems and computers in the 1980s. The Smartmodem's influence led to the development of voice modems in the 1990s, which allowed computers to make and receive voice calls using AT commands and standardized protocols like V.253.
GitHub experienced two recent incidents due to rapid growth in software development and has started increasing capacity by 10X with a goal of substantially improving reliability and failover. The company is prioritizing availability, reducing unnecessary work, improving caching, and isolating critical services to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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A comet is visible in the night sky, but it's hard to see due to its proximity to the Sun. It will be best viewed from southern hemisphere skies in coming weeks before fading into interstellar space.
Test your color perception with this interactive test.
Wasm is not a pure stack machine due to its lack of stack manipulation operations. It can be viewed as a register machine with operations generalized to compound expressions.
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