Chris Short

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac mini

I run a local LLM server on my M4 Pro Mac mini with 48 GB of RAM.

Bloomberg.com

Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order

Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump.

The Safest Job from AI may be Writing

Today, tech folk are scrambling to change their workflows to meet newly inflated 5X productivity quotas, while getting pummeled under the co...

How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality

Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task.

Farid Zakaria’s Blog

Who does Anubis actually stop?

I have been working on a patch to the Linux kernel to support $ORIGIN for the interpreter (PT_INTERP) via bpf in binfmt_misc [thread].

Linuxiac

Podman 6.0 Lands with Breaking Changes, AMD GPUs Support

Podman 6.0 drops CNI, cgroups v1, iptables, slirp4netns, Windows 10, and Intel Mac support while adding new machine and Quadlet features.

Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit

Incogni Blog

The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use [2026] | Incogni

People are quietly withdrawing from active participation in social media. While they may not be deleting accounts en masse, many are:

matduggan.com

Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work is unglamorous in that you collect

GitHub - niri-wm/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to niri-wm/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hackread - Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More

Best OSINT Tools for Investigations and Threat Intelligence in 2026

Explore the best OSINT tools for your digital investigations, threat intelligence, reconnaissance, and tracking online activity in 2026.

GitHub - aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws: Official, AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, and plugins to help AI agents build on AWS

Official, AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, and plugins to help AI agents build on AWS - aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

webflow.sysdig.com

How to secure workloads, containers, and Kubernetes the right way | Sysdig

To build a security program that will tell you what’s a real threat in your containerized infrastructure right now, start with these 3 key pillars.

Terraform is dead

The more I look at how we actually build systems now, the more it looks like Terraform is dead. Not “declining.” Not “evolving.” Dead. What’s left is just inertia. What Terraform Actually Solved Terraform solved a very specific problem: how do we make infrastructure deterministic, reviewable, and repeatable? The answer was a DSL, a plan step, and a state file. It worked, and it still works. But it also forced an awkward compromise. Humans ended up describing intent in a language that was never d

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.

Ars Technica

“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.

Cocktails With Sam Altman’s New Model

Inside the exclusive GPT-5.5 launch party

Kubernetes v1.37: KubeletInUserNamespace (aka Rootless mode) Graduates to Beta

Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the KubeletInUserNamespace feature gate to beta. With this feature enabled, all of the node components (kubelet, CRI and OCI runtimes, CNI plugins, and kube-proxy) can run as a non-root user on the host, using a Linux user namespace. This technique is also known as rootless mode. The work started as an experiment in 2018, and was merged into Kubernetes v1.22 (2021) as an alpha feature (Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal KEP-2033).

The New Stack

The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12-million-token window

Subquadratic has launched a new AI architecture featuring a 12-million-token context window that outperforms GPT-5.5 on retrieval benchmarks.

SecretSpec

Where .env Went Wrong

A local convenience became a secrets interface, an environment model, and a deployment format. It was never designed to be any of them.

A New Chapter for Mirantis: What Comes Next

A New Chapter for Mirantis: What Comes Next

Week Ending August 30, 2026

Developer News

Iranian cyber spies target aviation, fintech developers with new malware

In a report published Tuesday, Kaspersky said it first discovered NodeRabbit on a system in Afghanistan and later identified variants on systems in Egypt and Ethiopia.

Load-Bearing People

The eleven lines of code that broke the internet, and what they teach us about our teams

Variety

Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and Scott Turow Allege in Lawsuit

Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been sued by five publishers and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech company illegally copied millions of books, articles and other works to train Meta's AI systems.

What Comes After HBM

The memory industry is going through a supercycle for the history books. In 2023 the industry was at the bottom of its worst slump ever, facing negative industry-wide profits. Samsung cut production 50% and both SK Hynix and Micron posted negative gross margins! ChatGPT launched. Stargate alone would require

DevOps

CopyFail is being actively exploited, Antrea

Semiconductor Industry Association

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 25% from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 - Semiconductor Industry Association

Worldwide chip sales in March increase 79.2% year-to-year, 11.5% month-to-month WASHINGTON—May 4, 2026—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor sales were $298.5 billion during the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 25% compared to Q4 of 2025. Global sales were $99.5 billion during the month of March 2026, an increase of 79.2% […]

llm-d.ai

Serving Multimodal at Scale in llm-d | llm-d

A multimodal request is not a text request with a picture attached. Walking the two side by side — payload, token accounting, cache identity, cost variance, and the encode stage — and showing what llm-d does about each difference. Sub-second TTFT p90 across a 5-40 req/s ladder and +44% throughput over round-robin on 16 H200s.

The New Stack

Vibe-coded apps are the new shadow IT

AI-generated tools are shifting shadow IT from SaaS sprawl to code sprawl. Here is how to secure your cloud infrastructure proactively.

Release 0.42.0 · kubernetes-sigs/headlamp

Hitch hikers guide to Headlamp 0.42.0 Deep-link support was added for pod terminals (?view=exec) and log views (?view=logs), letting users bookmark or share direct links to specific UI states. Reso...

Schneier on Security

Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips - Schneier on Security

A new rowhammer attack gives complete control of NVIDIA CPUs. On Thursday, two research teams, working independently of each other, demonstrated attacks against two cards from Nvidia’s Ampere generation that take GPU rowhammering into new—­and potentially much more consequential—­territory: GDDR bitflips that give adversaries full control of CPU memory, resulting in full system compromise of the host machine. For the attack to work, IOMMU memory management must be disabled, as is the default in

Anthropic changes data retention policy after pushback from customers

Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards are a response to customer feedback.

opensourcemalware.com

CNCF Project Antrea Compromised in Daring GitHub Attack

The Antrea open-source Kubernetes project was attacked via its Jenkins integration on May 2 by an unknown threat actor who opened a malicious pull request,

containerd 1.7 Ended September 30, 2026 — the Last 1.x Line Under Your Kubernetes Nodes

containerd 1.7, the final 1.x release line, reached end of life on September 30, 2026 after three and a half years as an LTS.

Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA

Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume group snapshots has reached General Availability (GA). The support for volume group snapshots relies on a set of extension APIs for group snapshots. These APIs allow users to take crash-consistent snapshots for a set of volumes. Behind the scenes, Kubernetes uses a l

Stop being the code review bottleneck

4 ways to make AI code review suck less (with prompts)