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eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise This is very, very bad news: The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and…
My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones (play it here). Unlike my previous experiments, this one is actually fun to play. I'm somewhat…
Hi there, I've been using sdl3-sys and writing some simple SDL3 wrappers. My current (WIP) code looks like this: let sdl_system = SDLSystem::new(&sdl_metadata) .map_err(|err| format!("Failed to create SDL system: {}",…
In February 2026, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) made the PSF, Python, and Jython wikis read-only due to excessive automated traffic and security concerns on outdated infrastructure. This sudden change was…
There's been a recent round of posts on named arguments in Rust: Botahamec's Named and Optional Arguments are Awesome, Steve Klabnik's Arguing about arguments, and Matthias Endler's We Have Named Arguments at Home. I've…
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's almost Halloween! What're you going dressed as, if you celebrate? I'm going dressed as PHP code. (Terrifying!) We've got a ton of stuff to…
The rustup team is happy to announce the release of rustup version 1.29.2. Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient software. What's…
I found out this week that a fleet of AI agents used httpbin to get past their sandbox.I posted about it on X the night I heard. The reaction told me I wasn't the only one who found it strange. I built httpbin years ago…
Java’s code reflection API, developed in OpenJDK Project Babylon, opens a new path to targeting foreign programming models directly from Java—including GPUs. This talk introduces the Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit…
What is a Podcast Intro Generator? If you’ve ever launched a new show, you’ll know the first 30‑second hook is everything. A polished, brand‑consistent intro sets the tone, tells listeners what to expect, and can even…
I gave GPT-6, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and Gemini 4 Argon the same little task: one amber ball bouncing inside a rotating cyan hexagon. 🧪 Same starting position. Same gravity. Same controls. I kept each model's HTML…
By BlockVectra, with AI-assisted drafting. A JSON-RPC batch puts several calls in one request. The reply array is not a positional mirror of the request array. Treating payload[i] as the answer to requests[i] can bind…
Bug report Title: User waits for the perfect moment to invest. Gets it. Still loses. Severity: Expensive Reproducible: Every market cycle Status: Won't fix (it's a human bug) You probably know this person. Maybe it's…