Chatto is now Open Source

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Hot damn. This is the big one. I’m happy to announce that Chatto, the group and team chat application that I’ve been working on for the past year or so, is now officially Open Source, and available for anyone to self-host. The fastest way to give it a try is through Homebrew: brew install chattocorp/tap/chatto […]

Mistral’s Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

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Today we’re introducing Robostral Navigate, our first model built for embodied navigation. It’s an 8B model that takes RGB images and a plain-language instruction and moves a robot through an environment: “Leave the lobby, walk through the corridor, enter the supply room, and stop to face the second shelf.” To perform such tasks, other models […]

US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food

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The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” in food, marking another setback for public health advocates’ push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds. The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency […]

OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root

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Cloudflare Meerkat – Globally distributed consensus

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Many internal services at Cloudflare need to read and modify the same control-plane state from across our 330+ global data centers. They need guarantees that different readers never see inconsistent state, and that the system remains available for writes even when some data centers or links fail. But Cloudflare’s network runs across the entire Internet, […]

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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July 8, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips New multiyear agreement includes expansion to facility in Fort Collins, Colorado CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced a new multiyear commitment with Broadcom to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies for a wide range […]

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

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When my wife said to me “Let me show you a t-shirt I saw…”, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it definitely wasn’t an obfuscated bash script printed on the back designed to print a happy Easter egg message. I’m not in the habit of clickbaity headlinesI’ve no idea at all how many views […]

Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data

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Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot skill for data scientists and analysts working with geospatial data on PostGIS, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Wherobots. Note: No SaaS account needed. Works 100% locally or self-hosted. 4x improvement on geospatial tasks with map in the loop. Quick Start With Python (interactive mode): pip install geosql && geosql Install directly into […]

GitLost: We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

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TL;DR: Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability within GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to silently pull data from private repositories by posting a crafted GitHub Issue in a public repository belonging to the same organization as the private repositories. Noma Labs named the vulnerability GitLost.  Introduction GitHub recently launched GitHub […]

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

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Imaging floppy disks for long-term preservation Various Contributors The Future Nostalgia Project November 21, 2025 This guide to imaging floppy disks was initially developed as part of the Future Nostalgia project, led by Cambridge University Library and supported by the Digital Preservation Coalition. You can add feedback, comments or updates via GitHub issues or by […]