DHS Says Its Own-Certified REAL ID May Be Unreliable to Prove Citizenship
TL;DR In a recent federal court filing, a DHS official said REAL ID cards can be unreliable for confirming U.S.…
European Space Agency Breached Again; Cybercriminals Claim 200GB Stolen
TL;DR The European Space Agency (ESA) is investigating a security incident that it says may have affected a small number…
Public domain 2026: Betty Boop, Pluto, and Nancy Drew set free
TL;DR Works first published in 1930 entered the US public domain in 2026, unlocking a range of books, films, comics…
2025 Letter: Silicon Valley’s seriousness and San Francisco’s contradictions
TL;DR A first-person year-in-review reflects on Silicon Valley’s current tone: serious, self-serious, and increasingly dominant in technology and politics. The…
Build a Simple Deep Learning Library from Scratch with NumPy and Autograd
TL;DR A freely available guide walks readers through implementing a minimal deep learning library starting from an empty file and…
OpenWorkers: Rust-based self-hosted runtime for Cloudflare Workers
TL;DR OpenWorkers is an open-source runtime, written in Rust, that runs untrusted JavaScript in V8 isolates and aims to reproduce…
ACM Makes Entire Digital Library Open Access Starting January 1, 2026
TL;DR The Association for Computing Machinery has made its full corpus in the ACM Digital Library openly accessible to all…
Heap-buffer-overflow in FFmpeg EXIF when writing extra IFD tags
TL;DR A four-byte heap-buffer-overflow was found in FFmpeg's EXIF handling during processing and reserialization of extra IFD tags. The issue…
BYD Sells 4.6 Million Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Target
TL;DR Bloomberg reports that BYD sold 4.6 million vehicles in 2025 and met a revised sales goal. Further details on…