Rust Removed a Poisoned Arrayref Release After 86 Minutes Online
Rust removed a malicious arrayref@0.3.10 release on August 20, 2026, after it was available on crates.io for 86 minutes. The…
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Thames Water’s Drought Plant Was Offline When London Needed It
Thames Water’s Beckton desalination plant was unavailable as London entered drought conditions in July 2026, leaving the capital without the…
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Firefox Keeps Full UBlock Origin. Brave Has a Side Door.
Firefox is not the only major browser where users can still run full uBlock Origin. Firefox retains broad, ordinary Manifest…
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Noreply.net Became a Mail Sink: and Nobody Checked the Drain
Security researcher Cory Solovewicz says noreply.net received 401,796 messages after he acquired it in December 2024, including notifications that reportedly…
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Texas Halts New Data Center Grid Connections
Texas has effectively halted progress on new queued data center grid connections as of August 3, 2026 by ordering the…
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AWS’s Billion-dollar Bills Were Estimates, Not Invoices
AWS estimated charges were wrong from roughly July 16 to July 18, 2026, and AWS said a unit-pricing bug in…
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Microsoft Comic Chat Turned IRC Into Live Comic Strips, and Microsoft Just Open-Sourced the 1996 Code
Microsoft Comic Chat was a 1996 Microsoft Research-built IRC client that automatically rendered live chat conversations as comic strips instead…
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Chatto Is Now Open Source With a Self-hostable 0.4 Release
Chatto is now open source, with creator Hendrik Mans announcing the public release on July 8, 2026 and shipping a…
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Katalyst Space Launched a Bid to Save NASA’s Falling Swift Telescope
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is now being targeted for an orbital rescue after Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft launched on…
