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Cloudflare has acquired the entire Deno team, consolidating Deno's runtime work into Workers and Durable Objects. The Deno runtime gets one more year of monthly security updates before development stops, Deno Deploy shuts down in six months with migration help for paid customers, and JSR survives with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare. Ryan Dahl pivots to "celld," a distributed application framework built on Cloudflare infra — explicitly aimed at AI agent workloads.
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REA is a reverse-engineering layer built for coding agents: you ask your agent a plain-English question about how a program works, and REA hands back the actual source, assembly, and decompiled instructions to answer it. It targets native binaries, Electron apps, and live browser activity, and can recover functionality rules well enough to rebuild or modify features. Demos include a reconstructed dinosaur game with adjustable speed and a teardown of the Windows Calculator percentage button.
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Talorys is an open-source personal AI assistant that deploys entirely into your own Cloudflare account with one command — React on Pages, a Hono Worker as a Durable Object, and SQLite inside that Durable Object for conversations, memories, tasks, and notes. Inference runs on Workers AI using GLM-4.7-flash, with Durable Object alarms handling reminders and recurring automations. The private Worker has no public URL, there's no telemetry, and when the daily free AI allocation runs out chat degrades gracefully while everything else keeps working.
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A hacker told Politiken that the breach of Denmark's Central Person Register — names, addresses, and CPR numbers for 8.8 million people — was enabled by the password "123456." At least three accounts at Odense-based IT firm Pays ApS used that password, including the administrator account, with no two-factor authentication anywhere. The intruder held access for 21 days starting September 10, wrote two programs to systematically harvest and exfiltrate records, and one expert rated the company's security one out of ten.
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Bitwarden will start shipping commercially-licensed builds to app stores and its own website while keeping GPLv3 source on GitHub, with all current features present in both. Some future components will exist only in the commercial build, evaluated case by case. The community immediately raised rug-pull comparisons to MinIO and CoinKite; Bitwarden says the change targets repackaging and reselling, not self-hosting, and that the free plan is permanent.
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CVE-2026-107181 chained two flaws in Telegram Desktop's local IPC socket: semicolons used as command separators were never escaped, and an undocumented internal "interpret:" scheme could read arbitrary files and post them to a chat with no authorization check. One crafted tg:// link could exfiltrate session files and encryption keys — whoever gets the key data gets the decryption key, and the whole account unlocks. Patched in version 7.2.9 on September 17, which removed the scheme entirely and escaped separators; the CVE landed October 7.
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Benchmarks of WSL 3.0.2 against 2.6.3 on Alpine with Go show memory bandwidth jumping 61 percent, from 7.84 to 12.64 GB/s, scheduler latency down about 11 percent, and syscall overhead down 3.8 percent. A real GoReleaser build only gained 3.9 percent wall-clock, but kernel time dropped 16 percent — nine seconds saved. The gains trace to the newer 6.18 kernel's scheduler work, tighter Hyper-V VMBus interrupt handling, and a page-reporting-order tweak that cuts hypervisor traps.
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Writer-programmer Mike Lacher built a browser Minesweeper that plays exactly like the original but wraps it in every blockbuster-game cliché: Unreal Engine and Nvidia splash cards, a yellow diamond marker telling you where to click, and a protagonist who narrates "I need to sweep those mines" on loop. Random characters interrupt over voice comms, including a menacing figure called The Don and a local radio DJ. It's free to play and front-paged across gaming press this week.
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A reverse guide for developers whose first systems language was Rust and who now have to read C. It walks six gotchas: bool requiring stdbool.h, null-terminated strings with no length metadata, integer widths that shift between Unix and Windows, error handling via magic integers and null pointers with no compiler enforcement, the dot-versus-arrow split, and array decay breaking sizeof. The author concludes C is crucial to know but still reaches for Rust on personal projects.
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A short polemic arguing that lobbying and corruption are the same practice separated only by legality — what Americans call lobbying, Europeans would simply call corruption. The author leans on George Hotz's description of the donate-then-legislate-then-consult pipeline and on Wikipedia's own definition, which lists lobbying among practices that are legal in many countries. No remedy is proposed; the argument is definitional, not prescriptive.
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