All Dispatches

X Corp has issued cease‑and‑desist letters to the Nitter and XCancel projects, forcing their public instances offline and raising questions about the future of privacy‑first X frontends.

Hister puts you in control of your search index, indexing the full text of your browsing history and local files without telemetry or mandatory cloud services.

Hacktron researchers chained a libheif heap buffer overflow in Discourse with an OpenAI SSO misconfiguration to takeover employee accounts and access internal repositories, demonstrating how AI accelerates exploit development.

PrismML's Ternary Bonsai 2 27B promises near-lossless 9x compression, but enterprises must scrutinize its accuracy decay in agentic workflows and vision tasks before betting on local deployment.

Mozilla plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, while Google is also pushing for its adoption in Blink, with both browsers contrasting their advantages against AVIF.

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra, boasting significant leaps in performance and AI capabilities, with the M6 featuring a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, and the M5 Ultra offering a quad-die architecture with up to 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU.

New EU packaging rules may kill the maker economy, imposing disproportionate costs on micro-entrepreneurs. The regulations threaten innovation, jobs, and livelihoods across the EU.

Proofcraft completes security proofs for seL4 on AArch64, providing formal mathematical proof of confidentiality, integrity, and functional correctness. This milestone ensures the kernel prevents unauthorized access and data modification, guaranteeing security isolation for applications.

A proposed change to Android's ADB protocol could restrict on-device connections, affecting power-user apps and developer tools. The change aims to improve security, but its impact on legitimate use cases is uncertain.

A critical vulnerability in the Cursor AI-assisted development environment has been exposed after 7 months of silence from the company. The vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution with no user interaction required.

A security camera shipped with a GitHub admin token in its login page, exposing hundreds of repositories to potential security risks. The token was found in the camera's firmware, which was downloaded from the manufacturer's website.

A group of 25 tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta, have released a letter urging policymakers to avoid 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models, citing concerns that such restrictions could stifle competition and drive innovation overseas.