tl;dr: A developer discovered ~10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by cloning legitimate new repos (preserving commits and contributors for credibility), then periodically force-pushing a README update with a link to a malicious zip archive. He wrote a script using GitHub event archives to identify them based on patterns like frequent "Update README.md" commits, and published the list. GitHub only removed repos explicitly reported, ignoring the underlying detection problem—meaning the script continues to find new ones, and the campaign (active for over a year) persists.

tl;dr: Ubiquiti's new ENAS is a ZFS-based enterprise NAS powered by an 8-core ARM Neoverse N2 platform with 64GB ECC RAM, optional NVMe L2ARC caching, 16 drive bays expandable past 1PB, and dual 25GbE SFP28 ports. It integrates with UniFi for license-free management, identity-based access, and native iSCSI support for Proxmox/VMware/Hyper-V virtualization. Upcoming features include centralized multi-site backup orchestration, including offsite/cloud targets and Microsoft 365 user data backups.

tl;dr: Cornell's CS 6120, a PhD-level advanced compilers course taught by Adrian Sampson, is available as a free self-guided online course with video lectures, lecture notes, and open-ended implementation tasks using LLVM and Bril (a custom educational IR). The 14-lesson curriculum covers IRs, data flow, SSA, loop and interprocedural optimization, alias analysis, garbage collection, JITs, and parallelism, interleaved with classic PL research papers. The course is open source on GitHub, though self-guided students miss out on Zulip discussions, deadlines, and the end-of-semester project.

tl;dr: Git supports three levels of ignore files: the usual `.gitignore` (committed to the repo), `.git/info/exclude` (per-repo, not committed, useful for personal files), and `~/.config/git/ignore` (global, machine-wide, ideal for things like `.DS_Store`). The global file location can be customized via `git config --global core.excludesFile`, and `git check-ignore -v <file>` reveals which rule and file is causing a given path to be ignored.

tl;dr: Hospitals and universities are running late-stage clinical trials to repurpose generic drugs at less than 10% of pharma industry costs, operating outside the patent system with lower expertise, risk, and capital barriers. Examples include using a cancer drug to treat blindness and an old anti-inflammatory for Covid. Pharma companies lose interest in repurposing once drugs go generic due to competition, but academic researchers step in, motivated by patient outcomes and publication rather than profit.

tl;dr: In 2021, the author told Elkjop's DPO that requiring customer club membership as a condition for receiving marketing emails violated GDPR's "freely given consent" rule, but the company refused to change. Five years later, Norway's Datatilsynet fined Elkjop NOK 20M (~€1.8M) for exactly that violation, plus repurposing club data for ad tracking without a compatibility assessment. The author only learned of the outcome via a volunteer-run wiki, and is now pressuring the Swedish DPA over its Article 77(2) duty to keep complainants informed, while preparing civil litigation.

tl;dr: The European Commission, ECB, and their presidents have migrated their ATproto accounts from Bluesky to W Social, a Swedish for-profit "European alternative to X" that recently and quietly removed its public GitHub repository, suggesting it has gone closed-source. This contradicts the Commission's own Tech Sovereignty Package emphasizing open source, and ignores Eurosky, a transparent non-profit European ATproto alternative. Critics note W Social's advisory board includes Big Tech figures like Tools for Humanity's privacy chief, raising concerns it's just another surveillance-capitalist startup that happens to be EU-based.

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tl;dr: Modos is crowdfunding the Flow, a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with 3200×2400 resolution, touch input, and 60Hz refresh, powered by their new open-source Enchanter display controller (which uses a Chrontel CH7516 chip to enable DisplayPort 1.1). Co-founders Wenting Zhang and Alexander Soto note pixel response is ~50ms (comparable to the first iPad's IPS panel), and emphasize minimizing input-to-display latency over raw refresh rates. They've stuck with crowdfunding over VC because the e-paper monitor market is too niche for investors but supports a hackable, open-source community.

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tl;dr: Switzerland's National Council voted 100-98 to approve a counterproposal to the "Blackout Initiative," lifting the ban on building new nuclear power plants and aligning with prior decisions by the Federal Council and Council of States. The measure, opposed by the SP, GLP, and Greens, will ultimately go to a public referendum, with Greenpeace already protesting and the Greens signaling they may call one regardless.

tl;dr: Microsoft's new WebView2-based Outlook takes roughly 10 seconds to display an email when clicked from a Windows 11 notification, compared to nearly instant in Outlook Classic—and it's actually faster to ignore the notification and open the app manually. The new Outlook also runs as 10 separate processes and uses 4x the RAM of Classic, limitations inherent to its Chromium-based web wrapper architecture. A real fix likely requires a native WinUI rewrite; until then, Classic (supported until April 2029) remains the better choice for performance.

tl;dr: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has donated roughly $500 million to causes including journalism, cybersecurity, veterans, and pigeon rescue, and joined The Giving Pledge in 2025 after the program expanded beyond billionaires. He publicly pushed back against Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires who have discouraged wealthy peers from signing the pledge, claiming it funnels money to "left-wing" nonprofits. Newmark, who still doesn't own a car and takes the NYC subway, kept Craigslist free for users rather than take VC money, and credits childhood lessons from Holocaust survivors for his approach to wealth.

tl;dr: A curated directory cataloging dozens of places to submit websites, startups, and products for backlinks and exposure—ranging from major platforms like Hacker News, Product Hunt, Crunchbase, and G2 to niche AI tool directories, indie web blogrolls, and design galleries. Each entry notes whether links are dofollow/nofollow, free vs. paid placement, and the target audience (developers, founders, buyers, design enthusiasts, etc.).

tl;dr: Lore is an open-source version control system maintained by Epic Games, built for large-scale projects that mix code with hefty binary assets, such as games and entertainment productions. It targets both developers and artists, aiming to scale across massive datasets and team sizes.

tl;dr: Madrid tripled its metro length between 1995-2007 at roughly one-tenth the per-mile cost of London's Jubilee Line, driven by four factors: consolidated regional control that made politicians directly accountable for delivery, aggressive timelines enabled by streamlined environmental reviews and 24/7 tunneling, standardized station designs and proven technology over architectural flourishes, and in-house engineering expertise with contracts evaluated 70% on quality/experience rather than lowest bid. The result was a system now ranking sixth-longest outside China, with higher per-capita ridership than London or NYC.

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