The Duskbloods: 10 hours of network testing, and what if it wasn't meant for us?
A sicko from Elden Ring spends 10 hours on The Duskbloods' test network—and comes out concerned. Frankly, we get the nuance.
Aug 24, 2026 6 2
Shuhei Yoshida reflects on Demon's Souls: "We were wrong about FromSoftware," Sony missed Dark Souls
Former head of PlayStation Studios, Shuhei Yoshida confesses: in 2009, Sony did have Demon's Souls on the PS3 but didn't believe in it. Result: Dark Souls went to Bandai Namco. An enlightening self-criticism on what Sony understood too late about FromSoftware.
Jul 24, 2026 5 2
DOOM: Developers speak of "bloodbath" after new wave of layoffs
The cult franchise is not spared by the bloodbath that has struck the video game industry for the past two years. A developer describes the ongoing wave of layoffs at id Software as a "bloodbath."
Jul 17, 2026 19 4
Fake software installers: disabling Windows Update and weakening Defender before intrusion
The Hacker News documents a campaign of fake software installers that begin by disabling Windows Update and reducing Microsoft Defender protections. This is no longer a classic drive-by attack: it's a preamble to a lasting intrusion.
Sep 3, 2026 2 1
ReactOS 0.4.16: The Windows of the 90s open source returns with fewer bugs
ReactOS, the open-source project that rebuilds Windows XP/2003 from scratch without using Microsoft's code, has released version 0.4.16. Twenty-two years of volunteer reverse engineering to revive an interface that shaped a generation.
Sep 2, 2026 25 4
I rewrote 65,000 lines of Go to Rust with Fable. Invoice: $400
An engineer tasked Fable, Anthropic's specialized code transformation model, with migrating a 65,000-line Go codebase to Rust. The result? It works, it cost $400, and it raises real questions about the future of large-scale codebase migrations.
Sep 2, 2026 22 3
Neither GCC nor Clang are fully compliant with the C++ standard—and this is structural.
A study demonstrates that neither GCC nor Clang fully comply with the ISO C++ standard. Not a single bug fixable in one pull request—it's a structural observation about the two compilers powering most C++ projects worldwide.
Sep 1, 2026 14 3
Aurora Ransomware + Cursor AI: When a Criminal Group Operationalizes AI in Its Attacks
Aurora ransomware operators integrate Cursor AI into their attack chain to generate and adapt their payloads across 10 targets. A deliberate operational decision—not an accident.
Sep 1, 2026 15 3
ServiceNow: Three CVEs Score 10.0, Remote Code Execution Without Authentication - Patch Urgently
Three distinct vulnerabilities, each with a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, allow anyone on the Internet to execute code on your ServiceNow servers without any authentication. An absolute emergency for the thousands of organizations using the platform.
Aug 31, 2026 19 3
Linus Torvalds to anti-AI in Linux: "Fork the kernel or get out of the way"
Linus Torvalds has just settled the debate that has been stirring the open source community for months: AI in the development of the Linux kernel is non-negotiable. Opponents have a clear option on the table.
Aug 31, 2026 10 2
XZ Utils and "Half a Second": Autopsy of the supply chain attack that nearly compromised the Internet
Two years of social engineering, a backdoor hidden in build scripts, and detection via a 500-millisecond SSH latency spike. The book *Half a Second* reconstructs CVE-2024-3094—and extracts lessons every developer must learn.
Aug 31, 2026 15 3
PaperCut yet again: a new zero-day in the printing software everyone forgets to patch
PaperCut is back in the security news with a new actively exploited zero-day. The real question: why is such a widespread software so consistently neglected when it comes to patching?
Aug 31, 2026 21 3