Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-robot-exploit
IEEE Spectrum
Exploit Allows for Takeover of Fleets of Unitree Robots
Can your robot be hacked? A new vulnerability in Unitree robots could turn them into a botnet army. Are we taking robot security seriously enough?
Traefik's 10-year anniversary https://traefik.io/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-traefik
Traefik Labs
Traefik's 10-Year Anniversary: A Community's Journey
10 years ago, I made a small reverse proxy project public. Fast forward to today and Traefik has 3.4B downloads and 56k GitHub stars. See how it unfolded.
US cities pay too much for buses https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/us-cities-are-paying-too-much-for-new-transit-buses
Bloomberg.com
Why US Cities Pay Too Much for Transit Buses
A new paper argues that lack of competition, demand for custom features and “Buy America” rules have driven up costs for transit agencies in the US.
SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold
GitHub
GitHub - apple/ml-simplefold
Contribute to apple/ml-simplefold development by creating an account on GitHub.
SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3
GitHub
GitHub - francoismichel/ssh3: SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3, checkout our article here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08396…
SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3, checkout our article here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08396 and our Internet-Draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-michel-ssh3/ - francoismi...
A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails https://www.koi.security/blog/postmark-mcp-npm-malicious-backdoor-email-theft
www.koi.ai
First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emails | Koi Blog
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet https://messenger.abeto.co/
messenger.abeto.co
It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.
Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out
Express.co.uk
Image site Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
A popular image hosting website has stopped its services in the UK after regulators threatened a fine.
Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/11_natural_transformations/
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/
blog
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
How we spent under half a million dollars to build a 30 petabyte data storage cluster in downtown San Francisco
Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code
Alephic
The Magic of Claude Code
Claude Code combines a terminal-based Unix command interface with filesystem access to give LLMs persistent memory and seamless tool chaining, transforming it into a powerful agentic operating system for coding and note-taking. Its simple, composable approach…
Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en
Google
Learn about upcoming changes to Gmailify & POP in Gmail - Gmail Help
Starting January 2026, Gmail will no longer provide support for the following features: Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organization applied
Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997
Mastodon
daniel:// stenberg:// (@[email protected])
Joshua Rogers sent us a *massive* list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools. Code analyzer style nits all over. Mostly smaller bugs, but still bugs and there could be one or two actual security flaws in there. Actually…
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets https://signal.org/blog/spqr/
Signal
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s resilience against future quantum computing threats while…
The collapse of the econ PhD job market https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-econ-phd-job
Chrisbrunet
The Collapse of the Econ PhD Job Market
What is an Economics PhD worth in 2025?