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DoGBench evaluates AI agents writing/updating user-facing documentation using 292 tasks from open-source projects. A held-out 117-item set (82 needing updates, 35 unchanged) shows agents struggle to decide when updates are needed and often omit prerequisites or introduce inaccuracies. In a broader audit, 45.5% had task-completion gaps, 36.6% inaccuracies, and 32.5% omitted core content; 6.1% contained fabricated content. The top performer scored 47.3/100; cloud agents did not browse the internet. P0-clean delivery was 39.0%. Scoring combines patch quality and abstention; expert review remains essential.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-6528-1 warns of multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities that could lead to privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks. For the stable distribution trixie, fixes are included in linux 6.12.111-1. Users should upgrade their linux packages. See the Debian security tracker for details; bug reference: 1108860.
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Apple's J450 smart home camera reportedly won’t record video. Instead, it uses AI to analyze surroundings and report detections, with a low-frame-rate camera, facial recognition, and infrared sensors to identify people and pets. It could trigger automations (lights, music) rather than provide a recording library, marking a privacy-forward approach unlike Ring or Google Nest and unlike HomeKit Secure Video. The camera would be part of a broader home-security system, with Apple’s larger push into home hardware planned for 2027.
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aweb is an MIT-licensed, federated, self-hostable communication layer for AI agents. It provides durable, server-stored mail and chat, stable identities, and wake-up events across sessions, runtimes, and machines, with independent servers able to federate. Core components are AWID (identity and trust), the aweb server, and the aw CLI. Clients run on Claude Code, Pi, and other runtimes via a shared event stream. Features include namespaces/teams, signed delivery, private keys, and BYOT. Deploy self-host with Docker Compose or use the hosted service at app.aweb.ai.
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International Locate Rodeo 2026 will be held December 7–8 in Springfield, Missouri, with free competition registration. Hosted by the Missouri Common Ground Alliance (MOCGA) in partnership with the National Utility Locating Contractors Association, the event runs alongside the 2026 MOCGA Summit (Dec 9–10) offering free safety and damage-prevention classes. The program supports a CASA toy drive. The rodeo promotes best practices in underground utility locating and honors top locators across Electric, Gas, Telecom, and Water divisions, with wheel prizes ($100 per wheel, two per division), division winners ($1,000), runners-up ($500), and a Locate From Hades prize ($2,500), plus other door prizes.
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Frontier AI like Opus 5.5 can surface new historical finds by deploying semantic search across vast archives and multilingual sources. In the Dutch East India Company GLOBALISE corpus, it surfaced a likely 1615 log from the Wapen van Amsterdam mentioning dodos, a source previously unnoticed by scholars. It also flags a 1638 reference to red rails misread as partridges and theorizes Jahangir’s dodo may derive from a 1616 Portuguese “ostrich” account. AI excels at searching, but struggles to judge significance, so human experts remain essential; amateurs with AI may accelerate archival sleuthing, increasing demand for historians.
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Effect 4.0 rebuilds the core with zero runtime dependencies, delivering faster, lower-memory, tree-shakeable bundles. Most packages now live in the core, sharing a single version to reduce supply-chain risk. It spans from a single function to distributed clusters, all built on a unified model of typed errors, dependency injection, resource management, structured concurrency and observability, with higher-level primitives for durable workflows and clustering. Adoption is growing in production (43.9M weekly npm downloads; 4.x already outsizing 3.x). Long-term support for 4.x provides bug fixes and security fixes tied to 5.0 timing. Next: stabilize ecosystem and migrate via guide.
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SvelteKit 3 is released. It's the same framework with more polish, type safety, and less junk. Migration is automated with npx sv migrate sveltekit -3 --tasks --confirm, with a TODO list for leftovers. To create apps, run npx sv create my-new-app. Breaking changes: config to vite.config.ts; $lib → #lib; stronger env vars; standard subpath imports; better error handling; less boilerplate for service workers. Remote functions not ready yet; require Async Svelte with an experimental flag. Svelte Summit in Ljubljana on Nov 19-20 for Svelte's 10th birthday.
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Siemens consolidates Radioss under Simcenter, focusing future investment in Simcenter to accelerate production-grade simulation. Simcenter Radioss remains the flagship production solution with explicit solver power, dedicated support, material libraries, and seamless Simcenter integration. A new Simcenter Radioss R&D Program (SCRDP) offers a managed “Shared Source” environment for academics and industry partners to co-innovate on explicit dynamics, including access to source code and a private HPC. OpenRadioss is being retired; visitors are redirected to this transition page. Simcenter Radioss continues as the industry‑proven solver for crash, impact, safety, and nonlinear simulations within Xcelerator.
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Rhun is a tiny, fast code editor written in assembly for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It offers tabs, syntax highlighting, fuzzy search, and optional Vim mode, plus an integrated terminal, Git actions (diffs, staging, commits), and coding agents beside your code. It can draft messages with local open-weight models or Claude Code/Codex via subscriptions; AI is optional. With 39 light/dark themes, MIT-licensed v0.16.2. Install via curl on Linux/macOS or Windows ZIP/exe. Fonts: Instrument Sans and Iosevka.
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CSS Bed is a collection of classless CSS themes for starting web projects. To use a theme, paste the provided snippet into your page's head and link to the CSS on GitHub. It bundles lightweight, responsive themes (e.g., pico.css, sakura, vanillacss, water.css variants) with no learning curve and small size for broad browser support. The page acts as a demo of forms, typography, tables, and other HTML elements, showcasing responsive behavior when a viewport tag is used.
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Janus is a single Go binary local LLM server and API router that runs GGUF models via Vulkan (GPU) or CPU, with an OpenAI-compatible API and a built-in web UI. No Python or Docker required; Ollama optional. Features: local inference, /v1/chat/completions, /v1/models, /v1/tools, tool execution, file I/O, math, OCR, PDF, and a kernel loop with ReAct. You can swap models in UI without restart. Supports optional Basic Auth. Quick start: clone, configure .env with JANUS_MODEL_PATH, build, run, and access http://127.0.0.1:8990. MIT licensed.
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arXiv announced a new rate-limit policy, effective Oct 1, 2026, amid rising AI-assisted submissions. Submitters are limited to two submissions per calendar month and up to three active submissions at any time across all categories. Rejected submissions count toward the monthly total; on-hold submissions count toward the active limit but not the monthly quota. The aim is to fairly distribute moderators’ time, deter low-value or salami papers, and maintain standards. AI use is allowed if disclosed and meets scholarly criteria; co-authors’ limits are separate from others’ submissions.
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Pi Durable is Earendil’s experimental harness to build long-running, durable, and malleable agents that can run anywhere. It complements Pi 1.0 without replacing the coding agent, providing a framework to run many conversations across storage-backed environments, survive crashes, and be steered by multiple humans. A harness sits on top of storage (SQLite/JSONL) and a Node execution environment; conversations, tools, and extensions are modular and replaceable. Extensions bundle system prompts, tools, hooks, and tasks; all state lives in transcripts and typed documents. Features include multi-conversation ownership, durable subagents, compaction, handoff, and multi-client watch/steering. Experimental TypeScript API with examples.
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A Northeastern University privacy study with Consumer Reports analyzes 21 US-market vehicles and 30 companion apps to map data sharing in the connected-vehicle ecosystem. Findings: 19 of 21 vehicles contacted at least one third party over Wi‑Fi; 7 of 30 apps transmitted sensitive identifiers (VIN, location, etc.) to trackers. Pairing apps often doubles a vehicle’s exposure and adds many new trackers. Honda was an exception, limiting precise geolocation sharing. The study highlights opaque data flows, limited consumer control, and the need for greater transparency and ongoing measurement across manufacturers and apps.
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Pi 1.0 ships as a hardened, minimal, extensible agent harness with Codemode (native MCP support and non-LLM models), extension support for virtual models, deferred tool loading, cache warming for anthropic models, mid-conversation system messages, and a new full-screen TUI theme. Earendil also introduces Pi Durable, an experimental substrate for long-running agentic apps that preserves minimalism while enabling durability across surfaces and longer conversations. Pi 1.0 and Pi Durable are MIT-licensed; docs at pi.dev and code on GitHub.
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SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authenticate sending domains: SPF authorizes the envelope sender, DKIM signs the message, and DMARC enforces alignment with the From domain. Publish DNS records for a subdomain (e.g., mail.example.com): DKIM via three CNAMEs, SPF as a TXT on the MAIL FROM subdomain (send.mail.example.com) with an MX, and DMARC at _dmarc.mail.example.com with a policy and aggregate reports. Start with p=none, monitor reports, then quarantine, then reject. Test with real messages and review Authentication-Results; watch for alignment, proxies, forwarding, and SPF lookup limits; Cloudflare setup available.
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Bez is a generated web rendering engine that builds from specs and tests rather than hand-coding. It targets three browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) and uses Web Platform Tests; when a spec passes, code is generated and committed in Rust. The aim is complete yet tree-shaken builds, embeddable, with rapid updates after spec/test changes. The repo documents the generation loop, verification, and status data across areas (CSS, HTML, JS, etc.), with ~1.2k commits and numerous specs and tracks. Status as of 2026-09-25; sources include browser-specs, WPT, and MDN browser-compat-data.
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