Andrés Morales

A recent catalog gathered eight HTML relics born in the browser wars of the 2000s, from the ICBM meta tag to Internet Explorer’s conditional comments. None of them work today, but they explain decisions that still show up in legacy code.

A researcher factored the 512-bit RSA keys of two root certificates that Netscape 4.51 distributed in 1999. The process took between 29 and 32 hours of computation with CADO-NFS on a desktop processor.

BZip3 is an open-source compressor presented as the spiritual successor to BZip2. In a benchmark using the full Perl 5 source code, it reduced the compressed size by 84% compared to BZip2 and decompressed faster than LZMA. The project is already available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

A year after the European Union began requiring public repair information for phones, over 80% of models on sale still don’t publish it. Right to Repair Europe reviewed 2,334 records and found that several noncompliant manufacturers still award themselves the top repairability grade.

Internet Archive launched a recurring donation campaign for September 2026: every monthly contribution from $25 gets a 2:1 match and helps sustain its 210 petabytes of self-owned infrastructure, with no ads or sale of user data.

GrapheneOS confirmed from its official Mastodon account, hosted on its own server grapheneos.social, that it’s making progress converting part of its internal infrastructure. The announcement reopens the question of why a security project avoids depending on third-party platforms.

X Corp sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter on August 24, 2026, demanding the shutdown of all its instances and its repository. After receiving legal advice, the open-source project confirmed it will continue operating and promised more updates soon.