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QSB-118 fixes a flaw in qvm-copy-to-vm that allowed a compromised qube to inject arbitrary commands into Qubes OS’s dom0. The patch ships in qubes-core-dom0-linux 4.3.22 for Qubes 4.3.

California unanimously passed AB 1856, exempting Linux and software under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from its new digital age verification law. The amendment also fixes a drafting error that classified every device owner as a minor.

Stephen Diehl argues that recommendation algorithms stopped suggesting content and started directly optimizing human vulnerability. We break down the technical argument, how a reinforcement loop works under the hood, and what tools exist today to audit or block it.

Autistici/Inventati is an Italian collective that has offered free email, hosting, and other digital tools to activists since 2001, run entirely on a nonprofit basis. Its official website now displays a notice about U.S. sanctions, a development that tests two decades of self-managed infrastructure for digital activism.

htmx 4.0.0 arrived after eight months of development and migrates its internal engine from XMLHttpRequest to fetch(). The most disruptive change is explicit attribute inheritance, which now requires the :inherited suffix instead of being inherited by default.

The Google Calendar app for Android has no button to subscribe to a calendar by URL: the only way to do it is by using desktop mode in the browser. The case, documented on August 28, 2026, exposes a common pattern in today’s corporate apps.

Amazon confirmed that Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005, will shut down on September 30, 2026. The company has not yet announced a direct replacement service within its AWS catalog.

Nvidia is negotiating to buy Hugging Face for over $13 billion dollars, Business Insider revealed on August 27, 2026. The deal, still unclosed, would give Nvidia control over the central repository of open AI models. Hugging Face had already turned down a smaller Nvidia offer in late 2025.

A study in NHESS simulated worst-case scenarios for two Tibetan glacial lakes and a third one that doesn’t exist yet. The finding: a large avalanche could trigger a GLOF 15 times bigger than any on record, with only minutes of warning.