A developer cracked Kindle Cloud Reader’s font obfuscation, sidestepping randomized glyph swaps withSVG renderingandSSIM-powered perceptual hashingto rebuild actual EPUBs. Amazon rotates font mappings every five pages, using finicky micro-paths to jam scrapers and derail OCR. It wasn’t enough. Syste.. read more  

Pre-commit hooks catch secrets and fix formatting before bad stuff hits your repo. But if they’re clunky or slow, devs bail. Tools likePre-Commit,Husky, anddevenvare trying to fix that.devenvstands out—hooks are baked right into your Nix env, no extra glue scripts... read more  

A former engineering leader lays out a no-nonsense framework for tracking team output without turning into Big Brother. Think:daily Slack updates,weekly GitHub changelogs,tight 1:1s,demo-fueled All-Hands, andauto-verified deploys. It leans onpublic artifacts, not peeking over shoulders - and puts th.. read more  

The 2025 State of AI Report just landed—China’s catching up fast on reasoning and coding. Models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are starting to nip at OpenAI’s heels. AI is thinking longer-term now. Reinforced reasoning and rubric-style feedback are pushing models into deeper, more deliberate plannin.. read more  

Arkade introduces a new protocol to enhance Bitcoin's global financial capabilities by enabling offchain payments and transaction batching, inviting developers to explore its public beta.

An AWS outage disrupted Eight Sleep's smart beds, prompting plans for an "outage mode" to enhance system resilience and prevent future connectivity issues.

GitHub rolled out theMCP Registry—a hub for findingModel Context Protocol (MCP) serverswithout hunting through scattered corners of the internet. No more siloed lists or mystery URLs. It's all in one place now. The goal? Cleaner access to AI agent tools, plus a path towardself-publishing, thanks to .. read more  

Last February, CVE-2024-26141 punched a nasty hole inRack's Range header parsing. All versions since 1.3.0 are exposed. The bug let attackers blow up memory usage and responses—classic denial-of-service—just by crafting bloated Range headers. The trick? Custom file download handlers. They skip the u.. read more  

A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps is now available. Users describe tasks, Agent4 performs them, creates reusable workflows from interactions, and executes instantly on subsequent requests. Under the hood, it checks for known maps in a vector DB, patches them if needed, and self-he.. read more  

UnpatchedSharePoint flaws(CVE-2025-53770, CVE-2025-49704) cracked open theKansas City National Security Campusin July. IT systems tied to 80% of U.S. non-nuclear weapons parts got compromised. Attackers—likely state-backed, Russian or Chinese—moved fast, hitting the zero-day RCE and spoofing bugs ju.. read more