Ars Technica17 days agoSoftware Engineering
Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen
It wasn't the first time the surgeon cut out the wrong organ.
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Ars Technica17 days agoSoftware Engineering
Jury finds Live Nation/Ticketmaster is illegal monopoly that overcharged fans
Trump administration dropped out of the trial, but 33 states kept fighting.
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Ars Technica17 days agoSoftware Engineering
"TotalRecall Reloaded" tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
"The vault is solid. The delivery truck is not."
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InfoQ17 days agoSoftware Engineering
Google’s TurboQuant Compression May Support Faster Inference, Same Accuracy on Less Capable Hardware
Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, a novel quantization algorithm that compresses large language models’ Key-Value caches by up to 6x. With 3.5-bit compression, near-zero accuracy loss, and no retraining needed, it allows developers to run massive context windows on significantly more modest hardware than previously required. Early community benchmarks confirm significant efficiency gains. By Br
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InfoQ18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Presentation: Empower Your Developers: How Open Source Dependencies Risk Management Can Unlock Innovation
Celine Pypaert discusses the ubiquitous nature of open-source software and shares a blueprint for securing modern applications. She explains how to prioritize high-risk vulnerabilities using exploitability data, the role of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), and the importance of bridging the gap between DevOps and Security through clear accountability and automated governance. By Celine Pypaert
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InfoQ18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Zendesk Says AI Makes Code Abundant, Shifting the Bottleneck to “Absorption Capacity”
Zendesk argues that GenAI shifts the bottleneck in software delivery from writing code to “absorption capacity”, which is the organisation’s ability to define problems clearly, integrate changes into the wider system, and turn implementation into reliable value. As code becomes abundant, architectural coherence, review capacity, and delivery flow become the main constraints. By Eran Stiller
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InfoQ18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Claude Code Used to Find Remotely Exploitable Linux Kernel Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to find a remotely exploitable heap buffer overflow in the Linux kernel's NFS driver, undiscovered for 23 years. Five kernel vulnerabilities have been confirmed so far. Linux kernel maintainers report that AI bug reports have recently shifted from slop to legitimate findings, with security lists now receiving 5-10 valid reports daily. By Steef
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InfoQ18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Article: Using AWS Lambda Extensions to Run Post-Response Telemetry Flush
At Lead Bank, synchronous telemetry flushing caused intermittent exporter stalls to become user-facing 504 gateway timeouts. By leveraging AWS Lambda's Extensions API and goroutine chaining in Go, flush work is moved off the response path, returning responses immediately while preserving full observability without telemetry loss. By Melvin Philips
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Ars Technica18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Ukraine’s military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans
Ukraine is replacing more soldiers with robots in the battlefield kill zone.
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Ars Technica18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Sony killing features for antenna, set-top box users of Bravia smart TVs in May
Some 2023 and 2024 models are also affected.
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Ars Technica18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away
"Paying more for the same stuff" is the story of consumer technology in 2026.
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TechCrunch18 days agoSoftware Engineering
Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites
Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner.
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