Fresh developments in software, AI and security — full articles from open-license publishers, alongside source news excerpts.
A recent Harvard study of 718 firms, using the Jellyfish analytics platform, finds that although AI coding assistants and agents increase code volume, this does not translate into a corresponding increase in completed work, partly…
A developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build open-source replacements for seven Adobe applications, promoted them across Reddit with a projection of roughly 100% parity within a month, then told Hacker News the project was…
Docker announced that Harbor, the open-source agent evaluation framework, now works with Docker Sandboxes. This change allows each evaluation task to run in its own microVM. So, instead of sharing a container, tasks are isolated…
Vercel Labs has released fx, an experimental open-source coding agent written in Zig. It runs as a CLI, a script component, or an embedded library, including a WebAssembly build. Early feedback questioned its model-agnostic claim…
Full article · CC BY 4.0The Brazilian National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of digital platforms according to new legislation approved in Brazil. Throughout this year, EFF has presented comments, filed submissions, and met…
Full article · CC BY 4.0An open internet where people can freely build, share, and remix each other's work is a powerful engine of grassroots innovation we’ve all benefited from. In recent decades, however, corporations have taken control of an…
Full article · CC BY 4.0The internet is a vast and confusing place no matter your age. Trying to help youth engage with it safely and privately is a complicated topic that touches on many different skillsets and ideas. But…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Police agencies across the U.S. have deployed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to capture images of passing vehicles along with time, date, and GPS coordinates. While the technology itself isn’t new (ALPRs have existed in…
Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised, allowing attackers to forge certificates for any site. The keys were revealed due to low entropy, not through a known breach. Browsers blocked them…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Guide Includes Easy, Quick Ways To Identify and Protect Against Online Threats SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published “Online Privacy for Parents and Youth,” a new guide to help families protect…
Netflix has developed a workload attestation mechanism for Apache Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR. The design combines AWS IAM identity with signed claims from Netflix’s control plane before issuing short-lived internal X.509 certificates, allowing…
Google DeepMind announced the global availability of SynthID Detector, a tool designed to help identify AI-generated content, including media created using AI tools from SynthID partners such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao, with Apple support…