X Open-Sources Its 'For You' Ranking Algorithm, Adding a Shadowban Transparency Tool
X published a far larger open-source release of its recommendation code on GitHub, plus a tool letting active users check visibility labels on their account.
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X published a far larger open-source release of its recommendation code on GitHub, plus a tool letting active users check visibility labels on their account.
Mozilla revoked and replaced a GPG signing subkey after an unencrypted copy leaked into a private GitHub repo, finding no evidence of unauthorized use.
Google will remove every remaining Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, 2026, completing a phase-out that has already disabled uBlock Origin and other legacy ad blockers in Chrome.
HEIR compiles pre-trained AI models to run inference on fully homomorphic encrypted data, letting servers process private data without decrypting it.
A RepoComplianceBench study of four frontier coding agents found they open contribution-rule files only 3.5% of the time and never voluntarily withdraw AI-banned contributions.
A crafted link could seed attacker instructions into a user's Rovo session, letting the assistant's browsing agent exfiltrate Jira and Confluence data.
Researcher Elad Meged showed a privilege-less GitHub issue could reach CI secrets in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex; two flaws got CVEs, one didn't.
DeepSeek released its Harness agent runtime as MIT-licensed open source and rolled out DeepSeek-V4-Pro with native OpenAI Responses API support.
Modular released Mojo 1.0 on August 11, promising API stability and pledging to open-source the compiler in 2026, two months after Qualcomm agreed to buy the company.
An unpatched SQL injection flaw in GeoServer's jsonArrayContains function is already being probed by attackers, watchTowr says, with no CVE or fix yet available.
Podman 6.1 ships volume renaming, a machine restart command, Quadlet ImageVolume support, and IPv6 rootless port forwarding.
Check Point traced CVE-2026-68820, a WinSock kernel flaw, to a North Korean campaign deploying the FudModule rootkit against defense contractors before Microsoft patched it.