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NHS England Slams the Door on Open Source — And Why It’s Probably Too Late
NHS England Slams the Door on Open Source — And Why It’s Probably Too Late NHS England has ordered all its technology leaders to make hundreds of GitHub repositories private by May 11, citing fears that emerging AI models could exploit publicly exposed source code. The directive represents a dramatic reversal of a longstanding policy
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Google Chrome Is Silently Downloading a 4GB AI Model to Your Computer — And You Can’t Really Stop It
Google Chrome Is Silently Downloading a 4GB AI Model to Your Computer — And You Can’t Really Stop It This is the kind of story that makes you question whether you’re the user of your browser, or the product. Starting with Chrome 136, Google has been quietly downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano model to users’
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86-DOS 1.00 Source Code Found in a Garage and Open-Sourced on Its 45th Anniversary
86-DOS 1.00 Source Code Found in a Garage and Open-Sourced on Its 45th Anniversary This is the kind of software archaeology that makes you stop and appreciate just how far we’ve come. Microsoft has open-sourced the earliest DOS source code — 86-DOS 1.00 — and the story behind it is almost as interesting as the
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Germany’s .de Domain Namespace Goes Dark
Germany’s Entire .de Domain Namespace Went Dark — Because of a Bad Digital Signature On May 5, 2026, bahn.de, spiegel.de, and thousands of other German websites became completely inaccessible — but not for the reasons you’d think. The websites were working fine. Their DNS records were correct. Their servers were running. The problem was a
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Google’s Gemma 4 Gets a 3x Speed Boost
Google’s Gemma 4 Gets a 3x Speed Boost — Here’s Why It Matters Google dropped something genuinely useful in the open-source AI world this week: Multi-Token Prediction drafters for Gemma 4 that deliver up to a 3x inference speedup, published by Olivier Lacombe (Director, Product Management) and Maarten Grootendorst (Developer Relations Engineer) on Google’s own
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GameStop Bids $55.5 Billion for eBay: Ryan Cohen’s Latest Gigantic Gamble
GameStop Bids $55.5 Billion for eBay: Ryan Cohen’s Latest Gigantic Gamble If you thought Ryan Cohen’s move to turn GameStop into some kind of e-commerce powerhouse was over, think again. On Sunday afternoon, May 4, GameStop announced a surprise takeover bid for eBay at $125 per share — a deal valued at roughly $55.5 billion
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The Copy Fail Vulnerability That Makes Your Docker Containers Basically Glass
The Copy Fail Vulnerability That Makes Your Docker Containers Basically Glass Your homelab is probably vulnerable right now. I know I should feel old saying that, but here we are. Copy Fail — officially CVE-2026-31431 — is a Linux kernel vulnerability that lets any local user gain root access in seconds. And because the kernel’s
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3 Brewery Closures Per Week: The Slow Death of Independent British Brewing
3 Brewery Closures Per Week: The Slow Death of Independent British Brewing Britain lost 137 independent breweries in the last year — that’s nearly three per week — yet demand for local beer has never been higher. The contradiction is at the heart of a brewing crisis that industry group SIBA is now calling a
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The Day AI Beat Doctors at Emergency Triage (And The Real Story Is Even Weirder)
The Day AI Beat Doctors at Emergency Triage (And The Real Story Is Even Weirder) A Harvard study published in Science on April 30 just went mainstream, but the treatment planning results might be even more consequential than the headline. The study pitted OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model against 323 internal medicine doctors at Beth Israel
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When AI Agents Can Open Bank Accounts (and Cloudflare Accounts): Stripe and Cloudflare Protocol
When AI Agents Can Open Bank Accounts (and Cloudflare Accounts): Stripe and Cloudflare’s Bold New Protocol There’s a difference between “AI agents can write code” and “AI agents can buy things.” The latter is harder to build, trickier to secure, and genuinely transformative. Today, Cloudflare and Stripe announced a protocol that lets AI agents autonomously