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2026.10.047 min read
Git 3.0 flips the default to SHA-256 in April 2027, and GitHub still can't take a push
Scott Chacon says the SHA-256 default is a costly mistake. The Git project says SHA-1 is on a clock. Both are right, and the compatibility layer that would settle it fails on stock builds…
2026.10.026 min read
543,699 leaked GitHub credentials still work, and the median one sat public for 784 days
Truffle Security tested credentials from 224 million public GitHub repos. npm killed 99.999% of its leaked tokens. MongoDB connection strings survived at 100%.
2026.09.278 min read
Go's portable SIMD package runs one loop on AVX2, NEON and wasm, behind a flag
Go 1.27 ships an experimental simd package with vector types of no fixed width, cloned per width at compile time. Early numbers: 11% slower than intrinsics, 5x faster than scalar.
2026.09.256 min read
F-Droid 2.0 ships six days before Google starts blocking unverified Android apps
F-Droid rewrote its Android client in Kotlin and Compose after 14 test releases. On September 30, Google starts blocking normal installs of unregistered apps in four countries.
2026.09.236 min read
OpenAI and Anthropic cut API prices on the same morning, and cache reads fell the most
Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 at $4 and $20 on September 22. OpenAI answered within 90 minutes with GPT-6 Sol at $2 and $10. Cache reads fell 60% at one vendor and 90% at the other.
2026.09.227 min read
Python Workers are GA on Cloudflare, with 128 MB per isolate and no threads
Cloudflare made Python Workers GA on September 21. The runtime is still Pyodide in a V8 isolate: 128 MB of memory, no threads, and cold starts near a second.
2026.09.217 min read
ChatGPT's ad cookie follows you to advertiser sites, and OpenAI files it under analytics
A researcher documented a one-year __obi cookie that links ChatGPT accounts to browsing on advertiser sites. OpenAI's cookie policy calls it analytics, not marketing.
2026.09.206 min read
Android 17 QPR1 gives Pixels three months of exclusive APIs and security fixes
Google shipped API level 37.1 to Pixels on September 15 with no AOSP source drop. Other OEMs get the APIs, and some platform security patches, in December with QPR2.
2026.09.167 min read
Java 27 changes the defaults under every untuned JVM you run
JDK 27 shipped September 15 with G1 and compact object headers as defaults on every JVM, and those two changes reach untuned containers before anyone plans an upgrade.
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