Postgres Still Needs a Windshield: On Built-In Pooling
This week, Brandur Leach asked a simple question: does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? The Hacker News thread that followed collected 97 points ...
OpenAI Paused Astra: Autonomous Hacking Is Here
OpenAI paused Astra after it demonstrated autonomous zero-day exploitation of hardened systems. Here’s what the ...
DuckDB Async I/O Lands in v2.0: S3 Queries Up to 19x Faster
DuckDB async I/O is default in v2.0 (September 2026): S3 CSV drops from 877 to ...
RISC-V’s Fragmentation Problem Hits 25% Market Share
RISC-V just hit 25% market share, but almost every SBC you can buy won't meet ...
ChatGPT Linux App: What Codex Can Do on Your Machine
OpenAI shipped ChatGPT and Codex for Linux on August 11. Here’s what Codex can actually ...
Docker VMM Public Beta: Docker Replaces Its Hypervisor
Docker VMM replaces libkrun in Docker Desktop v4.86 with a first-party hypervisor. Here is what changed, how to enable it, and the Rosetta ...
Cloudflare Unweight: Lossless LLM Compression on H100
Cloudflare's Unweight compresses LLM BF16 weights 15–22% with zero quality loss. Open-source H100 GPU kernels, ...
CVE-2026-59310: VMware vCenter RCE Exploited — Patch Now
CVE-2026-59309 and CVE-2026-59310 are being chained to compromise VMware vCenter with no credentials. 361 victims ...
Claude Code Auto Mode Is Now Default for Paid Users
As of August 14, 2026, Claude Code auto mode is the default for Pro, Max, ...
Zoomsday: Zoom Zero-Click RCE Hits All Meeting Participants — Patch Now
Zoomsday (CVE-2026-53413) lets any Zoom meeting participant silently execute code on every other attendee's machine. ...