pbxscience.com/an-emoji-brok… An Emoji Broke Pinball Tables on Android 17, and Exposed the Gap in Google's Open-Source Releases. The cause turned out to be a regression in the operating system's own C library, and the public source code needed to confirm it did not exist....

pbxscience.com/are-claudes-r… Are Claude’s Reverse Engineering Powers Being Restricted? What Is Confirmed and What Is Not? Since Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Sep 22, many people have credited it with a surge of AI-assisted game decompilation and recompilation projects....

pbxscience.com/darksword-exp… DarkSword Exploit Kit Targets iPhone Crypto Wallets: What SlowMist Found and How to Stay Safe Blockchain security firm SlowMist has warned that a ready-to-use attack platform built on the “DarkSword” iOS exploit chain is now online and can steal crypto..

pbxscience.com/critical-brot… Critical Brotli Flaw "HTTP2Shell" (CVE-2026-111497): Patches Rolling Out Across Node.js, Bun, Envoy and Istio. A critical vulnerability in Brotli, the open-source compression library developed by Google, is drawing widespread attention from security..

pbxscience.com/systemd-adds-… systemd Adds Optional Rust Support for New Components, Leaving Existing C Code Untouched. The change landed in the main development branch on October 24, 2026, through pull request #44324 by Linux kernel developer Christian Brauner, and it is expected..

pbxscience.com/agentic-ai-dr… Agentic AI Drives Server CPU Boom: Shipments Set to Rise 31% in 2026, Arm Closing in on 30% Share. TrendForce now expects server CPU shipments to grow 31% year over year in 2026 and by more than 40% in 2027, reshaping a market long dominated by x86..

pbxscience.com/the-volunteer… The Volunteer Who Packaged the Emergency PHP Fixes That Kept Servers Worldwide Secure. Surý is Director of DNS Engineering at the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), a US non-profit. He does not work for the PHP project or the PHP Foundation….

pbxscience.com/trend-micros-… Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative Accidentally Leaks Unpatched Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities to a Public Mailing List. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has apparently sent a batch of unpatched Linux kernel vulnerability reports to public...

pbxscience.com/fedora-linux-… Fedora Linux 45 Delayed Again: Release Now Targeted for November 3 Due to Four Blocker Bugs. Three additional proposed blockers are being evaluated. They include a case where no network interface is configured through the ip= kernel parameter during..

pbxscience.com/faster-code-h… Faster Code, Heavier Reviews: What the Linux Foundation’s New Survey Says About AI in Open Source. The report, Navigating Open Source Software Development in the Generative AI Era: Challenges and Opportunities for Project Communities, was announced..

pbxscience.com/why-deleting-… Why Deleting the Prefetch Folder Won’t Speed Up Windows 11? Microsoft’s own guidance and years of testing point the other way: emptying the folder does not make Windows faster, and it can make applications start more slowly until the data is rebuilt...

pbxscience.com/php2shell-rem… PHP2Shell Remediation Guide: How to Fix the Critical PHP Vulnerabilities. The PHP Foundation and the security community are collaborating to release and roll out more remediation guidelines. PHP's security bulletin contains complete technical details..

pbxscience.com/opensuse-agam… openSUSE Agama 25 Released: Web Terminal, Exit Option and Smarter Network Setup The update adds a browser-based terminal, a way to leave the installer, and a more convenient interface for choosing network ports,while the project continues to.. #openSUSE

pbxscience.com/why-standalon… Why Standalone AI Browsers Are Struggling Against Chrome? When OpenAI, Perplexity and The Browser Company launched browsers built around artificial intelligence, the pitch was that the way we browse the web was about to change. A year later….

pbxscience.com/av2-the-royal… AV2, the Royalty-Free Successor to AV1, Moves From Specification to Real-World Deployment AOMedia have started work on encoders, browser support, playback and compatibility testing. Google has confirmed that #YouTube could begin streaming AV2 .....

pbxscience.com/rtx-4090-fp16… RTX 4090 FP16/BF16 Tensor Unlock: What the gpu-unlock-ada Project Really Does. A GitHub project called gpu-unlock-ada claims that the halved FP16/BF16 tensor throughput of GeForce cards such as the RTX 4090 can be restored through software....

pbxscience.com/why-replacing… Why Replacing Microsoft Office Is So Hard: Denmark’s Collabora Pilot Ends Early. The pilot does not prove that alternatives to Microsoft Office cannot work, but it highlights how many practical obstacles stand in the way....

pbxscience.com/php2shell-lea… PHP2Shell Leak: Poster Apologizes, Says He Did Not Know the Vulnerabilities Were Under Embargo. Posting under the name "petecooper," he said he did not know the information was under an embargo, accepted responsibility for the consequences, and said..

pbxscience.com/microsofts-ne… Microsoft's New Outlook Becomes the Enterprise Default in March 2027, but Classic Outlook Isn't Going Away Yet Users n admins will still be able to switch back to classic Outlook, and Microsoft says classic Outlook will be supported until at least 2029..

pbxscience.com/linus-torvald… Linus Torvalds Removes Unsafe __get_user() and __put_user() From Linux 7.4, With Claude's Help Linus Torvalds has merged a long-overdue cleanup into the Linux 7.4 development tree that removes the old __get_user() and __put_user() helpers from.. #Linux