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I draw the line at when a third party internet-connected service is doing validation of ID. Let’s be honest though, I strongly believe such a thing isn’t possible on a FOSS operating system environment unless they could control what was bootable on the device at a firmware level, enforce signatures to ensure that you couldn’t boot something unrestricted, remove the ability to be root, and block LD_PRELOAD so signals couldn’t be faked. There’s probably more ways to circumvent that.

What I’m trying to say is real ID verification on Linux would be awfully hard to implement, and I guarantee you, nobody would put up with it. They’d fork to a version that doesn’t have it immediately as a protest. Right now, we’re considering implementing something akin to the date pickers that were ubiquitous when signing up for internet services in the early 2000s where it’s just an honor system.

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You’ll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its minimum memory requirement for the first time since 2019.

Full Research(52 Pages PDF).

Our recent research paper into Snapchat's gamification features shows that some of the respondents are experiencing negative effects. Think of the feeling of pressure and having more screen time than desired. The results of the research support the importance of freedom of choice on large online platforms. Young people need to have more control over where their attention is going, what they are seeing and what they are displaying of themselves online. We therefore want to use the report to advise policy makers on guidelines on gamification on social media.

The struggle to manufacture transformers, switchgear and batteries domestically has forced the US to rely on imports, delaying data center construction.

Batteries have become much cheaper, making energy storage far more affordable.

In a blog post, OnlyOffice publicly expresses its anger. Euro-Office is using technology derived from OnlyOffice in violation of license terms and international intellectual property law. OnlyOffice is subject to the AGPL-v3 license and imposes further conditions to ensure transparency and appropriate source attribution. According to OnlyOffice, these include retaining the OnlyOffice trademarks in derivative works, providing appropriate source attribution to the original technology, and fully complying with open-source requirements for distributing the software.

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Oracle offered laid-off US employees four weeks' base salary plus one week per additional year of employment up to 26 weeks as severance, according to an excerpt of internal severance terms viewed by Business Insider.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/44276187

No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.

Anthropic, the flagship AI company, has inadvertently exposed the source code for its major CLI tool Claude Code. It has already been extracted with mirrors published on GitHub.

Chaofan Shou announced the discovery on X.

“Claude Code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry!” the user posted.

The post immediately stirred the AI community, attracting nearly 10 million views and 1.5 thousand comments.

Claude Code is a massively popular agentic AI coding assistant that runs in terminal. It can edit files and manage entire projects locally. Anthropic’s tool is closed-sourced and distributed as an obfuscated npm package.

However, Anthropic's published npm package containing Claude Code v2.1.88 allegedly exposed the source map file cli.js.map, which contained the full and unobfuscated TypeScript source code.

It appears that Anthropic scrambled to remove the npm package. However, it was too late. Multiple GitHub users already exposed copies of the project.

One of the GitHub repositories has already amassed nearly 30,000 stars and 40,200 forks.

Another one has 425 stars and 520 forks, with many developers dissecting the inner workings of the tool.

The author claims that the leaked Anthropic’s .map file’s size was 57MB, mapping 1,900 files and 512,000 lines of code.

The leaked code includes the core engine for LLM API calls, handling streaming responses, tool-call loops, thinking mode, retry logic, token counting, permission models, tools, etc. Some Hacker News users noted the extensive regex filter containing many swear words for detecting negative sentiment in users' prompts. This leak doesn’t expose the AI models themselves or user data.

Exposed internal logic makes it very easy to reverse-engineer the tool, identify security risks, or steal intellectual property. Users already noted that Claude Code is using axios as its dependency, a tool that was just hacked.

Many GitHub users now advertise their own build of Claude Code. However, they’re risking legal action.

“Just because the source is now 'available' *DOES NOT MEAN IT IS OPEN SOURCE*. You are violating a license if you copy or redistribute the source code, or use their prompts in your next project! Don’t do that,” posted full-stack developer Justin Schroeder on X.

The .map files are typically used by developers fixing programs in software. These plain text files act like a mini map of the original code, helping developers trace where the errors or problems occur. However, .map files usually don’t include the full source code.

Anthropic hasn’t yet released an official statement. Cybernews reached out to the company and will include its response.

I suggest watching the video, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1aK7jfLo but the article has an OK summary.

Also a Mastodon shout-out in the video.

On Wednesday, NASA will attempt to send four astronauts around the moon on a mission called Artemis II. This will be second flight of NASA’s SLS rocket, and the first time the 20-year-old Orion capsule flies with people on board.

The trouble is that the heat shield on Orion blows chunks. Not in some figurative, pejorative sense, but in the sense that when NASA flew this exact mission in 2022, large pieces of material blew out of Orion’s heat shield during re-entry, leaving divots. Large bolts embedded in the heat shield also partially eroded and melted through.

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All of this was kind of preposterous. As the YouTuber Eager Space has pointed out, if a commercial crew capsule (SpaceX Dragon or Boeing Starliner) returned to Earth with the kind of damage seen on Orion, NASA would insist on a redesign and an unmanned test flight to validate it. But the agency does not hold its flagship program to the high standard it demands from commercial crew, even though the same astronaut lives are at stake.

Nor was it lost on observers that the tools and models NASA used to arrive at its new analysis were the same ones that had failed to predict the spalling problem in the first place. While the agency was able to work backwards from flight data to induce flaking in a test coupon of Avcoat, they had no way of predicting how the full-size heat shield would behave in the new flight conditions it would experience on Artemis II.

You don’t have to be a random space blogger to find all this fishy. The most energetic voice of public dissent has been heat shield expert and Shuttle astronaut Charles Camarda, the former Director of Engineering at Johnson Space Center. Aghast at what he saw as a repeat of the motivated reasoning that had led to the loss of Columbia and Challenger, Camarda began making noise both inside and outside the agency, believing that astronauts' lives were at stake.

In a show of openness, NASA invited Camarda and two journalists to attend a briefing on the heat shield in January of 2026, and gave him limited access to some research materials that have not been made public. But the experience only deepened Camarda’s distress, and he ended up publishing a cri de coeur that I encourage everyone to read in full.

Fascinating read.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predicted to explode over the next few years.