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China's Great Firewall blocked all traffic to a common HTTPS port for over an hour — with no hint as to its intention
Forged TCP RST+ACK packets disrupted port 443, but not common ports like 22, 80 or 8443
2025-08-21 09:30
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Linux Driver Under Review For Apple Laptop Lid Events & Power Button
Following the recent Apple SMC driver upstreaming to handle rebooting Apple Silicon Macs under Linux, the latest code volleyed on the kernel mailing list for review is support for handling laptop lid events and power buttons. Plus Apple sensor monitori...
2025-08-21 09:24
How to upload files using minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here. We’ve examined how we can implement in-memory cach...
2025-08-21 09:00
The shift from AI code generation to true development partnership
When Anthropic announced its Claude 4 models, the marketing focused heavily on improved reasoning and coding capabilities. But having spent months working with AI coding assistants, I’ve learned that the real revolution isn’t about generating bett...
2025-08-21 09:00
Up and running with Azure Linux 3.0
Microsoft’s move to the cloud-native world means it’s now the custodian of several quite different Linux distributions. Some are internal tools that run deep parts of Azure’s networking infrastructure; others are part of Azure’s Internet of Th...
2025-08-21 09:00
Intel Compute Runtime 25.31.34666.3 Continues Prepping For Panther Lake
Released minutes ago was the newest monthly feature release to the Intel Compute Runtime providing open-source OpenCL and Level Zero capabilities on Intel graphics hardware...
2025-08-21 08:35
Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 has a really cool feature for dark theme fans
Google has released Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 for eligible Pixel devices with a stable launch slated for the fourth quarter. If you're a dark theme fan, you'll want to know what's in this update. Read more...
2025-08-21 08:34
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon W5+ and W5 wearable SoC with direct satellite connectivity
Qualcomm has launched its new Snapdragon W5+ Gen 2 and W5 Gen 2 wearable platforms, which are the first to offer two-way emergency satellite messaging in smartwatches. Read more...
2025-08-21 08:02
VKD3D 1.17 Released With More Improvements For DIrect3D 12 On Vulkan
VKD3D 1.17 made its debut this morning as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation...
2025-08-21 07:58
Pytype has been discontinued, leaving Google developers to search for other options
Google developers have discontinued Pytype, a tool that was once widely used within the company since its inception in 2012. Read more...
2025-08-21 07:46
Panthor Open-Source Driver To Support Many More Arm Mali GPUs In Linux 6.18
The open-source Panthor Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver providing the modern kernel graphics driver support for recent Arm Mali GPUs will be supporting a number of additional GPU models with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...
2025-08-21 06:27
NVIDIA Begins Linux Kernel Upstreaming Work For Their Vera Rubin NLV144 Platform
The first Linux kernel patches specific to their next-gen Vera Rubin NLV144 "VR144NVL" were posted today to the public Linux kernel mailing list...
2025-08-21 06:17
Tax and Price Updates for Apps, In-App Purchases, and Subscriptions
The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 44 currencies across 175 storefronts.From time to time, we need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or foreign...
RADV Vulkan Video Lands Intra-Refresh Encode
David Rosca who started out as a contractor for AMD working on their open-source video encode/decode capabilities for Linux formally joined the company earlier this summer. He's continued to be quite busy plumbing numerous enhancements into their accel...
2025-08-21 05:58
Google announces Gemini AI-powered personal health coach for Fitbit users
Google is launching a new Gemini-powered personal health coach for Fitbit Premium users later this year. This AI coach will offer personalized fitness and sleep plans. Read more...
2025-08-21 05:08
South Park mocks Tim Cook’s golden gift to Donald Trump
While political satire has always been a part of South Park across almost three decades, things have reached a whole new level during the new season, with plenty of jokes involving the Trump Presidency. Tonight, that involved Tim Cook, and his recent W...
2025-08-21 04:37
GitHub launches Copilot agents panel on GitHub.com
GitHub has unveiled an agents panel, available on every page of github.com, that allows developers to delegate coding tasks to GitHub Copilot throughout the GitHub platform. The agents panel allows developers to assign tasks to Copilot and manage thes...
2025-08-21 04:07
PSA: OneNote for Windows 10 is being killed off, here is what you need to do
Microsoft has emphasized the need to migrate from OneNote for Windows 10 to OneNote on Windows as soon as possible to avoid disruptions. Read more...
2025-08-21 01:18