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30 September 2026 · 5 min read
SoftwareUnicode ranges lie: ask the font, not the range
I replaced the Unicode range whitelist in my social card generator with a direct question to the font: can you draw this character? Less code, fewer tofu boxes, and a rule that goes well beyond typography.
30 September 2026 · 5 min read
SoftwareKDE 6.8 drops the X11 session: what breaks isn't your apps, it's everything around them
Plasma 6.8 lands on 14 October, the day KDE turns thirty, and it's the first release that no longer boots into X11. Old applications keep running; what stops working is everything that used to reach into the graphics server.
25 September 2026 · 5 min read
SoftwareDocker puts agents inside micro VMs: the problem was never the container, it was the socket
Docker launched Cloud Sandboxes with an uncomfortable demo: Claude escapes an ordinary container through the host Docker socket mounted inside it. The lesson isn't to buy anything — it's to check what you're mounting into your agent.
21 September 2026 · 5 min read
SoftwareThe attack no longer targets the repo: it targets the maintainer, and it starts with a job offer
Rust has warned about fake recruiters using video calls to plant a remote access trojan on people who publish crates. The real story isn't the anecdote: it's that the publishing account for a package with hundreds of millions of downloads lives on one person's laptop.
7 September 2026 · 5 min read
SoftwareInvisible characters in email: the AI trick has moved to phishing, and the hole is in your code
Microsoft spotted a phishing campaign splitting words with invisible Unicode characters to break literal matching, peaking at over 2.37 million messages a day. Not a single instruction aimed at a model. The interesting part isn't the spam: it's that every text comparison in your product has the same blind spot.