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WireGuard's back on Windows after a Microsoft account suspension scare. New releases pack bug fixes, speedups, and cleaner code—finally shedding legacy baggage.
330 million domains expire every year, but WHOIS tools are stuck in the ARPANET era. Enter Quien: a tabbed TUI that layers modern intel on ancient protocols.
Your JSON just got a lot messier. The go-to Chrome extension for parsing API chaos is ditching open source for a paid model — and whispers of adware in the new version have devs scrambling.
Your favorite open source library might vanish because maintainers can't keep up with AI slop. Enterprises pushing AI coders? Get ready for the backlash.
Fired up watgo on a tangled WAT file from the spec suite. Parsed clean, validated safe, spat out binary—no C++ deps, no Rust runtime. Go's WebAssembly game just leveled up.
A dusty precompile from 2019 just made Zcash light-client verification feasible on Ethereum — at 22,800 gas per proof. Who's been sleeping on this?
Meta's hiring Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang to lead open-sourcing efforts sounds noble. But open-source veterans smell a Llama-sized catch.
Node.js devs, imagine scanning your deps for credential-stealing code without phoning home to some cloud service. Warden v2.0 just dropped, and it's local, free, and brutally effective against npm's dark side.
Even the code that nailed the Moon landing hid a nasty bug. Good thing it slept through Armstrong's giant leap.
Open source thrives on names, not ghosts. But anonymity's knocking—should we let it in?
Staring at a blank terminal in 2024, wondering why deploying a simple Django app still feels like 2010. One dev's push to fix django-simple-deploy's PythonAnywhere plugin might change that—for beginners, at least.
You've got your Noir circuit compiled. Now? Barretenberg turns it into a verifiable proof anyone can check on Ethereum. No secrets spilled.