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Zed Editor Theme-Builder

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:30:39 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

Theme Builder is Desktop-only

To fully utilize Zed’s theme builder, access it from the desktop. In the meantime, browse available theme extensions.

Elevated Surface Background

Panel Focused Border

Panel Indent Guide Hover

Panel Indent Guide Active

Panel Overlay Background

Setting up the workbench…

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CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:06:46 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

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If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully.

On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 web hosting servers and deploy ransomware — cPanel quietly released a second emergency security patch. This one covers three new vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-29201, CVE-2026-29202, and CVE-2026-29203.

Two of the three carry a CVSS score of 8.8. That puts them firmly in theHigh severitytier, one step below Critical.

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:28:36 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

Photo by Ilija Boshkov on Unsplash

Last evening, a short blog post appeared in my feed reader that felt as if it spoke directly to me. It is Chris Morgan’s excellent postI’ve banned query strings.

Chrisis someone whose Internet comments I have been reading for about half a decade now. I first stumbled upon his comments when he left very detailedfeedbackon one of my collections of CSS rules on Hacker News. I am by no means a web developer. I have spent most of myprofessional lifedoing systems programming in C and C++. However, developing websites and writingsmall HTML toolshas been a long-time hobby for me. I have learnt most of my web development skills as a hobbyist by studying what other people do: first by viewing the source of websites I liked in the early 2000s, and later by occasionally getting possessed by the urge to implement a new game or tool and searchingMDN Web Docsto learn whatever I needed to make it work. One problem with learning a skill this way is that you sometimes pick up habits and practices that are fashionable but not necessarily optimal or correct. So it was really valuable to me when Chris commented on my collection of boilerplate CSS rules. It helped me improve my CSS a lot. In fact, a few of the lessons from his comment have really stuck with me; I keep them in mind whenever I make a hobby HTML project: always retain underlines in links andretain purplefor visited links.

Introduction to Beaver Triples

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:02:38 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

Computing with Secret Shares - Introducing Beaver Triples

Mikerah Quintyne-Collins

You and your friends are planning to go out to dinner. Typically, you are the friend in the friend group that pays for everyone else’s meals. But recently, the market isn’t doing to well recently. So, everyone needs to start paying up.

However, not all of the homies are ballin’ because well, the market isn’t doing too well and one of them is still a student. But, just because external forces are kicking everyone’s butt doesn’t prevent the friend group from hanging out and enjoying a nice meal together. In order to have an enjoyable meal together, a restaurant needs to be decided upon. But, not everyone likes the same cuisine and some restaurants are more expensive than others. Considering that everyone’s financial situation and food preferences are different, you attempt to devise a privacy-respecting way to allow the group to come to consensus on which restaurant to go to.

Intent-based chaos testing is designed for when AI behaves confidently — and wrongly

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Here is a scenario that should concern every enterprise architect shipping autonomous AI systems right now: An observability agent is running in production. Its job is to detect infrastructure anomalies and trigger the appropriate response. Late one night, it flags an elevated anomaly score across a

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PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

Sat, 09 May 2026 15:01:16 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

During the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” years of home computing, up to around 1995, a lot was thrown and a lot failed to stick. Sometimes clumps would form that appeared to have the combined friction necessary to maintain wall grip, each holding the other up. But, like Mitch Hedberg’s observation of belts and belt loops, it was difficult to discern who was helping who stick to what.

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

Sat, 09 May 2026 12:25:00 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Apple’s old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

The next major release of macOS looks likely to remove Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) support, stopping Time Capsules from working… butlifeFOSS, uh, finds a way.

The current version of macOS “Tahoe” 26.4already has network Time Machine issues, especially for folksusing Apple Time Capsules. It looks like macOS 27 may completely remove the network protocol they need. However, the Time Capsules run NetBSD under the hood, and that means that the FOSS world has been able tocome up with a workaround. It’s calledTimeCapsuleSMB, and it aims to keep older Time Capsules usable with modern macOS.

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Sat, 09 May 2026 10:03:00 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End

Visitors to London’s iconic Telecom Tower might soon be able to go for a rooftop swim, according to plans revealed by the developer turning the building into a hotel.

The iconic 177 meter (581 ft) high structure in Fitzrovia in London’s West End was sold off by BT Group in 2024 to US-based hotel owner-operator MCR Hotels for £275 million ($346 million).

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

Sat, 09 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

The UK Home Office wants to talk to suppliers about its plans for two potential procurements for the Strategic Central and Bureau Platform (SCBP), its core biometrics system, worth up to £300 million.

The department said the procurements could cover support, development, and ongoing modernization of SCBP after it shifted much of the platform to “more modern and widely adopted technology stacks.”

Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:59:19 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny.

Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain it as a nonprofit dedicated to developing AI for the benefit of humanity, only to later accept billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft and restructure the company to operate a for-profit subsidiary.

Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:17:31 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Good times, bad times

This week was the best of times for Akamai and the worst of times for Cloudflare.

On the same evening, content delivery network mainstay Cloudflare announced it wascutting about a fifth of its staffin a realignment around AI, its competitor Akamai announced a seven-year, $1.8 billion deal with a leading LLM provider thatBloombergidentified as Anthropic.

Akamai CEO Tom Leighton said this was the largest deal in the company’s history and that it came after another large, unidentified frontier-model developer signed a $200 million deal last quarter.

Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:45:20 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Dario Amodeiis not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton, has built a reputation for measured public statements — particularly around the financial perfo

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OpenAI brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice — and it changes what voice agents can actually orchestrate

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:41:21 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Voice agents have been expensive to run and painful to orchestrate, not because the models can’t handle conversation, but because context ceilings forced enterprises to build session resets, state compression, and reconstruction layers into every deployment. OpenAI’s three new voice models are desig

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GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:08:52 +0000

Originally published by The Register

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

It’s getting more expensive to use the latest models. OpenAI last month bumped the version number of its GPT model family to 5.5, and per-token prices rose too, in some cases doubling compared to its predecessor.

For 1 million tokens, GPT-5.5 is priced at $5 (input), $0.50 (cached input), and $30 (output). Its predecessor GPT-5.4 charges $2.50 (input), $0.25 (cached input), and $15 (output) per 1 million tokens.

5,000 vibe-coded apps just proved shadow AI is the new S3 bucket crisis

Fri, 08 May 2026 20:57:01 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Most enterprise security programs were built to protect servers, endpoints, and cloud accounts. None of them was built to find a customer intake form that a product manager vibe coded on Lovable over a weekend, connected to a live Supabase database, and deployed on a public URL indexed by Google. Th

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An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same.

Fri, 08 May 2026 17:55:03 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identity check passed. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtzdisclosed the incident and a second one at his RSAC 2026 ke

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Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak

Fri, 08 May 2026 16:19:40 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

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Eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship have contracted a type of hantavirus, a rare virus transmitted by rats. Three of them have died. As the ship prepares to dock in the Canary Islands, plans are being finalized to let the remaining passengers and crew disembark safely.

The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech

Fri, 08 May 2026 12:10:00 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

We’ve entered the era of AI malaise

AI is spreading everywhere, and it is not going away. But what will it do? What effect will it have on our society? Will it make life better, or worse? How will we know? What’s the plan?

Here’s how technology transformed babymaking

Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

Technology is changing the way we make babies. The pioneering work of the scientists who invented IVF led to the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978. We’ve come a long, long way since then.

This week, I’ve been working ona pieceabout the cutting edge of IVF technologies and what’s coming next. Think AI and robots and, potentially, gene-edited embryos.

My reporting has also made me think about just how much progress has been made in the last five decades. Clinicians have improved hormonal treatments. Embryologists have devised ways to culture embryos in the lab for longer. IVF clinics today offer multiple genetic tests for embryos.