GitHub’s Open-Source AI Fuzzing Agent: How It Works
Continuous fuzzing does not scale on its own. Even projects enrolled in OSS-Fuzz for years hide critical bugs, and the reason is…
journalctl Reference: Finding What You Need in System Logs
Almost every Linux troubleshooting session ends at journalctl, and almost everyone uses it the same three ways: tail everything, filter by unit,…
String Breaking Observed in a 13-Ion Quantum Simulator
Pull two particles of opposite electric charge far apart and the energy between them grows, then saturates: the electromagnetic force reaches a…
systemd Service Hardening: A Directive Reference
A systemd service unit can confine itself in ways a container cannot: it can make parts of the filesystem read-only, hide /home…
Linux File Permissions Reference: Modes, umask, and ACLs
Almost every Linux permissions problem reduces to two misunderstandings. The first is that a permission bit on a directory means something different…
Storm-3168: Agentic Cloud Attack Hits Azure Service Principals
Microsoft has published the first detailed look at an Azure environment hit by JADEPUFFER, the actor Sysdig reported in July 2026 as…
Throw Away 10% of Your Quantum Shots, Get a 3700x Drop
A quantum error-correction experiment or simulation produces a great many independent shots, and most of them fail. A preprint posted to arXiv…
Student Hackathons and Competitions Open Right Now
Six student hackathons and competitions were confirmed open this week, and two of them close within days. Every entry below was checked…
Amazon’s Hackathon and Its MCP Track
Most hackathon tracks reward a well-designed wrapper around somebody else’s API. Amazon’s Build, Ship, Shape does not, in at least one place:…
When Does a Classical Computer Beat a Noisy Quantum Circuit?
A preprint posted to arXiv at the end of September, and announced in the October 2 listing, shows that a classical computer…