GENZ TECH

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RFC 10023 reserves _for-sale as a DNS node name, so one TXT record can tell brokers a domain is available without taking the site down. Around 250,000 are already live. https://t.co/jqHMO7MSL6

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A GitHub issue from an account with no write access ran code on the CI runners behind Anthropic's, Google's and OpenAI's coding agents. Gemini CLI's flaw scored CVSS 10.0. https://t.co/i4EeDDojdW

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Shopify moved checkout inventory reservations off Redis and into MySQL. One row per sellable unit, claimed with SKIP LOCKED. Black Friday peak: $5.1M in sales a minute, writer CPU under 50%. https://t.co/uU9vUEQmJh

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OpenAI buys NextSlide to aim ChatGPT at PowerPoint. The startup turned notes and documents into finished decks, and its whole team is now working on ChatGPT. Terms undisclosed. https://t.co/3E0b3ZJzf0

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Hadrian raised $1.37B at a $7.87B valuation to build automated factories for defense parts. Four rounds over a billion dollars closed this week and not one of them was software. https://t.co/RMklu5lUQk

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AMD is buying Taalas, which etches AI model weights directly into the silicon instead of streaming them from HBM. Big throughput and power wins, but each chip only ever runs the one model it was fabbed for. https://t.co/C5tnkU0W4b

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A use-after-free in Linux's SCTP code has been sitting there since December 2007. Three packets take an unprivileged user to root, and out of a container onto the host. Patch to 6.6.148, 6.12.101, 6.18.42 or 7.1.6. https://t.co/Ti2dttqgL8

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Nixpkgs core team disbands, citing steering committee friction

Both remaining members quit last night, leaving Nixpkgs governance with no direct owner.

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USA Today Co. hired Palantir to analyze its reader data. Average monthly unique visitors fell from 180 million to 158 million in one quarter, and digital ad revenue dropped 9.2%. https://t.co/12uSHYMGoA

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Cloudflare shipped a browser with no Chromium in it. Kitesurf renders in Rust inside a V8 isolate on Workers: 3.4x less CPU, up to 7x less memory than headless Chromium, but 1.75x slower per page. https://t.co/p43wR6cpwP

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SpaceX Commit $16.8B to Terafab Chip Plant in Texas https://t.co/a3kmRlq6dN

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HP, Asus and Acer have started shipping Chinese CXMT memory in laptops sold outside the US. Nobody announced it. The reason is not price: CXMT is not cheaper than Samsung. It is simply available. https://t.co/qJNik4uBMP

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There is a second computer under every server you run, and it never gets patched. HD Moore scanned 86,000 exposed BMCs at Black Hat: 54% critically flawed, 75,000 still vulnerable to a 2013 bug. https://t.co/dKJtSQMGft

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Meta's new coding agent has two prices for the same model. $1.25 per million input tokens, or $0.10 if you let Meta train on your code. It ties Grok 4.5 on SWE-bench. https://t.co/lNsCLbBrlC

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Cities ditch Flock cameras, then buy Axon's instead. Seven towns canceled Flock plate reader deals and signed Axon within weeks. What they killed was Flock's national lookup, not the plate scanning. https://t.co/adl4ZEgvHn

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OpenAI is roughly 70% of Microsoft's AI revenue. The FY26 filing disclosed $24.1 billion of revenue from OpenAI, about 7.3% of Microsoft's total. https://t.co/aH0ckZcyT0

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Tesla and SpaceX are putting $16.8B into Terafab, a chip plant in Grimes County, Texas running logic, memory, packaging and test under one roof. A May filing put the full build at up to $119B. https://t.co/KVte5Sn3oT

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A billion dollars of iPhone 18 Pro chips are stuck waiting on DRAM. Apple's WMCM packaging fuses the A20 Pro and its memory into one step, so finished wafers cannot ship. https://t.co/awINYQ2Ook

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Switch 2 sales fell 34% but Nintendo profit jumped 150%. Last year's June quarter was the launch window, so the drop was arithmetic. Software attach and a $300M tariff refund did the rest. https://t.co/fnZb8645vm