2026-09-13
Top stories
- Homebrew 7.0.0 moves Intel Macs to Tier 3 and replaces Bubblewrap with Landlock on Linux Homebrew 7.0.0 drops Intel macOS to Tier 3 with no new bottles and stops running on Intel on 2027-09-01.
- Clash Report says Anthropic's September threat report describes a Houthi-linked cell splitting weapons work across Claude Code sessions Clash Report says Anthropic's September threat report describes operators splitting weapons engineering across Claude Code sessions.
- Real-SWE reports every frontier model below 40 percent on tasks from private enterprise codebases Real-SWE scored every frontier model below 40 percent on software tasks drawn from private enterprise codebases.
- Rust 1.99 will stabilize the never type and make Infallible an alias for it Rust 1.99 will stabilize the never type and alias Infallible to it, with crater finding 3,300 affected crates.
- Apple M3 Neural Engine DMA erratum throttles weight streaming at integer multiples of 1 MiB An Apple M3 Neural Engine DMA erratum caps weight streaming whenever per-core weight size is an integer multiple of 1 MiB.
AI
ML research
- Paper reports Mixture-of-Experts models degrade faster than dense models on repeated training data A preprint reports Mixture-of-Experts models degrade at 4x data repetition where 80M dense models tolerate 8x.
- GPU-CFR compiles counterfactual regret minimization to static dataflow and CUDA graph replay GPU-CFR compiles counterfactual regret minimization into static dataflow replayed as a single CUDA graph launch.
Security
- An Android research paper names the code path and device scope behind the NAT-T keepalive VPN leak A research paper puts the Android NAT-T keepalive VPN leak on hardware covering 91.24 percent of Android shipments.
- Revolut confirms customer data disclosed to fraudulent requests from a government agency email domain Revolut answered information requests sent from a real government agency email domain and disclosed passports and IDs.
- Simon Tatham reports the Linux Zoom client reading everything written to the X11 clipboard Simon Tatham reports the Linux Zoom client reads every selection written to the X11 clipboard while it runs.
Outages
Developer tools
Linux and kernel
Engineering posts
- buildprof traces build process trees and finds two-thirds of Bun's Zig build in one linker invocation buildprof traced Bun's Zig build and found one ld.lld run under Full LTO taking over sixteen of its minutes.
- Reverse engineering the Intel 8087 microcode for the FSCALE instruction Reverse engineering the Intel 8087 FSCALE instruction finds over 140 micro-instructions and three subroutine levels.