Meta’s CRAM Proposal Lets Linux Read Compressed Memory Without Swapping It Back
CRAM could let Linux read compressed memory without a swap fault. How writes, changing compression ratios and DRAM headroom affect the design.
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Whose GitLab Permissions Does Your AI Assistant Use?
A shared read-only token does not preserve each reader’s GitLab permissions. How fallback credentials, user tokens, and HTTP sessions affect access.
Kodus Caught Two Authorization Bugs in a Report Handoff
Kodus flagged firewall conversion differences and two report-token authorization flaws. Sanitized code shows the missing permission check and environment mismatch.
ISC DHCP’s OMAPI Bug Can Exhaust Server Memory
Check access to the management port. Moving to Kea can be straightforward: my Salt-managed deployment kept its IP assignments and switched over in an evening.
GitHub Changes When Quiet Repositories Get Weekly Security Scans
An initial scan still runs. Weekly scanning now waits for development-triggered analysis, which changes what a bulk security rollout delivers.
Home Assistant 2026.10 Makes Multi-Trigger Automations Easier to Edit
The editor manages trigger IDs for you. Combining automations still needs care with branch conditions, run modes, and waits that disappear on restart.
Home Assistant Proposes Bringing HACS Into Core
What the HACS Marketplace proposal means for existing installs, custom repositories and scripts. Updated with the Core merge status.
Snapdragon X2 Linux Has Booted. Now the Driver Work Starts.
Qualcomm has Debian running on Snapdragon X2 with early GPU and NPU support. The upstream driver work matters more than the desktop demo.
A Samsung Update Stopped Some Refrigerators From Refrigerating
Some Samsung refrigerators stopped cooling after a software update. The failure says more about appliance architecture than it does about smart features.
The Hard Part of an AI Software Factory Is Teaching It How Your Systems Work
Across hundreds of repositories, useful coding agents depend on architecture, controlled execution, and engineers who understand the systems around the code.