Tag: Programming
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PHP Team Announces Critical Security Release for 21 October 2026
The PHP security team has warned users about an upcoming release that fixes two critical vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale.
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ESP32-C5 Used as a 5 GHz Analog FM Video Receiver for Drones
A maker known as Twotoz has built a receiver for analog drone video around an ESP32-C5, putting the chip’s recently revealed software-defined radio abilities to work.
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Go Blocks Eight eMudhra Intermediate Certificates in crypto/x509 Security Fix
The Go team has changed crypto/x509 so that certificate chains containing a small set of distrusted intermediate certificates are rejected. It urges users to upgrade right away.
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Brute-Force Search Finds a Branch-Free Trick for an FPU Emulator
A developer building a floating-point library used exhaustive search to replace a slow conditional with a short formula that works for every input, including powers of two.
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C++26 Adds a Standard Header With Three Functions
C++26 introduces a header that standardizes how programs trigger breakpoints and detect an attached debugger, replacing the custom macros many projects maintain today.
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AI Slop Is Real. Even When It Works.
AI Slop Is Real. Even When It Works. We were told AI would make everything better. Just trust it, bro. You’re prompting it wrong, bro. And to some extent, it did make things better. Minus the things it made much worse. This is a story about one of those things. It’s about why “trust the…
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Go 1.27 Makes HTTP/1 Connection Reuse Automatic, Cutting Request Times
Starting with Go 1.27, the net/http package drains unread HTTP/1 response bodies on its own, so connections can be reused without manual workarounds. A test by the Go team shows a nearly fivefold speedup.
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Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon With 1M-Token Output Window
Google has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model aimed at software engineering, science, robotics and cyber defense. It is available now to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
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Why Bootstrapping a Compiler From Scratch Is Harder Than It Looks
Building the Go toolchain from source starting with its last C-based version works well in theory, but hidden dependencies on operating systems and outside tools can break the chain in practice.