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Dropbox confirmed on September 1, 2026 that hackers compromised roughly 5,000 user accounts in an incident that ran through most of August, using a flaw in a little-known identity partnership with Lenovo rather than breaking into Dropbox’s own servers. The disclosure, first reported by Bloomberg and syndicated by Reuters, TradingView, and Security Magazine, lands at…
A single crafted GraphQL query is now enough to wipe a public GitLab repository off the internet, no password required. GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-19478 on August 17, 2026, rating it 9.4 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, and confirmed that unauthenticated attackers could delete or rewrite public projects hosted on self-managed GitLab Community Edition and…
Every React project eventually reaches for shadcn/ui. Every Vue project building the same kind of dashboard now reaches for its little sibling, shadcn-vue. Both promise the same pitch: no npm-installed component library locking you into someone else’s design decisions, just copy-pasted, fully-owned code sitting in your own repo. But the setup paths, the primitives underneath,…
From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations. The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task. The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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Every few months, the same question resurfaces on forums like r/Androidx86 and r/gachagaming: can you skip the emulator entirely and just install Android as your PC’s actual operating system? The answer is yes, and three projects have tried to make it work for over a decade. In September 2026, only one of them is still…
Contentful just changed owners. On June 1, 2026, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy the headless CMS pioneer, and the deal closed on September 1, 2026 — yesterday, as of this writing. Salesforce never confirmed the price tag, but The Information pegged it between $1 billion and $1.5 billion, a number multiple outlets have…
Sega’s Dreamcast lasted less than two years on store shelves, yet its library keeps growing in 2026 thanks to one open-source project: Flycast. The emulator, maintained by a developer known as flyinghead, just shipped version 2.7 on August 19, 2026, adding frame pacing improvements, five new localizations, and multiscreen support for arcade cabinets that originally…
