Linux Kernel Purges strncpy After 6 Years
Linux 7.2 has officially removed the strncpy API after a six-year effort involving over 360 patches. The function was a persistent source of bugs due to counter-intuitive NUL termination behavior and redundant zero-filling.
Loupe Exposes iOS Device Fingerprinting
Loupe is an open-source iOS app that reveals the raw data iPhones quietly expose to apps. It categorizes signals into passive, permission-based, and advanced side-channels, illustrating how trackers identify users without needing names or emails.
Bayer’s Agentic AI for Drug Discovery
Bayer developed PRINCE, an agentic AI platform that integrates decades of pharmaceutical safety reports. The system uses specialized agents for research, reflection, and writing to transform unstructured PDF data into a reliable research assistant.
ClickHouse Benchmarks Managed Postgres
ClickHouse released PostgresBench, a reproducible benchmark showing that their NVMe-backed managed Postgres service significantly outperforms competitors like AWS Aurora and RDS in TPS and latency by eliminating network storage overhead.
io_uring vs epoll: The New Async Standard
A technical deep-dive explains why io_uring is replacing epoll for high-performance Linux I/O. By using shared ring buffers, io_uring allows batching operations and potentially achieving zero-syscall steady states.
Apertus: A Fully Open Sovereign AI Model
The Swiss AI Initiative has launched Apertus, a multilingual foundation model (8B and 70B parameters) designed for sovereign AI. It emphasizes reproducibility and compliance, removing PII and respecting opt-outs.
PDF-to-Scan Simulator Tool
make-look-scanned is a CLI and browser-based tool that degrades digital PDFs to look like physical printouts. It simulates scanner artifacts and JPEG compression to create image-only PDFs.