Kill Command Bug Terminates Every Process
A bug in the kill command misreads a multi-digit negative process-group ID, turning a routine cleanup into a machine-wide shutdown. The flaw has persisted through a decade of Ubuntu LTS releases. — alangrow.com
Hacker Times Reimagines Hacker News as a Newspaper
Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News, presents the day’s tech stories in a newspaper-style layout. — hackertimes.ca
Filters End TechCrunch Autoplay Videos
Custom browser filters prevent TechCrunch’s autoplaying video from loading and hide the empty box it leaves behind. — cornfieldlabs.github.io
Locus-2B Locates Described Objects or Reports Absence
Locus-2B converts a text description of an object into a bounding box and now reports when the image contains no such object. — huggingface.co
Pando Backend Scales Git for OpenAI
Pando, a new backend for Git repositories, now powers OpenAI’s monorepo and handles many concurrent pushes while preserving the familiar Git workflow. — openai.com