Ubuntu Still Exposed to Critical Kernel Flaw
Every supported Ubuntu release remains vulnerable to a critical Linux kernel TCP bug that lets remote attackers take full control of a server. Volunteer-run distributions shipped a fix first, but Ubuntu still has not. — chalmovsky.com
Lobsters Weekly Thread Collects Members' Plans
Lobsters members are sharing their week's plans in the site's open community thread, spanning bytecode register-allocation work, vintage calculator repairs, and running a local polling place. — lobste.rs
Tool Automates TikTok Comments with Session Cookie
An open-source tool automates TikTok comments from a session cookie by rotating comment templates and rate-limiting actions. TikTok's terms may prohibit the automation, and the project is for educational use only. — github.com
Agentic-RL Lab Reproduces Frontier LLM Algorithms
Datawhale's Agentic-RL Lab reproduces algorithms from 14 frontier AI reinforcement-learning papers in simplified, low-compute code. Chapters range from basic loss functions to tool-using agents, each with runnable code, data, and training logs. — github.com
PostHog Moves Warehouse Off DuckDB to Trino
PostHog rebuilt its warehouse on DuckDB, then moved off after the companion storage format could not keep up with customer workloads. The replacement runs on PostHog's own flavor of Trino, tested first on PostHog's own data. — posthog.com