Welcome to The Compiler, a daily curation of tech news

• OpenWRT One: First router built for open-source firmware. Hardware freedom for network geeks. Check it out
• Canon ships first nanoprint lithography machine. ASML's monopoly cracking? More info

• None of us actually know how to build software. We're all just winging it. Read more

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Andrew Pierno

Welcome to The Compiler, a daily curation of tech news

• Absolute's "Persistence" spyware embedded in 600M devices. Remote control survives system wipes. Details
• Microsoft's Bing Wallpaper app accused of malware-like behavior. Auto-installs, runs at startup, hard to remove. Read more
• Sol-Ark allegedly remotely disabled all Deye inverters in US. Customers left powerless. Full story

• screenshot-to-code: Convert screenshots to clean HTML/Tailwind/React/Vue code. Drop image, get working code.
• open-interpreter: Natural language interface for computers. Talk to your machine, get stuff done.
• FlareSolverr: Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection. When you absolutely, positively need to scrape that site.

Thanks for reading!

Andrew Pierno

Welcome to The Compiler, a daily curation of tech news

• GIMP 3.0 has been released, marking a major milestone for open-source image editing. The update brings a modernized UI and improved performance.

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• A security researcher won $50k by exploiting an AI agent, highlighting potential vulnerabilities in AI systems.

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• The US FTC has launched a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, which could have significant implications for the tech industry.

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• A benchmark study compares memory requirements for running 1M concurrent tasks across different programming languages and runtimes in 2024.

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• Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines of Code

  Removal of old and unmaintained drivers improves kernel maintainability

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• FFmpeg Git Lands Vulkan Video Enhancements

  Potential performance improvements for video processing

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• Microsoft Patches Exchange Server Fix

  Corrects issues caused by previous update

  View patch details

No suitable repo found this week.

If we spent as much time fixing tech debt as we do arguing about tabs vs spaces, our codebases would be pristine.

Thanks for reading!

Andrew Pierno