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1. /01

   See How Anthropic Rebuilt Source Control

   Anthropic went from 2,500 to over 30,000 merged changes a day in 2026. It replaced git with Scion, an in-house version control system, in five months.

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2. /02

   Turn a Google Cookie Into a $90,000 RCE

   A Flask session cookie on developers[.]google[.]com carried its own signing secret. Pulling it out allowed forged sessions and code execution across Google's developer sites.

   Read : Turn a Google Cookie Into a $90,000 RCE
3. /03

   Patch Two New PHP Remote Bugs

   Calif found CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, fixed in PHP's October 2026 security release. The write-up traces the bug class back to a 2004 exploit.

   Read : Patch Two New PHP Remote Bugs
4. /04

   Talk to an AI Trained Only on Speech

   Block's Dessa is a full-duplex voice model trained from scratch on human conversation, with no text at all. It chooses what to say, when to say it, and how.

   Read : Talk to an AI Trained Only on Speech
5. /05

   Replace Cloud Subscriptions With a Personal Intranet

   Follow a self-hosted build with remote video editing from Linux, an IRL stream setup and more.

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