Dev creates UEFI games compendium you have to beat in order to boot your computer — 10-month project will shut down your PC if you lose

Would you like to face a gaming challenge every time you start up your computer? If you answered in the affirmative, then Alejandro Armas, AKA mycroftsnm on GitHub, has a treat for you. The Linux enthusiast has created a quintet of UEFI games with the premise of “Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown.” Head on […]

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China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananVirtualization / Vulnerability Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and stopped it before […]

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What Business Owners Thought AI Would Be, Why It Didn’t Work, And Why the Canonical Intelligence Layer (CIL) Changes Everything

For most business leaders, the AI story began with a simple expectation: “I want to ask my company a question and get a correct answer in seconds.” Not a document.Not a dashboard.Not a spreadsheet. An answer. What followed instead was one of the biggest expectation gaps in modern enterprise technology. Phase One: The AI Dream […]

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AI is a crystal ball into your codebase

Macroscope helps you understand your code through AI-powered code review, automated PR descriptions, and real-time status reports Connect with Kayvon on Twitter and LinkedIn. This week’s shoutout goes to user Jesper Grann Laursen for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Exclude Table during pg_restore. TRANSCRIPT Ryan Donovan: Tired of database limitations and architectures […]

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Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time 9th January 2026 New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoint & restore” but I see it as hitting two […]

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