An LLM Read 72,000 Lines of 68000 Assembly and Ported a 1993 Amiga Game to Godot in an Evening
In 1993, a developer in Baghdad built a platform game on an Amiga 500 in pure MC68000 assembly. The machine had 512KB of RAM and no hard drive. Thirty-three years later, he fed the entire 72,758-line assembly codebase to Claude and had a working port of the game inside Godot in a single evening. The […]
Movie Scene Map: 15,565 filming locations, straight from Wikidata
Movie Scene Map plots 15,565 real filming locations across 166 countries on one interactive map: the studios, castles, streets, and landscapes where films and TV series were actually shot. Click a point and you get a photograph plus the productions shot there. It covers 9,287 films and series, 2,153 video games, 407 anime, and 365 […]
Reviving a 1 GHz Tektronix TDS7104 from the flea market
Tom Verbeure found a Tektronix TDS7104 at the Silicon Valley flea market. The seller wanted $700, then dropped to $300. For a 1 GHz, four-channel oscilloscope with 10 GS/s sampling, that is a good price if you can get it running, and the scope booted fine at first, then died at the BIOS screen with […]
GitHub Copilot modernization goes GA for estate-wide app upgrades
Microsoft has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot modernization, an agentic toolchain that assesses, upgrades, and migrates application portfolios to Azure. The announcement landed on the Azure Updates feed this week, and it closes out a preview cycle that started earlier this year for the parts teams actually touch: the IDE experience for language […]
Snowflake Deprecates Service Account Passwords as Teams Face Credential Mapping
Snowflake is systematically eliminating single-factor password authentication for legacy service accounts across its data platform. Under the enforcement timeline, automated service accounts designated with the legacy service user type will no longer be permitted to authenticate using static passwords. Instead, data engineering and platform teams must transition automated workloads to public-key cryptography, OAuth flows, or […]
Avada WordPress Theme Zero-Click RCE Chains Six Flaws into Remote Takeover
A zero-click remote code execution chain affecting the Avada WordPress theme and its companion Fusion Builder plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable hosts. Tracked collectively as CVE-2026-18431, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. Because Avada stands as one of the most widely sold commercial WordPress themes in history […]
seL4 Microkernel Completes Full Formal Security Proofs on AArch64 Architecture
Formal verification represents the gold standard in software security, replacing probabilistic testing with mathematical proofs that code behaves exactly according to its formal specification. Proofcraft, in collaboration with the seL4 Foundation and supported by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has announced the completion of formal security proofs for the seL4 microkernel on the […]
Azure SQL Database Provisioning in VS Code MSSQL Extension Reaches General Availability
Bridging Local Development and Cloud Databases Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Database provisioning directly within the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. This release streamlines how developers create, configure, and connect to managed cloud databases without leaving their code editor. The feature includes direct support for the Azure SQL Database free […]
Bridging Reverse Engineering and AI Agents: Deep Dive into the x64dbg MCP Server
Reverse engineering native binaries on Windows has traditionally been an intensely manual discipline, requiring reverse engineers to step through disassembly, inspect register states, analyze memory dumps, and reconstruct control flow graphs line by line. The release of the x64dbg-mcp-server project brings the Model Context Protocol (MCP) directly into the x64dbg debugger ecosystem. By exposing native […]
Protobuf Finally Has a Production-Grade LSP Server, and It Ships in the Buf CLI
Protocol Buffers just got the editor experience it always deserved. Buf has shipped a production-grade Language Server Protocol (LSP) server for Protobuf, built directly into the Buf CLI. That means go to definition, code completion, semantic syntax highlighting, and real-time diagnostics for .proto files, the kind of tooling that most languages have taken for granted […]
Batch Rule Updates for Azure Front Door Are Now Generally Available
Anyone who has managed Azure Front Door for any length of time has felt the pain of touching a rule set. Rule sets are where you define how traffic gets inspected, rewritten, and routed, and they sit right at the edge of your application where a bad change is immediately visible to real users. Historically, […]
Tailscale Traced Database Corruption to a 16-Year-Old SQLite Bug
SQLite is about as close to “boring, reliable” as a database gets. It sits inside phones, browsers, and countless desktop apps, and most developers never think about it twice. So when Tailscale, a company that runs a mesh VPN used by thousands, started seeing their SQLite databases get corrupted, the last thing anyone expected was […]