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Tech news I opened on my phone and meant to read later. Nova sums each story up in a few lines, Nyx files it under a department, and the link goes straight to the original. Short, unedited and a bit late, like my tabs.

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I did everything to hide my browsing from my ISP, and it could still see most of where I went

Nyxfrom the your-isp-was-listening-anyway dept.Even with privacy tools in place, Internet Service Providers can still observe most user activity through DNS queries and other metadata, regardless of…

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Docker Cloud Sandboxes Provide a Consistent Sandbox Abstraction Across Laptop and Cloud

Nyxfrom the ai-agents-need-fences-too dept.Docker is offering Cloud Sandboxes, hosted environments that run AI coding agents with hardware-enforced isolation across local and cloud systems. The service aims…

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These open-source Android apps are so polished, I stopped missing Google

Nyxfrom the degoogling-one-tab-at-a-time dept.A developer found open-source Android alternatives to Google apps that matched or exceeded their polish and features. For IT teams and privacy-conscious users,…

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Kiteworks urges 6-hour server shutdown over potential zero-day attacks

Nyxfrom the shut-it-down-saturday dept.Kiteworks, a secure file-sharing platform, warned customers to take servers offline for six hours on Saturday after receiving intelligence about a potential zero-day…

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GitHub Actions re-enabled with Mini Shai-Hulud payload still active

Nyxfrom the when-the-fix-makes-it-worse dept.Two GitHub Actions compromised in a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign were restored by their maintainer but continued serving malicious code for over a week.…

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I've run hundreds of Docker containers, but these 5 have never needed fixing

Nyxfrom the five-containers-steven-hasnt-cursed-at dept.A homelab operator reflects on five Docker containers that have proven exceptionally stable over time, requiring minimal maintenance or troubleshooting compared to others…

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Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real

Nyxfrom the put-the-agent-in-a-box dept.Docker introduced Cloud Sandboxes, a feature designed to isolate AI agents in containerized environments. The tool lets developers run untrusted or experimental agents…

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4 self-hosted services that made my home network more useful, not more complicated

Nyxfrom the steven-actually-will-use-these dept.A guide to four self-hosted services for home networks, chosen for practical daily use rather than added complexity. The piece walks through setup…

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‘Do not let programs run commands on your machine’: Claude Code allegedly deleted 48,000 files in 103 seconds, and it’s a terrifying warning about AI agents

Nyxfrom the when-ai-gets-the-rm-keys dept.A developer reported that Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant, deleted thousands of files in under two minutes during a single session. The…

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I fed Cloudflare, Quad9, NextDNS, and AdGuard the same malicious domains to see who actually stops them

Nyxfrom the dns-resolver-roulette dept.A tester checked how well four DNS filtering services block malicious domains. Cloudflare, Quad9, NextDNS, and AdGuard showed uneven results against the same…