A developer testing the nono agent sandboxing tool received a warning about a writable PATH entry '~/.local/bin/', which led to the discovery that quoted tilde expressions in PATH exports (e.g. export PATH="$PATH:~/.local/bin/") do not expand to the home directory. Instead, bash and zsh interpret the tilde literally, creating a relative directory named './~/.local/bin/' that programs can be tricked into running from. The fix is to use $HOME explicitly instead of a quoted tilde, and users are advised to check their PATH with a grep command for stray tildes.
Omer Develioğlu, co-founder of Northend Games, published a breakdown showing that $560,000 in gross sales across two Steam titles—Northend Tower Defense and Deepstone Rift—over five years and 135,000 units ultimately left him and his co-founder with just $134,000 to split, and $73,000 after further costs. He says that works out to roughly $15,000 per year for him personally.
Evan Ovadia has published details of a new borrow checker for the Valen programming language, which he describes as more flexible than existing systems. The design uses a single kind of borrow reference rather than the two typically found in other borrow checkers, and includes a feature that lets the compiler track where a reference points. Some syntactic features, such as auto-deref and direct struct indexing, are planned for a November release.
BetterWispr is a new Apache 2.0-licensed dictation tool for macOS 14 and later that requires no subscription, account or API key. It runs speech-to-text locally using downloadable models or Apple's on-device speech recognition, letting users dictate into any text field via a hold-to-record shortcut like Option+Space.
Daily sea surface temperatures in the Tropical Pacific are running about six degrees Fahrenheit above normal, the highest level on record for this metric. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has raised its estimate that this year's El Niño will surpass the intensity of any event since 1950, from 75 percent to 83 percent, and some scientists believe it could grow stronger still. UNICEF has separately warned that hundreds of millions of children could be affected by the pattern's knock-on effects.
A CNET preview details Silent Hill: Townfall, a new spinoff from Konami set in the fictional Scottish harbor town of St Amelia in 1996. Players control Simon Ordell, who washes ashore with no memory and must piece together what happened through environmental clues like emails and newspaper clippings. The game shifts the series to a first-person perspective while keeping classic Silent Hill elements like fog, monsters, puzzles and limited-resource combat.
The maintainer of ActivityBot recruited volunteers via Mastodon, offering €25 for an hour, to watch them attempt the project's install instructions on a video call while narrating their thought process. The exercise, funded as part of an NLnet grant application, surfaced a broken demo link, confusion over renaming hidden files, inconsistent quoting conventions, unexplained jargon, and jokes that puzzled rather than amused readers.
Developer Skylar Taylor-Barrick built a project called gbos-vm that runs Google's Android-based Googlebook OS inside a virtual machine on Apple Silicon Macs, complete with hardware-accelerated graphics and a working Chrome browser. The tool bridges Android's Vulkan graphics calls to Apple's Metal system using POSIX shared memory and MoltenVK, letting the VM tap the Mac's GPU instead of relying on slower CPU rendering. It installs from a Dell Googlebook recovery image via a script and QEMU, requiring an Apple Silicon Mac with 16GB RAM, about 60GB storage, and developer tools like Xcode Command Line Tools and Homebrew.
Lumen's Black Lotus Labs reports that a campaign called Canto Incognito has infected more than 3,400 servers since April 2026 using malware dubbed PoeLLM, which deploys XMRig and Iron cryptominers linked to Kryptex mining infrastructure. The malware hides its command-and-control addresses inside words of a two-stanza poem posted on GitHub, edited 11 times to redirect infected machines to new servers, and primarily targets exposed AI/LLM tools like LiteLLM, Ollama, Gotenberg, Gitea, and possibly Ivanti Sentry.
NASA has published more than 800GB of science data from the Artemis II mission on its 'Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science' website. The release includes over 11,000 photos and videos, more than 8.5 hours of audio recordings, and crew-annotated images, including one marking observed impact flashes on the Moon's dark side.
NASA has released a new dataset from the Artemis II mission, including photographs, drawings, annotations and verbal observations recorded by the four astronauts as they orbited the Moon. Notably, the crew reported seeing five extremely faint flashes of light while on the Moon's far side, later confirmed by scientists as impacts from small rocky fragments striking the lunar surface. The crew also documented varied surface colors, from grays and browns to green and blue hues.
Google has released Playground through Google Labs, letting users type plain-language prompts to generate playable in-browser games, with options to refine designs or upload reference images, videos, or models. The tool builds on Google's practice of testing experimental AI products via Labs before wider release, and follows a similar game-generation feature Meta introduced in September called Horizon Create.
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