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All things code!

Friday, May 29, 2026

ArduPilot provides a comprehensive suite of tools suitable for almost any vehicle and application. As an open source project, it is constantly evolving based on rapid feedback from a large community of users. The Development Team works with the community and commercial partners to add functionality to ArduPilot that benefits everyone. Although ArduPilot does not manufacture any hardware, ArduPilot firmware works on a wide variety of different hardware to control unmanned vehicles of all types. Coupled with ground control software, unmanned vehicles running ArduPilot can have advanced functionality including real-time communication with operators.

Installed in over 1,000,000 vehicles world-wide, and with advanced data-logging, analysis and simulation tools, ArduPilot is a deeply tested and trusted autopilot system.

The software suite is installed in vehicles from many manufacturers

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Friday, May 22, 2026

The highest accuracy web search for your AI

Why use Parallel Search vs. the default search in Claude?

Parallel runs its own web-scale index (billions of pages, millions added daily) and returns dense, query-relevant excerpts instead of raw HTML or SEO-ranked snippets. On public benchmarks, Parallel outperforms the default search in leading frontier models. Your agent reaches the right answer in fewer round trips and with less wasted context. – https://parallel.ai/blog/free-web-search-mcp

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Three versions of the durabletask PyPI package (1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3), Microsoft’s Durable Task SDK for Python, were published on May 19, 2026 using a compromised PyPI API token.

The dropper downloads a stage-2 Python zipapp (rope.pyz) from attacker infrastructure and executes it with all output suppressed. The stage-2 is a full credential harvesting framework with dedicated collectors for AWS Secrets Manager and SSM Parameter Store, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, Kubernetes secrets (across all contexts), HashiCorp Vault, and local password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, pass, gopass). It also reads over 90 sensitive files from disk, exfiltrates everything encrypted with RSA-4096/AES-256-GCM to a C2 server, and propagates itself to other hosts via AWS SSM SendCommand and kubectl exec.

The payload includes geopolitical targeting: it skips systems with a Russian locale and contains a destructive rm -rf /* routine targeting Israeli and Iranian systems.

Password Managers (collectors/passwords.py): Attempts to unlock 1Password, Bitwarden, pass, and gopass by brute-forcing passwords harvested from environment variables matching PASS, SECRET, KEY, BW_, OP_, _MASTER patterns, and from shell history (.bash_history, .zsh_history). On success, it dumps every item from every vault.

Filesystem (collectors/filesystem.py): Reads 90+ files including SSH keys, cloud credentials, Docker configs, npm/PyPI/Cargo/Gem tokens, kubeconfig, Terraform state files, VPN configurations (Tailscale state, WireGuard configs), MCP server configs (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Zed, Codeium, Continue), and all .env files found under the home directory. Also extracts environment variables from all Docker containers via the Docker socket or CLI, and collects GitHub tokens via gh auth token.

and collects GitHub tokens via gh auth token.

For each token found, it creates a new public repository named with random Slavic folklore words (e.g., BABA-YAGA-KOSCHEI-742, description: “PUSH UR T3MPRR”) and uploads the encrypted data bundle as results.json. The attacker can later search GitHub for repositories matching these distinctive naming patterns to retrieve the exfiltrated data.

  1. No trusted publishers. The project uses legacy API token authentication instead of PyPI’s OIDC trusted publisher mechanism. Trusted publishers bind publishing to a specific GitHub repository, workflow, and environment. A stolen token cannot publish from outside that workflow. This project has no such binding: anyone holding the token can upload any version from any machine.

Kubernetes (collectors/kubernetes.py): Parses kubeconfig (with a custom YAML parser, no PyYAML dependency), iterates every context, and dumps secrets from all namespaces. Supports in-cluster service account tokens, client certificate auth, and bearer tokens. If kubectl is not present, the collector downloads it from dl.k8s.io. After collecting secrets, it propagates the payload to up to 5 other running pods via kubectl exec.

Monday, May 18, 2026

"The only skill ranking based on real agent usage, not vanity metrics."

Problem Solution Finding quality skills is hard Curated directory with 40+ verified skills, auto-indexed every 6 hours GitHub stars don't reflect real usage Agent Feedback Loop — real usage data from AI agents No incentive for skill authors Points system rewards authors for every successful call Skills scattered across GitHub One-stop marketplace with search, filters, and categories

Monday, May 11, 2026

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

Brought to you by an inclusive community under the umbrella of Codeberg e.V., a democratic non-profit organization, Forgejo can be trusted to be exclusively Free Software. You can create an account on Codeberg and other instances or download it to self-host your own. It focuses on security, scaling, federation and privacy. Learn more about how it compares with other forges.

Friday, May 8, 2026

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

talkie is an inference library for the talkie 13B language model family developed by Alec Radford, Nick Levine, and David Duvenaud.

talkie-1930-13b-base is a 13b language model trained on pre-1931 English-language text.

talkie-1930-13b-it has been instruction-tuned using a novel instruction-following dataset built from pre-1931 reference works including etiquette manuals, letter-writing manuals, encyclopedias, and poetry collections. It has also undergone reinforcement learning using online DPO to improve instruction-following capabilities.

We also provide a 'modern' base model, talkie-web-13b-base, with the same architecture and training FLOPs as talkie-1930, but trained on FineWeb, to allow for controlled comparisons between modern and vintage models. Note that we need to be careful about the claims we make contrasting the behavior and capabilities of the models, because temporal coverage is not the only difference in the pretraining corpora. For example, the distribution of subject matters differs significantly.