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The Leap Second Is Being Retired. UTC Goes Continuous on May 20, 2027

The Leap Second Is Being Retired. UTC Goes Continuous on May 20, 2027

The world's timekeepers voted to stop adding leap seconds to UTC from May 20, 2027, letting clocks drift up to an hour from Earth's rotation. The goal is to avoid a first negative leap second, a risk for networks, GPS-timed systems and servers.

Supreme Court E-Notarization Goes Live Today: What Filipinos Need to Know

Supreme Court E-Notarization Goes Live Today: What Filipinos Need to Know

Electronic notarization goes live today, October 19. Accredited electronic notaries can now notarize documents for clients anywhere in the Philippines. Here is what the Supreme Court's rules cover, what is excluded, how identity checks work, and who offers it.

Attackers Are Exploiting a SiteGuard WAF Bug to Run Commands as Root or SYSTEM

Attackers Are Exploiting a SiteGuard WAF Bug to Run Commands as Root or SYSTEM

A command injection flaw in SiteGuard Server Edition's statistics feature, on by default, is being exploited to run commands as root or SYSTEM. EG Secure Solutions has fixes and a patch. Save diagnostic data before you update, or attack traces may be lost.

CXMT's DDR5 Is Fast and Scaling Fast, but a RAM Flood Is Not Here Yet

CXMT's DDR5 Is Fast and Scaling Fast, but a RAM Flood Is Not Here Yet

A viral clip says Chinese DDR5 is about to flood the market. CXMT's speed results are real but date from July, and its capacity is growing fast. TrendForce still sees DRAM contract prices rising 10 to 15% in Q4 2026, so cheaper RAM is not here yet.

The Volunteer-Built BetterGov.PH Is Becoming the Official Gov.PH Portal, and Its Code Will Be Open

The Volunteer-Built BetterGov.PH Is Becoming the Official Gov.PH Portal, and Its Code Will Be Open

DICT and the BetterGov.PH volunteer network will co-develop the official Gov.PH portal, with the codebase opening on GitHub for public contributions. eGov platform version 2 is due November 9. Here is what was announced and what developers can do now.

New DICT Secretary de Claro Takes Office, Vows Cheaper Internet and Faster ISP Licensing

New DICT Secretary de Claro Takes Office, Vows Cheaper Internet and Faster ISP Licensing

Robert Joseph de Claro formally took over the DICT from Henry Aguda on October 19 and used his first flag ceremony to promise lower internet prices, better telco service, and less red tape in licensing internet service providers.

Running 120B Models on a Mini PC: My Read of the Strix Halo Benchmarks

Running 120B Models on a Mini PC: My Read of the Strix Halo Benchmarks

AMD's Strix Halo mini PCs can load 120B-class models into 128GB of unified memory. Bandwidth caps the speed, but published tests show MoE models running fast enough for coding agents. My read of the numbers, ROCm status and setup.

Orca Wants to Be the Workbench for Your Fleet of Coding Agents. Here's What Developers Say

Orca Wants to Be the Workbench for Your Fleet of Coding Agents. Here's What Developers Say

Orca is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app from Stably AI that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents side by side, each in its own git worktree. Developers who use it like the workflow, but warn about token costs, review load and one security gap that is now fixed.

A 16-Year-Old Broadcom Wi-Fi Bug Lets Attackers Root ISP Gateways From Across the Street

A 16-Year-Old Broadcom Wi-Fi Bug Lets Attackers Root ISP Gateways From Across the Street

Researcher Quentin Kaiser has shown that a WPS bug in Broadcom's Wi-Fi code, present since at least 2010, gives attackers in radio range root on ISP gateways without the Wi-Fi password. Broadcom refused to assign a CVE, and the Belgian ISP boxes he tested are still unpatched.

Linux Drops Its AI Label, but the Human Still Signs Off

Linux Drops Its AI Label, but the Human Still Signs Off

The Linux kernel is dropping its Assisted-by tag for AI-assisted patches after only about 10% of commits used it. Greg Kroah-Hartman changed his mind, and I think he's right: what counts is the human who understands the patch and signs off.

Midnight Blizzard-Linked Server Was Still Serving Malware Weeks After Exposure, ReversingLabs Finds

Midnight Blizzard-Linked Server Was Still Serving Malware Weeks After Exposure, ReversingLabs Finds

ReversingLabs found a staging server in a campaign Microsoft ties to a Midnight Blizzard sub-cluster still serving a PowerShell stager on Oct 5, more than two months after disclosure. The campaign hijacks hotel Wi-Fi captive portals. Here is how to check your devices.

DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017 with open weights and opens its Search and Fetch APIs

DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017 with open weights and opens its Search and Fetch APIs

DeepSeek has released V4.1-Flash-1017, a minor update to its Flash model with open MIT weights, unchanged API prices and higher scores on its own coding and agent benchmarks. It also opened its in-house Search and Fetch APIs to all developers.