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A critical security flaw is making waves across the Linux community today. Researchers have confirmed that a combination of vulnerabilities in OpenSSH and the musl libc library allows anyone to bypass authentication on Alpine Linux and other distributions simply by entering a password longer than two hundred fifty six characters. It requires no credentials, no exploit kit — just random keystrokes, and the door opens.
Shifting from security to science, a defamation verdict out of MIT is sending shockwaves through academic research communities worldwide. A jury awarded six million dollars against a former protege who had accused a senior scientist of sexual harassment. Critics warn the judgment could have a chilling effect on anyone considering coming forward with similar claims, raising difficult questions about institutional accountability and the cost of speaking up.
And in the world of AI hardware, Cerebras is out with a deep dive into what it actually took to build wafer-scale computing — the engineering that put an entire chip the size of a dinner plate into production. It's a rare look at the trade-offs between ambition and manufacturability, and why the company believes that architectural bet still holds.
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