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Nvidia is facing a serious moment of reckoning tonight. CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy. The company's board has released a statement, but questions about national security implications and Nvidia's sensitive chip technology are only beginning to surface.
Closer to the developer community, a project gaining early attention on Hacker News proposes something called SafeScript, billed as a safer version of JavaScript designed for executing untrusted code. It's brand new, with minimal traction so far, but the underlying problem it targets — sandboxing untrusted scripts — is a real and persistent headache for engineers building anything that runs third-party code.
And for Android users, Samsung quietly removed the all apps button from its One UI home screen in a recent update, leaving some longtime users quietly annoyed. The good news is it hasn't gone far — a single toggle in the home screen settings brings it right back, which is exactly the kind of small friction that reminds us how much interface decisions shape daily life.
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