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Google finds itself in an uncomfortable spotlight today after F-Droid published an advisory identifying a new Android malware strain traced back to the company. The disclosure raises serious questions about supply chain integrity and how malware can move through trusted ecosystems, even ones maintained by some of the largest players in the industry.
Shifting to a debate that will feel familiar to anyone who has ever stared at a project root directory full of config files, a developer has launched Meow, billed as the fourth and final JavaScript runtime. The pitch is straightforward and a little combative: the existing toolchain ecosystem, Node, TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, Vite, is fragmented and wasteful, spinning up separate processes where one unified tool could do the work. Whether the community agrees is another matter entirely.
And finally, Oracle is doing something unusual for a company that has bet hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure: it is telling regulators, plainly, that those bets might not pay off. In a recent filing, the company catalogued the ways its cloud and datacenter expansion could fail to generate returns, a rare moment of candor from a firm that has staked its future on AI demand holding strong.
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