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Canada has quietly signed the UN Cybercrime Convention, and critics are raising serious alarms. Legal scholar Michael Geist calls it a surveillance treaty in disguise, warning that the agreement grants governments broad powers to compel data sharing across borders with few meaningful safeguards for civil liberties.
Shifting to the developer world, a nasty bug has surfaced in RipGrep's musl binary builds. Users running very large searches are hitting occasional segfaults, and the issue has drawn nearly one hundred thirty five comments on Hacker News as the open source community works to isolate whether the fault lies in RipGrep itself or deeper in the musl libc stack.
And Microsoft is promising to put Windows eleven on a diet. The company says optimizations targeting systems with eight gigabytes of RAM are underway, part of a broader push to improve the out-of-the-box experience announced back in March two thousand twenty six. Given ongoing memory price pressures, the timing is either thoughtful planning or fortunate coincidence.
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