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OpenBSD seven point nine dropped today, marking the latest release of the security-focused operating system that has quietly powered critical infrastructure for decades. The project continues its twice-yearly cadence, prioritizing correctness and minimal attack surface over features — a philosophy that feels increasingly relevant given the threat landscape.
Speaking of which, a new analysis from HPE Threat Labs paints a sobering picture of modern cybercrime. Researchers found that criminal operations throughout two thousand twenty five grew increasingly industrialized, with attackers leaning on automation and artificial intelligence to exploit old, familiar vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale and speed. The takeaway is that the threats are not always novel — they're just better organized.
On a very different note, the Computer History Museum surfaced something remarkable: the long-lost doctoral dissertation of Dennis Ritchie, the co-creator of Unix and the C programming language. The document, originally from the nineteen sixties, had been missing for decades. Finding it is a bit like discovering a first draft of the modern computing world — a reminder that the foundations we build on were laid by specific people, working through specific problems, one page at a time.
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