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Internal WhatsApp logs from a Laos pig butchering compound show how forced laborers are controlled through fines and debt—while defrauding victims of millions. The leaks expose the operational reality of Southeast Asian scam operations that have become the most lucrative form of cybercrime globally.
ZDNET's list of essential free Windows apps hits familiar territory: Brave, VLC, ShareX, WPS Office, Todoist. The real question for enterprise teams isn't which apps, but how you deploy them - manual installs don't scale past your first machine.
A decade of HS2 railway excavations has produced 450,000 archaeological objects now stored in a Yorkshire warehouse. The finds span 10,000+ years of British history, but their future ownership and display plans remain undecided as the delayed rail project approaches 2033 completion.
Adventure Game Studio, the open-source point-and-click game engine launched in 1997, released patch 3.6.2-P6 in early 2026. The Windows IDE exports to Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android without subscriptions—a model that's kept thousands of indie games shipping for nearly three decades while commercial alternatives added paywalls.
The 1976 Apple-1 advertisement promised 8KB RAM and a video terminal for $666.66 - a radical departure from teletype-dependent systems. While collectors chase auction records, the real story is how eliminating switches and lights opened computing beyond hobbyists, a lesson worth revisiting as enterprise tech complexities spiral.
Gul Agha's MIT doctoral work formalized the Actor model for concurrent computation—a framework now underpinning Akka, Erlang/OTP, and modern microservices. Forty years on, CTOs are rediscovering its answers to deadlock, backpressure, and multi-core scalability challenges.
Open-source project NanoClaw wraps Claude AI in Apple's WWDC 2025 Containerization framework, delivering sub-second container starts with VM-level isolation. The MIT-licensed tool has gained 699 GitHub stars in five days, signaling developer interest in macOS-native sandboxing alternatives to traditional Docker workflows.
Former Meta product leader Yue Zhao's promotion framework challenges the 'overdeliver and wait' strategy common in enterprise tech. The three-part model—past performance, timing criticality, and relative business impact—reflects Big Tech's cross-functional advocacy dynamics where senior promotions depend on perception, not just output.
A developer discovered their iPhone 16 Pro Max generates nonsense when running MLX framework LLMs, while an iPhone 15 Pro and MacBook Pro execute identical code perfectly. Tensor outputs show numerical values an order of magnitude wrong, pointing to potential Neural Engine hardware defects in Apple's latest flagship.
Apple's official support documentation incorrectly identifies the DFU port on 16-inch MacBook Pro M4 models, causing macOS external disk updates to fail silently. The correct port is on the right side, not left as documented—a discovery that matters for IT teams managing fleet deployments.
An accounting firm still running Windows 98 in 2026 needed their data extracted from DOS-era RPG software—locked behind a hardware dongle from a company that vanished decades ago. The copy protection turned out to be simpler than expected, but the real story is how many enterprises remain trapped by vendor lock-in from the 1980s.
Chris Rebholz, who researches deepfakes professionally, still nearly hired one for a security researcher role. The incident highlights how recruitment has become an attack surface - even experts miss red flags when hiring speed trumps verification.