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Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die
The Register 08 Jul 2026
A “systematic vulnerability pattern” in at least six of the most widely used AI coding assistants can be abused to trick agents into accessing files outside the workspace sandbox, leading to remote code execution on the developer's machine.
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Zombie 'Who Owns Unix?' Lawsuit Comes Alive Again
Slashdot 06 Jul 2026
The long-running SCO/IBM Unix and Linux ownership dispute has resurfaced yet again, this time through SCO successor Xinuos, which is trying to pursue old license and copyright claims tied to Project Monterey.
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Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool
The Register 06 Jul 2026
For the first time, the source code of KSOS, backed by the US Department of Defense in the late 1970s and 1980s, is available to the public in the archives of The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) ... It had no kernel code in common with UNIX.
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'Steve Jobs In Exile' Remembers the Birth of the Web and 'Making Unix Taste Sweet'
Slashdot 07 Jun 2026
Ars Technica shares some anecdotes from Steve Jobs in Exile, a new book released last month. ... As Cain puts it, "NeXTSTEP was Steve's attempt to make Unix taste sweet...." ... As Cain writes ... But in this timeline, it worked out ... .
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