Backups must be restored and verified—I measured the conditions under which SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL fail to restore and created a verification script

When judging whether a backup can be restored based solely on exit codes and integrity checks, I found conditions in SQLite, ...
Nature

History’s long-secret codes are being cracked by amateurs using AI

Leffen is one of many non-experts who are now using large language models (LLMs) to break historical codes. Their efforts ...
Scientific American

Is the AI mathocalypse coming for encryption next?

OpenAI’s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community—and cryptographers are split over whether ...
shattered.io

How to Verify a Provably Fair Dice Roll Yourself: Seeds, Nonces and HMAC-SHA256 Step by Step

Verify provably fair dice yourself: check the server seed hash, compute HMAC-SHA256, convert the digest to a roll, with a ...
Rotten Tomatoes

25 Most Popular TV Shows Right Now: What to Watch on Streaming

Want to know which popular and new TV shows this week are keeping viewers glued to the screen and Rotten Tomatoes users engaged on the site? Here are the current top 25 series! Click on each show for ...
shattered.io

Protect $550B in Bitcoin From Quantum Risk: 12 Steps [2026]

A practical audit for which Bitcoin addresses expose your public key to a future quantum attack, then how to migrate in 12 ...

Even though I 'published' in n8n, the old version keeps running—What happens in Postgres when node IDs exceed 36 characters (Measured 2.42.7 on Docker)

In n8n, there are times when you modify and republish a workflow, but the webhook continues to return the response of the old ...
linuxiac

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 41, 2026 (October 5 – 11)

Python 3.15, COSMIC Desktop 1.10, OpenSSH 10.6, Tmux 3.8, NVIDIA 615.78.08, Flathub reverses AI-generated app ban, and more.