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An investigation by open-source researcher Ahmad Baydoun highlights Israel's use of white phosphorus munitions during the recent conflict with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon between October 2023 and November 2024. Although not explicitly prohibited by international law, the use of white phosphorus is regulated as an incendiary weapon, and its use in densely populated areas is banned.

Ahmad Baydoun is an open source intelligence (OSINT) researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The study he led mapped 248 Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon by geolocating photos and videos and gathering accounts from residents.

Baydoun told our team: "According to my research, 91 percent of white phosphorus strikes took place before Israeli forces entered southern Lebanon in October 2024, which contradicts the official Israeli version. Furthermore, 39 percent of all phosphorus strikes we documented took place over civilian areas, 16 percent over agricultural land, and only 44 percent in uninhabited areas or areas far from residents.”

Major US technology companies have tapped into the European far-right to help pressure the European Commission into stripping back regulations for its sector, according to a new report released on Wednesday.

The European Commission's deregulatory push in the Digital Omnibus – which delayed the AI Act and weakened GDPR protections – was also revealed to closely align with Big Tech’s lobbying demands, while seriously damaging EU citizens' digital rights.

Big Tech companies such as Google, Microsoft and Meta increased their meetings with far-right groups in the European Parliament ahead of the Commission's push last year, revealed a new analysis by non-profit organisations Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and LobbyControl.

Wireshark 4.6.3 has been released today as the third point release to the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular network protocol analyzer, with support for new and updated capture file and protocol support.

Coming after Wireshark 4.6.2, the Wireshark 4.6.3 release updates support for the DCT2000, DHCP, H.248, H.265, HomePlug AV, HTTP3, IDN, IEEE 802.11, LTE RRC, NAS-5GS, PKCS12, QUIC, RTPS, SOME/IP-SD, SSH, and Thrift protocols, as well as capture file support for 3GPP TS 32.423 Trace, BLF, NetScreen, and Viavi Observer.

Wireshark 4.6.3 also fixes crashes with the BLF file parser, IEEE 802.11 dissector, and SOME/IP-SD dissector, an infinite loop issue with the HTTP3 dissector, a bug preventing RTP Player streams from being stopped, ABI/API compatibility issues, and a bug in decoding 5G NAS messages.

Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor, maintainers of the Python cryptography module, have put out some strongly worded criticism of OpenSSL. It comes from a talk they gave at the OpenSSL conference in October 2025 (YouTube video). The post goes into a lot of detail about the problems with the OpenSSL code base and testing, which has led the cryptography team to reconsider using the library. "The mistakes we see in OpenSSL's development have become so significant that we believe substantial changes are required — either to OpenSSL, or to our reliance on it." They go further in the conclusion:

First, we will no longer require OpenSSL implementations for new functionality. Where we deem it desirable, we will add new APIs that are only on LibreSSL/BoringSSL/AWS-LC. Concretely, we expect to add ML-KEM and ML-DSA APIs that are only available with LibreSSL/BoringSSL/AWS-LC, and not with OpenSSL.

Second, we currently statically link a copy of OpenSSL in our wheels (binary artifacts). We are beginning the process of looking into what would be required to change our wheels to link against one of the OpenSSL forks.

If we are able to successfully switch to one of OpenSSL's forks for our binary wheels, we will begin considering the circumstances under which we would drop support for OpenSSL entirely.

There are two kinds of people today; those who see AI as a threat to craftsmanship, and those who see it as a tool to get work done faster. The debate is loud, ideological, often emotional, and certainly inconclusive.

The coding world is seeing a paradigm shift as AI is steadily slipping into the development workflow, not by force, but by usefulness. It writes boilerplate, spots bugs, suggests patterns, and frees human minds for harder problems.

And this is not only for Gen Z, even the aging developers have started embracing it. The latest example being Linus Torvalds, who worked on a fun side project during the holidays and took help of AI for the Python-based visualizer.

More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12, GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems and elsewhere.

GRUB 2.14 adds support for the EROFS read-only file-system, LVM support enhancements, NX support for EFI platforms, shim loader protocol support, Argon2 KDF support, supporting dates beyond Year 2038, Zstdio decompression support, EFI improvements, and more. GRUB 2.14 is yet another heavy release in incorporating more than two years worth of improvements.