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Earlier sources: Software
Software turns computational ideas into tools and services. This region follows open source projects, developer tools, programming languages, databases, operating systems, and web and cloud platforms.
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Open in the map ↗2055 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. Recent momentum: steady. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Inferring 1-Minimal Trigger Configurations for Assessing Linux Kernel CVE Triggerability ↗
Vendors assessing Linux kernel CVEs need to know whether a bug is triggerable under production-tailored configurations, not merely whether a version is affected, yet upstream reproducers and vulnerability databases rarely provide configuration-level context. We study minimal trigger-configuration inference: given a CVE entry and a target kernel version (optionally a baseline .config), we synthesize a Kconfig-satisfiable option set that remains effective after make olddefconfig and, when a reproducer is available, still triggers under a specified evaluation protocol; we then prune it to a 1-min…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
KaPilot: LLM-Assisted Generation of Kani Specifications for Unsafe Rust Verification ↗
Rust’s ownership and type system provide strong memory safety guarantees, but unsafe code still presents memory safety risks. Formal verification is crucial for ensuring memory safety, but writing precise specifications for unsafe Rust is challenging and largely manual. Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating formal specifications but are often code-centric, prone to inheriting implementation flaws, and lack systematic quality assessment. In this paper, we present KaPilot, a multi-agent framework for automatically generating specifications to verify unsafe Rust memory saf…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
SymWeb: Feedback-Driven Context Exploration and Context-Aware Symbolic Execution for Browser-Embedded WebAssembly Vulnerability Detection ↗
Browser-deployed WebAssembly (Wasm) modules often inherit memory-safety bugs from C and C++-style code, yet exploiting, and even reaching, these bugs in the Web threat model is fundamentally context-dependent. JavaScript (JS) controls the exported-call schedule and constructs the Wasm entry state, including arguments, globals, and linear-memory layouts, from attacker-influenced web inputs. This makes both Wasm-only analysis, which assumes static initial states, and prior browser-based testing such as Wemby ineffective. Wemby generates a fixed, Wasm-agnostic context pool and then only mutates W…
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
An Empirical Study and Benchmark of Kubernetes Misconfiguration Scanners ↗
Kubernetes is a widely adopted container orchestration framework, yet misconfigurations remain a leading cause of cloud security incidents and a major challenge for practitioners. Automated security scanners are commonly used to detect such misconfigurations, but their effectiveness has not been systematically evaluated. As a result, it remains unclear which tools can be trusted, what misconfigurations they reliably detect, and to what extent they improve Kubernetes security. This paper presents the first systematic investigation of ten prominent Kubernetes security scanners that are actively…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Agent-db-scan – See what a Postgres login can do ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
RexaDB: Modern Database Studio ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
EDG C++ Compiler is open source ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Readable Regular Expressions for JavaScript/TypeScript, Inspired by Emacs' Rx ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Growth.engineer – Vetted, open-source growth workflows for AI agents ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
reacthyderabad/hacktoberfest-hack-day-2026 ↗
Hacktoberfest Hack Day 2026
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