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#151 Google's sweep emptied uBlock Origin and reached Brave, and uv hid its cache dedup
Google pulled the last Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store, and Brave disables every MV2 add-on it does not host itself. uv hid its dedup.
#150 Omarchy left every process a root path for 14 months, and Claude Code closed the opt-in ask
Omarchy put its default user in the docker group for 14 months, so any process could read the root password hash without sudo. Claude Code still stamps commits.
#149 Debian's LLM bans both failed, and Tencent shrank Hy4 from 1.56TB to 229GB
Debian's ballot carried eight AI proposals and not one was pro-LLM. The outright ban finished at 0.560 against the 3.0 it needed. Tencent shrank Hy4 to 229GB.
#148 Cursor's OpenAI access ends November 12, and GLM-5.3's weights land with a $10B clause
OpenAI is winding down the contract that puts its models inside Cursor, with a proposed shutoff of November 12. GLM-5.3's open weights landed the same week.
#147 Claude's tell is one word in 461,121 PRs, and Cloudflare cut 533 bytes per DNS entry
Louis Abraham clustered 461,121 GitHub pull requests. A cluster that did not exist in 2025 now covers 40% of human-attributed PRs. Its top word: load-bearing.
#146 AWS bought DuckDB's company but not DuckDB, and Hugging Face's reported price is $13B
AWS is buying DuckLabs, but a Dutch nonprofit still owns DuckDB under MIT. Nvidia's reported Hugging Face price hit $13B. Mechanical Turk closes September 30.