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A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada.…

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FBI Probes Sale of 153 Million License Scans

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana.…

SaRCAsm Compiles OpenSSL Assembly With Memory Safety

SaRCAsm is now powerful enough to compile OpenSSL's X86_64 assembly. It's a world first: memory-safe constant-time crypto. Here's my clanker's report: The final gate is fully green. The task is complete — everything is committed at HEAD 498c3a6 (branch deluge), working tree clean, and the entire flow validated end-to-end in a 1h27m full ./build_all_glibc.sh run.…

World Releases Mobile Zero-Knowledge Proving Toolkit

World Releases Mobile Zero-Knowledge Proving Toolkit

Today we’re excited to share ProveKit, a production-ready zero-knowledge proving toolkit that lets users generate proofs on their own devices. Today we’re excited to share ProveKit, a production-ready zero-knowledge proving toolkit that lets users generate proofs on their own devices.…

Make Ethereum precompiles cheaper onchain — precompile.fast

Yukon benchmarks cheaper Ethereum precompile replacements

Make Ethereum precompiles cheaper and follow every verified improvement across two live EIP-8200 gas frontiers. verified gas frontier MODEXP now runs natively onchain 98.71% 0.00% 98.71% cheaper. How the score works Verified reduction from the native baseline The headline compares the current promoted gas record with the bundled reference ( 860,100,123 gas ) : (baseline − current) / baseline × 100 .…

Viewstamped Replication (VSR) distributed consensus algorithm implemented in Rust. - penberg/vsr-rs

Rust Library Implements Viewstamped Replication Consensus Protocol

Viewstamped Replication (VSR) distributed consensus algorithm implemented in Rust. - penberg/vsr-rs Viewstamped Replication Viewstamped Replication (VSR) is a replication protocol that enables a group of servers to act as a single reliable service, remaining consistent even when some of them crash.…

Vitest 5.0 Ships Faster Test Runs and Trace View

Vitest 5.0 Ships Faster Test Runs and Trace View

Vitest 5.0 Release Announcement Vitest 5.0 is out! ​ September 3d, 2026 The next Vitest major is here ​ Today, we are thrilled to announce Vitest 5! Quick links: Docs Translations: 简体中文 Migration Guide GitHub Changelog If you've not used Vitest before, we suggest reading the Getting Started and Features guides first.…

Ethrex Launches Hegotá Testnet for Ethereum Privacy EIPs

Ethrex Launches Hegotá Testnet for Ethereum Privacy EIPs

Hegotá privacy testnet faucet A public test network running EIP-8141 frame transactions together with EIP-8250 keyed nonces, EIP-8272 recent roots and EIP-7805 inclusion lists, on ethrex . Test ETH has no value.…

Matklad Explains Static Allocation and Constant Work

In reply to this email: In reply to this email: Memory Safety’s Hardest Problem named something I’d hit but couldn’t articulate. Your case is a pointer into one union variant surviving a write of a different variant, so live typed pointers end up reading bytes that belong to something else now.…