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Genie cache bug leaked garage doors to random Home Assistant users

A Genie cache bug sent strangers' Aladdin Connect garage doors into Home Assistant for 18 hours. How the five-minute leak worked and what to do now.

Wireframe globes of Earth, the Moon, and Mars rising from a laptop screen, each measured by brass calipers against a starfield

GeoLibre maps Earth, the Moon, and Mars in a browser

GeoLibre is an open source GIS in the browser that also runs on desktop, Android, and in Jupyter. It keeps your data local and maps the Moon and Mars.

Workbench where a terminal cabinet feeds a session tape into a browser window pane, with a track switch splitting the tape and an open lock in front

Pi Web drops your terminal coding agent in a browser

Pi Web is a web UI for pi coding agent work: it reads local session files, forks any message, and switches worktrees. Its password is off by default.

Six phones on a table linked by glowing radio arcs, one chained to a lit oil lamp keeping the network alive

Does bitchat work as well on Android as on iPhone?

bitchat for Android carries the same Bluetooth mesh as the iPhone app, plus Wi-Fi Aware and built-in Tor, at the cost of a permanent notification.

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The Tokio team is building Rails for Rust with Topcoat

Topcoat is a Rust full stack web framework from the Tokio team, with routing, templates, and reactivity built in. Authentication is not there yet.

Sub2API shares your Claude plan and warns you not to

Sub2API is an AI subscription API gateway that turns Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini plans into shared keys. Its own README opens with a terms warning.