Jellyfin's project leader, a nearly-eight-year core team member, and a co-founder all departed within days in July 2026, citing burnout and a dispute over AI-assisted development tools.
A breach at gig-work platform Paidwork exposed names, bank details, and bcrypt-hashed passwords for over 23 million users, per Have I Been Pwned.
A 16-year-old use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor, dubbed Januscape and rated CVSS 8.8, lets malicious VMs escape to the host on both Intel and AMD systems; OVHcloud patched roughly a million VMs across its fleet in an 11-day campaign.
GitHub is halving public bug bounty payouts starting July 27, reserving its largest rewards for a new invite-only VIP tier as it fights a flood of low-quality, AI-generated reports.
Microsoft brought Xbox Backward Compatibility to PC on July 22, letting Windows 11 and handheld owners play four original Xbox games for the first time.
Unity announced Unity 7 at Unite Seoul, promising a zero-rebuild upgrade from Unity 6, faster shader builds, and an optional approach to AI tooling.
A Nature Chemical Biology study of Pyrenees toads finds fungus-outbreak survivors mature skin defenses earlier, as tadpoles, ahead of the disease's attack on adult skin.
Neutron-scattering measurements at ILL Grenoble found signs that at least nine particles are quantum-entangled at once inside a centimeter-sized strange-metal crystal, the deepest entanglement reported in any quantum material.
Quantinuum, Caltech, UChicago, and Harvard used 54 qubits on the H2 processor to build a universal gate set from non-Abelian anyons, aiming to sidestep costly magic state distillation.
The Air Force and Anduril confirmed the YFQ-44A fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM at a simulated target, the first missile launch from a US Collaborative Combat Aircraft drone.
Levent Alpöge posted a Fable 5-assisted counterexample to the 1939 Jacobian conjecture on X, verifiable by hand in a day.
The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for Digital Services Act failures tied to counterfeit and unsafe products, the largest DSA penalty issued so far.