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Today's topics:

GitHub clones spreading ZIP trojans - A large-scale malware campaign used GitHub repo clones and SEO to push ZIP trojans via README links, evading simple URL scanning. Keywords: GitHub, malware, trojan ZIP, repo cloning, search indexing, GH Archive.

Fractal kernel reveals Apple speculation - MIT CSAIL’s Fractal kernel reduces OS noise to study microarchitectural behavior on Apple M1, surfacing new evidence of “Phantom” speculation and side-channel-relevant instruction fetch. Keywords: Apple Silicon, speculative execution, side channel, Spectre, IEEE S&P.

Java Valhalla value objects preview - Project Valhalla’s first major feature, JEP 401, is landing in mainline OpenJDK for a JDK 28 preview, introducing value objects that drop identity to unlock flatter, more efficient memory layouts. Keywords: Java, OpenJDK, Valhalla, value classes, GC pressure, cache locality.

Raku Foundation and EU compliance - The Raku community formed The Raku Foundation as a Dutch Stichting to improve governance, fundraising, and preparedness for the EU Cyber Resilience Act’s open-source steward expectations. Keywords: Raku, open source governance, Stichting, CRA, vulnerability reporting.

DuckDB speed from in-process design - A DuckDB internals write-up connects its real-world speed to design choices made before execution—especially in-process deployment, pragmatic optimization passes, and columnar storage that skips irrelevant data early. Keywords: DuckDB, analytics, vectorization pipeline, columnar, Parquet.

ClickHouse at ten years open - ClickHouse’s ten-year retrospective argues that ‘open source’ is a spectrum and credits transparent development and operational demands for turning a columnar analytics engine into widely used infrastructure. Keywords: ClickHouse, open source, columnar DB, community, transparency.

When to use .well-known URIs - Mark Nottingham offers guidance on defining and registering new “.well-known” paths, warning against misuse that creates brittle deployments and discovery headaches in real multi-host architectures. Keywords: .well-known, IANA, HTTP, discovery, interoperability.

Enterprise auth for MCP connectors - MCP’s Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension reached stability, shifting connector access decisions to an organization’s IdP so teams can avoid repeated per-user OAuth consent and improve auditability. Keywords: MCP, enterprise auth, IdP, SSO, governance, compliance.

How to train as AI researcher - An essay on becoming an AI researcher emphasizes a disciplined loop of building and reading, careful evaluation design, and paranoia about tooling-induced bugs over chasing trends or paper-count progress. Keywords: AI research, evaluation, fundamentals, reproducibility, instrumentation.

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