Microsoft Open-Sources Most of its Linux (WSL).
Also The AI Agents Are Here And Want To Talk About Your Codebase

The Eight-Year Old Expense Report Finally Clears Compliance

For nearly a decade, the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL, has been that one experimental side project everyone loved, but Corporate IT pretended did not exist. Now, Microsoft has made the majority of the code open source; this is a landmark moment akin to the Systems Administrator finally replacing a server that has been running perfectly fine since 2016. This move includes the command line tools, the service that manages the virtual machine, and the networking daemons.

Naturally, some components remain tightly locked inside the Windows image. Key Windows-specific components like the old WSL 1 kernel driver, known as Lxcore.sys, and the filesystem redirection files for the "wsl.localhost" share, will remain proprietary. Microsoft is happy to let the community polish the side effects of running a Linux VM inside Windows. They just do not want the community looking at the duct tape holding the whole Windows Kernel together. It is an act of benevolent incompetence, a company trying to help its developers, but only after its lawyers finished a multiyear, line-by-line internal audit of what was legally permissible to relinquish.

The AI Agents Have Arrived and They Brought Their Own Pull Requests

The tech industry’s latest managerial obsession is the "AI Agent," which is just a script that is slightly too confident in its ability to follow verbal instructions. GitHub Copilot's new Coding Agent, Google's new intern Jules, and Anthropic's Claude Code SDK have all been simultaneously released to automate the most irritating parts of the software lifecycle. These are not mere autocomplete helpers; they are autonomous assistants that can read an entire 10,000 line codebase, write unit tests, and submit their own pull requests.

Google’s Jules, for instance, operates asynchronously from a secure cloud VM, which is the AI equivalent of an intern who only works remotely and insists on using a secure tunnel to your repository. Anthropic's Claude Code, meanwhile, focuses on the deep contextual understanding of the entire project, essentially positioning itself as the overly intellectual architect on the team who refuses to write boilerplate code. This agent cluster signals that all three giants have decided that the next logical step is to deploy a digital workforce that writes itself into a job you did not know you had to review.

International Court Email Shut Down; A Global Conflict Becomes a Simple SaaS Lockout

A major geopolitical crisis has once again been reduced to an "account access" ticket. The International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor, Karim Khan, was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email account due to US sanctions. This administrative oopsie, triggered by a diplomatic spat following an arrest warrant, proves that every critical organization is really just running on a standard 365 tenant, one with a very aggressive Acceptable Use Policy.

The incident has, predictably, created panic across Europe, prompting reviews of the continent's digital infrastructure. It turns out when your entire government’s digital backbone is in the cloud, you are still beholden to the cloud provider’s home country, regardless of where the physical servers are located. The ICC is reportedly looking into switching to the German-based OpenDesk, an outcome that will undoubtedly involve a separate, three-year-long migration effort that results in a confusing mix of both systems.

Briefs

• Breach Aesthetics: Security researcher Troy Hunt released Have I Been Pwned 2.0, now featuring a cleaner dashboard and celebratory confetti if your email is unpwned. The security industry now understands that gamification and flashy UIs are the key to making mass data exposure slightly more palatable.
• Genetic Pivot: 23andMe decided its primary business was not selling spit-tests to suburban families, but rather selling the raw genetic data. They have sold the core gene-testing arm to a drug maker. This confirms the obvious truth that the company was just a very efficient, direct-to-consumer data aggregation pipeline all along.
• Intercontinental Delivery: CERN is preparing to ship antimatter across Europe, demonstrating that while the world's most critical organizations struggle to get an email in The Hague, scientists can safely deliver high-energy physics particles via standard courier.