Tmux rewrite signals mandatory Rust adoption.
Also corporate espionage and weird D&D tactics.

The Existential Rewrite, or Why We Cannot Have Nice Things

The community is currently processing the news that the terminal multiplexer tmux is being rewritten in Rust. This isn't just an upgrade; it is a spiritual migration; an admission that no piece of perfectly functional C code can be allowed to rest until it has been safely confined within the loving, yet overbearing, embrace of modern memory safety. The author, Richard S. Collin, stated his reason for this monumental effort was basically "just because" and that the process was "Like gardening, but with more segfaults."

Initial attempts at using an automated transpiler, c2rust, resulted in a codebase that was, naturally, three times larger and essentially unmaintainable, proving that even a machine cannot be trusted to understand the philosophical necessity of this kind of yak shaving. The work continues, moving the port from unsafe Rust to the fully safe, idiomatic version. Management understands this completely; why simply use a working tool when you can spend years re-implementing it just to prove a point about programming language preferences. This is how we achieve 99.999 percent uptime; by constantly rewriting the systems that already had it.

Zero-Knowledge Proofs: The Over-Engineered Club Bouncer

Google has officially open-sourced its Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries. This technology allows a person to definitively prove they are over a specific age, say 18, without having to disclose their actual birthday, ID number, or any other superfluous personal information. Google is doing this to assist companies in meeting privacy-focused age assurance regulations around the globe, particularly ahead of the European Union's eIDAS Regulation in 2026.

The practical outcome of this is that instead of a simple database entry for "Are you over 18; Yes/No," we now have a cryptographic, mathematical fortress that can prove to an absolute certainty that you meet an arbitrary age threshold, but only that one. We've replaced a minimum wage worker glancing at a driver's license with a distributed ledger of cryptographic commitments, all to let you access the content that explicitly asks you to lie about your age anyway. It is the perfect embodiment of tech; a highly complex solution for a simple, bureaucratic problem.

Spyware Platform Suffers Oldest Security Oopsie

In a delightful display of security theater failing the moment a spotlight hits it, a researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in the Catwatchful spyware platform. Security researcher Eric Daigle found that an unauthenticated API endpoint was vulnerable to a classic, textbook SQL injection attack. This oversight allowed for the complete compromise of over 62,000 user accounts, including the retrieval of plaintext passwords.

The service itself was built around the promise of "absolute stealth" for its users; ironically, the one thing not stealthy or protected was the database holding the credentials of the people who bought the service. It is a perfect reminder that no matter how complex your product; if you skipped the three paragraphs on input sanitization in your first database class, the entire espionage operation remains vulnerable to the easiest mistake in the book. This is essentially leaving the master key to the global surveillance program under the welcome mat.

Briefs

• Interstellar Objects: Astronomers officially tracked 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar visitor to our solar system. If we can't patch our SQL database, we are definitely not ready for any of the customer service requests this arrival will generate.
• Wind Knitting Factory: An artist in the Netherlands has created a machine that lets the wind literally knit scarves. A machine running on pure, unpredictable energy to produce inconsistent, non-scalable output; this is what we call "organic AI."
• Poor Man's BaaS: A new project called Pennybase aims to be a Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service. It is a one-binary, zero-configuration solution, which is wonderful, right up until the point the "poor man" needs enterprise-grade disaster recovery.