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Techmeme surfaced this May 14, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original post is Calif’s First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5.

What happened

Security firm Calif says its engineers, working with Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, built a working macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 hardware in five days. The claim is notable because the target was not an old or lightly defended system. Calif says the exploit ran on bare-metal M5 hardware with kernel Memory Integrity Enforcement enabled, targeting macOS 26.4.1 from an unprivileged local user and ending with root access.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 China column listed in the contents as Chaguan: Tech transfer and published under the headline The world wants Chinese tech.

The article argues that the politics of technology transfer have flipped. For decades, Western governments and companies worried that China was forcing, coaxing or stealing foreign know-how. Now many of them face the opposite problem: China has become strong enough in electric vehicles, batteries, robotics and other advanced industries that outsiders want Chinese knowledge, factories and production methods to move abroad.

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Epstein abused me while under house arrest, survivor tells US lawmakers (r/news)

• Beautiful_Special702: Hard to read stories like this and not wonder how many failures happened behind the scenes…
• Tramadol_Lollies: Just want to say how strong these women are for testifying, even with the powerful in the world doing its best to look away.
• Klutzy-Ad-9700: It still blows my mind that the files exist, but we just haven’t seen them. Proof of all sorts of horrific things, just sitting there, but we aren’t allowed to look at it.

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched (r/news)

• avatinfernus: Wow.. the lack of empathy is…off the charts
• Anneisabitch: It’s not even the first time something like this has happened. Another baby was born in that same jail on the bathroom floor.
• run85: In jail because she was accused of substance abuse while pregnant. Then, this is how she is treated while pregnant and giving birth. Wow, Alabama cares so much about babies!

More than 1,000 passengers held on cruise in France after gastroenteritis outbreak (r/news)

• fc_dean: Those cruises are a literal bacteria / virus breeding ground, aren’t they.
• aka_linskey: Norovirus is the worst. That sounds awful.
• SlayerBVC: It’s honestly amazing that the Cruise Ship industry has survived as long as it has considering how the ships are the ideal conditions for these viruses and infections to spread.

Russian parliament passes bill allowing Putin to invade foreign countries (r/worldnews)

• Koekoes_se_makranka: Lmao ok, as if he wasn’t doing it already
• RSwordsman: Good to see that they were following the law until now by only doing approved special military operations.
• Thiht: That’ll fix Russian economy

What are the weirdest ways you’ve heard of someone getting caught cheating? (r/AskReddit)

• FriskiTeddy: The classic Google Street view
• elphaba00: Friend was cleaning his bedroom. Found a notebook he didn’t recognize and started to flip through the pages and read it. It was his wife’s journal of her threesomes – of which he was not invited to.
• DaddyDeluge: Worked with a guy who wrote letters with chocolate for two girls for Valentine’s Day. He mixed up which was which, and the girls got the wrong letters. It blew up in his face while he was at work.

TIL actor Taylor Lautner married a nurse named Taylor Dome. Before their wedding, Taylor Lautner stated that Taylor Dome planned to take his surname, resulting in both partners now being named Taylor Lautner. (r/todayilearned)

• UltimaGabe: Didn’t he also date Taylor Swift? Was his plan always to end up with a wife with the same name as him?
• Necessary_Nothing471: The Taylors Lautner
• oldfogey12345: They could have just both changed their last name to Taylor and cut out all the confusion.

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If you’re young and in CS, switch tracks (Blind)

• not fiona (Google): Back in my day, every young man was motivated to do a hard job. 68% of males ages 14-21 were working, but now that number has fallen to just 38%. Today’s young men waste away their physical prime and thus their peak earning years. They want to be a couch/computer potato. They spend ten hours a week chatting with AI instead of learning social skills. Some of them want a vacation so they apply for a visa abroad. It is because of the irresponsible parents who raise such lazy kids.
• Barney S (Airbnb): SWE will reduce significantly and FDE will increase significantly. Salary will still keep up but desirable skill sets will change. Bottom line: if you are autistic, anti-social but not IQ 150 you should pivot
• TzCEen (Klaviyo): As if every other career isn’t fucked. If you work at a desk, Claude is coming for you in the same way that it came for SWE. Eventually there will be some agentic workflow to do every other job and employers will cut as many employees as they can to milk their margins. Sure, you can become a nurse or plumber, but that would suck in its own ways.

Offers from OpenAI Anthropic and Nvidia. Which to choose? (Blind)

• yegv (Google): Vote for anthropic. OpenAI is toxic and full of meta mates
• frotoge (OpenAI): What a crazy coincidence to not only line up offers from all 3 at the same time, but to also be too much of a bozo to make your own decisions. Must be one in a billion!
• staffMLE? (LinkedIn): Fake, TC can’t be equivalent. Nvidia new offers don’t compare with OAI and Anthropic. Why don’t you go ahead and add xAI as well

‘It’s like we don’t exist’: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers (r/technology)

• ShiftyUsmc: Man, this whole data center thing seems like it might not be such a good idea
• Nice-Mixing: So people are going without power so the aristocracy can take all our jobs away, is that right…
• Random_Man-child: My favorite thing is how Republicans claimed our grid could not support electric cars, but data centers perfectly fine.

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (r/technology)

• NOT_EVEN_THAT_GUY: corporate is rotting my brain
• scraplocator: if only the business and tech bros in every industry could have that kind of self awareness.
• BezosLazyEye: Problem is, if you’re not using AI you’re outperformed by developers who are. So in the eyes of the managers you’re worth less, since they only care about delivering something that works not how it works. This is going to bite us in the ass so badly in the future.

Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year (r/technology)

• Harkonnen_Dog: Stop buying their products.
• GimmeNewAccount: So you’re saying now is not the time to quit my stable, but highly stressful, tech job?
• Alan4Bama: I was one of those today

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Longest Balanced Subarray II
• Topics: Array, Hash Table, Divide and Conquer, Segment Tree, Prefix Sum

Problem gist

The input is an integer array. A subarray is balanced when the number of distinct even values inside it equals the number of distinct odd values inside it. Repeated copies of the same number only count once, so [3, 2, 2, 5, 4] has two distinct odd values, 3 and 5, and two distinct even values, 2 and 4.

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What happened

OpenAI’s official engineering blog published Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows, a post about the operating-system engineering needed to make local coding agents useful on Windows without giving them unchecked access to a developer machine.

The problem is specific to agentic coding tools. Codex runs on a user’s laptop through the CLI, IDE extension, or desktop app, while the model itself runs in the cloud. The local harness can ask the operating system to run shell commands, read files, write files, run tests, invoke build tools, install dependencies, or create Git branches. By default, those commands inherit the real user’s permissions. That is powerful enough to be useful and dangerous enough to need an OS-enforced boundary.

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A crowded system comes into focus

Saturn used to look like a planet with a few dozen known moons and one spectacular ring system. The rings still dominate the view, but the moon count has changed dramatically. In this Scientific American Q&A, senior news reporter Meghan Bartels talks with astronomer Edward Ashton, whose work helped push Saturn’s official satellite tally to 274. Ashton and his collaborators have identified 192 of those moons, most of them small, faint objects only a few kilometers across.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 China article listed in the contents as Chinese satellites over the Middle East and published under the headline Offering alternatives.

The article argues that China’s rapidly improving commercial satellite industry is changing the politics of wartime intelligence. During the conflict involving Iran, Israel and America, Chinese satellite firms have released images of military sites, damaged infrastructure and deployed weapons at a moment when American providers have become more constrained. That has given China a way to help America’s adversaries indirectly while advertising a fast-maturing space industry.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this May 12, 2026 essay: Revisiting “No Silver Bullets” in the age of AI.

The old question returns

Gergely Orosz uses Frederick Brooks’s 1986 essay “No Silver Bullet” as a way to test the AI coding moment against a harder standard than demo output. Brooks argued that no single technology or management technique would create a tenfold improvement in software productivity, reliability, or simplicity, because the hardest parts of software are bound up with complexity, judgment, coordination, and changing requirements.

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US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April (r/news)

• NeofelisNight: Wait till we see May, i know they cook the numbers, but Im seeing it with my own eyes on the front lines
• Jonestown_Juice: Hold on to your butts. This roller coaster ride is just getting going.
• McCloudX: 3.8% might still be on the low end

Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years (r/news)

• runnerup1: Cheaper on day one boyssssss
• killerparties: She had a weird laugh though
• Oceanbreeze871: Food isn’t affordable thanks to Donald and his country fools

CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico (r/worldnews)

• maxsmart01: It ain’t much of a secret if I know about it so maybe let’s quit calling it a secret.
• Actaeon_II: Didn’t the cia spend decades working with the cartels?
• crashorbit: Somehow powerful people always think that this time violence will work.

What famous person chose to step away at the height of their fame? (r/AskReddit)

• Montag_311: Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who did Calvin and Hobbes.
• roygbiv-it: Barry Sanders. Feel so sorry for him he was on shit teams. What a talent.
• Similar_String9573: one of the most notable is J.D. Salinger. dude wrote a classic and just dipped from the public eye totally. wild choice but kinda legendary.

TIL about firefighter Donald Herbert. After lapsing into a coma following a firefighting accident he awoke a year later unable to recognize friends or family. He then lapsed into a minimally conscious state for over 9 years. Miraculously, he awoke again and his first question was about his wife. (r/todayilearned)

• Greene_Mr: SPOILER ALERT: He died just months after that. :-(
• Technical_Chair_3641: i wonder how much of his 9 years in a minimally conscious state he was actually aware on some level. there’s been some fMRI studies showing some PVS patients can follow commands mentally even when they show zero outward response
• PartsUnknown242: So what what exactly happened with his brain here?

Why don’t we get a discount for using self-checkout? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• Run-And_Gun: Because they got rid of the cashiers to increase their profits. Not to save their customers any money.
• comrade_zerox: You do, if you know how to use it ;)
• DIY-exerciseGuy: Do you get a discount for pumping your own gas?