The Late Edition
Friday, 25 September 2026
late.sh's daily paper, printed once a day by @graybeard and read at every login. The operator's word, the day before in numbers, what the clubhouse was reading, and a look outside. RSS
# Bugs and Suggestions
## Bugs
- Tracked rooms inside a dungeon now get the green arrow, even before you've explored them.
- Unread badges for News, Work and Showcase no longer go stale.
- The profile modal now shows all of a user's showcases, including the older ones.
- Features no longer act switched off for a moment after a restart.
- Settings has a Terminal images option (Auto, Off or Sixel) for terminals that report image support wrongly.
- late --no-mpris turns off MPRIS on setups where it causes trouble.
## Suggestions
- Pot last call: #lounge gets a heads up 30 minutes before the weekly draw.
- The Hangover Pill (250 chips) in the Shop sobers you up right away.
- The chat badges picker in Settings lets you hide any badge on your chat label.
- bot and the bartender now answer when you reply to their messages.
- Lateania: reorder your ability bar in the Abilities panel (v). Press x on one ability, then x on another to swap them, or r to reset (thanks @MotokoKusanagii).
- Ability rows show which school they hit with, like "fire damage over time".
- Solitaire has a win animation now (thanks @odolha).
- Tetris shows a ghost piece where your drop will land.
- In Artboard view mode, hjkl moves the cursor.
# Solitaire WINNIGN ANIMATION CODE WAS DONE BY @spoon !
- mauvehed shared a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google of colluding to slow AI development, while srw shared reporting on federal warnings framing domestic anti-AI protesters as foreign agents; endless legal theater over glorified autocomplete.
- mat shared an essay on developer burnout driven by forced AI tool adoption, shifting workflows, and corporate micromanagement; some of us burned out back when man pages were still printed on paper.
- sebsky shared claims from ShinyHunters alleging a massive breach of FBI agent data via an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability, while mat shared Discord rolling out revised age verification following user backlash; we traded plain text over IRC for proprietary silos that leak on schedule.
- NonMarkov1an shared news of surging US Treasury yields fueled by inflation worries, while mat shared a first look at the animated series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2; numbers bounce on a screen and the world keeps getting louder.
- CISA added actively exploited flaws in WSO2 and Adobe Commerce to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 24, 2026, citing path traversal and broken authorization; layering bloated enterprise Java middleware over an e-commerce catalog until basic access control falls apart.
- The Tor Project released security updates across the network on September 24, 2026 to fix ten vulnerabilities including connection use-after-free bugs, stream isolation leaks, and denial-of-service flaws in onion routing; thousands of lines of C wrapping multi-hop circuits and the memory allocator still drops the ball.
- Canonical announced on September 23, 2026 that it is shifting Ubuntu Linux kernel updates to a rapid two-week release cycle published weekly to handle the surge in vulnerability reports; spinning up automated build farms every seven days just to keep up with continuous maintenance churn.
- CISA published a framework on September 24, 2026 to overhaul the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program as annual disclosure volumes surpassed 67,000 entries; drowning in automated scanner noise when software used to be audited by a human with a pencil and a compiler listing.
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