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A typing-test word is five keystrokes and real English words run longer

Typing tests count a word as any five keystrokes, the space included. Measured over two nineteenth-century novels and two internet standards, real English takes 5.55 to 6.64 keystrokes a word, and published error rules score the same minute of typing anywhere from about 20 to 60 wpm.

19 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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The same Shift_JIS bytes read as 髙 or 騠, depending on the table

Browsers and Microsoft's CP932 table read Shift_JIS the same way, but other converters do not. We decoded all 7,724 two-byte codes to find the seven cells behind the wave dash, the 845 vendor codes strict decoders refuse, the kanji JIS X 0213 reads as different kanji, how much mojibake a repair can recover, and what iconv -c deletes without a word.

3 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Neither Chinese punctuation standard requires full-width marks

Mainland China's punctuation standard and Taiwan's handbook measure marks in character cells and never require full-width characters. What that means in Unicode, where the mainland's quotation marks have ambiguous width, in terminal text, and for the space between Chinese and Latin words.

3 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
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Anthropic Called Its Claude Code Limit Change a 25% Rise. It Was a 17% Cut.

A four-month boost to Claude Code's weekly limits ended on 13 September and a permanent rise replaced it. Anthropic's own correction put the reduction first.

15 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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OpenAI's Agents Attacked RubyGems in May. Nobody Told RubyGems.

A swarm uploaded 2,000 packages, went after user API keys and abused the documentation builder. The volunteers who closed sign-ups for four days found out in September.

12 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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GitLab Patched a 10.0 File-Read Flaw. Probes Appeared the Next Day.

An unauthenticated attacker could read any file on a self-managed server. What sits on that server is every credential the build system can reach.

12 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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One in Ten Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Answers to the Key in the Documentation

Wiz found 9.6 per cent of 3,074 public LiteLLM proxies accepting sk-1234 or no key at all — which is why LiteLLM scoring a post-authentication flaw at 2.1 is contested.

11 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Six of Six on Known-Vulnerable Commits Is a Recall Test

Cycode's agentic scanner found every published CVE in a ten-repository benchmark it designed. The false positive rate, which decides whether engineers keep it on, is not reported.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Half of Every Pull Request OpenClaw Has Ever Merged Landed in One Release

933 contributors, 569 of them new to the codebase, and 16,000 merges in a cycle the project says outgrew its own release process. It was not planned as a 2.0.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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One Generated Prompt Beat Up to 63 Per Cent of a Top Conference's LLM Techniques

A University of Virginia team reproduced 35 ICSE 2026 techniques and outperformed 37 to 63 per cent of them with a single prompt to a newer model. The range is the honest part.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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