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OSS2026-09-14 · source-backed
XCancel posted a suspension notice today citing a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings, one week after resuming on September 7 when Nitter's developer unarchived the repo and secured counsel. Second outage in three weeks. Anything in your research or monitoring pipeline reading X through a Nitter instance should stop treating that path as infrastructure.
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A September 6 commit titled "Update README - Nitter lives" amends the notice about the letters X Corp. sent on August 24 demanding permanent takedown, adding "Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue" (GitHub). The commit also adds Ko-fi to FUNDING.yml. It reac...
Nitter's maintainer posted that letters arrived and all instances should be expected down for the foreseeable future pending legal advice. The relayed demands: permanently take down nitter.net and the GitHub repository, delete all X data, stop using the Twitter and X marks, de...
A post quoting Zachary Lipton ("CS academia broke the system... perhaps all that it takes for the system to rebuild is for it to burn to the ground") claims September 9 set an all-time daily high of 447 new cs.LG submissions against a baseline near 200. arXiv's September 2026...
7.0.0, September 13, ships a command that checks installed formulae against a new advisory database recording vulnerabilities by formula version. Intel Mac support moves to Tier 3 with no new bottles after September 2027, macOS Sonoma 14 also drops to Tier 3, macOS 10.15 and e...
A September 12 feature traces how AI-related litigation is accumulating faster than courts can absorb it, built around the Florida State University shooting suit against OpenAI. It's the first broad survey of docket load rather than individual cases, and it arrives the same we...
Qiuner/birdview was created September 12 at 06:59Z, MIT, JavaScript, pitched as "stop letting AI code blind" by mapping a codebase's architecture before every change. The 40:1 star-to-fork ratio on a day-old repo points at attention rather than adoption, and there's no seconda...
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