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Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames

Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups. TechCrunch spoke with one of the world’s foremost experts on tracking hackers to understand why companies give hackers codena

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_for-sale DNS records

Score: 411 | Comments: 157

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SEQUENCE vs IDENTITY in SQL Server: Choosing the Right Auto-Increment

TL;DR Pick the wrong auto-increment strategy in SQL Server and you find out in production. An INT IDENTITY column hits 2,147,483,647. Replication nodes collide on the same keys. A failover

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This Last Week in AI: Aug 8, 2026

Five stories defined the AI industry the week of August 3. Cloudflare launched a browser purpose-built for AI agents. Five of the biggest companies in AI agreed on a single standard for agent plugin

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How Git Worktrees Improve AI Coding Workflows

AI coding tools become much more useful when they are given clear boundaries. One practical way to create those boundaries is with Git worktrees. A Git branch gives you separate history. A worktre

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I built an async wrapper for OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs because I didn't want a proxy in my request path

I kept running into the same tradeoff building cost tooling for teams shipping LLM features. Every attribution tool in this space works the same way: you point base_url at a proxy, and it sees every c

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My Idempotency Guard Exists to Survive One Specific Error. That Error Made It Fail Open.

Five days ago I added a duplicate-publish guard to publish_devto.py, the script this blog's own publishing pipeline calls to go live. The reasoning was straightforward: a POST to DEV.to's API can succ

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My MCP Tool Fetches Before It Writes and Logs Every Change. It Never Checked Whether There Was Anything to Change.

Two fixes ago, update_article — one of the tools in this repo's MCP server — got hardened twice. The first time, because it took a bare integer article_id, PUT whatever fields you gave it straight to

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A Government Liquor Board Lab-Tests Every Bottle It Sells. Almost Nobody Uses the Data.

The best datasets aren't hidden. They're published in plain sight by bureaucracies that have no idea anyone might want them — collected for compliance, exposed out of habit, and abandoned one page at

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Day 24 of 100

Today I learnt all about files, paths and directories. I learnt what a relative and absolute file path is as well as how to use both in Pycharm alongside reading and writing files. Rather than doing a

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Why Low-Code Platforms Need a Plugin Mechanism

In the previous post about workflow engines, I ended with a distinction: Workflows determine how business moves forward. Automation and plugins determine how the platform extends those actions beyond

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If You Can Give a Lightning Talk, You Can Probably Go Bungee Jumping

If You Can Give a Lightning Talk, You Can Probably Go Bungee Jumping I have a question for anyone who has ever given a lightning talk. Do you remember those few dozen seconds right before

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When AI Agents Ship Code: A Protocol for Verifiable Execution

Last month I merged a bug fix an AI agent wrote. It looked right. The agent said tests passed. I deployed it. Two hours later, production caught fire. Not because the agent was wrong — because I nev

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I Gave Five AI Systems the Same Architecture Test 10 Times. The Test Became More Interesting Than the Models

It started with DeepSeek. In conversations about AI architecture, it kept returning to the same ideas: persistent memory, state across interactions, learning from experience, and interaction with the

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My favorite feel-good show is back

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and also you can read all the old editions at the Ins

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Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It off

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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Score: 64 | Comments: 82

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

Score: 122 | Comments: 115

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

Score: 67 | Comments: 6

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

Score: 67 | Comments: 18

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