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Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

Score: 256 | Comments: 107

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Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia

The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!

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PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

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Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Score: 238 | Comments: 42

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Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

Score: 61 | Comments: 43

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Discovery Loop

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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Score: 716 | Comments: 771

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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.

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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

Score: 259 | Comments: 53

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The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life

Score: 160 | Comments: 84

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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

Score: 588 | Comments: 282

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AGENTS.md Is Programming for Your AI Agent, Not Documentation for Humans

If you use a coding agent for any real length of time, you hit the same wall: the agent keeps making mistakes you already corrected. Wrong package manager. Banned patterns. Edits to files that shouldn

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How AI Is Changing SRE Workflows (Without Replacing SREs)

I get asked this question a lot: 'Is AI going to replace SREs?' Short answer: no. Long answer: AI is changing what SREs spend their time on, and the SREs who adapt will have a huge edge. Wha

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Building EUB: How I Organized My Projects into One STEM Ecosystem

I reorganized my projects into an ecosystem centered around exploration, understanding, and building. This ecosystem is called EUB (Explore, Understand and Build). It's my personal place to document w

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Your README Is for Humans. Your AGENTS.md Is for Coding Agents

A coding agent opens your repository and receives a task that sounds simple: Add validation to the account settings endpoint. The repository already has a validation library, a shared error format

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MCP Goes Stateless: Building AI Agent Servers with Spring AI 2.0

Last month, I was building an AI assistant for an e-commerce system. The idea was simple: let users ask natural-language questions about orders and products through a chat interface. I used the Model

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WorkBuddy Turns Kindle Into a Dashboard; CoLa Launches Skills Store

Two updates from the Chinese AI community this week — one hardware hack, one ecosystem play. ▸ Turn any jailbroken Kindle into an always-on dashboard (source: @aigc1024 — AI探索指南). A developer open-so

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Building a Production AI Agent in Spring Boot: Observability for Tool Calls and Latency (Part 4)

"The same question took forty seconds today. Last week it took ten." The tester from Parts 2 and 3 again. She asked the agent "can I return the blue jacket from my last order?" That question needs tw

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Building a Production AI Agent in Spring Boot: Streaming Responses with SSE (Part 3)

"Is it stuck?" The same tester who caught the memory bug in Part 2 found the next problem, and this one was harder to explain. She asked the e-commerce agent: "Can I return the blue jacket from my la

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Building a Production AI Agent in Spring Boot: Conversation Memory and Context (Part 2)

Two weeks after I shipped the e-commerce agent from Part 1, my first real tester asked it a question that broke the illusion: "What was in my cart again?" The agent had answered that exact question t

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