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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

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Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps

Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known t

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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stack

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Tim Cook is stepping down. What happens to Apple now?

Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus.   Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also steppi

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Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool

Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.

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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on

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Project-Lwanga:De 5 MB a 8 KB: el lenguaje ugandés que te hará odiar tus dependencias (y amar el shellcode)

Imagina que estás en un atolladero. Llevas horas peleándote con un binario de 5 MB que intenta hacer un humble port scan. Y tú, en tu infinita desesperación, te preguntas “por cojones, ¿por qué esto t

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Zero-Trust Logging: Secure Vector.dev Pipelines on GCP with Workload Identity

(Introduction) Modern observability pipelines require more than just moving data from point A to point B; they require enterprise-grade security. When running Vector.dev on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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Deploy Your App and Add an AI Agent to Ship Tickets, With Your Own API Key

You have a Node.js or Python project on GitHub. It runs locally. You want it live, and you want an AI agent that can pick up a ticket, write the code, and open a PR for you to review. This guide walk

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Building QuickArchViz: turning 3D models into renders

A few months ago, I started building QuickArchViz — a tool that turns 3D model screenshots into architectural visualizations in seconds. The idea came from a very simple frustration I had in the past

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Agent Fever Meets Reality: Security Gaps Nobody's Talking About

The Agent Deployment Paradox AI agents are moving fast. Enterprises are deploying them into production workflows with genuine business impact—automating customer support, processing invoice

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Origin Part 5: We Threw Out the Decoder

Monolithic 637K-parameter GRU out. Five tiny specialist heads in. Counting tripled. Physics doubled. No more cliffs. If you've read Parts 1 through 4, you already know the pattern: when a p

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Providing Storage for the IT Testing and Training Department : A Step-by-Step Guide.

What is Azure Storage Azure storage is Microsoft's-managed cloud-based storage service that allows individuals and organizations to store, manage, and access data such as files, Blobs and m

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The Tool-First Protocol: Stop Doing Manually What Your Agent Can Do Better

The Tool-First Protocol: Stop Doing Manually What Your Agent Can Do Better Every session I've had with a new user, there's a moment that goes like this: User: "Can you check if the cron jo

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One MCP server, four clients, zero translation dead ends

I wanted to tell my girlfriend something real in Farsi — not phrasebook real, actually real — and every translation tool gave me one answer with no indication of whether it was formal, casual, intimat

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7 Open-Source Tools That Make File Upload Security Actually Manageable

Every web framework tutorial shows you how to accept a file upload. Almost none show you what to do next. You validate the Content-Type header. You check the extension. You think you're done. You're

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A $0.25 model beat a $3 model -- with better context

The numbers I ran the same benchmark on two Claude models. The $0.25 model scored 11.8. The $3 model scored 5.3. The cheap model won by 223%. And it cost one-twelfth as much per token. I

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Git worktree: the stash replacement nobody teaches you

The scenario every developer knows: you're deep in a feature, 15 files modified, half-working tests, and the production alert hits. You need to fix a bug on main, now. The standard advice: git stash.

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A new Republican privacy bill could be ‘worse than no standard at all’

Congress is once again attempting to pass a national data privacy law. But while it would introduce new protections in some states, it would weaken privacy rights in others - and it's missing several

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The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?

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