While developing RAG pipelines across various enterprise use cases, a stakeholder asked me a question that stopped me mid conversation: "Can our database become a source for our knowledge base, just like our SharePoint documents? Can RAG give us answers by querying...

Print the same model twice on the same machine, with the same slicer profile and the same filament. Give one of them a surface texture before you slice, and leave the other one smooth. Put both under a desk lamp. The smooth one looks 3D printed. The textured one looks...

There’s a classic bootstrapping paradox in provisioning. To install an OS, you need something already running on that machine. Historically, it was an image on CD or USB, which scales badly already if you have more than two or three machines. Moreover, what if you...

Persistent memory turns into an infrastructure cost long before it turns into a quality problem. Here is where the cost and latency actually go, and the levers that move them. Memory is a write-heavy workload Adding memory to an agent is usually framed as a quality...

I’ve been helping a friend out with their job search for a couple of weeks, and got an email back from them the other day: I applied for a few more with no response still. At this point it feels like throwing out a fishing line with no bait. I wanted to share some of...

The supplied DOCX looks, at first glance, like a market story about scale. It contains a dramatic token number, charts, vendor-style architecture slides, and several customer-outcome statements. The interesting story was not the largest number. It was the missing...

If you've ever tried to build a sphere in Minecraft, you know the pain. You start with a circle, stack layers, and hope it looks round. But a sphere isn't a stack of circles — it's a continuous surface approximated in a blocky grid. Get the layers wrong, and your...

At a Glance 371 sites audited; 37.03 average ClinicAI; 35 clinics above 50; 221 clinics below 40. The Question Behind the Data What happens when a clinic does everything the SEO playbook tells it to do and still fails to show up in AI answers? That was the question I...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an exploited N-able vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, giving federal agencies three days to patch a flaw that could let attackers reach managed service provider...

The NVM Express (NVMe) specifications have been updated, gaining enhancements such as support for post-quantum cryptography, and SSD virtualization and live migration to better support virtualized environments. Announced by the NVM Express consortium, all 11 of the...

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of...

The Momentum 5 and the Px7 S3 have similar spec sheets, but their real-life use cases set them apart.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.

The acquisition, which was first announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart's connected TV advertising platform.

Article URL: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/online-advertising-giant-adform-was-hacked-proving-once-again-why-ad-blockers-are-necessary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170001 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Hello HN!I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy.I've built a color picker and procedural...

In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it an expensive and unattainable luxury, they made the terminals universally available. Many Minitel services...

If you're in the mood for some whimsy, Mango Launcher is what you want.

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.

The X-Sense smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are easy to install and offer good value for money.

But only really if you have a huge case and lots of space.