Inside My Strange Chat With a Pro-Israel Textbot
A strange text from “Emma” opens a rabbit hole into AI political outreach, foreign agent rules, and chatbot disclosure laws.
Why Global Fetch Defaults Can Leak API Tokens
The Problem You set up an API client once, with sane defaults: a base URL, an auth header, a timeout. Every part of your app uses it. Then your app grows. Now you’re calling three different services. One needs a different auth scheme. Second one has its own timeout...
No laptop? No problem. Code on the Go brings the debugger to your phone.
If you’ve been programming in other Android environments, you already know how typical debugging works: your app runs on a phone, and your IDE runs on a computer. The two talk to each other over a USB cable or Wi-Fi through Android Debug Bridge (ADB). The PC does the...
The Hidden Liability Behind AI-Assisted Coding
Vibe coding's critics are loud and vocal about their opinions, and they're right. Their reasoning, however, is completely wrong. Ever since the introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, followed by releases from Meta, Anthropic, and Google for their initial...
When APIs, Clients, and Infrastructure Are All Right—but the System Is Wrong
Most engineers are trained to look for failures in the wrong place. An API returns a successful response. A client application reports no errors. Infrastructure dashboards are green. Monitoring shows healthy services. Nothing appears broken. Yet users report missing...
How I Engineered a 1.7M Row Product Safety Database to Serve Pages in 66ms on a Single Free VM
Let me tell you what happens when you shove 1.7 million dense PostgreSQL rows onto a 6GB ARM instance and then try to serve real user traffic. Sequential table scans that choke the server for 45 seconds. COUNT(*) queries that make the query planner weep....
Fraud Has Moved Outside the Bank. Protection Should Too
Banks should be developing AI fraud detectors and encouraging customers to install them alongside banking apps. But they’re still investing in infrastructure protection. Banks are investing more than ever in fraud detection. They are strengthening their infrastructure...
How to Count Gemini Tokens Locally
✨ Overview This article explores how Gemini tokenizes data and demonstrates how to count or estimate tokens locally. You'll learn how to use the local tokenizer to estimate text token counts offline, understand the tokenization math for multimodal inputs (images,...
AI Won’t Replace Product Managers. It Will Call Out the Ones Who Were Coasting.
A framework for evaluating product judgment in AI-native organizations. Every six months, a confident post goes viral declaring AI will make Product Managers obsolete. The reasoning is always the same: if AI can write PRDs, synthesize research, and prototype features,...
Building Automated Internal Linking Architectures for High-Volume Content Clusters
Manual linking doesn't scale. Build programmatic, tag-based semantic architectures to automate internal linking, improve site crawlability, and boost authority flow across massive content clusters.
The Hidden Cost of Manual Deployments and How DevOps Solves It
Many organizations continue to deploy applications manually despite widespread adoption of cloud-native technologies and automation platforms. At first glance, manual deployments may appear harmless. A release engineer logs into a server, executes a few commands,...
We Built an Internal Developer Platform. 80% of Devs Stopped Using It After Three Months.
I pulled the Google Analytics data on a Thursday afternoon, mostly because I was preparing a slide deck for the engineering all-hands to celebrate our Q2 platform adoption. The numbers were brutal. In month one, we had 140 unique engineers log into our new Internal...
SharpeBench Tests Whether AI Trading Agents Have Real Edge
Give a thousand monkeys a quarter of market data and one of them will look like Renaissance. Rank traders by return over a short window and you are mostly ranking the variance of noise, not skill. Today we are open-sourcing SharpeBench...
Don’t Build RAG for Your AI’s Memory. Build a Forgetting Machine.
In 1942, Borges wrote about Ireneo Funes, a young man who, after falling from a horse, lost the ability to forget. Funes could reconstruct every day of his life in perfect detail, but reconstructing a single day took him an entire day. Borges's point was that Funes...
I made my TV sound dramatically better without buying a soundbar – 7 cheap and easy ways
Great TV sound doesn't have to be expensive - here are my expert-tested audio tweaks.
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind ‘return to office’ demands
OPINION Bosses say working from the office is all about productivity, but the truth is it's just a power trip driven by fear and narcissism. Executives who insist on people working from the office like to say it's all about productivity, culture, collaboration, and...
Frontier AI: Six Questions Every Enterprise Should Ask Security Vendors
From model selection and automation to validation and measurable results, the right questions can help enterprises separate genuine AI capabilities from marketing hype. The post Frontier AI: Six Questions Every Enterprise Should Ask Security Vendors appeared first on...
ZTE honored with two GeSI DWP Global Awards for Signal Reach Program in Africa
ZTE has received two prestigious Digital with Purpose (DWP) honors - the Smart Cities Award and the Global Award - for its Signal Reach Program in Africa at the DWP Global Summit Shenzhen 2026. The awards span three core categories: Climate, Smart Cities, and Health...
Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin
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Apple Patches Dozens of Vulnerabilities Across iOS, macOS, and Safari
The updates fix vulnerabilities in WebKit, the kernel, WebRTC, Web Extensions, and other components affecting iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Safari users. The post Apple Patches Dozens of Vulnerabilities Across iOS, macOS, and Safari appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies
The UK's Home Office has awarded two global consultancies contracts worth up to £350 million for data and analytics services, despite the government's commitment to spend less on consultants. Deloitte has won a four-year deal worth up to £200 million to offer...
Register Korea’s First PC ‘SE-8001’ as a National Important Material
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Dawnguard Raises $6.3 Million for Security Architecture Automation Platform
The company has publicly launched its solution to help organizations design, build, and operate secure cloud systems. The post Dawnguard Raises $6.3 Million for Security Architecture Automation Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta puts rate limits on its smart glasses’ Conversation Focus feature
Meta's Conversation Focus feature for smart glasses is now only free for three hours a month.
Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-authored-code-contributions-we-cant-trust-heavy-users-of-ai-to-understand-their-code-enough-to-fix-it/ Comments URL:...
Can the new Googlebook succeed where other Google-books failed?
Believe it or not, laptops are suddenly interesting again. Apple kicked things off in March with the MacBook Neo, a $599 laptop that felt like an aggressive attempt to do to the low end of the market what the MacBook Air did to the middle. Even with a $100 price hike...
Finally, an odor-free robot vacuum and mop that has no problem handling my pet’s hair
The Eufy Omni S2 improves on its predecessor with four times the suction power, and an odor-free mop roller.
Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion
Restaurant kiosks are hazardous places, and not only on the side of the screen where patrons jab greasy fingers. On the other side of the glass, things can also go wrong when Windows starts working against the kiosk software. Spotted in a Portuguese restaurant chain...
Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware
Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 calls the...
Watch a Steam Controller Skitter Itself To Its Charge Puck
Hacks don’t have to be practical but it helps if they are educational or clever or amusing, as [Ray Foss] demonstrates with his auto-docking Steam Controller. It’s an open-source web application that combines a camera, a Steam Controller, and some clever software for...