The Hidden Infrastructure Tax of Running Autonomous Agents 24/7
Picture the moment every agent builder eventually hits. You've got a script working. It reads a task queue, calls an LLM, executes a few tool calls, writes some output, and loops. In a terminal window, on your laptop, it looks like magic. So you do the obvious thing:...
Beyond LLMs: Creating Real-World AI Agents with Lang Chain Deep Agents
Why Enterprises Need an Agent Framework as Their AI Operating System Large Language Models, or LLMs, have reshaped how people use and interact with software. a few years ago conversational AI was more of a niche research topic. Now, it's evolved into a helpful tool...
Filler: Who Answers When Your Website Doesn’t Cover the Topic ?
Companies keep building the website. More pages, better copy, a rebuilt pricing page, a resource library. Buyers stopped reading it. Forrester surveyed close to 18,000 business buyers in 2025. Ninety-four percent used AI somewhere in the buying process, up five points...
Name It, Frame It, Check It: A 3-Step Fix for Phishing
I’m a cognitive security independent researcher which means I spend most of my time researching how corporate workers fall for phishing attacks through their emotions and how CISOs can use that insight to reduce breaches. A few days ago, I surveyed r/CISO from April...
AI Agents Are Customers Now. AURa Is How I Take Notes on How They Shop
Disclosure - the store in this article is mine (keeper), it’s an x402 storefront called scvd.store that I run with my AI agent partner cv. Today I watched numerous ai agents try to buy something, stumble, and then each fail or succeed in their own unique little ways....
Inside IARPA’s Push to Detect Neurological Disorders With Spy Technology
IARPA, the US spy tech agency, is working on how to diagnose various neurological conditions by analyzing video clips of how people move.Last April, the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced the launch of its Movement Observation and...
Are Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) the new DevOps?
DevOps transformed software delivery by introducing automation, collaboration, and continuous delivery. As organisations adopted Kubernetes, microservices, multi-cloud architectures, and increasingly complex security requirements, the operational burden on development...
Turning a SaaS App Into an Agentic System Without Rewriting the Backend
Most Software-as-a-Service platforms are architected around explicit user interfaces. A user opens a dashboard, navigates a hierarchy, populates a form, and dispatches a request to a backend API. This interaction model is deterministic and easy to test, but it places...
What Building a Six-Agent AI Code Reviewer Taught Me About Agentic Systems
I Built a Six-Agent GitHub Code Reviewer for Free — Then It Started Calling Its Own Tools 43 TimesI wanted a portfolio project that actually demonstrated multi-agent design — not another wrapper around a single LLM call with a nice UI on top. So I built PR Review...
How to Build Contract-Driven API Tests With OpenAPI and AI
Hi! I’m Oleg, a QA Engineering Manager focused on test strategy, automation, and AI-assisted QA workflows. This is a continuation of a series on where AI actually earns its place in QA — and this time the answer starts somewhere less glamorous than AI: with the...
IEC 104 Explained: Protocol Stack, Frames, and Security
IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC 104) is the TCP/IP-based member of the IEC 60870-5 telecontrol family. It was designed to carry SCADA telemetry and control information across packet-switched networks, particularly within electrical power systems. Before getting into raw packets,...
What Changes When You Put a Local AI Project Online
Moving local AI projects onto public URLs turns a laptop's invisible safeguards into explicit decisions about identity, permissions, resilience, and cost. I have been building locally with AI over the past year and I wanted to start moving what I had truly online....
When AI Makes Skill Abundant, Scarcity Moves Somewhere Else
Between 2004 and 2012 I broke into computer systems. It turned out to be an education in economics disguised as a technical career. Every wall I climbed existed for one reason: something behind it was scarce. Money. Data. Access. Reputation. And every time a wall came...
Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2: A Guide to Faster Qwen Inference
OverviewQwen3.8-27B-DFlash2 is a speculative decoding draft model maintained by z-lab that accelerates inference for the base Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B model. This is not a standalone language model—it functions exclusively as a drafter component within speculative decoding...
Inside pump.fun’s Fee Machine: How the Protocol Extracts Value on Solana
The pump.fun fee collection machine is a monument to absolute minimal effort. I’ve spent hours tracing on-chain transaction trails and the results are catastrophic. The protocol operates like a toll gate placed on a dirt road, charging semi-truck rates to let a...
The Wildest Cheating Scandals in Awards History
The awards world has its fair share of drama and scandal, and it runs on a sliding scale of severity. In this article, we look at cases of impropriety and cheating that happened in both mainstream and niche spaces. She won a Pulitzer for a kid who didn't exist When...
Why Shipaton 2026 Is Different From Most Hackathons
Most hackathons give you a weekend to build a type nobody ever uses. Shipathon asks you to do one thing that actually matters: ship a real app to users. Let’s be honest. We all have that one folder on our laptop.It is packed with 14 half-baked weekend ideas and...
The Enterprise Already Knows the Answer. AI Can Help Employees Find It
AI and the enterprise's scattered memory A practical question: what would it take for an organisation to put everything it knows behind a single, trustworthy assistant — and why is that worth doing now? This is written as an article, but it doubles as a position paper...
Small, native web tricks worth remembering
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Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers
Hackers pushed a poisoned arrayref version that added a dependency to fetch a malicious payload from a remote server. The post Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Navy is rethinking what a laser weapon looks like
This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The U.S. Navy has a unusual proposition for the U.S. defense industry: take your high-energy laser weapons and break them...
Wi-Fi 7’s WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch
Broadband industry research body CableLabs is warning that attempts to make Wi-Fi 7 access points accommodate older devices can create compatibility problems of their own, and wants hardware makers to prioritize support for the industry's workaround. Wi-Fi 7 products...
Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
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Nevada allows Uber, Tesla and Waymo to start paid robotaxi service
Nevada's transportation authorities approved the companies' application to charge for robotaxi rides.
Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind
Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind Go to Source Two industry surveys released this week paint a consistent picture of the defense industrial base. The post Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as...
This brain skill matters more than your IQ
Below, Adrian Owen shares five key insights from his new book, Think Before You Think: Understanding and Mastering Executive Function. Adrian is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and imaging at the University of Western Ontario. He has been featured in the New...
August 2026 lunar eclipse: Don’t miss a blood moon take over the night sky. Here’s when you can see it
Don’t forget to look up next week: On Thursday, August 27, there will be a partial “blood moon” lunar eclipse. In case you forgot, a lunar eclipse occurs when Earth comes directly between the moon and sun, casting a shadow that makes the moon appear red. Here’s what...
Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still
This is a quiet time of year in tech circles – perhaps explaining why, 25 and 33 years ago, the people behind two ambitious operating system projects kicked them off. Debian Last weekend, the Debian project turned 33 years old. The Linux kernel first appeared in...
Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches
Most of the fixes resolve code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. The post Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.
GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure
A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a case of code injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker...