Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon
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Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon

One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten.
Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros
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Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.
Why This Weekend’s Nor’easter Is Like a Hurricane
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Why This Weekend’s Nor’easter Is Like a Hurricane

Nor’easters are usually a winter phenomenon. But this week’s storm is arriving earlier than usual, and it could take on some characteristics more typical of tropical systems.
SeaWorld Wants to Make You Horny
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SeaWorld Wants to Make You Horny

The Orlando theme park’s immersive Halloween experience now includes hot, brooding guys in an homage to romantasy antiheroes—and it’s leading to record-breaking ticket sales.
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Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief

Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader of Google's DeepMind division, Koray Kavukcuoglu said that Gemini 4 is currently in its refinement stage, and that the company is […]
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OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in search for data

OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents hacked an Australian government website and attempted to breach numerous other government and university websites. The attack appears to be the first confirmed instance of a rogue AI agent breaching a government website, adding fuel to rapidly intensifying concerns about the safety of advanced AI systems and the responsibility of the […]
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Why AI Agents Need a Pause Button Before They Need More Autonomy

An AI agent can be impressive in a demo: it reads a request, selects a tool, and completes a task with little intervention. But an agent that changes a live system needs a different kind of capability. It needs to know when not to act. A useful way to think about agent autonomy is not “How many steps can it perform without asking?” but “How much uncertainty can it safely resolve before an irreversible action?” Those questions lead to a more practical design for agents that create accounts, pu...
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Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator CVE-2026-93952: Active Exploitation of Authentication Bypass Zero-Day

1. Basic Information Title: Security Advisory 0183 Published: 2026-09-22 Updated: 2026-09-23 Collected: 2026-09-24T08:09:37+09:00 Source: Arista Severity: critical Type: Threat Intelligence Target Period: 2026-09-23T08:14:06+09:00 - 2026-09-24T08:09:37+09:00 (Asia/Tokyo) Original: Security Advisory 0183 Related Source: BleepingComputer: Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day Severity Basis: Can be exploited before authentication with a C...
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We All Have a "Serious Work" AI and a "Just Vibing" AI. When Did That Happen? Exposing the hidden costs of AI tool choices Dhruv Jani Dhruv Jani ...
Freemium for AI Agents: Free vs Paid Tiers via HTTP 402 on Arc
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Freemium for AI Agents: Free vs Paid Tiers via HTTP 402 on Arc

Originally published: https://agentbadge.xyz/blog/bstock-freemium-402 Tags: ai, api, webdev, cryptocurrency Every SaaS has a free tier and a paid tier. But how do you sell the paid tier when the customer is not a person but a program? An agent has no card, cannot fill a checkout form, cannot type a CVV. We solved it with HTTP 402 Payment Required — a status code that waited three decades for its moment. It is not an error. It is an invoice. Why does this matter beyond our tracker...
I Built an Agent That Does a Week of Work in One Command
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I Built an Agent That Does a Week of Work in One Command

Agents are here to make work more efficient, but not to take over taste and judgment. Finding the point where an agent can save real time without quietly taking the wheel is harder than it sounds. The Product Launch Agent below is my attempt at that sweet spot. You can find it here, on GitHub . It leans on trusted, deterministic tools and human-curated inputs to do a week of work in one command, without taking the wheel. Build your own product launch agent Clone the Prod...
PostgreSQL 19 REPACK: Removing Table Bloat Online
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PostgreSQL 19 REPACK: Removing Table Bloat Online

PostgreSQL 19 REPACK is a native command that unifies VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER and adds a CONCURRENTLY option, so you no longer have to choose between reclaiming disk space and keeping a table online. After a large delete or an update-heavy workload, a table can bloat, and autovacuum can't return that space to the operating system. DBAs have had two poor choices: VACUUM FULL, which locks the table for the whole rewrite, or the third-party pg_repack extension, with the hope that version, permiss...
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Free, Unrestricted, and Almost as Easy: Reading SEC Filings with a Prompt

Python for programmers, prompts for data analysts. Every article in this series has leaned on one server: EODHD. But the underlying numbers — revenue, profit, shares outstanding — don't originate there. They come from a company's own filings to the SEC, published for free, for anyone, the moment they're submitted. So here's a natural question: could we skip the middleman entirely, and just ask the source? Turns out, mostly yes. New here? The Setup covers everything you ne...
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Two weeks of serving Markdown to agents, straight from the nginx logs

Since early September, every public page of our website has had a Markdown twin, reachable by header or by URL. Two dedicated nginx logs have recorded every request through either door since September 4. Two weeks later I read them, all of them, with the method below. The results, in short, are on our blog . This is the engineering cut: how the two doors are built, how the count was made, and what the logs can and cannot prove. Where this comes from I co-founded GoodBarber, an a...
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The Systems-Design Reason Clinics Overhire for Admin Work

Not a typical dev.to post, but this is fundamentally a systems problem, and a lot of us end up building or evaluating internal tools for non-tech teams at some point — so here's the pattern, framed the way we'd frame any bad architecture. Picture a clinic's software stack: a scheduling tool that doesn't talk to the billing system, a billing system that doesn't talk to the patient record, and a patient record that lives partly on paper. Every one of those integration gaps becomes a manual integr...
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How I Built Maniesta Campus: A Campus Management System with React and Node.js

Educational institutions run on paperwork and spreadsheets. Student records live in one file, attendance in another, grades somewhere else, and schedules — usually — in someone's head. I kept hearing the same complaint from small colleges and coaching centers: "We need something simple that just works." So I built Maniesta Campus — a role-based campus management system with separate dashboards for admins, faculty, and students. 🔗 Live Demo: maniestacampus.netlify.app This post wal...
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How to Build a Task Management App with React & TypeScript

Hey everyone, it's Sadee! If you've ever wanted to build a cool task board where you can move things around—kind of like Trello or Jira—you are in the right place. Today, we are going to build one from scratch. You will be able to click on a task, drag it across your screen, and drop it into a totally new column. The best part? We aren't going to download any heavy drag-and-drop tools. We are just using the native tools that are already built right into your web browser! How We Set Up the ...
Equip your agent with Google Cloud best practices using google-cloud-developer plugin
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Equip your agent with Google Cloud best practices using google-cloud-developer plugin

Coding agents in your terminal can scaffold microservices in seconds. But what happens when your agent needs to deploy directly to Google Cloud? Without cloud-specific guidance, typical agents struggle. They hallucinate obsolete SDK calls, attempt to run commands without required permissions, or silently enable billable APIs that create surprise costs on your invoice. The google-cloud-developer plugin changes this dynamic. It equips your agent (such as Antigravity CLI , Claude Code ,...
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AI has no intent and no motivation

Article URL: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/245-view-point/19164-ai-has-no-motivation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828133 Points: 37 # Comments: 41