How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
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How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir
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The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir

Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington.
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Apple’s first live music venue is opening beneath its UK headquarters

Apple is preparing to open a new "state-of-the-art" live music venue in the UK, a 600-capacity space for hosting performances, recording sessions, and video broadcasts. The venue, called Apple Music Hall, is located underneath Apple's European headquarters in London's iconic Battersea Power Station, and is set to open next week on September 28th. Details about […]
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Can you forget how you feel about Meta?

In 2021, as a whistleblower emerged with dramatic allegations that Facebook was harming children, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a rebuttal on Facebook. “We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives,” he wrote in a note to Meta staff, which he […]
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Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent

Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The bug found by security researcher Patrick Wardle utilized an undocumented Muse setting that enabled potential attackers running local code to redirect transcription processing from Meta's servers […]
Confirmed vs. Potential Vulnerabilities: How to Act on Each Without Creating Alert Fatigue
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Confirmed vs. Potential Vulnerabilities: How to Act on Each Without Creating Alert Fatigue

Confirmed vulnerabilities are security flaws a scanner has actively verified as present — through direct proof, not inference. Potential vulnerabilities are conditions that suggest a weakness may exist but require manual investigation or authenticated scanning to confirm. The distinction determines your response workflow: confirmed findings trigger immediate remediation; potential findings trigger investigation first. The difference sounds straightforward. The operational reality is not. When...
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A decorrelated bot that loses money is just a diversified way to lose money

I added trend-following bots to my fleet to decorrelate it. The correlation matrix said it worked. The P&L said it didn't. Here's the number that settles the argument. I run a small fleet of trading bots in paper mode. Most of them are variations on the same idea — mean-reversion on crypto: buy the dip, scale in, exit in green. Running five bots that all do the same thing isn't a fleet, it's one bet with extra logging. So I deliberately added bots designed to make money when the dip-buye...
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Complete Polymarket Bot Architecture: Market Data, Strategy, Risk & Execution

Learn how to design a production-ready Polymarket bot architecture using real-time market data, strategy isolation, risk controls, CLOB execution, reconciliation, and Rust. A Polymarket bot becomes difficult to maintain at exactly the point where it starts making real decisions. Fetching an order book is easy. Sending an order is easy. The engineering problem is keeping market state, strategy state, order state, inventory, risk controls, and execution behavior consistent while all of the...
What an Angular-native Storybook alternative actually looks like
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What an Angular-native Storybook alternative actually looks like

ng-prism puts the showcase config on the component, extracts the rest with the TypeScript compiler, and renders into your document instead of an iframe. This is the whole tool, end to end — including the three things that shipped in v22.2: a visual-regression panel, an Overview contact sheet, and a UI rebuilt around a single density scalar. The default, and what it costs If you build an Angular component library, you probably run Storybook. Not because you compared options — bec...