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What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the Iranian government.
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Fail-closed npm and PyPI vulnerability checks in n8n

Fail-closed npm and PyPI vulnerability checks in n8n A dependency scan is only useful when it answers two different questions: Did the public vulnerability sources report a finding for the exact version I run? Did every required source answer successfully? Treating a timeout as "zero vulnerabilities" makes a dashboard look clean at the exact moment it has stopped checking. This workflow keeps those states separate and can run on a daily n8n schedule without maintaining a scanne...
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7 Reliability Checks Before You Ship an n8n Automation

A workflow that runs once is a demo. A workflow that keeps running after API failures, duplicate webhooks, and unexpected data is a production system. Here is the checklist I use before handing an n8n workflow to a client. 1. Validate every external input Never assume a webhook contains every field you expect. Check required values early and route invalid payloads to a clear error path. This prevents a missing email address or record ID from failing several nodes later. ...
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Gemini Live on Google Pixel Brings Real-Time AI Conversations to Mobile Workflows

Google's Gemini Live is the real-time, conversational version of Gemini built into the Pixel experience. Introduced as part of the Pixel 9 generation, it is designed to let users talk naturally with the assistant while using a phone, rather than relying only on typed prompts or one-off voice commands. Its expanding capabilities, including camera and screen sharing, make it a notable development for mobile AI workflows. The central story is not a new standalone launch. Gemini Live on Pixel...
AI API Costs Are Surprising People — Here's How to Check First
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AI API Costs Are Surprising People — Here's How to Check First

The bill that surprises everyone eventually You're building something with the OpenAI or Anthropic API. It's working well. Then you check your usage dashboard and the number is... not what you expected. This happens to almost everyone who builds with AI APIs for the first time. Not because the pricing is hidden - it's published clearly - but because tokens are not an intuitive unit of measurement, and the costs compound in ways that aren't obvious until you're already past the...
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Software Team Scaling: Why More Developers Can Slow Delivery

A project is six weeks late. The deadline has not moved. Leadership asks: “How many developers do we need to add to get back on schedule?” That question assumes the delay is caused by insufficient coding capacity. Sometimes it is. Often it is not. A late project may already be constrained by architecture decisions, unresolved requirements, code review, testing, integration, or a small number of engineers who hold critical knowledge. Adding developers increases theoretical capacit...
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JoyAI-Video-Edit Targets Streaming Video Without a Full Clip

JoyAI-Video-Edit has released deployment code, checkpoints and a technical report for a video editor that works on frames as they arrive rather than after a complete clip has been collected. The practical consequence is clear: the project is aimed at live-camera and streaming workflows, where conventional offline video generation is structurally a poor fit. The repository describes the system as instruction-guided, accepting either a live camera stream or an uploaded video plus a natural-lang...
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An O(1) Space Alternative to "Rearrange Array Alternately" Using Sequential Suffix Reversal

If you've spent time on LeetCode or GeeksforGeeks, you've probably run into the classic "Rearrange Array Alternately" problem. The premise: given a sorted array of positive integers, rearrange it so the first element is the maximum, the second is the minimum, the third is the second maximum, the fourth is the second minimum, and so on. For [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] , the expected output is [5, 1, 4, 2, 3] . The Standard Solutions There are usually two approaches taught for this: ...
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Building Excel-style keyboard sequences for Google Sheets without turning the extension into a pile of DOM selectors

I recently shipped Spex , a Chrome extension that adds Excel-style sequential keyboard shortcuts and contextual KeyTips to Google Sheets. The user-facing interaction is intentionally small: press Alt / Option see the keys available at that moment continue the sequence run the selected Sheets command The implementation stopped being small as soon as I wanted it to behave like a real input system rather than a collection of keydown handlers. This post is about the arc...
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Gemini Flash Release Status: What Google’s Documented Updates Say About a 3.7 Chat Rollout

The reported availability of Gemini 3.7 Flash for Gemini Chat Pro and Ultra users is not reflected in the first-party Google material identified in the supplied research. Google’s documented Gemini Flash updates instead cover Gemini 3 Flash , announced on December 17, 2025, and subsequent Gemini 3.6 Flash general-availability updates. That distinction matters for businesses evaluating model access, workflow design, and the reliability of product-roadmap assumptions. The research does not...
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Why I'm Finally Starting to Document My Tech Journey

Kind of nervous here so I'll try to make it simple. For a long time, I kept all my tech learning and side projects completely to myself. But recently I decided it was time to start documenting what I'm building, not to go viral but to keep track of my progress and connect with people who share similar hand on tech interests. What I enjoy doing the most: Exploring operating systems, local setups and custom hardware/networking configs. Figuring out weird error messages and fixing bugs that...
Building NyaAI : My 10-Day Voice Agent Journey with Murf AI
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Building NyaAI : My 10-Day Voice Agent Journey with Murf AI

Introduction A few weeks ago, this started as just a 10-day challenge by Murf AI. Today, it's a project I'm proud enough of to put on my resume. This is Day 10 — the final day of the 10 Days of Voice Agents — VoiceForBharat Edition challenge — and it feels like a good moment to step back and share what I learned, what I built, and how voice agents actually come together piece by piece. If you're curious about voice AI, or thinking about building your own agent, this post is for you. ...
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The One-Minute Trap: What Microsoft Fabric's New Warehouse Billing Model Means for Your Workloads By Gilbert Kiptoo Lelon | DP-700|DP-600

Microsoft is changing how Fabric Data Warehouse charges for compute starting August 2026. Most teams will discover what that means on their next capacity bill. This article is a technical breakdown of the change, what the math actually looks like, and how to rethink workload design before the surprise arrives. Why This Change Matters More Than It Sounds When a cloud platform adjusts its billing model, the announcement usually reads like a changelog — a couple of dry sentences buried in a n...
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Any way to speed up AWS build times without increasing infrastructure costs?

Hey guys, now we’re migrating a project to AWS, and our builds are taking around 20–25 minutes . On top of that, things keep randomly breaking/failing, so we often have to stop, fix something, and run the build again. This makes the whole process even more painful. From what we’ve seen, we could probably get the build time down to around 10–15 minutes by using a different approach, but that would also increase our AWS infrastructure costs by roughly 10–15% . Is there any way to optimiz...
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Feedback on my sports web app

Hey everybody, I just launched my first project and would love some feedback. www.trytrendline.com It's an NFL database that allows users build sports betting models, filtering games by weather, location, performance, trends, team, coach, referee, travel, rest, etc. The website shows the historical performance of the model and the current games for that week that match their model. I just launched this week and would love any feedback!
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What are you working on and why?

Why did you pick the SaaS / the niche that you picked? Do you have a vision of something that should exist? Did you have a personal problem that you solved for yourself and now turned into a SaaS? Did you scan the internet for a unmet pain and are building for it?
I decided to start !
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I decided to start !

I have a big dream, but I have been procrastinating for months now, but not anymore. I guess this is an impulsive post to be honest but I want to hold myself liable by sharing my journey to the public. After a lot of research ... and I mean A LOT of research I finally found a problem that I'm genuinely excited about. there is clear demand, a specific customer, and a real gap. everything looks great till now but there is a lot of things I know nothing about so I'll still spend the day doing m...
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The most useful AI skill in 2026 isn't prompting or agents. It's knowing when NOT to use AI

Every day I see someone bolt an LLM onto something a shell script did better. The best AI practitioners I know are the ones who draw the line early: - Deterministic task, fixed rules? Script it. - One-off analysis with judgment? Ask a human or a cheap model. - Open-ended, branching, context-heavy? Now AI earns its keep. The $0 automation stack I run uses AI for exactly one step (summarizing news) and plain code for everything else. That's the whole secret: AI where it compounds, code where it ...
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Same demo, two failures on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, then V4 Flash finished it

I only did a quick first test of DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 tonight, so take this as a tiny sample, not a verdict. The first Pro run failed. I put the same demo through Flash, and Flash completed it. I honestly did not expect that result, so I ran Pro a second time before writing this. Same failure. The odd part is that it did not feel slow while generating. I was seeing roughly 80 to 90 tokens/s tonight. That looks fine on a counter, but it matters a lot less when the demo itself does not make it...
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Can face-matching networks prevent identity fraud without becoming surveillance systems?

New South Wales is considering joining Australia’s national face-matching network. The proposal would allow driver’s licence and photo-card images to be checked when someone’s identity needs to be confirmed. The practical benefit is easy to understand. If someone tries to open a bank account using documents stolen in a data breach, face matching could help identify that the person doesn’t match the real owner. The concern is what happens once a searchable system like this exists. The same...
🚀 New version of Android Remote Control MCP released! Let your AI agent control your phone, now with on-device PII redaction! 🛡️ No cables or root needed!
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🚀 New version of Android Remote Control MCP released! Let your AI agent control your phone, now with on-device PII redaction! 🛡️ No cables or root needed!

🚀 New release of Android Remote Control MCP is out — the MCP server that runs on your phone and gives your AI agent the ability to use any app you want! Grab it here: https://github.com/danielealbano/android-remote-control-mcp/releases/tag/v1.11.0 My favorite part of this release? The Privacy Mode 🛡️! Recently I was told by an user "it's a good project but I don't want Anthropic to know everything about me" and it's a very fair point! The LLM providers see and record everything...