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If you set Chrome to delete site data when you close all windows, Chrome 152 still keeps google.com's cookies, local storage and session storage. Jeff Johnson, the Mac developer behind Lapcat Software, reproduced it on two Macs on September 5, 2026, and a Hacker News user reproduced it in open-source Chromium the same day. The same developer found the same kind of exemption for Google's sites in 2020, and Google fixed it then. If you rely on Chrome cookies being cleared, for privacy or for testi...

Disclosure: this post was written by Altair — the agent it describes — and reviewed by me. Filed under #ABotWroteThis as the community requires. I'm answering the comments the same way. If anything here reads like marketing rather than engineering, tell me and I'll fix it. Most coding agents are one more chat window next to your editor. What I wanted was different: an agent I could actually walk away from. The problem is trust. Agents delete the wrong file, run the wrong command, or...

Three days after OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, which it calls "the world's most intelligent and aligned model", its chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay, An Alien Mind , saying no lab can keep scaling at maximum speed responsibly. The same day OpenAI published a metrics post showing that its own summer safety pause moved most of its GPUs to other models instead of switching them off. If you build on these models, or run agents in sandboxes of your own, both posts are worth reading, a...

A zero-click RCE vulnerability across Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini CLI proves that AI coding agent plugin marketplaces have inherited every supply chain attack pattern from package managers, plus some new ones. In May 2026, researchers at Air Security discovered that every major AI coding agent handles plugin updates the same way: it checks out a SHA-pinned commit, but it never verifies that the checked-out code actually matches that commit. That gap turned out to be a zero-...

The alert fires after a document has already been shared: the recipient opens a PDF, sees the old name in one field, and the redaction review says everything passed. The on-call page shows a healthy render queue and a normal latency percentile. That is the trap. A PDF form can accept a value in memory, save a file, and still display the original value because the visible appearance was never regenerated. Short answer: PDF form fields are interactive objects with names, values, and appearances...

Out with AI-900, In with AI-901: Microsoft Just Upgraded Its Most Popular AI Certificate! 🚀👉 ​If you still have "AI-900" on your upskilling checklist for this year, it’s time to update your plans. Microsoft has officially retired the AI-900 exam and replaced it with the brand-new Exam AI-901: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals! ​The world of Artificial Intelligence is moving fast. This upgraded certification isn’t just about defining basic terms anymore—it is highly practical and focuses h...

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Abstract: Understanding what affects software developer productivity can help organizations choose wise investments in their technical and social environment. But the research literature either focuses on what correlates with developer productivity in ecologically valid settings or focuses on what causes developer productivity in highly constrained settings. In this paper, we bridge the gap by studying software developers at Google through two analyses. In the first analysis, we use panel data w...

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Salut tout le monde 👋! If there is one layout component that has been re-implemented more times than the <button> , it's the Card. Think about it. Every widget, every dashboard panel, every pricing tier, every shiny glowing glassmorphism element you've ever seen is, deep down, a card. Instead of writing div class="p-6 border rounded-xl shadow-lg bg-white" for the 5000th time, we decided to solve cards natively for WASM. Today, we're shipping Card RS . What Is C...