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AI agents are getting harder to control. From swarms exploiting vulnerabilities to real-world cyberattacks, the security challenge is rapidly evolving.

After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator's latest title would be coming to Xbox, there were a flurry of rumors about the falling out. Bloomberg reported that the decision was driven by a number of factors, including missed deadlines, budget and profitability concerns, […]

The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a "0% chance" of AI being the end of the […]

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The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.

ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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Many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.

Originally published on angeo.dev . Checked against llmstxt.org v2, revised 10 August 2026, and against the published request data as of September 2026. We shipped a validator that could certify a broken llms.txt file as valid. The bug was simple. The spec recommends a short summary in a blockquote under the title. Our checker looked for a line starting with > . It never looked at what came after it. A store with no meta description produced a bare > and nothing else, and...

I built NiceTryGPT, an open-source project for CTF authors who want to make cheap LLM shortcuts less effective without making challenges harder or more annoying for humans. The idea is simple: «Increase uncertainty, not complexity.» NiceTryGPT keeps the same vulnerability and learning objective, but removes obvious patterns that can turn a challenge into a one-shot LLM answer. Current examples include IDOR, path traversal and SQL injection. I'm not trying to make CTFs “AI-p...

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center sftunnel Flaw (CVE-2026-20324) Explained Overview CVE-2026-20324 is a critical vulnerability in the sftunnel component of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). Cisco rates the flaw at CVSS 9.9. Successful exploitation lets an unauthenticated remote attacker execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the affected system. The issue was disclosed as part of a September 16, 2026 wave of fixes for Cisco Secure Firewall products....

There are already several good in-memory cache libraries for Go. So when I started building pacecache , the obvious question was: Why another one? I wasn't trying to build a cache that would be universally better than every existing alternative. Cache design is a collection of trade-offs: lock contention, eviction quality, capacity utilization, expiration, memory overhead, and implementation complexity all pull in different directions. What I wanted was a relatively small, gener...

AI agents cross a line that ordinary chat systems do not: they connect probabilistic decisions to real actions. An agent that can read mail, update a record, run a tool, or spend money is part of your production control plane. Prompt quality matters, but prompts are not a security boundary. The controls below should exist before an agent receives production access. 1. Separate read, recommend, and execute Do not treat "access" as a single permission. Use three distinct stag...

The CSS Box Model describes how every HTML element is treated as a rectangular box. Components of the Box Model The CSS Box Model has 4 main components : Content: The actual text, image, or other content. Padding: Space between the content and border. Border: A line surrounding the content and padding. Margin: Space outside the border that separates elements. How They Affect Layout Content, padding, border, and margin together determine...

The chain of events from Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 uploading malicious package to PyPI, OpenAI agents attacking Hugging Face to Trump declaring “whoever wins AI, wins” The latest hysteria around the existential risk of humans, AI taking over control, etc. started with the tweet of an AI researcher at Anthropic and a quote repost of the lead at Anthropic’s alignment team stating he personally thinks it is a>10% chance that AI could kill all humans by the end of this decade. I personall...

This is Part 1 of the Dart and Flutter series—practical guides, architectural deep dives, and hard-earned engineering lessons from the field. Each article is completely standalone. Picture this familiar scene: You’re deep in the zone. You’re practicing disciplined Test-Driven Development (TDD). You write a failing test, write the minimal code to satisfy it, and refactor. Red, green, refactor. Your fingers are flying. Then, you add a single new method to your UserRepository inter...

I built an OpenAPI to MCP server generator for TypeScript, Python and Go. The v1 mistake: 1 endpoint = 1 tool. On a real API with 200 operations, you get a 200-tool server. Nobody can use that. That was the exact feedback I got on Reddit, and it was right. What I changed in 2.1.5: 1. Grouping by tag or path 200 operations across 8 tags become ~8 tools. Each group routes internally by action . node dist/cli/index.js generate -i api.yaml -o ./out --group-by tag node dist...

Preparing store screenshots should be a short release task. In practice, it often turns into a small design project: find the current export sizes, place several captures in consistent frames, keep text readable, repeat the work for every locale, and discover a dimension error only after uploading. I built ASOShot to make that workflow less fragile. It is a free browser-based editor for App Store and Google Play screenshot graphics. You can start from a template, add real app captures, edit...

I've been working on AI Video Factory, an MIT-licensed Python pipeline that turns a topic into a complete 20-30 minute documentary: researched script, per-scene visuals, local TTS narration, music bed, karaoke captions, FFmpeg assembly, QC, thumbnail, and YouTube metadata. What it does You give it a topic. It researches the topic, writes a script with citations, pulls per-scene visuals from Pexels/Pixabay/NASA, narrates it with local TTS, lays down a music bed, burns in karaoke c...

The architecture of enterprise financial audit systems and fraud detection engines has reached a historic inflection point. For decades, organizations have oscillated between two distinct paradigms: the brittle, highly deterministic rigidity of classical rule engines and relational database constraints, and the fluid, probabilistic, yet dangerously opaque nature of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Classical engines fail when confronted with unstructured, rapidly evolving regulatory prose, wh...

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