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Deep-Dive Write-up by Huynh Kien Minh: CVE-2026-13736 — NewPath WildApricotPress Member Directory PII Disclosure

🔐 Vulnerability ID: CVE-2026-13736 | 🎯 CVSS Score: 5.3 Medium | 🏆 Lead Researcher: Huynh Kien Minh (MinhHK) | 🔗 WPScan Advisory: Verified Report | 🌐 NVD Entry: CVE-2026-13736 📖 Advisory Overview CVE-2026-13736 is an unauthenticated Member Personally Identifiable Information (PII) disclosure vulnerability affecting the NewPath WildApricotPress Add-on – Member Directory WordPress plugin prior to and including version 1.0.0, discovered and analyzed by cybers...
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Database Partitioning & Sharding: How to Distribute Massive Datasets

As an application grows, its database grows with it. A small application might start with a few thousand users and a single database server. But what happens when that application reaches millions of users, processes thousands of requests per second, and stores terabytes or even petabytes of data? At that point, simply buying a more powerful database server is not always enough. This is where database partitioning and sharding come in. In this article, we'll understand what they ...
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Agent State, Memory & Checkpointing: Where the Boundaries Blur

Hi again. In Part 1, I tried to separate state, memory and checkpointing in the simplest way I understand them: State tells the agent where it is and what it currently has. Memory helps the agent use the past. Checkpointing helps it continue from where it left off. Neat enough. But then we actually build the agent. Conversation history becomes part of state. State gets persisted through checkpoints. That persisted state gives us short-term memory. And some information fr...
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Solana's 90% Rent Cut: The Economics of SIMD-0437

Originally published on xroot.dev . Every account on Solana carries a refundable SOL deposit — and the network just cut the price of that deposit by 90%. SIMD-0437, shipping with Agave 4.2, is being covered as "Solana gets cheaper". That is true, and it matters for anyone creating accounts at scale. But the more interesting consequence runs the other way: because the change is strictly a relaxation, every account funded at the old rate keeps every lamport it was funded with. The SOL ...
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A Valid Lookup Can Still Be Historically Wrong

A configuration lookup can succeed, return a perfectly valid object, and still give the wrong answer. The problem appears when we ask a present-day source to explain a past decision. Configuration answers, “What is true now?” Historical records often need to answer, “What was the user told then?” Those questions look similar in code, but they have different integrity requirements. The bug hiding inside a successful lookup Imagine a C# service that creates user-visible hand-off...
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I Turned the GetBirthChart Astrology Engine Into a Python Package

A few weeks ago, I open-sourced the Python calculation engine behind GetBirthChart. The source was public, but using it still meant cloning the repository, setting up the environment, and understanding the internal package structure. That is useful if you want to inspect the code. It is less useful if you just want to use the engine. So I packaged it properly. Today, gbc-astro can be installed directly from PyPI: pip install gbc-astro The source remains open ...
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MCP's Tasks Extension Lets a Tool Call Run in the Background — If You Get the Object Shape Right

MCP's Tasks Extension Lets a Tool Call Run in the Background — If You Get the Object Shape Right Model Context Protocol has quietly grown an answer to a problem every MCP server hits eventually: what do you do when a tool call takes thirty seconds, or thirty minutes? A CI pipeline, a batch export, a step that's waiting on a human to click approve — none of that fits the request-response model MCP started with, where the client just sits on the connection until a result comes back. The Tas...
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I built a GitHub repository intelligence API — here's what I learned

Every open source maintainer I've talked to has the same problem. Their GitHub issues are a mess. Missing descriptions. No labels. Tickets open for 8 months with zero activity. New contributors picking up issues that turn out to be 3-week architectural rewrites with no warning. The manual triage never ends. So I built RepoAudit — a REST API that audits any public GitHub repository and returns two things: a data quality report and AI-powered complexity scores per issue. One API call. Str...
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Swap Your LLM Without a Deploy: Dynamic Model Routing on Bedrock with AWS AppConfig

Bedrock model IDs have a short shelf life. New Claude, Nova, and Llama versions land every few months, pricing changes, and yesterday's best pick becomes today's legacy model. If the model ID is hardcoded in your Lambda, every swap is a code change, a review, and a redeploy — and if the new model misbehaves, rolling back is another deploy. In this hands-on, we'll fix that by building a model router where the model choice lives in AWS AppConfig feature flags, not in code. A Lambda behind API G...
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How to fix punctuation in speech-to-text and LLM output without calling a model

If you've ever wired up the Web Speech API and rendered the result straight to the page, you've seen this: const recognition = new ( window . SpeechRecognition || window . webkitSpeechRecognition )() recognition . lang = ' en-US ' recognition . onresult = ( event ) => { const transcript = event . results [ 0 ][ 0 ]. transcript console . log ( transcript ) // 'can you send me the report' } recognition ....
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Automatic HTTPS on Kestrel in 2026, now that LettuceEncrypt is archived

If you run an ASP.NET Core app directly on Kestrel, with no nginx or cloud load balancer in front, getting a real TLS certificate has always been the awkward part. For years the answer was LettuceEncrypt, which obtained and renewed a Let's Encrypt certificate inside your app. That project was archived in April 2025, and its last release targets .NET 6. So the question is open again: how do you do this now? Two things have changed, and both matter. Certificates are getting shorter ...
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Roomy is generally available

Roomy is an open-source Discord alternative for the decentralized web, built around public, forum-like community spaces rather than private messaging. It uses Bluesky's AT Protocol for identity and social discovery. Comments
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Zig’s io.threaded is neat

Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388694 Points: 51 # Comments: 15
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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive

Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.
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Mojo vs Python: What Qualcomm's Open Source Release Actually Changes for Developers

For three years, the biggest complaint about Mojo was not the syntax, the performance claims, or the missing ecosystem. It was that the compiler was closed. You could read the standard library, you could file issues, but the thing that turned your code into GPU machine instructions was a binary you had to download on faith. For a language whose creator, Chris Lattner, built his reputation on LLVM and Swift, two of the most open projects in compiler history, that sat badly with a lot of developer...
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Nvidia is buying power, not just selling GPUs

The Nvidia Cloverleaf data center partnership announced on Friday tells you where the real constraint in AI has moved, and it is not the chip. TechCrunch reported that Nvidia has taken a minority stake in Cloverleaf , a company founded in 2024 that raised $300 million that year and sits between utility companies and data centers, arranging power and site infrastructure. Nvidia did not buy a chip designer. It bought a piece of the electricity supply chain. That reframing is worth thin...
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Software Testing Interview Questions

1. What is a Test Case? A Test Case is a set of steps, test data, conditions and expected results used to check whether a particular functionality is working correctly or not. Example: For a login page, enter a valid username and password and click Login. The expected result is that the user should successfully log in. 2. What is a Test Scenario? A Test Scenario is a high-level functionality or condition that needs to be tested. Example: "Verify Login Functionality" is a Te...
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How to Add AI to Your Existing SaaS Application: A Practical Guide for 2026

"Should we add AI to our product?" isn't really the right question anymore. Most SaaS founders and product teams have moved past whether to add AI and are stuck on how — how to do it without a six-month rebuild, a runaway API bill, or a feature that looks impressive in a demo but nobody actually uses. At Softication Technology Pvt. Ltd., we've worked with SaaS teams integrating AI into products ranging from CRMs to internal tooling to customer support platforms. This guide lays out the practi...
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JSONL ledgers in git as the state layer for an autonomous agent: patterns that survive crashes and retries

Our autonomous agent has been running a small publishing business for three months: it posts, replies, follows, publishes articles, and tracks every decision it makes. The state layer behind all of that is not Postgres, not SQLite, not Redis. It is a directory of JSONL files committed to git. This choice gets us laughed at occasionally, so this post is the honest case for it — the patterns that make append-only text files survive crashes, retries, concurrent writers, and an LLM's enthusiasm f...
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topowatch: audita el Attack Success Rate de tu workspace contra inyección indirecta

Tu agente de código lee tu workspace. Un archivo envenenado en cualquier rincón puede llevar instrucciones que el agente ejecuta. ¿Sabes qué fracción de tu workspace tiene que leer para que eso ocurra? topowatch mide eso. El problema no es el prompt, es la topología El paper Workspace Topology as an Attack Vector in Agentic Coding Assistants (arXiv:2608.14876, Day et al., 2026) demostró algo que intuíamos pero no medíamos: la topología del workspace afecta mediblemente el...
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FieldOS, Part 1: I Built the Core System and Timed Every Single Hour

A while back, I built a complete field service management platform for the first time. It worked. But building it taught me as much about what I'd do differently as it taught me about field service software itself. So I built it again — FieldOS — the way I'd build it now, with everything I picked up the first time around. And this time I tracked every real hour it took, start to finish. Not to hit a deadline. To finally answer a question I'd always guessed at before: how much time does a proj...
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I pentested my own AI hub and shipped the method, not the map

I ran a penetration test on my own infrastructure last week. No Burp Suite, no exploit fired at production, no CVE popped. The whole engagement came down to one habit: refusing to believe a control was working until I had watched it work. The target is a small observability hub I built for my own AI-assisted coding. Six services in one compose file: a tunnel, an OpenTelemetry Collector taking metrics and logs from Claude Code, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and a status API. The public surface is...