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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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CMF hit the balance between cheap and good clip earbuds

Clip earbuds are an exercise in compromise. It's an inherent aspect of their design - and physics. They can be more comfortable for people that don't like something jammed in their ear, but sound response suffers. Ambient awareness is great because you can easily hear the sound around you, which means to hear your own […]
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2025 GOTY Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is down to $33

For RPG fans who dig Persona-style turn-based action and who are pursuing games with original stories and fantastic tunes, look no further than Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. This praise might come off sounding weird, but I really like that Sandfall Interactive’s breakout hit isn’t overly long compared to RPGs it was inspired by. It’s worth […]
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Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
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AWS News - S1E2

Last week we kicked off a series covering the (data/storage/network) announcements that, in my view, had the most impact. This week I'm bringing 5 more recent launches to run through the fine-tooth comb. Description, the pain point it solved, and my critical take on each one. 1. Aurora DSQL lands in five more regions What it is: Aurora DSQL, AWS's distributed, serverless SQL database, is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore),...