Introducing Agent Intent-Based Access Control
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Introducing Agent Intent-Based Access Control

Varonis launches Agent Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC) to detect intent drift, enforce runtime guardrails, and stop rogue AI agents before damage occurs.
Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.
The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout
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The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout

In 2018, more than 20,000 employees walked out to protest how Google handled allegations of sexual harassment. Here’s how they organized it from inside the company.
How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot
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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.
Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So
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Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?
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Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne. There were dozens of responses; one from a user named Primary-Taro4254 seemed innocuous enough, at least at first. "I haven't personally tried [that brand] so I can't […]
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The next Xbox could play every Xbox game ever made

The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC games, but we now know, courtesy of a leaked memo obtained by The Verge's Tom Warren, that it will run games from every generation of Xbox: the original 2001 Xbox, the 2005 Xbox 360, […]
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OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," OpenAI said that Apple's lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets is "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal," sharing iMessage and email […]
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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
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Convert MT940 to xml in x++

/// <summary> /// Process class to convert MT940 to XML /// </summary> class ProcessMT940BankFiles { /// <summary> /// Method to get the request and return response based on process /// </summary> /// <param name = "_xmlContent">_xmlContent</param> /// <returns>xmlOutput</returns> public static str getIncomingFileContent(Notes _xmlContent) { MT940Parameters mt940Params; select firstonly * from mt940Pa...
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Most CSS Resets Solve the Wrong Problem

Also available in Español The Problem Every new project starts the same way. A reset goes in first. Eric Meyer's, normalize.css, one of the modern reset gists passed around in a team's starter template - it doesn't matter which. It happens before the first component, before the first token, before anyone has made a single real decision about how the site should look. It feels like housekeeping. Not a decision. Just clearing the ground before the real work starts. But ...
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Show Dev: How I built an AI Legal Document Factory for Africa using Groq & Streamlit

Architecting the Digital Supreme Court: How I’m Building Lawyie to Bridge Africa’s $10B Legal Gap The "Legal Shadow" of a Continent In Africa, millions of small businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals operate in a "legal shadow." Not because they want to avoid the law, but because the law is often inaccessible. With legal fees for simple contracts reaching NGN50,000 to NGN100,000 and waiting times extending into weeks, many choose to operate without protection. I am buildin...
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ollanode

Show HN: OllaDNS – An API-First DNS Security Platform Built for Developers Most DNS security tools are built around web dashboards. They work well for clicking through settings, but they can become difficult to automate when your infrastructure grows. While working on different developer tools, I kept running into the same problem. DNS policies were often managed manually, which made it harder to integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, version control, or AI-assisted workflows. That led to t...
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A failed read must throw, not return 0 — how Next.js ISR bakes your fallback into the cache

I run a directory site: ~3,500 rows in Postgres, read over PostgREST, rendered by Next.js with revalidate on every route. The headline number in the shell says "Search all 3,516 listings." For about a day it said "Search all 0 listings" — next to a grid full of listings. The database was fine by then. Three separate bugs conspired, and all three are the same mistake wearing different clothes: a read that degrades politely on failure, sitting underneath a cache that stores the polite ans...
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Best MinIO Alternatives in 2026: 6 Options That Actually Work

The best MinIO alternative in 2026 isn't one product — it's whichever one matches your license tolerance, cluster size, and throughput profile. After MinIO shifted its community model in late 2025, teams evaluating self-hosted S3-compatible storage now cross-shop RustFS, Ceph, SeaweedFS, and Garage before committing. Below is a comparison grounded in what each project actually does well, where they struggle, and which workloads fit. Key Stats Alternative License Language Min...
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LinkedIn gave everyone a 'this looks like AI' button. I won't press it.

This week LinkedIn rolled out a "Seems like AI slop" button. Tap it under someone's post and the post disappears from your feed, while your report goes off to train their filter. I heard about it through work — keeping an eye on what platforms are up to is part of the job — but I read it less as a marketer and more as someone who writes, and who now, apparently, walks around under suspicion. LinkedIn's logic isn't hard to follow. According to the AI detector Pangram, they have the highest ...
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"5 Python mistakes I keep making as a beginner (and how I fixed them)"

## 1. Using return instead of print inside a loop This one bit me early on. I wanted to print every item in a list, so I wrote something like this: python def show_items(items): for item in items: return item show_items(["apple", "banana", "cherry"]) Run it, and... nothing prints. Why? return doesn't just output a value it immediately exits the function. So the loop runs exactly once, hands back "apple", and the function is done. banana and cherry never gets a chance....
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Qwen3.8-Max Beat Claude on Three Benchmarks. The Full Story Is Less Convenient

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date. The headline specifications are absurd: 2.4 trillion total parameters, 95 billion activated per token, multimodal input, and a one-million-token context window. But the specification sheet is not the most interesting part. Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max operated autonomously for roughly 16 days, starting with an empty repository and building a working software project through issues, code changes, testing, pull r...
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Taming 70 Flutter Flavors: flavorizr + Batch CI for White-Label Releases

How we ship dozens of branded photography apps from one Flutter codebase—without drowning in manual Xcode/Gradle edits or one-off store uploads. This is the approach we use at Kamero — an AI-powered event photography platform ( kamero.ai ) that delivers white-label guest apps for studios and photographers. The problem: white-label means real store binaries At Kamero, our product is a multi-tenant event photography app. Each photography studio often needs: Its own App ...
Voice Emotion Control Moves From SSML to Prompts
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Voice Emotion Control Moves From SSML to Prompts

Voice emotion control is leaving the markup. Kakao's Kanana-o model, detailed on its tech blog on August 4, 2026, now takes plain-language instructions like "read it in a sad voice" or "read it in a Gyeongsang dialect" and reflects them in speed, volume, pitch, emotion, intonation, and intensity. On the Korean InstructTTSEval benchmark it scores 94.50, ahead of OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini-tts at 91.10 and just behind Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTS at 95.38. I work at Speechify, on the Speechi...
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The day I moved the rules to a place they can't be broken even if you try

What happened that day Even if you hand an AI agent the rules as a document, once a session grows long the rules stop getting read, and the same violations recur. In development where several agents read and write the same repository in parallel, when the rules stop being followed like this, it leads to accidents: unsaved changes disappear, work proceeds against a stale main, writes to the same file collide. So I stopped relying on getting the rules obeyed at all, and instead moved the ru...