Upwind Expands AI Agent Protection With Context Scanning and Runtime Detection
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Upwind Expands AI Agent Protection With Context Scanning and Runtime Detection

The security problem posed by AI agents is not really about the models themselves. It is about everything wrapped around them: the skills, the tools, the connections, and the instructions that determine what an agent actually does once it is set loose in a live environment. Upwind Security is tackling that problem directly with two new releases: the AI Agent Context Scanner and the general availability of AI Detection & Response, or AI DR. Why Context Matters More Than the Model AI ...
The Machines We Keep Mistaking for Minds
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The Machines We Keep Mistaking for Minds

Today’s AI can mimic intelligence, emotion and companionship—but convincing human-like behaviour is not proof of consciousness or sentience.
How the FCC’s New Rule Will Affect Robot Vacuums
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How the FCC’s New Rule Will Affect Robot Vacuums

A new restriction on foreign-made mobile robots affects robotic vacuums, pool cleaners, and lawn mowers. Here’s what it means for the bots already in your home—and the ones you may never get to buy.
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The loss of Situational Awareness

I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice for people who are: Do not name your hedge fund anything that will be hilarious if it blows up. Don't use a name like "Long-Term Capital Management" or "Amaranth Advisors" (named for the floral symbol for […]
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Apple’s iPhone and Mac sales keep growing despite RAM shortages

Apple's iPhone and Mac sales are on the rise even as a global memory shortage squeezes device makers. In its third-quarter earnings report released on Thursday, Apple revealed that iPhone sales jumped 22 percent to $54.25 billion and Mac sales increased 29 percent to $10.35 billion, driving the company's overall revenue to $109.4 billion. The […]
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Xbox CEO lays out priorities in memo after major ‘reset’

After a massive Xbox "reset" that laid off thousands of employees and spun off four studios, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to get Xbox back to growth. In a memo obtained by The Verge, Sharma told staff by the end of fiscal year 2027 (which runs through next June), "we will return XBOX to player […]
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Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users

Apple may allow users to pay to increase their AI usage limits. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes people will want to use Apple Intelligence and the upcoming Siri AI "a lot," adding that "we will have some kind of upgrade possibilities on iCloud Plus where people […]
🌍 TechCrunch

Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth

Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payment rule changes in the U.S. — weighed on its services business, even as the company topped 1.5 billion paid subscriptions.
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The Reliability Roadmap: A 90-Day Plan for New SRE Teams

New SRE team at your company? Here's a 90-day plan I've used twice. It works because it balances 'show immediate value' with 'build for the long term.' Days 1-14: Observe Resist the urge to change things. Watch the current system, read existing post-mortems, shadow on-call, talk to engineers about their pain. Output: a list of the top 5 reliability problems ranked by 'engineering time lost per week.' Days 15-30: Quick wins Pick the top 2 from your list. Fix the...
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CamBridge: giving the iOS Simulator a real, moving camera image

The problem Neither the iOS Simulator nor the Android Emulator has real camera hardware. If you're building anything that touches AVCaptureSession — a QR scanner, a document capture flow, an AR feature — you end up with one of two workflows: Test exclusively on a physical device, every time, for every camera-touching change Stare at a blank/simulated camera feed in the Simulator and hope for the best Neither is great when you're iterating quickly. The fix: CamBridge...
I solved a 5 year old bug
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I solved a 5 year old bug

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Introduction Let me start by saying I am an Open-source contributor at Mozilla, I am trying to get better as a software engineer. I will be using the words Site or Tile interchangeably, they mean the same thing. Bug Report The title of the bug report was "Cannot remove amazon.com from top sites list" on Bugzilla and I believe it really captures the pain-point that users e...
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Exploring WebAssembly on the Server: Beyond the Browser Sandbox

For nearly a decade, my mental model for deploying enterprise software has revolved around containers, which are lightweight packages that bundle an application together with all the operating system files it needs to run. Recently, I decided to step outside my comfort zone of C# and traditional cloud environments to explore a technology taking a fundamentally different approach: WebAssembly on the server. Most engineers know WebAssembly, often shortened to Wasm, as a binary instruction forma...