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Self-replicating worm hits 180+ npm packages in (largely) automated supply chain attack

A supply chain worm called **Shai-hulud** is loose in the npm wild. It's not just lurking—it’s replicating through npm packages, lifting developer tokens, and injecting tainted versions of real, maintained libraries. Once in, it grabs GitHub secrets, flips private repos public, and piggybacks on Gi..

Self-replicating worm hits 180+ npm packages in (largely) automated supply chain attack
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Born to Thrash - Metalhead - Tshirt

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Are you a born metalhead who loves nothing more than thrashing to your favorite tunes? Our "Born to Thrash - Metalhead" t-shirt is the perfect way to showcase your love of heavy metal and your dedicat...

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How In-Memory Caching Works in Redis

Redis isn’t just a cache anymore. Sure, it still owns the in-memory speed game—with **key expiration**, **data persistence**, and **horizontal scaling** via **replication** and **clustering**. But if you're only using it to stash a few keys, you're missing the point. This thing handles **streams**,..

How In-Memory Caching Works in Redis
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Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS

Running **open-weight LLMs locally on macOS**? This post breaks it down clean. It compares **llama.cpp**—great for tweaking things—to **LM Studio**, which trades control for simplicity. Covers what fits in memory, which quantized models to grab (hint: 4-bit GGUF), and what’s coming down the pipe: *..

Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS
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MCP vulnerability case study: SQL injection in the Postgres MCP server

A nasty SQL injection bug in Anthropic’s now-retiredPostgres MCP serverlet attackers blow past read-only mode and run whatever SQL they wanted. The repo got archived back in May 2025—but it’s far from dead. The unpatched package still racks up21,000 NPM installsand1,000 Docker pullsevery week...

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Implementing Vector Search from Scratch: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Search is a fundamental problem in computing, and vector search aims to match meanings rather than exact words. By converting queries and documents into numerical vectors and calculating similarity, vector search retrieves contextually relevant results. In this tutorial, a vector search system is bu..

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GitHub Copilot Custom Chat Modes: AI Personas that Match Your Needs

GitHub Copilot Chat just jot better in **VS Code 1.101** with **Custom Chat Modes**. Devs can now drop Markdown files into their workspace to shape Copilot’s persona—tone, tools, constraints, the works. Want an AI buddy for security audits? Or a test-writing machine with zero patience for flaky cod..

GitHub Copilot Custom Chat Modes: AI Personas that Match Your Needs
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Building an AI Server on a Budget ($1.3K)

A developer rolled their own AI server for $1.3K—Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, an Nvidia RTX GPU, and a sharp eye on Tensor cores, VRAM, and resale value. The rig handles small models locally and punts big jobs to the cloud when needed. Local-first, cloud-when-it-counts...

Building an AI Server on a Budget ($1.3K)
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You Vibe It, You Run It?

Vibe Coding lets developers create software by chatting with AI, skipping traditional coding. But the non-determinism of AI prompts poses significant risks for reliability and maintainability, potentially leading to addiction-like dependence on this new tool. Think twice before fully embracing this ..

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TIOBE Programming Index News September 2025: Perl Regains the Spotlight

Perl 5 has risen to **10th place in the TIOBE Index**, increasing in popularity even though the exact reason is unknown. Perl 6, or Raku, lags behind Perl 5 in rankings and has not seen the same rise in attention. Other top languages like C and Java have experienced slight falls in rankings...

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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

A long-dead Linux kernel driver for QIC-80 tape drives just got dragged into the present—with help from **Claude Code** and a lot of tinkering. It now builds cleanly and runs as a **standalone module** on **Linux 6.8**, playing nice with modern setups like **Xubuntu 24.04**. **The bigger picture:**..

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver