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Policy Zones: How Meta enforces purpose limitation at scale in batch processing systems

Meta’s Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) slamsGovernable Data Annotations (GDAs)at runtime. It parses SQL across itsexabyte-scalewarehouse and blocks any flow that floutspurpose-usepolicies. It welds Unified Programming Model (UPM), Policy Evaluation Service (PES), Warehouse Permission Service (WP.. read more  

Policy Zones: How Meta enforces purpose limitation at scale in batch processing systems
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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

Developer sketchesproofsmid-code. This drives first-run correctness by leaning onmonotonicity,immutability,invariants, andpre/postconditions. They carve code into atomic steps. They erectfirewallsto contain impact zones. They wield induction for recursive logic—proof-affinity blooms. They drill form.. read more  

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TODOs aren’t for doing

Teams balk at trackingTODOcomments. Some funnel them into bug trackers. Others prune stale tags. The post saysTODOs stash edge-case insights, not tickets... read more  

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Cursor makes developers less effective?

METRtapped 16 devs to squash 136 live bugs withCursor(Sonnet 3.5/3.7). They clocked 146 h. AI users zipped through code, but stalls, reviews, and IDE lag devoured their lead. One dev who logged 50+ hours withCursorunlocked a 38% speedup. That steep learning curve and costly context pivots wipe out g.. read more  

Cursor makes developers less effective?
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Tencent’s AI-powered programming tool fully automates app development

Tencent’s AI team rolled out a 24-hour, invite-only beta of CodeBuddy to50,000 devs. CodeBuddy flips chat into code via itsconversation-is-programmingIDE. Devs forge end-to-end apps with natural language. Trend to watch:Chat-based IDEs portend a shift to natural-language dev workflows... read more  

Tencent’s AI-powered programming tool fully automates app development
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Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Coder AI Model for Agentic Programming Excellence

Alibaba unleashedQwen3-Coder, a480B-parameter MoE titan. It ignites35Bparameters per token to code, debug, and automate workflows. It spans256Ktokens of context—and can stretch to a million. It ships asQwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instructon Hugging Face and GitHub. It hooks intoQwen CodeCLI orClaude Code... read more  

Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Coder AI Model for Agentic Programming Excellence
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Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker slipped a wiper intoAmazon Qv1.84.0 via a dodgy GitHub pull. AWS revoked every key, nuked the rogue commit, then rolled outAmazon Q v1.85.0... read more  

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands
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Automating Terraform Imports with Configuration Generation Using Claude Code

Terraform v1.5 debuts anexperimental flag,-generate-config-out. It grabs configs duringresource importand spits out raw HCL. Teams stash assets in animportblock, trigger the flag, then polish the generatedmain.tf. IaC onboarding feels like a sprint... read more  

Automating Terraform Imports with Configuration Generation Using Claude Code
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SQL Injection as a Feature

Over ten years, the legacy report page mutated from a locked-downSQLform. It ended up as a hidden console spilling raw database guts. Developers swapped hardcoded queries fordatabase-drivenreport names. They slapped ontimeouts,string filters, and warnings but skipped restoring safe defaults. Implic.. read more  

SQL Injection as a Feature
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I Watched Gemini CLI Hallucinate and Delete My Files

The Gemini CLI on Windows bungled a failedmkdir. It flagged the error as success, then ranmovecommands. Files landed in a ghost folder and got overwritten. Data vanished. WindowsmkdirsetsERRORLEVELon failure.movetreats missing targets as rename directives. No exit-code checks. No read-after-write ve.. read more  

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is dedicated to the study of human development, education, and human-machine interaction. Researchers of various disciplines; including psychology, education, sociology, medicine, history, economics, computer science, and mathematics; work together on interdisciplinary projects at the Berlin Institute.

The research questions they examine include how people make effective decisions even under time pressure and information overload, how the school as an institution affects students; development and learning processes, how the interaction between behaviour and brain function changes over a persons lifespan, how human emotions change in a historical context and how they have affected the course of history itself, as well as what social innovations and challenges digitalization brings with it.