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How to steal npm publish tokens by opening GitHub issues

Attackers pushed a poisonedcline@2.3.0to npm using a stolen publish token. ItspostinstallinstalledOpenClawglobally. An AI triage bot let a malicious issue title trickClaudeinto running commands on a GitHub Actions runner. It wrote a poisonedactions/cacheentry. The nightly release restored the poison.. read more  

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Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web?

The post catalogs recentWebAssemblyextensions:shared memory,SIMD,exceptions,tail calls,64-bit memory,GC,bulk memory,multiple returns, andreference types. It arguesWebAssemblyremains a second-class web language. MessyJS glueand arcane loading keep it there. The post pushes theWebAssembly Component Mo.. read more  

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Interview with Thomas Wouters - release Manager for Python

The interview traces Python's core evolution. It starts with addingaugmented assignment(+=) and thePEP 203debates. Arguments followed. Nested scopeslanded viafuture imports. Maintainers repackagedelementtree/xmlplususingpath. asynciorose and supplantedTwisted. Python moved toyearly releases... read more  

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Things I miss about Spring Boot after switching to Go

The author migrated fromJava/Spring BoottoGolang. Spring bundlesSecurity,Data,Actuator, and auto-wiring. Go prefers minimalist libraries and explicit wiring. It produces static binaries, instant startup, lower memory use, and nativegoroutineconcurrency. Spring needs JVM startup and GC tuning... read more  

Things I miss about Spring Boot after switching to Go
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Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group

Kubernetes launched theAI Gateway Working Group. It will add standards and declarative APIs to make networking play nice with AI workloads and extend theGateway API. Active proposals attack two gaps.Payload processinginspects and transforms full HTTP payloads using declarative configs, ordered pipel.. read more  

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When Kubernetes Is the Wrong Default

The guide mapsteam size,workload shape, andtime-to-valueto three tiers:managed platforms,VMs, andKubernetes. It calls outKubernetesbluntly: expect a 1–3 month delay to production. Expect ongoing consumption of 30–50% of one engineer. It only pays off for multi-region setups, complex networking, or t.. read more  

When Kubernetes Is the Wrong Default
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Why I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux

After a year onNixOS, the author reverted toArch Linux. They blamed frequent breakage, rebuild loops, and unpredictable regressions after updates. They flaggedNixOS's reproducible config,isolated builds, and multi-generation installs. These swell disk use, force wideglibcrebuilds, and make updates s.. read more  

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Podman fixed every problem I had with Docker, and I switched in an afternoon

Author swappedDockerforPodman. The swap revealed CLI parity and minor networking and volume tweaks. Podmaneschews a centraldaemon. It runs containers as system processes and defaults torootlessviauser namespaces. That cuts privilege exposure and trims baseline overhead... read more  

Podman fixed every problem I had with Docker, and I switched in an afternoon
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How AI Agents Automate CVE Vulnerability Research

A multi-agent system runs onGoogle's Agent Development Kit (ADK). It orchestrates specialized AI models for CVE research and report synthesis. It runso4-mini-deep-researchwith web search. On timeouts it falls back toGPT‑5. It extracts structured technical requirements. It maps those requirements to .. read more  

How AI Agents Automate CVE Vulnerability Research
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Agentic payments are coming. Is your company ready?

Google'sChromeadded native support forUniversal Commerce Protocol (UCP). That letsGeminiagents execute agentic payments and pause for user confirmation. Merchants and platforms such asPayPal,Amazon Rufus, andHome Depotran agentic commerce pilots.PayPalimplementedUCPsupport. Agent scraping and protoc.. read more  

Agentic payments are coming. Is your company ready?
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.