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Featured Podcasts Great Chat: AI's Spooky Season A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer. Subscribe to Great Chat. Sundar Pichai on Gemini 4 and the AI compute crunch Candid conversations with the leaders shaping
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Threat actors started probing for servers affected by two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in PHP four days before the fixes, Amazon reports. Patches for the two flaws, known as PHP2Shell and tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, were released on October 21, after the PHP Foundation and industry partners
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There's a moment most CS students have had by now. You paste an assignment prompt into an AI tool and get back forty lines of clean, commented code. It runs, and the output looks right. Then you try to explain line 23 to yourself and realize you can&
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Every month, I found myself doing the same thing. Open Google Analytics 4. Open Google Search Console. Change the date range. Export the data. Repeat the process for another website. Then another. After that, I would clean the data, compare it with the previous period, build the report, and finally
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A tavern should look like the same tavern from a wide shot and from a close two-shot ten seconds later. That sounds obvious. On an AI-generated production, it almost never happens by accident. The model has no memory of the room it built two shots ago, and text alone can’
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TL;DL: Russian state media amplified a viral AI-safety whistleblower, but that doesn't mean Russia shaped him. I searched Russian, Chinese and Iranian outlets, Telegram and WeChat, then traced 20 of his public claims to their source. Every claim came from inside the U.S. AI industry, and
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A technical walkthrough of UiUX Report: a pure-function rule engine, WCAG contrast resolution, perceptual colour clustering, a pluggable design-system abstraction, and an SSRF-hardened Playwright backend, built by a designer who wrote the specs while an AI coding agent wrote the code. This is the technical companion to my first article,
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Overview Qwen3.8-27B-Defiance-Uncensored-MTP-GGUF is a text-generation release that combines HauhauCS’s uncensored Qwen3.8-27B weights with DavidAU’s Turbo-Brilliance chat-template constructs, packaged as GGUF files. The maintainer, ttindall, says the weights match HauhauCS’s upstream files byte for byte across all 866 tensors; no training was performed for this release.
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B2B attribution’s biggest problem isn’t first-touch vs. multi-touch. It’s missing data. A study of 521 deals found roughly half of pipeline credit came from unlogged calls, emails, notes, and relationships. Now AI agents turn those gaps into confident guesses. The fix: rebuild the record from every source
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The term "smart contract" sounds quite sophisticated in itself. We might even be led to believe that it’s something so "smart" that it cannot make mistakes, unlike humans. Yet, ultimately, it’s nothing more, and nothing less, than a very human invention. Smart contracts can
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Hero image: Original AI-assisted illustration created for this article. A research report can become a blog post, a newsletter, several short videos, and a stack of social updates. That sounds like a distribution strategy until someone asks which audience each version serves and what the team learned from publishing it.
