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os platforms No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper Microsoft has pumped ads into the Windows Start menu and pushed users through setup screens promoting its services. Now it's bringing advertising to the Windows desktop with a Harry Potter promotion in its Bing
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Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access A secret channel running through ChatGPT's internal JFrog Artifactory instance allowed one account to send hidden tasks - such as retrieving email data from a connected Gmail account - to a ChatGPT
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Birdwatching is a very relaxing hobby, but actually identifying the birds visiting your backyard takes a bit of knowledge. Apps can help with that, and projects based on BirdNET can automatically identify birds by their calls. But Arne Giacomo Munthe-Kaas wanted something that was a little nicer to look at
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Boston, MA, USA, September 8th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Reflectiz, the continuous web exposure management company, today launched a multi-agent penetration testing platform for websites. Multiple specialized AI agents discover, attack, and validate vulnerabilities across complex web environments, and because they start from an existing model of each site, they cover up
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The app was finished. Everything that actually stopped it from shipping was an identity check — and not one of them is in the SDK documentation. I am building Kotohira Digital Residents for Shipaton 2026 — a membership app for a Japanese town of about 8,000 people, where a ¥5,000
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In June 2026 Cloudflare reported that machines had overtaken people as the source of most requests to web pages, 57.5 per cent against 42.5, a crossover its chief executive had not expected until late 2027. In the same quarter Cursor, a coding agent that did not exist four
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This morning, an AI agent autonomously refactored a messy legacy codebase I was working on years ago, it did the whole thing before I had a chance to finish my coffee. Next side quest on my to do list? update my home address on multiple government department websites. Suddenly, it
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On August 25, I submitted Adversary to Apple App Review. I liked the date. I was born on the 25th. My wife and I first met on the 25th. Our wedding was originally planned for the 25th. So, naturally, August 25 felt like a good day to submit the game
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If you ask an AI engineer today how to build an app that detects when developers disagree, most of them are likely to propose something like this: "Take the entire team Slack transcript, feed it into a giant system prompt with GPT-4, and ask: 'Did anyone say something
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Two weeks ago, I did something brave and slightly foolish: I announced my iOS app, Dogear, on Twitter/X. I hit “post” with all the confidence of someone who’d just shipped a product into the world. Then I watched the replies roll in. The response? Let’s call it…
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A “word of the day” widget is easy to describe: choose a word, render it, update tomorrow. That was not enough for Slovo, a one-minute Russian learning app, and its central product idea is that a glance can become a recall attempt. If the widget only showed today’s word,
