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If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year. Inequalities are still common, the climate is worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away
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A two-week focused sandbox bug-bounty program resulted in 1,285 filings, but none that could access customer data. The Vercel sandbox, a Firecracker‑based microVM environment, is an isolation tool for untrusted AI‑agent code. For two weeks (August 18 until September 1), Vercel operated a focused bug-bounty program with
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In my last post, we designed a dual Roaring Bitmap inventory engine that mapped our GPU rack runtime availability status to a tiny payload. We set up Server-Sent Events (SSE), tested it on localhost, watched the latency plummet to sub-millisecond levels, and felt like we had beaten the system. Then,
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The key that was never really yours Years ago I shipped a battery-powered NB-IoT pet collar and wrote about the firmware side of it: FreeRTOS, an STM32L4, safe OTA, and the small humiliations of making a radio live inside a dog's daily schedule. That article was about keeping
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I run a small, free tool called USFoodInJapan, a map that lets Americans traveling in Japan search a hotel, landmark, or neighborhood and instantly see every nearby US fast food chain and convenience store (konbini), with distance and one-tap directions. No account, no app install, just a search bar and
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Key Takeaways * In the SaaS multi-tenancy model, we assume tenants to be the same. When you have competition between tenants, and at the same time the platform operator is a player in the same market, we have a conflict of interest issue that is beyond that of simple access control.
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A connection drops and comes back. The dashboard goes green. What actually recovered? There are two answers, and they are not the same claim. Either the original transport survived an interruption, or something built a replacement, and the replacement is now doing the work. In most systems, the observable end
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There is $33.5 billion of tokenized real-world assets sitting on public blockchains as of July, up from $5.4 billion at the start of 2025. Almost none of it is reachable from the app a crypto holder actually opens every day. A portfolio tracker will tell you that you
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The discourse around trimming AI costs has focused on prompts. Lesser attention has been paid to the data the tools send back, even though that's where most tokens are spent. While developers focus on creating prompt libraries, counting tokens, and aiming for shorter messages, the payloads agents pull
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Open any L2 today, and the view is the same; on the whitepaper, we see fractions of a cent per transaction, instant swaps, and airdrops for showing up early. It feels like the industry finally cracked free infrastructure, but it didn’t. Cheap execution, “free” points programs, and sub-cent fees
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When Josh Wardle's Wordle went viral, it sparked an entire ecosystem of spinoffs and niche adaptations. While the instinct for modern web developers is to spin up create-react-app or a Next.js template for any interactive interface, a 5-letter word puzzle is one of the best use cases
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DeFi staking protocols appear simple from the outside: deposit tokens, wait, and receive rewards. The difficult part is making the accounting behave correctly when multiple users are staking, withdrawing, claiming rewards, changing reward rates, and interacting with a reward pool that contains a finite number of tokens. I built StakeVault
