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Content warning: This story includes references to suicidal ideation. Lisa Schrenk didn’t know it yet, as she trudged down a dirt trail last August, but her life was about to change. She’d set out late the night before with her hiking group, scrambling up Virginia’s Old Rag
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Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition Last week, AWS bought DuckLabs, the people behind the open source OLAP system DuckDB. Since the cloud giant already owns a data warehouse – in Redshift – and it
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Over the past year, I've had countless conversations with treasury and payment teams at major banks, and I'm often asked the same question: how do we compete with wallet-native fintechs on cross-border payments? But as I tell these teams, this isn't the right question
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* Microsoft warns of TerminalFix, a campaign abusing compromised sites with fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs * Victims paste malicious PowerShell commands, sideloading DLLs and deploying a Python implant * Implant enables encrypted reverse tunnels, giving attackers pivot access into internal networks Security researchers from Microsoft are warning of an ongoing malicious campaign that uses
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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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The founders behind Starcloud, a startup with plans to operate a fleet of GPUs in orbit, have a new pitch for potential investors: A plan to send a tiny spacecraft on an 80,000 year journey to Alpha Centauri. If they do it, it will be the first human-built object
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A critical vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory is reportedly being exploited in the wild just days after its public disclosure. JFrog Artifactory is a widely used solution for managing the full lifecycle of software artifacts, binaries, AI models, containers, and packages. Artifactory updates released on August 28 patch CVE-2026-82329, a critical
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There's a story making the rounds in engineering communities that I can't stop thinking about. A customer-support agent, one of those LLM-plus-tools setups everyone is shipping right now, issues a $4,200 refund to a user who wasn't entitled to it. Not a bug
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Keyword research has not changed. What changed is the answer to the question at the end of it, which is: would this be worth winning? On a growing share of queries, the answer now appears above the results, the searcher reads it, and nobody visits anything. Research that ignores this
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For twenty years, identity and access management has been built around one assumption: the thing logging in is a person. A person clicks "authorize," a person holds a session, and if something goes wrong, someone can ask that person directly what happened. Every audit trail, every access review,
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There are moments in the history of technology when it feels as though only one piece is missing. It is like a game of Tetris in which almost every row is complete. The pieces have already fallen, most of the spaces are filled, but one gap remains, preventing the rows
