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Chrome exempts Google's domains from user site-data controls Article

Chrome exempts Google's domains from user site-data controls

Chrome does not enforce user site data settings against Google-owned domains. What the exempt scope means and how to treat the control.

An anonymity tool is not anonymity
Article Tor

An anonymity tool is not anonymity

A Meta executive using Tor was unmasked as a torrent pirate by a private rights holder. A privacy tool is not anonymity; anonymity is an outcome.

Chromium executes attacker code across every version
Article zero-day

Chromium executes attacker code across every version

A zero-day sandbox RCE hits all Chromium versions under active exploitation, with no confirmed fixed build and a single containment control shown ineffective.

Context is the whole bill
Article Claude Code

Context is the whole bill

Portal by Spotify cut Claude Code token usage ~90% by serving scoped code slices instead of whole files, and why that matters for production AI systems.

Same task, different bets
Article LLM engineering

Same task, different bets

Claude, Codex and Cursor pick different tools across 17k runs - here is how to measure that revealed policy and wrap it in controls before it hits production.

The best terminal assistant has no AI
Article deterministic automation

The best terminal assistant has no AI

TERMy runs without an LLM to show where deterministic retrieval beats AI-assisted terminal work: bounded inputs, known answers, instant offline lookups.

The next commit captures the file you never named
Article git security

The next commit captures the file you never named

A .gitignore is a name-based deny-list on a capture-by-default store, so it cannot stop the unnamed secret that lands permanently in git history.

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