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Troy Hunt Finds the Sweet Spot for AI Support: Human-Assisted, Not Fully Autonomous
Troy Hunt reports a shift in how he thinks about his AI assistant Bruce for handling support tickets. Rather than aiming for full autonomy, the real value emerg
wolfSSL ECDSA flaw lets attackers forge certificates across 5B+ devices
A critical cryptographic validation flaw in wolfSSL (CVE-2026-5194) lets attackers bypass certificate verification by exploiting missing hash digest size and OI
A Juggler's Complete Guide: From Zero Balls to Siteswap Notation
A self-taught juggler who practices everywhere from airports to nightclubs lays out a structured progression for learning to juggle three balls. The method brea
Adobe Ships Emergency Patch for Acrobat Reader Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation
Adobe pushed an out-of-band fix for CVE-2026-34621, a vulnerability in Acrobat Reader already being weaponized in the wild. The flaw allows attackers to execute
AMD's ROCm Slowly Closes the Gap on Nvidia's CUDA Dominance
AMD continues its long-running effort to make ROCm a viable alternative to Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem, which has locked in the GPU computing market for over a deca
Apple's AI 'Failure' May Be Its Greatest Strategic Advantage
As AI model capabilities rapidly commoditize - with open-weight models like Gemma 4 matching what was frontier-class performance just 18 months ago - the compan
Bootstrapper runs multiple $10K MRR businesses on a $20/month stack
A solo developer details the exact infrastructure behind multiple profitable SaaS products that collectively cost under $20 a month to operate. The core approac
Cantrill: LLMs Lack the Laziness That Forces Good Abstractions
Bryan Cantrill argues that LLMs are missing a critical engineering virtue: laziness. Because generating code costs an LLM nothing and it has no stake in future
Claude Code Burns Through Pro Max 5x Quota in 90 Minutes
A detailed bug report reveals that Anthropic's Claude Code CLI can exhaust a Pro Max 5x (Opus) subscription quota in as little as 1.5 hours of moderate use. The
Developer Turns NYC Subway System Into a Live Musical Instrument
A creative coding project maps every train line in New York City's subway system to a musical instrument, turning real-time transit data into a generative audio
Font Awesome's 99% sender score means nothing to Gmail's spam filter
Font Awesome discovered its announcement emails were quietly vanishing into Gmail spam folders despite a 99% reputation score in SendGrid. The team only noticed
Gemma 4 runs local audio transcription on Mac via MLX
Google's 10.28 GB Gemma 4 E2B model can now transcribe audio files locally on macOS using MLX and mlx-vlm. Simon Willison shared a single uv run command that ha