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Measuring the Edge: What ZoomEye Sees When You Search for Exposed Access Gateways

Measuring the Edge: What ZoomEye Sees When You Search for Exposed Access Gateways The SonicWall SMA1000 zero-day chain disclosed in September 2026 raised a question that vulnerability advisories rarely answer: how many of these devices are actually reachable from the internet? ZoomEye can help answer it. To find SonicWall Secure Mobile Access appliances, the product fingerprint is the starting point: app="SonicWall-SMA" Run against ZoomEye's IPv4 device dataset, this query returned 7 matching

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License Referee — a compatibility ruling agent backed by Sanity Context

This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path One: Ship an Agent That Queries Real Content License Referee — paste a package.json, a GitHub repo URL, or an npm package name, and it rules on whether every dependency's license can legally combine with your project's, in which direction, under what conditions, and who said so. "Can I use this?" is usually answered by glancing at a license badge, which is wrong in ways that matter. Compatibility is directional (Apache-2.0 code may go into a GP

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Why your order system and your payment provider disagree

Twice a month somebody in operations finds a number that doesn't match. An order recorded at €120.00 against a capture of €119.40. Or an order with no payment at all. Or, the one that ruins the afternoon, a refund larger than anything that was ever collected. Then a week goes by. Operations says the payment system is wrong, engineering says the order system is wrong, somebody exports both into a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet becomes the thing everyone argues about instead of the systems. A de

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Stop Your CSS Layout From Breaking: Understand `box-sizing

If you've ever set an element to width: 300px and wondered why it ends up wider than 300px, you're not alone. One of the most important CSS concepts for beginners is the box model. Understanding it can save you a lot of time debugging overflowing cards, inputs, buttons, and layouts. Every HTML element can be thought of as a box made up of four main parts: Content Padding Border Margin The important part is understanding what happens when you give that box a width. Consider this CSS: .card { wi

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Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages. The problem is that Aten says he did

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