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Laravel News

State of Laravel 2026 Survey Is Now Open

The State of Laravel 2026 survey is open. Tobias Petry's annual survey asks about your stack, tooling, deployments, and how you use AI. The post State of Laravel 2026 Survey Is Now Open appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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BleepingComputer

Snowflake ends service-account passwords. Now comes the hard part

Snowflake is ending password authentication for legacy service accounts, forcing organizations to migrate them to passwordless methods. Token Security explains why the harder challenge is identifying what uses each account, who owns it, and how much access it still needs. [...]

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DZone

The Folly of Tokenmaxxing or Reinventing the Wheel

TL; DR: Tokenmaxxing or Reinventing the Wheel Your organization counts AI tokens, seats, and pilots, but can anyone name a single decision those numbers actually changed? Tokenmaxxing is only the symptom; five old Agile Laws explain the cause, and each one comes with a test you can run this week. There is no need to reinvent the wheel with AI transformations and learn the hard way what the veterans of other transformations already figured out. Thesis: Tokenmaxxing is the vanity metric of pushing

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The Hacker News

NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that

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Google Cloud Blog

FinOps for the AI era: New flexible billing and cost controls for agents

Editor's note: A product image was updated after initial publication. As AI takes on more complex work, business leaders face a new challenge: enabling rapid innovation using agents while protecting their margins and budgets. To get a real return on AI, financial operations (FinOps) and cost management must evolve alongside technology, giving you clear visibility, proactive cost controls, and flexible payment models that fit your needs.  That’s why today we’re introducing expanded billing flexib

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