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Vercel Blog

v0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variables

now installs private packages from npm and custom registries using credentials stored as shared environment variables on Vercel.v0 This makes it easier for teams to build with their existing design systems, component libraries, and internal packages directly in v0. To get started, add one of the following as a on Vercel, scoped to Development and/or Preview:shared environment variable supports scoped registries and references to other environment variables. For example, configure an organizati

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The Hacker News

New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution

WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose researchers reported the flaw, calls the attack chain Click2Shell. On its own the flaw only

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new open-weight option for coding and knowledge work. It offers native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and explicit prompt caching to reduce latency and input costs.

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GitHub Changelog

Stage-only npm tokens for safer automation

You can now select Read and write (stage only) when creating an npm granular access token. This lets your automated workflows stage package versions for review without giving the token… The post Stage-only npm tokens for safer automation appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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The Verge Tech

What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused on bringing generative AI into the mainstream to ask for their reaction to the recent warnings surrounding the technology. None have responded to our request for comment. The Screen Actors Guild

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Google Cloud Blog

Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL

Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are incredible at understanding conceptual meaning, they stumble on specific alphanumeric IDs and exact product SKU numbers. To build truly robust search and AI applications, you may need the combination of semantic vector search and traditional exact keyword full-text search — what we call hybrid searc

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