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Your Calendar Invite Just Ordered Cupcakes: The Smart Home Agent Security Gap Nobody's Watching

A Gemini-powered smart home agent misread a dentist appointment invite and ordered cupcakes instead. Not a hypothetical, not a red-team exercise, just a normal calendar entry that got interpreted as a commerce instruction and turned into an actual order. Forkast's writeup uses this alongside the Meta Muse iCloud photo exposure and the DJI Romo token leak to make a simple point: consumer smart home platforms have none of the runtime protection that enterprise agent deployments are starting to get

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From Copy-Pasting curl Commands to Building My Own Java Parser (jquick-curl)

How a QA handoff turned into a weekend rabbit hole and eventually an open-source library Tags: java, opensource, http, curl, backend It's 4:47 PM on a Thursday. QA drops this in the channel: curl -X POST https://api.internal.example.com/orders \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIs...' \ -H 'X-Trace-Id: 8f14e45f' \ -d '{"sku":"A-1001","count":2,"warehouse":"SH-03"}' "Can you check why this fails in staging but works for me locally?" Cool.

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Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-omni-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747925 Points: 326 # Comments: 125

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I built a digital city where brands can own the advertising space

Most internet advertising still looks the same. Banners. Sponsored cards. Promoted posts. Rectangles everywhere. I wanted to try something different: What if advertising was a place instead of a box? So I built Swishtown. Swishtown is a fictional digital city where buildings, shops, roads, parks, and other locations can become advertising real estate. A brand can take over a location, place its logo there, and turn that part of the city into a clickable destination. Instead of putting an ad next

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Menghadapi "Retry Storms": Mengapa Retry Saja Tidak Cukup dalam Sistem Terdistribusi

Pernahkah Anda mengalami situasi di mana satu servis kecil mengalami sedikit perlambatan, namun tiba-tiba seluruh infrastruktur tumbang seperti kartu domino? Jika Anda bekerja dengan sistem terdistribusi, kemungkinan besar Anda baru saja menyaksikan apa yang disebut sebagai Retry Storm. Secara intuitif, ketika sebuah request gagal, hal pertama yang kita lakukan adalah mencoba lagi (retry). Logikanya sederhana: mungkin itu hanya gangguan jaringan sesaat atau glitch kecil. Namun, dalam skala besar

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Anthropic’s AI R&D Measurements Point to a Broader Transparency Model

Anthropic’s public work on AI R&D automation points to a more demanding way to track advanced AI systems: measure not only what a model can do in an evaluation, but also how it is used in consequential research decisions and whether it creates operational risks. The approach matters because AI is increasingly being applied to the work of developing and evaluating AI itself, making a single benchmark an incomplete picture of progress. The company’s model reports, system cards and Transparency Hub

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The Next Step for Mission-Critical Workloads: Managed Databases Advanced Edition

As your business scales, your database shifts from a simple storage layer to the critical heart of your application architecture. For years, DigitalOcean has helped thousands of startups and growing businesses effortlessly launch and scale fully managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, and MongoDB databases without the burden of complex routine maintenance. But when traffic surges, data footprints expand, and uptime becomes non-negotiable, high-growth workloads demand a stronger foundation. That is wh

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