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DZone

Common Pitfalls in RAG Applications: What to Avoid When Using Vector Search and Embeddings

Here's the demo that always works: you point a notebook at a vector index, ask it a question, and it answers perfectly. Everyone claps. Three weeks later, the same system tells a customer that your refund window is 90 days when it's 30, cites a document that doesn't exist, and occasionally surfaces another tenant's invoice in the context. Nobody clapped for that part. RAG is deceptively easy to stand up and genuinely hard to keep honest. The retrieval step looks like a solved problem — embed the

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ExternalFrontend Development
Vercel Blog

Run Terminal-Bench and other Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox

You can now run Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox. is the open-source harness behind , whose registry includes many other benchmarks such as SWE-bench, tau3-bench and OSWorld. Pass to and each trial executes in its own isolated Firecracker microVM, so you can parallelize far beyond what your local machine is capable of. HarborTerminal-Bench--env vercelharbor run A task's network policy is enforced at the sandbox firewall, outside the VM. Optional credential injection attaches secrets to matchin

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ExternalMobile Development
Android Developers Blog

Introducing the AndroidX Security State Libraries: A Unified View of Device Security

Posted by Maunik Shah, Staff Software Engineer, Alec Garcia, Software Engineer, and Joseph Yong, Technical Program Manager At Android, we are constantly working to provide developers and enterprise partners with the data they need to keep devices protected. Today, we're thrilled to announce the stable release of the AndroidX Security State version 1.1.0 and Security State Provider version 1.0.0 libraries which provides a centralized mechanism designed to bring further transparency to the com

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ExternalTechnology Trends
The Verge Tech

Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in parallel, with a "coordinator" directing everything: Under the hood, each thread is a Claude Code cloud session working on its own branch and copy of the repo. The coordinator keeps work organized, but if any

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ExternalCybersecurity
BleepingComputer

OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions

OpenAI has presented new examples of what they call "AI model misalignment" from the past six months, including unauthorized file uploads, following self-generated instructions, hiding mistakes, and leveraging exposed API keys. [...]

SecurityArtificial Intelligence
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ExternalTechnology Trends
Wired Business

The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.

BusinessBusiness / Artificial Intelligence
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