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Proton VPN just dropped its first official app on the Linux Snap Store. While it boasts easy one-click installation and a verified publisher badge, users will have to wait for split tunneling, the Stealth protocol, and ARM support.
Session was scheduled to stop operating this week due to lack of funds - but its users stepped in to save it. What exactly are these donors paying to protect?
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9 and began rolling it out to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users. It runs The post OpenAI, Microsoft & Anthropic agree on who runs the agent. They disagree on what you can take back. appeared first on The New Stack .
The morning after a deploy, the billing report arrived with an entire day blanked out. The code was one unremarkable line that pulled "from yesterday's midnight to today's midnight" - and that weekend, of all weekends, was the daylight-saving switcho
When a new version ships, I usually just type npm install and move on. But installing Vite 8 and looking inside node_modules made me stop for a second. The two names that had always been installed alongside Vite - rollup and esbuild - were gone entir
I wired the same model and the same single tool into two functions in the exact same way. One of them ran the tool once and then gave back no answer at all ; the other called that same model twenty times over. The only thing that changed in the code
You want to run a job every night at 2am. Easy, cron does that. Now you want to run a million jobs, each on its own schedule, across a fleet of machines where any node can die mid-execution, and you want each job to fire on time and not twice. Cron o
"It works on my machine" is the oldest joke in software, and containers were supposed to kill it. Same image everywhere, same behavior everywhere - that's the whole pitch. So there's a special kind of betrayal when a container that runs perfectly on
You edit one paragraph in a 50 MB document and it syncs in a second. You upload a file your coworker already uploaded and it finishes instantly. Neither of these is magic. Both fall out of two ideas: break files into chunks, and address those chunks
My manager ruined a perfectly good beer at an open air brewery in Richmond by telling me the truth about my career. The advice aged better than the beer. Here's the T-shaped engineer pitch nobody gave you, and six prompts worth burning tokens on at t
After working on cdin for a while, I started noticing something. The biggest problems were not the features I was missing. They were the things underneath. When I first started cdin, the goal was simple: build a small, fast, and hackable text editor
From swirling transitions and animated fog to mesh outlines and infinite worlds, here's a breakdown of the techniques behind it.
None of our 20,000+ US customers know this happened: last month, we moved them, their payment methods, subscriptions, credits, coupons, and promotion codes off our Australian Stripe account and onto a new US one. Nobody got double-charged. Nobody los
You open a two-year-old Angular codebase and see *ngIf everywhere. You open a job posting sample and the code uses @if . Nobody sent a memo explaining when that changed. Here's every major old-to-new swap, side by side, with what actually changed und
A self-built Modbus cache proxy runs for weeks without complaint in summer - until the first night the inverter shuts down, or the first firmware reboot of the SDongle. That's exactly when you find out whether you built a proxy or a time bomb. My fir
The terminal-based AI coding assistant space has exploded. What was a two-tool market in 2024 (GitHub Copilot CLI and... nothing) has become a crowded field of 10+ serious contenders, each with different architectures, pricing models, and philosophic
A single wrong variable on one line in XQUIC, Alibaba's QUIC and HTTP/3 library, lets any remote client crash the server with a short burst of completely legal traffic. There is no patch. FoxIO researcher Sébastien Féry disclosed the flaw on July 8 a
不久前，我写了一篇文章，吐槽 Google Gemini 的“千行墙”--它写代码写到 950 行就拍拍屁股下班，把剩下的工作当成“留给读者的练习”。当时，我决定给它一个 PIP（绩效改进计划） ，希望 Google 的架构师能救救这个空有超大上下文、却极度缺乏耐心的“高级工程师”。 然而今天，Gemini 用实际行动向我证明： 它不仅不想改进，它甚至连假装上班都懒得装了。 今天我给它布置了一个写代码的任务。它坐在工位上，思索了两秒，在屏幕上打下了第一行字： “让我们构建并执行代码编写工具：”
Deploy an MCP Server to Edge Compute: Expose Telnyx APIs as Tools for AI Agents The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the standard way for AI agents to call external tools. Claude, Cursor, and a growing ecosystem of agent frameworks speak MCP n
An interactive guide to the architecture behind modern language models. Instead of predicting the next word, this Transformer predicts the next move in a game of fading Tic-Tac-Toe-making every step of the model easy to visualize and understand. Play
SmolVLM2-2.2B sits at a genuinely useful point on the capability-size trade-off curve; small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, capable enough to produce video summaries that are actually useful for real workflows.
Another clipboard jacker was found in the wild, on the prowl for people's crypto.
User u/Hartkralle wrote in the r/pcmasterrace subreddit that when he comes across these scam listings and buys the items on offer, he gets his money back from eBay after reporting them and the platform closes the account. Read Entire Article
> 'The recently purchased fake drive promised 16TB for under $30.'.
...there's your first clue.
The unwelcome specter of software supply chain security threats has been the main character in the narrative security specialists have The post Why zero vulnerability code packages could still be your biggest software supply chain risk appeared first
Uhh... @retoor? Posts in Chinese, now?