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An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
A Google Researcher Went Undercover Inside One of History's Worst Supply-Chain Hacking Operations Before two of its alleged members were arrested in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP pulled off a spree that m...
Google Agent Development Kit for Kotlin Reaches Feature Parity with Python, Supports On-Device AI
Google's Kotlin Agent Framework Hits 1.0 With Compile-Time Tool Safety and On-Device AI Google has shipped version 1.0 of its Agent Development Kit for Kotlin, moving the framework from experimental to production-ready. The releas...
Joe Shipman proves marked ruler and compass solves the general quintic
A Mathematician and Two AI Models Settle a Question John Conway Left Open Joe Shipman, a mathematician known for his work on constructibility and the foundations of mathematics, has posted a proof that the general quintic equation...
Drop-in Django app to serve a decent LLM-ready documentation site
mdjango Brings One-Command Documentation Sites to Django Projects Django developers who need technical documentation for their projects have a new option that trades flexibility for speed. mdjango is a Django app that turns a dire...
Cloudflare Measures Origin TLS Preferences, Cutting Handshake Retries from 52% to 3.7%
Cloudflare Stops Guessing on TLS Key Exchange, Slashes Handshake Retries by 93% For years, Cloudflare made the same assumption about every origin server on the internet: it supports X25519 for key agreement. That assumption was re...
Some Thoughts on the Economics of UPI and MDR
India's UPI Faces Its First Real Economic Test as MDR Charges Arrive October 15 India's Unified Payments Interface, the system that made digital payments ubiquitous across a country of 1.4 billion people, is about to lose its zero...
Observations on LLMs for Privacy Work
Large language models are reshaping privacy work in two contradictory ways at once. They make it far easier to attack people's privacy, and they also make it far easier to build the tools that protect it. A practitioner with deep...
Chrome extension to declutter my inbox – might also have cybersecurity upside(?)
Gmail's native interface does not tell you whether a sender is who they claim to be. A new Chrome extension aims to fix that by adding a verification layer directly into your inbox, matching senders against a user-controlled allow...
Adapting Fossil-scm as a platform for AI agentic workflow
Fossil, the self-hosting distributed version control system created in 2007 to support SQLite development, has a new fork that turns it into a platform for AI agent workflows. The project, maintained on GitHub under BenSiv/fossil-...
Integrating Volt Active Data with AI Agents and Chatbots
Volt Active Data has released a set of free tools that let AI coding agents build, deploy, and analyze applications on top of its real-time database. The package combines agent skills for development guidance with an MCP server th...