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In this post, the author talks about how they built an autonomous AI pentester chaining tools like Nmap and Burp. It underperformed—few real vulnerabilities, many false results, high costs, and slow runs. Key lessons: LLMs plan well but evaluate poorly, autonomy drifts, and human validation and hybrid AI-assisted workflows outperform pure agentic hacking.
Dropbox describes how it solved for Hardware Security Module (HSM)-backed, team-based file encryption, where files are encrypted at rest and access can be removed instantly while also prioritizing usability at scale. End-to-end encryption would make it impossible for Dropbox to offer file content search, and traditional team-based key management, where a top-level key is used to derive unique keys for each file, would be prohibitively slow due to Dropbox's file storage architecture. To solve this problem, Dropbox introduced namespace encryption keys, which are derived from an HSM-backed top-level key and are used to derive team encryption keys. When sharing files, Dropbox can temporarily share the namespace encryption key while it reencrypts the blocks with team encryption keys.
Binarly warns that the XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) still lurks in Debian-based Docker Hub images from March 11, 2024, propagating into derivative images. It found 35+ affected tags, and the risk persists via inherited bases and CI pipelines. Recommendations: avoid those tags, rebuild from patched bases, and scan for the issue in your images.
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Volexity's GoStringExtractor is a plugin utility for IDA Pro and Ghidra that helps analyze string data in Go binaries for reverse engineering and detection purposes. The tool addresses challenges in analyzing Go binaries where strings are stored in contiguous tables without individual termination, and includes data from all linked packages. This enhancement aids security researchers in better understanding malware behavior and developing detection signatures for Go-based threats.
Cyata continuously scans desktop and SaaS environments for AI identities and their permissions, and creates detailed audit trails of their activity, including by requiring them to justify their reasoning in real time.
Verified Entity Identity Lock exposes hidden trust paths in your AWS IAM setup before they become security risks.
The Justice Department conducted coordinated disruption actions against the BlackSuit (Royal) ransomware group on July 24, seizing four servers and nine domains. Law enforcement also recovered approximately $1 million in laundered proceeds from the ransomware operations. This represents a significant enforcement action against one of the active ransomware groups targeting organizations worldwide.
LLMs use tools, external functions, or APIs when a user makes a request that the model cannot fulfill given its internal knowledge base. During inference, an LLM is provided with a series of tool definitions as part of its input prompt or context window, much like providing a human with a series of external functions and their documentation. When the LLM detects that a tool must be called, it ranks potential tools based on their relevance to the task and then calls the appropriate tool to address the user's query.
Cybersecurity firm Profero has cracked the Iranian-backed MuddyWater's DarkBit ransomware, allowing clients to recover their data without paying a ransom. Profero found that the key generation method that DarkBit uses is weak and can be brute-forced. It also discovered that VMDK files on ESXi servers are sparse, and much of the content that its clients needed could be recovered without needing to brute-force the decryption. Profero is not publicly releasing its decryptor but urges victims to contact them.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is departing the company, with Microsoft choosing not to appoint a successor as the code hosting platform is becoming more integrated within Microsoft's CoreAI division.
The FCC has implemented stricter licensing requirements for foreign companies building undersea cables, citing national security concerns and the need to protect critical data infrastructure from potential foreign sabotage.
Hyundai has offered UK Ioniq 5 owners a £49 “optional” security upgrade to stop thieves using a Game Boy‑like device that cracks keyless entry.
Gen Z is almost 30 and leading culture, while Gen Alpha is already shaping trends and household spending. Both generations expect brands to go beyond surface-level purpose and empty trends. They demand real values built into everything from products to policies. They want brands that entertain and connect authentically, with content that ranges from quick, catchy moments to meaningful stories across different platforms. These groups also care deeply about social issues and sustainability, and they expect brands to show, not just say, their commitment. If a brand can't keep up with their evolving tastes and cultural influence, it risks being left behind.
Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion all-cash offer to buy Chrome from Google, more than twice its $14 billion valuation. The bid is funded by venture investors and comes amid a possible court-ordered Chrome divestment.
This 4-step model creates homepage copy that resonates by aligning with what buyers need to hear. It starts by understanding the buyer's context, including who they are and the situation they face, and then identifies the core friction that makes their current state unsustainable. Next, it presents a strategic unlock, bridging their pain to the transformation your solution enables, followed by proving why you are the best choice to deliver that shift. By moving from audience context to specific problems, then to the solution and your unique fit, this approach ensures messaging is relevant.
Simplifying a website's confirmation modal increased checkout page visits by 21% and overall transactions by 13% for a company selling sustainably harvested countertops. The original modal contained upsells, email capture, and multiple value propositions, which analytics showed caused a significant drop-off. The new version featured a larger product image, fewer details, no upsells, and two clear calls to action. The results showed that removing unnecessary elements reduced friction and improved conversions.
ASO is moving from static keyword playbooks to adaptive, AI-powered growth engines. Search results are now tailored to the individual, meaning the same query can result in different listings. Winning brands will personalize product pages, adopt AI-driven metadata updates, and optimize for voice and predictive discovery. Marketers should treat ASO like a performance channel, running rapid experiments and signaling app use cases clearly to surface at the right moments.
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These templated prompts perform real-time competitor analysis, discover recent high-engagement marketing tips from Reddit, and track the latest viral trends on TikTok, Instagram, X, and Reddit. They identify target industries, data collection methods, pricing visibility, key conversion pages, summarize practical marketing insights, and suggest brand tie-ins for trending content.
Google is using LLMs to detect and block invalid traffic across its platforms. In partnership with Google Research and DeepMind, the Ad Traffic Quality team developed systems that analyze content, ad placements, and user interactions to identify deceptive practices, reducing invalid traffic by 40%. Automated and manual checks ensure advertisers are not charged for this activity.
Reddit is unifying its core search and AI-powered Reddit Answers, which has 6M weekly users, into a single experience alongside its 70 million weekly standard searches. The platform is looking to make search central to community navigation while capitalizing on its position as the 6th most searched term in Google in the US last year. Improved contextual ad relevance from conversation placements is also expected to extend into search advertising.
Okta launched a six-person newsroom in April, moving editorial work from marketing to comms with a focus on second-day analysis that adds context after headlines break. C-suite videos replaced lengthy case studies to capture decision-making processes and bypass slow approvals. AI accelerates research, outlining, and personalization while humans handle the final third to preserve voice and judgment.
Threads now has 400M monthly active users and has grown daily mobile activity 127.8% year-over-year to 115.1M.
A roundup of “good” B2B marketing from Vector, Help Scout, and AirOps.
Sweet Loren's accidental TikTok rename to “Ryan” was turned into a self-aware mini campaign that went viral.
This article goes over how to build a web search engine from scratch. It covers how to generate 3 billion SBERT embeddings using 200 GPUs, crawl and index 280 million pages, optimize query latency, and implement a service mesh. The project involved developing custom solutions for crawling, data storage with RocksDB, a sharded HNSW index for vector search, and AI-powered features like quick answers and result summarization.
Anchor positioning is a new CSS feature that allows devs to position an element (the target) relative to another element (the anchor) without relying on JavaScript. This happens by naming an anchor element with `anchor-name` and then referencing it on the target element using `position-anchor`. The target can then be positioned using either `position-area`, which places the element on a nine-square grid relative to the anchor, or the `anchor()` function, which aligns the target's edges with the anchor's edges using inset properties.
Netflix is using AI to automate quality control by detecting pixel-level artifacts in videos, specifically hot pixels, reducing the need for manual reviews. It developed a neural network that analyzes video frames at full resolution to identify and locate these errors, even distinguishing them from naturally bright pixels. To train its AI model, it used a synthetic pixel error generator to create realistic training data and refined the model using real-world footage.
LLMs do not create true "world models" despite their advanced language processing capabilities. They fail at basic tasks like tracking chess pieces or understanding color blending, which shows they don't understand the underlying concepts.
OpenSecret migrated from Neon to PlanetScale for its database needs due to reliability issues and pricing concerns with Neon. The move to PlanetScale resulted in improved performance with lower latency and better API response times, along with a 38% cost reduction.
Despite advancements in CSS tooling, the core styling problem is from forcing a language designed for documents to fit within component-based frontend architectures, leaving devs to choose the least painful trade-off rather than finding a perfect solution.
Omnara is a mobile-first platform that allows real-time monitoring and control of AI agents like Claude and GitHub Copilot. It provides features such as real-time monitoring, interactive Q&A, and smart notifications to improve the productivity and visibility of AI workflows. It also has remote launching and monitoring capabilities, letting users interact with their AI agents from anywhere via mobile, web, or desktop.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 now supports a 1 million token context window, which gives it the ability to handle more extensive and data-intensive use cases like large-scale code analysis and document synthesis.
Bolt is a lightweight, fast, and type-safe embeddable language designed for real-time applications. It has great performance, a compact implementation, and rapid compilation speeds, making it easy to integrate into other projects.
Wikipedia has lost its legal challenge against the UK's Online Safety Act verification rules, which it feared would force it to verify user identities and compromise volunteer editor privacy. The Wikimedia Foundation argued the rules were too broad and would unfairly apply to Wikipedia, potentially requiring it to limit UK access or disable key functions. While the court rejected their arguments, the judgment emphasized Ofcom's responsibility to protect Wikipedia and left open the possibility of future legal challenges if the Act impedes Wikipedia's operations significantly.
Linus Torvalds created Git in just 10 days after a conflict arose with the proprietary BitKeeper, which Linux had been using. Torvalds initially viewed Git as a potential temporary solution and didn't expect it to become the industry standard. However, Git's decentralized design and efficient synchronization made it more than just a temporary bridge.
AI startup Perplexity made a $34.5 billion offer to acquire Chrome as a solution to a pending antitrust ruling that could force Google to sell the browser.
Modern programming makes idea implementation very easy, whereas in the past, even seemingly simple tasks like spellchecking needed ingenuity and resource optimization to work.
While historical and physiological factors suggest an optimal line length range of 80-90 characters for readability and saccadic eye movement, modern practices like multi-pane editors and the structure of code itself make a slightly wider line length (like Black's 88) a reasonable default.
Design Arena is a community-driven platform that uses blind pairwise comparisons to evaluate and rank AI design capabilities based on win rates and Elo ratings.
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Apple's new App Intents allows users to tell Siri to complete tasks with only their voice. Siri will essentially be able to operate apps with precision within their own interfaces. Testing and perfecting this feature has become a top priority for Apple's global data operations team. Apple plans to ship the feature alongside a broader Siri infrastructure overhaul in the Spring.
GitHub's CEO, Thomas Dohmke, is leaving GitHub and Microsoft to become a founder. GitHub and its leadership team will now become part of Microsoft's CoreAI organization. Dohmke will be staying through until the end of the year to help guide the transition. It is unclear whether the departure and the elimination of the CEO position will change how GitHub operates or the products it creates and maintains.
New Alzheimer's research suggests that medicines and lifestyle changes can slow, prevent, and even reverse the debilitating disease. This article discusses several of the most cutting-edge and promising treatments for Alzheimer's. The Health and Human Services Department recently announced that Dr. Vinay Prasad was returning to the FDA as head of biologics and gene therapies. Dr. Prasad has shown hostility towards Alzheimer's treatments and has said before that paying people to help patients with chores would do more good than funding these treatments.
Boom Supersonic's XB-1, the world's first independently developed supersonic jet, was created with about a tenth of the capital of any other supersonic program. It was designed, built, and flown successfully by a team of just 50 people. Foundational elements like assembling a small, exceptional team were key to the startup's success, but there were also some non-obvious lessons learned. This article is the first in a series on lessons learned at Boom on how to develop hardware quickly and efficiently. It focuses on how Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development.
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ThreatSpike ditched underperforming channels like Google and LinkedIn for TLDR. The results?