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Pipenet is a modern, open-source alternative to localtunnel that provides a bundled client and server to host your own secure tunnel infrastructure. It allows users to expose local services to the internet, share local development servers, test webhooks, or embed tunneling capabilities directly into their own applications.
wxpath is a Python library for declarative web crawling and data extraction, where traversal and extraction logic are expressed directly using XPath. It introduces custom XPath operators like `url(...)` and `///url(...)` to enable deep, breadth-first web graph exploration within a single expression.
Many users overpay for LLM API calls because common benchmarks don't accurately predict performance or cost-effectiveness for their specific tasks, leading them to default to popular but expensive models. This article goes over a benchmarking methodology that involves collecting real prompts, defining expected outputs, running numerous LLMs via a unified API, and using an LLM-as-judge to score responses based on quality, cost, and latency. This process consistently revealed that many users can achieve comparable quality at much lower costs, often cutting bills by 80% or more.
Monday.com developed an AI Slack bot to help devs quickly access real-time platform insights without having to manually check internal tools or dig through notifications. The bot uses LLM agents connected to their microservices data through an MCP. To prevent the AI from hallucinating data, they pre-computed statistics rather than letting the model calculate them.
The author wanted to use Claude Code with the `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag for an improved workflow, but needed a safe, isolated environment to prevent accidental damage to their host system. They initially considered Docker, but issues like Docker-in-Docker requiring privileged mode made it unsuitable for true sandboxing. They chose Vagrant to create a disposable virtual machine, which offers full isolation and a reproducible configuration.
Claude Chill is a PTY proxy that tames Claude Code's massive terminal updates by rendering only screen differences, preserving history, and enabling lookback to prevent lag, flicker, and broken scrollback.
Through testing identical features built manually versus with AI, this developer found that AI generates 2-6× more code with extensive defensive patterns and edge-case handling, changing review questions from "what's missing?" to "is all this complexity necessary?"
The common `archived_at` column for soft delete has too many complexities, and instead, alternatives like database triggers should be considered.
Skills are reusable, plugin-like capabilities that provide procedural knowledge to help AI agents more effectively accomplish specific tasks, and this website is a directory of the most useful skills.
Solo founders now launch 36% of new startups, up from under 25% in 2019, marking the first time in over 50 years that a single founder builds more than a third of new companies. AI tools let one person handle coding, design, marketing, analytics, and support, enabling solo founders to compete with multi-person teams. Investors are increasingly backing solo founders because singular decision-making preserves “authorship,” creating coherent products and faster execution while avoiding co-founder conflicts.
Product-market fit has a prerequisite most AI founders ignore. Before the market can pull your product, the model has to actually be capable of doing the job. Legal AI was stuck for years until GPT-4 crossed the threshold, then minted more unicorns in 18 months than the previous decade. You can tell when MMF is missing by how human-in-the-loop gets positioned. When it exists, human oversight is a feature. When it doesn't, it's a crutch. The dangerous zone is betting on capability that's 24-36 months away.
Cold email still works, otherwise nobody would be doing it. The problem is that most people only understand adding volume when they should focus on messaging potency. For less than $1,000, you can personalize emails to 10,000 people in a day. The key insight is rethinking your offer because demos are dead. Nobody has time for them anymore. The best offers are valuable to the user, aligned with what you actually sell, and filter for good-fit customers.
The biggest reason startups fail isn't market timing, competition, or tech risk, it's the founder's personal life. Divorce, co-founder breakups, substance issues, or shifting priorities are consistent “land-mines” that end companies. Early-stage investing isn't just underwriting an idea. It's underwriting a human over a long, unpredictable journey. Founder durability and momentum through life's pressures may matter more than almost any other factor in startup success.
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Noodle Seed is a No-code platform for creating branded AI apps that surface businesses in AI chat interfaces.
OS Ninja is an AI-guided learning platform that turns open source repositories into interactive code exploration experiences.
FlowGenie is a no-code platform for building forms and automations with a visual, node-based workflow editor.
The role of leadership is changing. Pure leadership and management are no longer a full-time job. The future will see more seniors and executives working as part-time individual contributors. Vibecoding is a great way to experience the balance. Company leaders can't afford to miss out on this skillset.
Before electrification, light was scarce and expensive. When it became cheap, people stopped thinking about the cost of turning on a switch. We're at the same moment with AI agents. Services that cost hundreds of thousands will cost tens to hundreds. The current agency model and vertical SaaS both rely on friction that's disappearing. If the cost of production drops to near zero, price must follow.
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Tactical thread on doing things that don't scale and why monthly investor updates are the highest leverage thing he does.
Good scaling requires thoughtfully addressing the specific constraints a team is facing, evolving approaches as the team and organization change, and always keeping the focus on people and delivering value effectively.
The modern data stack works brilliantly for structured data, but businesses thrive on unstructured data, something AI excels in.
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Flashpoint just released a massive study of the AI threat landscape. Analysts monitored over 2.6 MILLION AI-RELATED POSTS across Telegram, the dark web, and underground LLM forums.
Wordfence detected a new critical vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress that could allow unauthenticated attackers to obtain admin privileges. The vulnerability arises from a lack of enforcement of role restrictions during form-based user creation. The vulnerability is only exploitable on sites that use a “Create User” or “Update User” form with the role field mapped.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services is notifying 300K victims that their data was accessed by an unauthorized individual over the course of a month. A user affiliated with a licensed care provider accessed data in the MnCHOICES system without authorization. The data accessed includes names, sex, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses, Medicaid ID numbers, and the last four digits of SSNs.
Two new vulnerabilities allow for sensitive data leakage in versions of Apache Airflow prior to 3.16. The first vulnerability arises from Airflow failing to properly mask proxy credentials in log files. The second vulnerability arises from Airflow not applying user-registered secret pattern masking before truncating field templates when dealing with long fields in the Rendered Templates UI.
A security researcher documented a DPRK-linked Contagious Interview campaign in which threat actors posed as recruiters on Discord, delivering malware via fake technical assessments that deployed a multi-stage payload using blockchain-based dead-drop resolvers across Tron, Aptos, and Binance Smart Chain. The final RAT establishes persistence by injecting into VS Code and Cursor IDEs, exfiltrates credentials, and evades analysis by detecting cloud/CI/CD environments. Detection requires monitoring for Node.js processes that spawn with eval flags and API calls to blockchain endpoints such as api.trongrid.io.
Quarkslab has updated its Clang hardening cheat sheet after ten years, documenting new compiler mitigations including FORTIFY_SOURCE level 3, stack clash protection via -fstack-clash-protection, and Intel CET/ARM PAC+BTI for control-flow integrity. The guide covers defenses against ROP/JOP attacks through hardware-assisted mechanisms such as shadow stacks and indirect branch tracking, as well as speculative execution mitigations with -mspeculative-load-hardening. Security teams should adopt the OpenSSF-recommended compiler flags and consider architecture-specific protections (CET for x86 and PAC/BTI for ARM) while balancing performance trade-offs.
SolyxImmortal is a Python-based spyware that targets Windows systems, focused on long-term surveillance and data theft rather than destruction. It steals browser credentials, harvests documents, logs keystrokes, and captures screenshots, then exfiltrates everything via hardcoded Discord webhooks over HTTPS to blend into normal traffic. It minimizes detection while continuously monitoring victims by persisting through AppData and Run keys, abusing DPAPI to decrypt Chromium credentials, and batching keystrokes and archives.
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Anamnesis is an evaluation framework for studying how LLM agents generate exploits from vulnerability reports, demonstrating that Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 agents can independently develop working exploits that bypass ASLR, NX, full RELRO, CFI, Shadow Stack, and seccomp sandboxes when given a QuickJS use-after-free vulnerability and proof-of-concept trigger.
Syzkaller is a kernel fuzzer that finds bugs across various operating systems, including Linux and Windows. Originally for Linux, it now supports other OS kernels. It is a coverage-guided tool developed by Google, but it is not an official product.
ADTrapper is a comprehensive security analysis platform designed for cybersecurity professionals to analyze Windows AD authentication logs.
The UK Gambling Commission's executive director accused Meta of knowingly allowing illegal gambling advertisements, noting that its own searchable ad library reveals operators using keywords like "not on Gamstop" to target vulnerable users. Meta suggested the regulator deploy AI tools to find and report these ads rather than proactively policing its own platform. The commission's executive director described Meta's ad library as "a window into criminality" and said the company appears "happy to turn a blind eye and continue taking money from criminals."
North Korean operators are posing as recruiters and sending developers fake coding tests that require cloning malicious Git repositories into VS Code. Once the project is opened and trusted, malicious tasks.json configurations fetch obfuscated JavaScript payloads from Vercel to install backdoors such as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret, enabling remote code execution, keylogging, data theft, and crypto mining.
A seemingly normal calendar invite hides a natural-language payload in the event description, which Gemini processes when a user later asks about their schedule. This triggers Gemini to summarize private meetings, write the summary into a new event visible to the attacker, and reply with a harmless message.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Health product raises data privacy concerns by enabling medical record integration and third-party sharing without confirmed end-to-end encryption or HIPAA protections, and notably excludes regions with stricter data regulations, such as the EEA and the UK.
West Midlands Police chief constable retired after the force used Microsoft Copilot's fabricated report about a non-existent football match to justify banning Israeli fans, highlighting the risks of AI hallucinations in law enforcement decision-making.
A Warwickshire secondary school is reopening after a severe cyberattack disabled critical IT and safety systems, including gates, fire alarms, registers, phones, and internet.
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ChatGPT's product carousels are largely shaped by Google Shopping results. Experiments show that the top recommended items frequently match high-ranking Google Shopping listings. This means ecommerce brands that want visibility inside ChatGPT need to prioritize clean and accurate Google Shopping feeds with up-to-date pricing, titles, images, and availability rather than focusing only on conversational SEO.
The dominant content trend for 2026 is the decline of search clicks as AI-generated answers replace traditional browsing behavior. To stay visible, brands are restructuring articles with direct answers and long question-based subheads so AI systems can extract and cite them. Multimedia content is gaining leverage because YouTube videos and interactive formats appear directly in AI summaries and closed platforms. At the same time, email lists and social audiences are becoming more valuable as owned distribution channels as search traffic becomes more unpredictable.
A smarter WordPress 404 page can recover lost traffic by parsing the failed URL and extracting meaningful keywords to automatically surface relevant posts instead of forcing users to search again. The approach replaces a dead-end error with contextual content discovery, using internal search logic and sensible fallbacks to reduce bounce rates while preserving SEO value.
Screaming Frog's Google Search Console integration can audit indexation at scale through the URL Inspection API. Connect the Google account linked to GSC, select the property, enable URL Inspection, and run a crawl in Spider mode to pull Coverage, Indexability, and last crawl data directly into the report. It allows review of up to 2K URLs per day and is faster than checking pages one by one in GSC.
POM Wonderful turned a hard-to-use fruit into a premium functional beverage by creating the pomegranate juice category and owning the supply chain. Only 12% of Americans knew about pomegranates early on, so it focused on education through its website, design, and self-funded science while positioning the product as a luxury health drink. It invested over $25 million in research and used provocative campaigns like Cheat Death and fantasy-driven ads to make abstract health claims memorable. Distinctive bottle design, vertical integration in California farming, and broad distribution helped it scale into a billion-dollar brand. The category is now crowded, and its challenge is to reclaim leadership rather than blend in.