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Zorin OS finally showed me why some people leave Windows behind

Discovering the hidden depths of customization in Zorin OS, one longtime Windows user finds a new world of possibilities.

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· · XDA Developers

Obsidian's CLI transforms terminal into a powerful note-taking tool

Turns out I use the app more when I don't need to open it.

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· · 9to5Mac

Safari’s new MCP server lets coding agents inspect and debug websites

Apple is introducing a new MCP server for Safari that lets coding agents inspect websites directly in the browser, giving them access to page content, console logs, network requests, screenshots, and more. Here are the details.

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· · GSMArena

Sony to permanently stop physical disc production for PlayStation in 2028

Following Rockstar's announcement that Grand Theft Auto VI will be a digital-only release, Sony has come forth with an even more ambitious plan to kill physical media forever. The company has announced that starting January 2028, production of physical disc games for new games will be ending for all

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· · 9to5Mac

Russia threatens Apple with $52 million fine over alleged app discrimination

Apple is once again being required to preinstall Russian apps on devices sold in the country, or face a fine of up to $52 million. Here are the details.

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· · 9to5Google

Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 Unveils Enhanced Features and Visual Overhauls

With Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 today, Google is rolling out a third wave of bug fixes for Pixel devices.

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· · Dev.to

The 2am call that dropped before the user finished talking, and the week I spent finding out why my tracer never saw it

The call came in at 2am. Not a page, an actual support recording, flagged by a customer who said our voice agent "hung up on her mid-sentence." I pulled the trace. The LLM call was perfect. 380ms, clean completion, sensible response. Every dashboard I had was green. The customer was still angry, and

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· · Dev.to

The One SEC Form That Reveals Dilution Before It Hits Your Position — and How I Auto-Scan It

The One SEC Form That Reveals Dilution Before It Hits Your Position — and How I Auto-Scan It Every retail trader learns the hard way that some 10-15% overnight gaps come out of nowhere, unrelated to news. It's shelf-registered dilution. The company filed an S-3 months ago, then quietly executed on i

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· · Dev.to

Creating a Secure Notes Application Using Supabase and Vanilla JavaScript

This article shows how one SQL trigger and one extra WHERE clause let a vanilla JavaScript client detect and resolve edit conflicts — with no locking system, no hand-maintained version column, and no custom server. The example assumes you already know SQL and JavaScript. With that background, Supaba

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· · Dev.to

An independent verifier audited my compliance API's hash chain byte-by-byte — in public, same day, both sides shipped fixes

I'm a solo developer in Bogotá, Colombia. This week something happened on a GitHub issue that I think is worth documenting, because it shows what "trustless verification" actually looks like in practice — not the whitepaper version, the real one with bugs found and fixed in public. I build VeraData

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· · Dev.to

The safety switch that doesn't actually work

Sparse autoencoders — the core tool of mechanistic interpretability — can identify and amplify specific concepts inside a neural network, but they cannot reliably suppress unwanted behavior by clamping those concepts to "off." A new paper tested this directly: researchers pinned a model's refusal co

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· · Dev.to

Docker Security Dispatch — Issue 4: Miasma, Phantom Gyp, and AI Routing 🪱️

Welcome to the fourth issue of Docker Security Dispatch, written from the beautiful city of Bratislava, Slovakia. June has proven that the security battleground has shifted from the production server to the developer's workstation, the CI/CD pipeline cache, and the AI agent's execution context. Supp

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· · Dev.to

India's Software Future: Self-Healing Apps to Revolutionize Cloud Computing

Disclosure: I build MailKite, and the open-source mail-parse library I use as the example is ours. But the pattern is the point — it isn't MailKite-specific, and you can apply it to anything that eats messy input. Self-healing software is a system architected so that, when it hits input the real wor

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· · Dev.to

From Regex to AST: Building Taint Tracking for AI Agent Code

From Regex to AST: Building Taint Tracking for AI Agent Code AgentGuard v0.5.0 ships AST-based taint tracking. This post explains how it works and why it matters. Regex catches obvious patterns: prompt = f"You are helpful. {user_input}" A regex rule sees f"..." with {user_input} and flags it. Done.

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· · Dev.to

How to split 10GB JSON files in seconds without hitting RAM limits

Hi Everyone! We had this classic pain point on our project: constantly chewing through massive JSON arrays. Catalogs, analytics dumps, ML datasets — files ranging from a couple of hundred megabytes to tens of gigabytes. The task was stupidly simple: split a giant JSON array into individual elements

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· · Dev.to

Unlocking EDGAR Transparency: Full Text API for SEC Filing Searches

If you have ever wanted to find every SEC filing that mentions a phrase, a person, or a legal term, EDGAR has a full text search index that covers every filing since 2001. It is a plain JSON API, no key and no login, and most people never touch it directly. GET https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-ind

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· · Dev.to

Breaking Down Complexity: How ResNet's Skip Connections Revolutionized Deep Learning

Deep networks have a cruel paradox. In theory, more layers should never hurt — the extra ones could just learn to pass their input through unchanged. In practice, before 2015, stacking more plain layers made networks worse: a 56-layer net had higher training error than a 20-layer one. The gradient v

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· · The Next Web

Alibaba will pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its platform

Alibaba and its US digital payment processor have agreed to pay 600 million dollars to resolve a federal investigation into whether they failed to prevent the sale and importation of illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. Alibaba entered into a n

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· · The Verge

Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro could be up for a redesign

Apple is working on a "revamped" version of its entry-level MacBook Pro that it could launch as soon as the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company is also testing four new iPad Pros that are set to launch in the spring with a focus on "internal improvements." The updated MacBook Pro, whi

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· · TechCrunch

After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.

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