We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.20.3 with fixes for two security vulnerabilities in the YAML parsers. We recommend upgrading as soon as possible if your application processes YAML files from unknown origins. See the release notes of 1.20.0 for all the changes introduced in Crystal 1.20. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels.…
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Python has something called wildcard imports, which look like from module import *. This type of import allows you to quickly get all the objects from a module into your namespace. However, using this import on a package can be confusing because it’s not clear what you want to import: subpackages, modules, objects? Python has the __all__ variable to work…
L'objectif de cet article est de vulgariser les connaissances autour du Q-day, car derrière ce titre se cachent des concepts de mécanique quantique et de cybersécurité avancés. Avançons ensemble dans ce parcours afin qu’au terme de la lecture, vous disposiez des éléments nécessaires pour prendre de meilleures décisions dans votre système d'informat
Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that context. Subagents should be treated as a tool for protecting the orchestrator's working memory, offloading reasoning it…
Natural disasters and government interference: examining Q2 2026’s major Internet disruption event
CloudflareCloudflare Radar tracked Internet disruptions driven by natural disasters, government-mandated shutdowns, and DNSSEC key rollovers over the last quarter. This blog post analyzes traffic telemetry to explain how these events impacted global connectivity.
Learn how AI coding agents can expose credentials in supply chain attacks and how Docker Sandboxes keep secrets out of an agent's reach.
TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking. And writing. Or more specifically, not writing. This really hit me earlier this year at the Future of Software conference. I was surrounded by people sharing their latest ideas…
Google Sheets is one of those tools that feels forgiving, and it becomes miserably unhelpful when it breaks. You type something in, drag a formula down, and everything looks fine — until a formula starts pointing at the wrong cells, or a perfectly good ID number turns itself into a date. After years of living […] The post Fix Common…
In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Managing Imports With Python’s __all__. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how wildcard imports work, what role the __all__ variable plays in modules and packages, and how to define a clean public API for your Python code. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short &…
Hostinger expands its global footprint and secures 3,000+ servers amid an infrastructure crunch
HostingerWebsites and apps hosted on Hostinger can now run faster, stay more stable, and scale more easily thanks to the company’s expanded global footprint. Hostinger opened a new data ce… The post Hostinger expands its global footprint and secures 3,000+ servers amid an infrastructure crunch appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Your agents can now discover and load Agent Skills directly from a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Instead of shipping every skill inside your application or copying skill folders into each deployment, you point an agent at an MCP server and it pulls the skills it needs on demand. A central team can publish skills […] The post Discover Agent…
TL;DR KotlinLLM is now public. It’s a research prototype for delegating runtime logic to an LLM from Kotlin code. Instead of calling an LLM on every request or running a separate agent, you can write an explicit Kotlin call. Its body is generated Kotlin source code, and that code is updated as your application hits […]
I launched Disaster Lab, a free library of practical prevention and recovery playbooks for personal and business digital disasters.
You need reliable AI context for your site reliability
Stack OverflowRyan is joined by Asaf Savich, Komodor’s AI Engineering Group Manager, to discuss why modern reliability work requires navigating massive cross-service context, what good context engineering actually likes when AI is integrated into site reliability, and how the work of human SREs is shifting towards strategy and AI agent management. …
une question mérite d'être posée avant même de réfléchir aux modèles de gouvernance : sommes-nous réellement entrés dans l'ère de la gouvernance de l'IA ?
eBay has reached an agreement with Ina and David Steiner pertaining to the 2019 misconduct by former eBay employees.
In a 2018 Forbes article, Jedidiah Yueh and Randy Bean argued that every company is now a data company. “Leveraging data — in an ethical manner — has to be at the heart of your company and product strategy,” they wrote. “Collect, sift, then monetize.” Just shy of a decade later, virtually every company (in ...
What chunking is in RAG, how chunk size and overlap determine chunk count, what embedding and vector storage cost, and whether top-k fits your context.
Python syntax and the flexibility of the Flask microframework make it a popular choice for quickly building web applications. While Flask provides the essentials to get you started, you’ll need to tackle two critical pieces yourself: secure user authentication and authorized access to your backend services. After all, how do you securely sign users into your application? And once they’re…
When most people think of AI helping their everyday work, a simple chatbot that answers...
Evil Trout’s second game, The Incident at Galley House, is out now on Steam! Last year, after The Roottrees are Dead shipped, I wrote a technical blog post about its development, which was well received, so I decided to do the same thing for this game. Note: The images in this post have minor spoilers for the beginning of the…
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Companies like Spotify need vast quantities of data accessible at low latency for online services and,... The post Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries appeared first on Spotify Engineering.
Practice subscripts with a short swift challenge.
Beyond AI Auto-Fix: Hypothesis-Driven Debugging for Production Failures on SitePoint.
Emergency brief — Opus 5 appeared on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard on July 25, 2026, but no developer-focused articles exist yet. Opus 5 Tops New AI Leaderboard: What Developers Need to Know on SitePoint.
Meet the MSBuild Binlog Analyzer for VS Code - a Copilot-powered way to read MSBuild binary logs, explain and fix build failures with one click, compare builds, and catch regressions, backed by the Microsoft.AITools.BinlogMcp MCP server. The post Analyze MSBuild Binary Logs with Copilot in VS Code appeared first on .NET Blog.
Traditional data replication techniques often struggle to deliver the data freshness that modern workflows require. To help organizations overcome this challenge, SAP and Google Cloud are announcing that SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for BigQuery is now generally available. As the next phase of our long-standing partnership, SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery gives you zero-copy access to data products across…
Pinner Progression: Better Use-Case Representation Driving Weekly Active User Growth at Pinterest
PinterestPart 1 of 2 Authors Personalization (Homefeed): Yuke Yan, Chuxi Wang, Andreanne Lemay, Olafur Gudmundsson, Anna Kiyantseva, Krystal Benitez, Jongho Kim, Jiacong He, Rahul Goutam, James Li, Dylan Wang User Understanding: Simin Li, Sufyan Suliman, Yingjian Ding, Hongbo Deng Data Science: Armando Ordorica, Yan Chen, Ellie Zhang, Karim Wahba Introduction Pinterest’s mission is to help people discover the inspiration to…