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The AI-Fication of Cyberthreats

Show HN: Bugmail – the easiest way to catch and fix production bugs

Starmer's Electoral Posturing

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Foyer 0.21.0 is out: Hybrid in-memory and disk cache in Rust

Remaking Globalization for an Era of Trade Wars / Interview with Michael Pettis

IBM nears $11B confluent deal

Chinese phonemakers seize on Apple's AI struggles

Rope Trick Effect

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Justin Bieber dislikes Apple's dictate button placement

Show HN: Crier – Push notifications via TCP or MQTT (no public IP needed)

A Clever Approach to AI Drawing I Accidentally Discovered – Bear. Best

Show HN: Brick Starter – .NET SaaS starter kit to ship production apps faster

Russian authorities have imposed restrictions on FaceTime

Kinesis Advantage2

Apple Taps Meta Lawyer as General Counsel in Latest Shake-Up

EVs 80% Worse Consumer Reports Lied – ICE Cars Are Failing at Record Levels

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner