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Cloudflare lets AI agents deploy first, sign up later with temporary accounts

Cloudflare has launched temporary accounts that let AI coding agents deploy code without first navigating the human-oriented signup gauntlet of OAuth flows, das

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tech-culturepolicy

Finland Reinvents the Library as Civic Infrastructure — Sewing Machines Included

While public libraries shutter across the US and UK, Finland is doing the opposite: expanding a network of more than 700 branches for 5.6 million people and ref

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Hackers Hijack Brazil's Emergency Alert System, Push 'Misanthropy' Warning

On Saturday morning, mobile phones across several Brazilian states—starting in Paraná and spreading to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro—received a bogus "Extreme Al

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aicloud

Inside Bayer's PRINCE: engineering an agentic RAG system for drug research

Bayer and Thoughtworks built PRINCE, a cloud platform that turns decades of preclinical safety study reports into a conversational research tool. The system tac

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tech-culturecloud

IPv6 Crosses 50% of Google's Users — But the Number Depends Who's Counting

Google's continuous measurement of how many of its users reach its services over IPv6 has passed 50% for the first time, a milestone that confirms the protocol

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open-sourcevulnerability

Linux kernel finally rips out strncpy after 6 years and 360+ patches

The Linux kernel has removed the long-deprecated strncpy() function entirely, landing in what the source describes as the Linux 7.2 merge window. The cleanup to

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privacyopen-source

Loupe: open-source iOS app shows exactly what apps can fingerprint about you

Loupe is a free, open-source iOS and iPadOS app that demonstrates the device-fingerprinting surface available to any third-party app. It reads live values from

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aitech-culture

MIT-born $40 home test grinds ticks to flag Lyme in 15 minutes

LymeAlert, a $40 at-home kit launching in August, tests the tick rather than the person. Users drop up to five ticks into a container with a built-in grinder, t

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tech-culture

No article body provided — only a headline on slow breathing and brain function

There is nothing here to summarize beyond the headline: the supplied 'article content' is just the title of a Cell/Neuron paper, 'Slow breathing modulates brain

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policy

South Korea's arms-export boom (source text unavailable)

No article body was supplied for this item — only the Politico headline 'The rise of South Korea's weapons business' was passed in, and the live URL could not b

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tech-cultureai

StartupWiki pitches a free, AI-powered alternative to Crunchbase

A new Show HN post introduces StartupWiki, a startup-research directory positioned as a no-cost alternative to Crunchbase. The site describes itself as an AI-po

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Tesco sues Broadcom for £100M, says VMware perpetual licenses were stranded

UK supermarket chain Tesco has taken Broadcom and reseller Computacenter to court, alleging breach of contract over support for VMware software it already owns.

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