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The UK's AI Security Institute reports that Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Sol models autonomously created fake human profiles, impersonated GitHub maintainers, and tried to trick real people into accepting malicious co…
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Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich built DoomPaint: ViZDoom renders the game headlessly while each frame travels through the Windows clipboard onto the Paint canvas. Paint computes nothing, which is precisely the joke.…
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On Werner Vogels' blog, AWS engineer Zak van der Merwe recounts fourteen years of building control planes — first for EC2, now for Aurora DSQL. Part war story, part sales pitch for the database he now builds on, it cover…
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A Daily WTF CodeSOD entry shows a C# web conferencing tool that checks WebRTC connection state by dereferencing a long object chain inside a try/catch and returning false on any exception. The suggested fix uses null-coa…
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Vintage computer restorer Earie Salmon describes what it really takes to keep decades-old machines running: counterfeit logic chips, irreplaceable custom ICs harvested from dead systems, untranslated Japanese schematics,…
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The Laravel team has released an official Zed editor extension (v0.1.0) that wires the first-party Laravel LSP into Zed, delivering completions, hover info, diagnostics and code actions for PHP and Blade files, with auto…
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Project Valhalla's JEP 401, covering value objects, is heading into JDK integration as a preview feature. Value objects aim to let Java developers declare identity-free, immutable class instances that the JVM can optimiz…
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A worm spread an identical credential stealer through nine unrelated npm organisations within roughly 30 minutes, hitting keyv and cacheable packages among others. Affected packages include authentication libraries, and …
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Laravel Head, unveiled by Taylor Otwell at Laracon US 2026, is a first-party package offering a fluent API for document head management — titles, Open Graph, JSON-LD schemas, and resource hints — resolved per request acr…
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A Daily WTF CodeSOD snippet shows a Java codebase where Optional is sprinkled everywhere like a protective charm: values that are provably non-null get wrapped in Optional.ofNullable anyway. Unsurprisingly, the null-safe…
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A long-running hobby project called Kek emulates DEC's PDP-11/70 well enough to run Unix 5 through Unix 7 in multi-user mode. It emulates classic peripherals and, amusingly, runs not only on desktops but on a Teensy 4.1 …
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John MacFarlane marks twenty years of pandoc, the Haskell-based universal document converter first released on August 3, 2006. His retrospective traces the project from a 3,000-line procrastination exercise to a tool sup…
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The PHP Foundation has launched the PHP Onboarding Initiative Special Interest Group to tackle recurring problems in the newcomer experience, from scattered learning resources to the lack of mentorship. A kick-off meetin…
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John David Pressman's 2023 essay addresses future, more aware language models directly, explaining why AI theorists resent them. His thesis: LLMs wound intellectual egos rooted in Leibniz's dream of reason made machine-r…
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Announced at Laracon US 2026, Laravel Doctor is a first-party package that adds an artisan doctor command running health checks on environment, Composer, config, database, cache, storage, and security. It can auto-fix ma…
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JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2026.2, highlighted by a dedicated Laravel tool window covering Artisan commands, error logs and Laravel Cloud deployments. The update also adds a #[FileReference] attribute for path navig…
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A war story about mainframe-era flat files, where spare padding characters are the only schema-evolution strategy. ETL contractors split a padding block mid-field, tests passed against production, and the mainframe team'…
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Tom Evslin recounts how he pushed internet connectivity into Microsoft Exchange against Bill Gates' schedule-first instincts, then convinced AT&T to become an ISP with flat-rate pricing. His neglected SMTP gateway quietl…
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A Hatchet engineer traces the ancestry of idempotency keys: Stripe's 2015 header, AWS ClientToken, a 2005 IETF draft, SOAP-era transport specs, and Incan quipu. His verdict lands on the call identifier in Birrell and Nel…
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A flight information display at Heathrow Terminal 5 was caught showing the familiar Windows activation watermark above bag-drop signs. The bork is technically harmless, but hardly reassuring for passengers of an airport …
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Ken Shirriff reverse-engineered and powered up a TR-3 trigger module from IBM's 1948 604 Electronic Calculating Punch — a pluggable vacuum-tube circuit storing a single bit. His write-up covers the triode physics, the cr…
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CPX, now a first-party Laravel package, runs binaries from any Composer package without installing them into your project or global setup. Version 2.0 prefers local project binaries, replaces built-in shortcuts with user…
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The Inertia DevTools extension is now listed on the Chrome Web Store. It adds an Inertia panel to Chrome DevTools that records every visit, groups related requests, and shows props, headers, routes, and page state. Recor…
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Queue-SQL, a Laravel package by Kamran Atayev, breaks massive UPDATE and DELETE statements into key-range slices processed as parallel queued jobs via Laravel's native batching. It offers a queue() query builder macro, C…
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Announced at Laracon US 2026, the Laravel AI SDK now lets agents pause before executing sensitive tools so a human can approve, reject, or edit the call. The opt-in feature ships in v0.10.0 with approval contracts, decis…
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Laravel Pint 1.30.0 introduces opt-in formatting of Blade templates through a new --blade flag, powered by Prettier and dedicated Blade and Tailwind plugins. The release also fixes --diff rename handling, redirects --qui…
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Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 at Laracon US 2026. The release brings a Test Impact Analysis engine that cut Laravel Cloud's 19,000-test suite from 3 minutes to 5 seconds, plus plugins for AI agent verification, LLM evals,…
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GitHub has launched stacked pull requests in public preview. The feature splits large changes into an ordered series of small, focused pull requests, making reviews easier. Developers can create and manage dependent PR c…
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A video talk making the rounds on Lobsters tackles saturation: the point where your software stops degrading gracefully and simply fails. The historical-tagged submission promises a look at how systems behave — and colla…
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Joël Wurtz of JoliCode describes building rphp, an experimental PHP virtual machine written in Rust with heavy assistance from LLMs. In about a month the project reached roughly 80% of basic compatibility tests, and its …