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A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot founder and lead Phil Webb

Search encrypted data with Prisma 8 and CipherStash

CipherStash brings searchable field-level encryption to Prisma 8: encrypted equality, free-text and range queries, and identity-based key management.

Don't Let Your AI Agent Delete Your Production Database | Prisma 8

AI coding agents keep wiping production databases. Prisma 8 removes the failure modes structurally: no reset command, no shadow database, and migrations that verify every step.

Why Your RAG Pipeline is Lying to You

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is how most AI tools search your company's documents to answer questions. Instead of guessing, the model pulls relevant text from your files and uses it to respond Sounds reliable. Usually isn't. Last month, our team shipped a RAG-powered search feature to a Fortune 500 client. Three days later, this Slack message showed up : "The AI pulled a revenue number from our Q3 report. But when I checked the PDF, that number was from a footnote about projected revenue

GitHub Actions Getting Expensive? We Cut CI Costs to a Quarter With a One-Line Change

AI assistance disclosure: This article was drafted with the help of Claude. All technical content, design decisions, code references, and screenshots reflect production systems I designed and operate at airCloset; the prose was revised by me prior to publication. Hi, I'm Ryan, CTO at airCloset. We've migrated our GitHub Actions runners twice: GitHub-hosted to Blacksmith, then Blacksmith to Namespace. The results, up front: Per-run CI cost is roughly a quarter of what we paid on GitHub-hosted The

Russian hackers exploit Exchange OWA zero-day for long-term mailbox access

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is exploiting an Exchange Outlook Web Access vulnerability in email campaigns to deliver a sophisticated backdoor called OWAReaper. [...]

El Despertar de NERA como infraestructura: Por qué el Negrooverso es más una necesidad técnica que un sueño

Hemos crecido buscando nuestras raíces en enciclopedias que no hablaban nuestro idioma emocional ni han conectado con el fondo de lo que somos. Para muchxs, la primera ventana al mundo digital fue esa "Mi Primera Encarta" de los noventa, un ecosistema que prometía saber universal pero guardaba una ausencia sistemática. Nosotros no estábamos ahí, conocimiento genérico en áreas sociales, biología y más. O si aparecíamos, era bajo la lente de otras miradas simplificadas. Esa carencia no fue un erro

Cybersecurity, Then & Now

Since 2006, Dark Reading has been at the forefront of covering cybersecurity. The more things change, the more they stay the same.