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The Hacker News

AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume: How to Reduce Tier 1 Overload

Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message adds another case for Tier 1 to review, another link to inspect, and another alert that cannot be dismissed at a glance. As the queue grows, a credential theft attempt or malware delivery can easily

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The Hacker News

⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More

Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked. A chatbot got fooled. A bot token got leaked inside the malware. The same old mistakes showed up again. And while everyone chased the loud stuff, quieter attackers sat in inboxes for months, reading mail and

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Laravel News

Generate Short, URL-Safe IDs From Numbers With Sqids

Sqids is a PHP library that encodes one or more integers into short, URL-safe strings and decodes them back, with options for minimum length, a custom alphabet, and a profanity blocklist. The post Generate Short, URL-Safe IDs From Numbers With Sqids appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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CSS-Tricks

Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions

I've said one and mean another, and I've used one when I needed another. Comparing scroll-driven animations, scroll-triggered animations, container query scroll states, and view transitions for my future self. Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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DZone

The Middleware Gap in AI Agent Frameworks

Most AI Agent frameworks treat the model as a black box: you register tools, the model picks one, the tool runs, and the cycle repeats. This pattern is perfect for demos, but for a production system, it requires more complex systems. We need to manage context windows, cache API calls, filter sensitive tools by role, and compact the information history within models to avoid token limits.   I landed on middleware while reviewing issues for deepagents and understanding their codebase. This is when

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