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Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names.

HTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19

Laravel 13.19.0 adds an Http::query() client method and query/queryJson testing helpers for the HTTP QUERY verb, plus a reduceInto collection method, a counted string helper, and bulk SQS job dispatching. The post HTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI Conversations

The "Rogue Agent" vulnerability could have enabled attackers to silently manipulate AI conversations, exfiltrate data, and compromise every Dialogflow CX agent within the same Google Cloud project. The post Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI Conversations appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Announcing etcd v3.7.0

This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0, the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, delivers several other performance improvements, removes the last remnants of the legacy v2store, and completes a major protobuf overhaul. You can download etcd v3.7.0 here: Source code Binaries Official container images This release also includes new ve

AI Won't Keep You from Hitting the Scalability Wall

Using AI to build integrations? You might just be hitting the scalability wall faster. Discover why faster builds don't solve the long-term cost of ownership. There's an idea making the rounds in B2B SaaS product and engineering meetings right now. It sounds reasonable. It feels optimistic. And it's leading companies straight into the same trap they've always fallen into, just at an accelerated rate.

DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube video ads

DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback. [...]

Experiences with local models for coding

Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…