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ExternalCybersecurity
BleepingComputer

How Threat Actors Are Turning Trusted AI Platforms Into an Attack Surface

Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI conversations, sponsored search results, and ClickFix-style lures. [...]

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Replacing JSON With Protobuf in Your Microservice Mesh: A Zero-Downtime Migration Blueprint

When engineering teams build distributed systems, they naturally reach for REST over HTTP/1.1 with JSON payloads. JSON is readable, universally supported, and trivially easy to debug with any browser or proxy tool. For early-stage services handling modest traffic, that convenience is a genuine engineering asset. But as microservice topologies scale toward hundreds of nodes handling tens of thousands of concurrent requests, text-based serialization frequently evolves from a minor convenience into

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HN RSS Best

Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broadly-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part. I noticed that because the things I find genuinely interesting that I post here now get zero traction, which is the stuff that I believe would previously be met with some discussion. Note that I don't care that my submissions were ignored, I don't need that validation. Problem is that if my stuff gains no traction, I am mys

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Improving Repeated Analytics Workloads With Databricks Disk Cache

In many analytics platforms, there are performance issues that do not always come from complex transformations. Sometimes the bottleneck is much simpler: the same large datasets are being read repeatedly from remote storage. This pattern is common in shared analytics environments. A data engineering job reads a curated dataset to build aggregates. A BI refresh reads the same table again. A data science notebook filters the same records during exploration. Another scheduled workflow joins against

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