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How to Correctly Implement ‘Sneaky Throws’ in Java
If you ask Java developers about the concept of ‘Sneaky Throws,’ I am almost sure there will be a couple of opinions that are quite differently expressed, but similar in their meaning. Some will sum it up as being able to throw checked exceptions without declaring them explicitly; others will amend that it means writing functional-style code (lambdas) and being allowed to call methods that throw checked exceptions. Most probably, it will be surely mentioned that there’s a Lombok annotation call
Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”
The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
ThreatsDay: 200 Android Flaws, Browser-Built Phishing, 119K Scam Shops + 23 More Stories
A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?” An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An old bug still gets results. An exposed system stays exposed. A package looks useful right up until it isn’t. Different stories, same basic problem: the path in was often already
GitHub Copilot is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
The now supports GitHub Copilot through the official adapter. The harness layer lets your application run different coding agents through the same interface, so you can switch agents without changing your application code.AI SDK harness layer@ai-sdk/harness-github-copilotHarnessAgent Pass to :githubCopilotHarnessAgent Under the hood, the adapter uses to connect GitHub Copilot to through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).@ai-sdk/harness-acpHarnessAgent Supported harnesses now include, in addi
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
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Kimmel's ABC show won't air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats
Talarico talk to be on YouTube to save ABC stations the hassle of dealing with FCC.
Control GitHub Actions cache access with cache-mode
You can now use cache-mode to apply least-privilege access to the GitHub Actions cache at the workflow or job level. By granting each workflow or job only the cache access… The post Control GitHub Actions cache access with cache-mode appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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