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wednesday, october 14, 2026
  1. 01

    ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

    Practitioners comparing security. Disagreement stays substantive.
  2. 02

    Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

    Practitioners comparing security. Reply chains going 9 levels deep.
  3. 03

    Passkeys are not a trap

    Practitioners comparing security and migration. Reply chains going 10 levels deep.
    I've worked at places where we use a password manager to manage lots of passwords for random services that we subscribe to.PaulHoule
  4. 04

    Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

    Questions drawing out detailed responses from practitioners. Reply chains going 9 levels deep.
  5. 05
  6. 06

    Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts

    Practitioners comparing security, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Good questions getting detailed answers.
  1. 07

    Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request

    Questions drawing out detailed responses from practitioners. Disagreement stays substantive.
  2. 08

    Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

    Wide range of voices weighing in. Disagreement stays substantive.
    Are you saying that if we use AI in core infrastructure projects that it's going to cause the downfall of civilization?fasterik
  3. 09

    ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam

    Practitioners comparing OpenAI and Anthropic. Reply chains going 10 levels deep.
  4. 10

    Why do LLM pelicans look like this?

    Practitioners comparing tools and approaches from direct experience. Good questions getting detailed answers.
  5. 11
  6. 12

    Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

    Practitioners comparing AWS. Reply chains going 12 levels deep.
    At least in my experience, UPS, Fedex, etc., tend to deliver when the estimate says.timw4mail
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