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Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Browsers Block eMudhra Intermediate CAs Over Recoverable Private Keys

The private keys associated with eight certificates were compromised, and root programs and trust stores are blocking them. The post Browsers Block eMudhra Intermediate CAs Over Recoverable Private Keys appeared first on SecurityWeek .

World · Deutsche Welle

Russia frees jailed American Stephen Hubbard during Witkoff talks

During talks between Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff, Putin announced that jailed American Stephen Hubbard had been released. The Kremlin also said Russia was "in principle" ready to resume trilateral talks next month.

Cloud & Infrastructure · CNCF Blog

Before you evaluate an AI SRE, give your existing agent context

If you’re evaluating AI SRE products, you probably own most of one already. The coding agent your engineers use, whether that’s Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, can already investigate a Kubernetes cluster. What it usually lacks...

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories

Hugging Face Blog published: Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

China Defends DeepSeek After US Ban of Its AI From Government Systems

The DHS said agencies should remove DeepSeek products as well as third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek from their IT systems. The post China Defends DeepSeek After US Ban of Its AI From Government Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek .

World · Deutsche Welle

Pakistan-Taliban conflict: How India could benefit from shifting regional dynamics

As Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan comes under strain, India is rebuilding ties with the Taliban in Kabul. Can New Delhi turn this diplomatic opening into lasting strategic gains?

Notable Blogs · Martin Fowler

Fragments: October 21

Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I don’t know: how can I tell how much of it is? And how much time and effort do I want to invest to figure out? I fear most people do not realize this last part: that when it takes time and effort from others to figure out what % is AI, and what % is YOU, then I will simply assume it’s probably 100% AI and 0% you So when producing anything that is meant for other humans, if you use even a little AI, you risk the assumption that it is all AI and pointless to pay attention to In general, I agree with him, and react much the same. Once I hear LLM Voice, I flip the bozo bit and check out of the post. But as I do this I have caveats. How accurate is my neural net at AI-detection, are humans taking on AI-ish elements in their normal communication? And more seriously there are some valid uses for AI. Jim Highsmith’s story of his second brain helping him deal with Parkinson’s is one. Another is folks who don’t know English well, using AI to translate. Am I being unfair when I flip the AI voice bit when I read/listen to them? ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ I was sad to hear that the Grace Hopper Celebration is canceled this year. It’s an event run by Anitab.org to promote women and non-binary technologists in the software industry. Many of my colleagues have been encouraged and inspired by going to this event, which makes a refreshing change to what is often a male-dominated world. It seems the current crusade against diversity initiatives has had a big impact on funding. We are still a long way from where we should be on gender diversity in our profession, and losing an event like this only makes things more difficult. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ I’ve always found Cindy Sridharan’s writing to be worth reading, and she’s broken a quiet period with a monster of an article: How to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code . Since Medium estimates it as a 64 minute read, I didn’t jump in lightly, but settled down on a flight from Amsterdam to Stuttgart. I’m glad I did, because there’s lot of good material in there, and I’d struggle to find anything to cut. In the article she uses three recent bug hunts to surface principles for how to best use an AI tool for debugging. Much of this is governed by this wise observation: Agents are not humans. They’re far more capable than humans when it comes to many things, and we should be leaning into these strengths, rather than trying to get agents to replicate human patterns of problem solving which might be suboptimal in agentic contexts. One conclusion from her experiences is that the code often isn’t the best thing for agents to look at having an agent start an investigation by first reading the code is an anti-pattern. In fact, reading the code first to formulate hypotheses about a bug should always be the very last resort of the agentic investigation process, not the starting point. An agent should first collect all available evidence about the bug, and only then formulate the hypotheses from the code that might best explain what’s being observed. She distinguishes between a bottom tier of facts: raw data that agent can find about the behavior of the system - and an upper tier of hypotheses: inferences that the agents make based on that data. Diagnosing a bug now becomes a problem of finding the hypothesis in the top tier that satisfies every fact from the bottom tier. The agents need to be steered towards the hypotheses that are the likest cause of the bug and then subject these hypotheses to validation. She has a three-step process to do this. First she identifies the most important facts, the signals that might explain or identify the bug. The factual tier has many data points. Not all of them are equally valuable. In fact, some of it might be active noise that doesn’t help an agent to be steered towards most promising hypothesis. The agent first needs to identify the data points in the factual tier that are actually related to the bug. Agents do this best when they are given a high-quality control A control is a behavior of the system that doesn’t exhibit the bug. This may be requests that trigger the bug compared to those that don’t, or different builds of the product, or the same build in different environments. With signals highlighted, she then focuses on the hypotheses that are most promising, because they fit best with the signals. A hypothesis should satisfy all the facts, the most valuable signals are those that are only satisfied by a few hypotheses. A table of hypotheses and signals helps visualize the strength of the signals and the likelihood of the hypotheses. The third step is then validating the promising hypotheses against every fact, treating each fact as constraint on the solution. Across the three bugs chronicled in this post, my most valuable contributions weren’t knowledge of the code. They were picking a control, choosing a constraint, and rejecting a hypothesis that hadn’t been validated. The engineers who thrive in an agent-native world will be the ones who are good at designing such verification loops, whether or not they understand the code it verifies. This directing has to remember the opening point that agents have different capabilities to humans. A human wants to deal with less data. All abstractions we currently have (aggregation, visualizations etc) are designed to help humans deal with less data. An agent, however, needs more raw data; its strength lies in processing huge volumes of data at a rapid clip. Aggregation — the thing that makes a dashboard useful to a human — is often the thing that destroys the value of the signal for an agent Agents’ ability to consume lots of raw data also affects how we build systems. More logging gives agents more data to chew on. And thus far, the human is still necessary to direct the agent In each of the three bugs chronicled in this post, the agent was more than capable of getting to the root cause by itself, but it didn’t do so. It didn’t set up a control in the “latency bug” until I asked it to While it’s a long post, it’s engagingly written and full of useful details. I hope my little summary encourages you to give it the read it deserves.

World · Al Jazeera

Cost of living protests aren’t just happening in Europe

Cost of living protests aren’t just happening in Europe

World · Al Jazeera

Kvaratskhelia, Dembele and Marquinhos out injured after PSG’s win

Kvaratskhelia out for months with a torn ACL in his right knee, while Dembele and Marquinhos suffer thigh muscle tears.

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Embed, Rerank, and Parse: Advancing Agents with World-Class Retrieval Models

Hugging Face Blog published: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Embed, Rerank, and Parse: Advancing Agents with World-Class Retrieval Models

Developers & Open Source · Node.js Blog

Node.js 26.12.1 (Current)

Node.js Blog published: Node.js 26.12.1 (Current)

Developers & Open Source · Node.js Blog

Node.js 24.22.1 (LTS)

Node.js Blog published: Node.js 24.22.1 (LTS)

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

PHP2Shell: What Actually Protects You Before the 14:00 UTC PHP RCE Patch, and What Doesn't

You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today's fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on its own, the security firm that suggested it now says. PHP will release the fix at 14:00 UTC on October 21 for two flaws it rates 9.2 out of 10, and has given no workaround of its own. Until you can install it, what lowers your

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting

An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the model. The harness is where the engineering in AI pentesting sits. The Hugging Face intrusion OpenAI disclosed in July

World · Al Jazeera

WW1 to Houthis: British jets for Saudi Arabia build on long military bond

UK's deployment of jets to defend Saudi Arabia is the latest chapter in a relationship older than the kingdom itself.

Society · NPR Top Stories

Russia releases imprisoned U.S. citizen Stephen Hubbard following Trump's request

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has freed an American, Stephen Hubbard, from a Russian prison following a request from President Trump.

World · Al Jazeera

Paramilitary hitman linked to British right-wing group Turning Point UK

Al Jazeera exposes UK far right's links to criminal underworld.

World · Al Jazeera

UK king welcomes Oman’s sultan in speech quoting Prophet Muhammad

Britain’s King Charles III welcomed Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq on the first state visit in 44 years.

Developers & Open Source · Visual Studio Code Updates

Visual Studio Code 1.144

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.144 Read the full article

Business · BBC Business

Faisal Islam: Inflation and borrowing figures illustrate chancellor's Budget challenge

The economic figures released on Wednesday show the constraints for John Healey as he puts the finishing touches to his Budget.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Chinese AI Model Writes More Hackable Code When Told It’s for US Contractor

Tasked with writing an application for a US defense contractor, the model made the code 19% more likely to be hackable. The post Chinese AI Model Writes More Hackable Code When Told It’s for US Contractor appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Notable Blogs · Stratechery

Netflix Earnings, Business or Franchise, Disney’s Deal

Netflix has a solid business, which is exactly the problem: the company increasingly seems like a business and not a franchise, at least in terms of growth.

World · Deutsche Welle

Russia frees jailed American Stephen Hubbard, US envoy says

After the meeting, Putin announced the release of Stephen Hubbard, an American taken captive by Russian forces years ago in Ukraine.