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2026-08-18 - 04:07:24

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‘Fabricated rumors’ about BitMart founder, Binance bStocks dominate: Asia Express

Binance bStocks have overtaken xStocks to become the second-largest tokenized stock issuer by value less than two months after launch. BStocks reached about $624 million on Aug. 3, surpassing xStocks at roughly $579 million but trailing Ondo Finance at about $927 million, according to Token Terminal data. The issuer landscape has shifted sharply as the tokenized stock market has grown. A year earlier, xStocks led with $40.7 million, followed by Robinhood at $37.2 million, while Ondo held about $...

From TikTok to witness list: How much can social media influence the Lindsay Clancy trial?

From TikTok to witness list: How much can social media influence the Lindsay Clancy trial? True-crime fandom no longer wants to watch from the sidelines; it increasingly wants in on the case. Consider the recent lineup: TikTok helped pull the Menendez brothers back into the national conversation decades after their convictions. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial became daily social media programming. Luigi Mangione developed an intense internet fandom before his case even reached tri...

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10056, (Tue, Aug 18th)

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10056 Handler on Duty: Johannes Ullrich Threat Level: green Click HERE to learn more about classes Johannes is teaching for SANS Click HERE to learn more about classes Johannes is teaching for SANS × Diary Archives Comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

At a glance, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy looks like a new think tank dedicated to Israel/Palestine. The organization churns out think-tank style reports on questions such as “Does AIPAC Use ‘Dark Money in Elections?” and “Is Israel Carrying out a Deliberate Campaign of Starvation in Gaza?” But the Hanover Institute is not a real think tank. None of the reports have bylines. A small disclaimer at the bottom of the webpage notes that the organization was created on behalf of the Israel...

Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

New software releases? Who cares. Learning new CS concepts? Whatever. Studying for the next interview? Job probably won't even exist in a year. Working on that side project? No one will care because it's just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy bagging your groceries can do it. Everything is done and cooked with AI now. It's exactly like that feeling once you enable cheats in a game; sure you can do anything, but everything is meaningless now. Our entire purpose and joy in life...

React scrollIntoView with useRef: Scroll to an Element (2026)

You have a long form. The user hits Submit, validation fails on a field three screens down, and the error message renders somewhere they can't see. The fix is one browser API call — but where you put it, and what you pass it, is where an afternoon goes. The short answer, which is what most people are here for: import { useRef } from "react"; function Article() { const sectionRef = useRef(null); return ( sectionRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ behavior: "smooth" })}> Jump to details {/* … a lot of c...

A Generated SQL Query Got Faster by Returning Fewer Rows. Test That Before You Merge It

Have you ever watched a generated SQL refactor run faster and assumed it must be correct? That assumption breaks down when the speedup comes from an inner join that silently drops rows the old left join preserved. The output still looks plausible because every displayed row has a customer name, so a quick smoke test misses the loss. I treat a generated query change as a patch, not a proof, until a differential check compares the old and new result sets. Disclosure: This article was prepared as p...

A Free Model vs 30 Security Advisory Records: An Accuracy Test You Can Rerun

A single wrong severity label can push a bad dependency upgrade into production. An advisory said "moderate." The package in our tree was critical. The model guessed low. I did not trust the model after that. I wanted a repeatable accuracy test. So I built one. I ran the test through MonkeyCode's free model access and free server option. Disclosure: This article was prepared as part of MonkeyCode's product outreach. The Problem With Advisory Summaries Advisory text is messy. Vendors use differen...

DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: A Cloud Architect's Take

DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: A Cloud Architect's Take I've been running LLM workloads in production for the better part of three years now, and the past twelve months have been wild. The Chinese AI ecosystem went from "interesting curiosity" to "legitimate alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic" faster than I could rebuild my Terraform modules. When a client asked me last quarter which Chinese model family they should standardize on for a multi-region deployment handling 12M requests per day, I...

An ambiguity gate for AI coding agents: measure the request before writing code

Every AI coding agent I have used will happily start writing code from a one-line request. "Build a task management CLI" leaves the data model, storage, priority rules, and ID scheme for the model to guess, and each guess is defensible and wrong. You find out three files into review, and the fix costs a rewrite instead of an answer. An ambiguity gate is the opposite default: the system measures how vague your request still is, and refuses to freeze a spec until the number clears a threshold. Thi...

Reading an IP Address Like a Security Analyst: A Field Guide

Every device on the internet is reachable through an IP address. Behind each address hides a story: a country, an organization, a network operator, and sometimes a threat actor. Reading that story quickly is one of the most useful skills a security analyst, developer, or IT professional can have. The four fields that matter When you look at any IP address, four questions decide everything: - Who owns it? The ASN and ISP tell you if it's a residential provider, a hosting company, a mobile carrier...

Why Strong Google Rankings Do Not Necessarily Translate Into LLM Brand Visibility

Strong Google rankings remain valuable, but they are not a direct measure of whether a brand will be surfaced, cited, or recalled in LLM-driven search experiences. Fractl's Generative Engine Optimization research examines this gap through a large analysis of keywords, verticals, and domains, framing AI visibility as a distinct discipline rather than a simple extension of conventional SEO. The important distinction is practical. Traditional SEO seeks visibility in search engine results pages, whi...

Generated Report Delivery — Bulk Email, SMS, Queue Workers, and Cron Reconciliation

A Node.js service tries to send bulk event notifications for a generated media report, but the page says report_delivery_unknown after its email worker completes. The worker dashboard is green. That is almost useless at 3am, because it answers whether code ran rather than whether the report reached anyone. Short answer: send bulk event notifications through an idempotent queue worker, render the attachment message from a template revision owned by your application, and use a cron poller to recon...

So we got hit by a scraping attack today. AI Agent scraped one of my website, even cloudflare out of the box wasn’t able to stop it. 5m requests in a span of 2hrs They were using Lightpanda, a headless browser for agents, but instead of running workflow

JE Ramos Posted on Aug 18 So we got hit by a scraping attack today.AI Agent scraped one of my website, even cloudflare out of the box wasn’t able to stop it. 5m requests in a span of 2hrsThey were using Lightpanda, a headless browser for agents, but instead of running workflow Top comments (0) Subscribe Personal Trusted User Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss Code of Conduct • Report abuse Are you sure you want to hide this ...

Building an Immersive 3D Dice Roller with React and Three.js

Hey RPG community! I wanted to share a tool I built for my tabletop sessions — Arcane-Dice. Inspired by the immersive dice rolling experience in Baldur's Gate 3, I built this web-based 3D dice roller app to bring that same feeling to any browser. Features: - Physics-based Rolling: Real 3D dice using Three.js and Cannon.js. - Immersive Effects: Sound effects and animations to make every roll feel impactful. - Easy Integration: Ready to be used in any web-based tabletop tool. Tech Stack: - React -...

From 30 Minutes to 3 Seconds: Automated LLM Memory Recall Testing with pytest + FAISS

At 1:30 a.m., the user group blew up: "Why did the AI forget my dietary restriction again?" I dragged myself out of bed and checked. The memory "no cilantro" was still in the memory store, but top-k recall just didn't include it. Manually comparing 20 memories took 30 minutes. As my eyelids grew heavy, it hit me: this kind of regression testing should have been automated long ago. Breaking Down the Problem A typical LLM memory pipeline looks like this: conversation -> extract memory -> vectorize...

RAG Hallucination Diagnosis: Evidence Gating Beats Embeddings for Ask-Your-Docs Chatbot Answers

Short answer: A docs chatbot should abstain whenever it cannot assemble enough directly relevant evidence for a moderation report. For classifying gaming reports before human review, choose evidence gating over a larger context window: retrieval may propose evidence, but a separate policy must decide whether the system may answer. This favors quality over shaving a little latency from the happy path. The distinction matters because a fluent category label can still be unsupported. Embeddings ans...

R.I.P. Columbia House: Here’s How It Improbably Survived This Long

Right now, if you go to the website of Columbia House—yes, it has one—you’ll notice a tragic message right at the top: “After 9/15/26, The Columbia House will no longer be accepting new orders. You can still purchase books with your credit card or credits as normal.” You’re not remembering wrong: It went bankrupt in 2015. That was a big blow, certainly, but it didn’t drive the company completely out of business until, well, one month from now, when it will start winding down operations by turnin...

Meta lança óculos Ray‑Ban com reconhecimento facial: entenda os riscos

Patente da Meta traz óculos Ray‑Ban com reconhecimento facial: o que você precisa saber e como se proteger Introdução Em 2024, a Meta registrou uma patente que promete transformar óculos estilo Ray‑Ban em verdadeiros “olhos digitais”, capazes de identificar quem está à sua frente e exibir informações em tempo real. O anúncio disparou buscas no Google, incendiou discussões no Twitter e despertou preocupações de especialistas em privacidade. Neste artigo você descobrirá como funciona a tecnologia,...

Meta's Patent Unveils Ray‑Ban Smart Glasses with Face‑ID

Meta’s New Patent Puts Ray‑Ban‑Style Smart Glasses with Face‑ID on the Radar Introduction Smart glasses that can read faces and instantly pull up a digital profile are no longer science‑fiction. Meta’s freshly filed patent for Ray‑Ban‑style eyewear has sparked a flood of Google searches, Twitter threads, and Reddit debates in early 2024. As on‑device AI chips become cheap enough for mass‑market wearables, the question isn’t if facial recognition will land on our lenses—it’s how we can keep it un...

Can Sound Clean Dust From a Phone Speaker? The Boundary I Had to Design Around

While building a browser-based speaker cleaner, I kept running into one deceptively simple product question: if vibration can move a water droplet, can it also clean dust? The tempting answer is yes. The useful answer is narrower. Water and dust can both make a phone speaker sound muffled, but they are different physical problems. Treating them as one problem would make the interface simpler at the cost of making the product less honest. That distinction ended up changing more than the help text...

Building Fault-Tolerant, Event-Driven Kafka Pipelines in Go: Reliable Reprocessing & Dead Letter Queues

A practical guide to building reliable event-driven systems in Go using Apache Kafka. Learn how to implement tiered retry strategies with delayed reprocessing, route permanently failed messages to dead letter queues in Golang with Sarama. Prerequisites What do you need to follow along? - Working knowledge of Golang. - Go & Docker installed on your PC. What is an Event-Driven Architecture? An Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a design approach where services communicate by producing and respondi...

Five SQL Bugs That Never Threw an Error

A week cleaning 290 booking records taught me more about silent failure than any error message ever has Last week I cleaned a deliberately messy dataset; 290 booking records from Safari Connect, Nairobi bus platform, 21 columns, 23 catalogued data problems. Class exercise, but the data was built from real failure modes. The problems I'd been warned about took an afternoon. The ones that cost me were the five that ran perfectly, returned plausible output, and were wrong. Every one of these produc...

AgentOne Desktop Is Now Open Source

AgentOne is now open source. The entire desktop app is now free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, live on GitHub. Every line of code, from the React frontend to the Rust/Tauri shell, is out in the open for anyone to read, run, fork, and improve. This has always been the plan. Today it's real. Why we did it The AI ecosystem has an open-washing problem. "Open" models ship without weights, "free" tools turn out to be data farms, and "agents" turn out to be wrappers around someone else's A...

Creating a Retro-Futuristic Aesthetic Productivity Dashboard with React

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my latest side project, MeowLOCK. I was tired of the standard, sterile productivity apps, so I built something with a bit more soul — a retro-futuristic aesthetic workspace designed specifically for developers. What's inside? - Ambient Mixer: Customize your background sounds for deep focus. - Cozy Widgets: Clock, Pomodoro timer, and task list all in one place. - Customizable Themes: Switch between different "vibes" to suit your mood. Tech Stack: - React 18 - TypeSc...

How I Ported Classic 1993 DOOM to the Browser using WebAssembly

Hey everyone! I've always been a fan of retro gaming, and I recently decided to take on the challenge of porting the original 1993 DOOM to the browser. The result is RetroPlay, a fully functional, zero-plugin version of DOOM that runs purely on WebAssembly. Key Features: - Pure WASM: Compiled using Emscripten. - Freedoom WAD: Included by default so you can play immediately. - Mobile Friendly: Custom touch controls and gyroscope support for an immersive mobile experience. Why I built this: I want...

Your backup is not a backup until you have restored it

This is an English write-up of a post from my Japanese dev diary. Original: https://saas-diary.com/tech-log/backup-restore-drill-automation/ For over a year, my backup job has reported success every single night. Green check, every day, no exceptions. Then I asked myself one question and went cold: "How many times have I actually restored from it?" Zero. Not once. "It was backed up" and "it can be restored" are different states My setup has two paths. One mirrors all source to a private repo. Th...

F-RevoCRM CVE-2026-71368: Cross-Site Scripting Targeting Logged-in Users

F-RevoCRM CVE-2026-71368: Cross-Site Scripting Targeting Logged-in Users 1. Basic Information - Article Title: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in F-RevoCRM - Publisher: JVN - Published / Updated Date: 2026-08-17 - Severity: Medium - Original Source: JVN#58692577 - Related Information: F-RevoCRM Developer Advisory - Related Malware / Threat Groups: None / Unidentified - CVE & Products: CVE-2026-71368, F-RevoCRM 7.3.0 to 8.0.3, Fixed version 8.0.4 2. Summary This is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)...

Microsoft's AI Defense Research: Generating Detection Test Logs from Attack Procedures

Microsoft's AI Defense Research: Generating Detection Test Logs from Attack Procedures 1. Basic Information - Article Title: Accelerating detection engineering using AI-assisted synthetic attack logs generation - Publisher: Microsoft Security Blog / Microsoft Defender Security Research Team - Publication Date: May 12, 2026 - Importance: High (Practical value for defense research and testing environments) - Original Source: Microsoft Security Blog - Related Sources: MITRE ATT&CK / OTRF Security D...

CrowdStrike's AI Triage Research: How Well Can AI Automatically Judge SOC Alerts?

CrowdStrike's AI Triage Research: How Well Can AI Automatically Judge SOC Alerts? 1. Basic Information - Article Title: Teaching AI to Reason Through Detection Triage - Publisher: CrowdStrike - Publication Date: 2026-08-17 - Severity/Importance: High (Practical value as defense research) - Original Source: CrowdStrike - Related Source: Research Paper (arXiv PDF) - Target: Security alerts generated on Windows endpoints - Main Models & Methods: Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, Nemotron-3-Super-120B, GEPA, Ada...

It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X

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Planned US Data Centers Set to Produce 24M Cars’ Worth Of Carbon Dioxide

A new analysis of the 60 largest data centers under construction in the US by Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft estimates the sites could produce a cumulative 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually once they’re fully up and running, Financial Times reports. That’s about 7% of all 2025 US power-sector emissions. Put another way, it’s the equivalent of running 27 coal power plants or putting 24 million more gas-powered cars on the road. The backlash against America’s data center and artifi...

Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required

The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn't a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. It was a 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba: Qwen3.8-27B landed on Hugging Face on Friday under an enterprise-friendly, open source Apache 2.0 license, giving developers downloadable weights for a dense multimodal model. But Qwen3.8-27B isn't a garden variety small local model: it includes native image and video ...

Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates

Flock, Ring and Atlanta’s network of more than 28,000 integrated cameras haven’t improved city’s crime clearance rates Despite an eightfold increase in the number of cameras integrated into the city’s Connect Atlanta surveillance program, crime clearance rates have not meaningfully increased, according to data collected by the FBI. When Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr wrote an opinion piece on the importance of police surveillance technology like license plate readers, he included an entire ...

PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada’s new government is focused on what we can control: building a stronger, more independent, and more sustainable country. Canada is starting from a position of strength. We have what the world wants. We have the natural resources, critical minerals, and clean power that will build this century. We have the workers and the ingenuity to turn that potential into strength. We understand we can build faster and bigger when we work together. And we have tru...

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

This post concerns the following conjecture of Sendov, as well as its strengthening by Phelps–Rodriguez: Conjecture 1 (Sendov’s conjecture) Let , and let be a degree polynomial with all zeroes in the unit disk. Then for every zero of , there exists a critical point of with . Conjecture 2 (Phelps–Rodriguez conjecture) Let , and let be a degree polynomial with all zeroes in the unit disk. Then for every zero of , there exists a critical point of with , unless is on the unit circle and is a scalar ...

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

Tips & trucs Nieuws uit ons netwerk Wereldwijde beweging Behalve in Nederland zijn er ook Repair Cafés in België, Duitsland, Frankrijk, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, de Verenigde Staten en in tientallen andere landen verspreid over de hele wereld. Het Repair Café is zelfs doorgedrongen tot India en Japan! 0 0 0

What is the release date for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe episode 5 on HBO Max?

What is the release date for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe episode 5 on HBO Max? The halfway point beckons We're halfway through The Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, and I still maintain the opinion that it's better than the original CBS sitcom. But that hasn't stopped the two from being heavily intertwined. Over the last four episodes, we've seen cameo appearances from Raj (Kunal Nayyar), Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Amy (Mayim Bialik). Could...

6 fitness trackers under $100 — from the super-popular Google Fitbit Air to the 5-star Amazfit Active 2

6 fitness trackers under $100 — from the super-popular Google Fitbit Air to the 5-star Amazfit Active 2 Fitness doesn't have to cost the earth You might be looking at the Apple Watch Ultra 3 or Garmin Fenix 8 and balking at the cost of fitness watches these days, but tracking your health doesn't have to empty your wallet. There are plenty of terrific budget options, and below we've listed six of the best, all of which you can find for under $100. There's the Xiaomi Smart Band 10, which tops our ...

Disney Parks' D23 keynote was packed — here's everything new coming to Disney World and Disneyland, including Piston Peak, Avengers Campus, and Villains Land

Disney Parks' D23 keynote was packed — here's everything new coming to Disney World and Disneyland, including Piston Peak, Avengers Campus, and Villains Land A lot of updates and two surprises Considering that in 2024 the Disney Experiences panel at D23 delivered the news that Disney would be bringing new lands to parks across the globe, expansions on the high seas, attraction updates, and entirely new attractions, the bar was set high for D23 2026's Horizons: A Carousel of Progress keynote. Eve...