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Cloudflare WAF now inspects each request together with its response to spot successful exploitation, and adds response rules.

Explains why sending email at scale costs money: IP reputation, deliverability, bounce handling and anti-spam rules, not the SMTP request itself.

Improves JEV entailment reranking with span readouts and selective adaptation.

Memory-centric continual learning for AI agents.

DIAL distills controllable instruction-adherence levels into LLMs.

Argues software is slow because of design choices, not language, so AI rewrites in fast languages will not help most programs.

An algorithmic account of how language models induce concepts from few examples.

Asks whether the recent wave of critical web vulnerabilities is the new normal.

Speeds up out-of-core graph analytics on SSDs by preprocessing graphs based on which vertices stay active.

Opinion that prompting tricks age fast, like old C micro-optimizations, so AI skills are not durable.

Harness-evolving recursive distillation for continual learning.

Balances image quality against latency when serving text-to-image diffusion models on edge servers.

Proposes a compatibility ratio metric to guide hardware and DNN co-design for embedded accelerators.

AWS Lambda Web Functions run Express and Hono Node apps directly on Lambda.

Diffusion generation for cold-start items in federated recommendation.

pgBackRest 2.60 now stops a restore with an error when it finds invalid page checksums, instead of restoring silently corrupted data.

Stochastic-computing hardware accelerator for RoPE in LLMs.

The poisoned LiteLLM 1.107.0 release, downloaded 49,000 times in two hours, traces back to a master key committed in May and never revoked.

PingCAP, maker of TiDB, confirmed an extortion group stole source code and customer data from internal systems.

A Miasma-family npm worm quietly armed 42 GitHub repos from 11 owners, using an oversized payload to avoid GitHub scanning.

Disaster-recovery analytics where an AI agent generates constrained SQL while the query engine stays the same.

Change-aware multi-view commit message generation.

NVIDIA Kumo Relational is a pretrained relational foundation model that predicts churn or fraud directly from database tables with no training.

Chrome origin trial for the HTML-in-Canvas API.

A step-by-step guide to building Java ME feature phone apps with OpenJDK 8, MicroEmulator stub JARs and ProGuard for preverification, without the old Sun SDKs.

Compares search space complexity for end-to-end ASR.

Recursive self-improvement for forecasting in open worlds.

Controlled study of learned unmasking policies in diffusion LMs.

GeoAgent constrains LLM tool calls with contracts so long seismic processing chains do not break.

Simon Willison on the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise: private keys of eight intermediates exposed.