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We track 22 posts about Other from 18 engineering blogs. Most active: Raymond Chen, Real Python, Oona Räisänen. Latest post: Oct 8, 2026.
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Can Agentic AI Find the Security Vulnerabilities Other Tests Miss? (opens on the source site)
Security teams are good at finding problems. The difficult part is finding the right problems across a growing codebase, a changing application and the connections between them. A scanner can flag a known pattern quickly. A skilled tester can follow a complicated line of enquiry. Neither has unlimited time, and there will always be a question nobody thought to ask. Could AI agents take on more of that investigative work? I think the answer is yes, provided we are precise about what “find” means. Agents can produce leads, test assumptions and uncover issues that established checks have missed.…
Python 3.15 Gets a Surprise RC3 and Other Python News for October 2026 (opens on the source site)
Python 3.15 was supposed to be the least surprising news of the month. The feature set has been locked since May, and our preview series has been walking through it all summer. Then a handful of last-minute bugs in lazy imports forced a surprise third release candidate, and the final release moved to October 9, later this week. The first-ever Python Packaging Council was elected and immediately handed a PEP written by one of its own members. PyPI changed how it counts downloads, so if your package’s chart just fell off a cliff, that’s the likely reason. Polars 2.0 reached the release…
Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? (opens on the source site)
They either predate hot-patching or never needed it. The post Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? (opens on the source site)
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted:Hey Jeff,Hope you and your family are doing well.
Run Terminal-Bench and other Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox (opens on the source site)
Vercel ·
You can now run Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox. Harbor is the open-source harness behind Terminal-Bench, whose registry includes many other benchmarks such as SWE-bench, tau3-bench and OSWorld. Pass --env vercel to harbor run and each trial executes in its own isolated Firecracker microVM, so you can parallelize far beyond what your local machine is capable of. A task's network policy is enforced at the sandbox firewall, outside the VM. Optional credential injection attaches secrets to matching outbound requests at that firewall, so they never enter the sandbox. Paired with AI Gateway, one…
Why do Microsoft job levels start in the high 50’s instead of starting at a sane number like 1? (opens on the source site)
It used to start at 1, but that was the old system. The post Why do Microsoft job levels start in the high 50’s instead of starting at a sane number like 1? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
AI, JD, and other letters of the law (opens on the source site)
Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and regulating AI for child safety using existing consumer protection laws.
Why didn’t ReadDirectoryChangesW provide a way to correlate the two sides of a rename operation? (opens on the source site)
Perhaps it wasn't necessary, or perhaps it didn't occur to them that this a problem. The post Why didn’t ReadDirectoryChangesW provide a way to correlate the two sides of a rename operation? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (opens on the source site)
It came after ud0 and ud1. The post Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Async Generators Get yield from and Other Python News for September 2026 (opens on the source site)
PEP 828 brings yield from to async generators, Python 3.15 freezes its ABI, and four AI libraries ship breaking releases in ten days.
Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed Timescaledb Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options (opens on the source site)
Tiger Cloud on Azure vs self-hosting TimescaleDB: skip-scan, compression, continuous aggregates, tiered storage, private endpoints, and cross-region backups—fully managed.
Query Dynatrace Managed data directly in Claude, AWS Kiro, GitHub Copilot, and other MCP-compatible clients (opens on the source site)
null Continue reading Query Dynatrace Managed data directly in Claude, AWS Kiro, GitHub Copilot, and other MCP-compatible clients on SitePoint.
GPT-Red: OpenAI Is Training Models to Break Other Models (opens on the source site)
Prompt injection is still one of the least comfortable problems in AI development. You can improve your system prompt, restrict tools, validate outputs, and add approval steps before sensitive actions. Still, the model eventually has to read data you do not control. It might browse a webpage, process an email, inspect a repository, or use […] The post GPT-Red: OpenAI Is Training Models to Break Other Models appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island (opens on the source site)
Dan Luu ·
I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience. An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that. Mid-last year, I had GPT (maybe 5.0 or 5.1) try to find the source of a bug. Naturally, this code didn't have tests and git bisect wouldn't work, and it was a UI interaction bug for which I'm not even really qualified to write a test for, so I asked Codex to bisect between dates X and Y to find the…
Building High Availability PostgreSQL Clusters with Patroni and Other Integrated Approaches (opens on the source site)
In modern application stacks, downtime is a direct threat to business continuity, customer trust, and revenue. Regardless of whether it is an e-commerce platform, a fintech application, or a critical internal system, the expectation is 24/7 availability, underscoring the critical importance of High Availability (HA) and automated failover mechanisms within PostgreSQL clusters. HA ensures that […] The post Building High Availability PostgreSQL Clusters with Patroni and Other Integrated Approaches appeared first on Severalnines.
A data model for Git (and other docs updates) (opens on the source site)
Hello! This past fall, I decided to take some time to work on Git’s documentation. I’ve been thinking about working on open source docs for a long time – usually if I think the documentation for something could be improved, I’ll write a blog post or a zine or something. But this time I wondered: could I instead make a few improvements to the official documentation? So Marie and I made a few changes to the Git documentation! a data model for Git After a while working on the documentation, we noticed that Git uses the terms “object”, “reference”, or “index” in its documentation a lot, but that…
Mastering Postgres Replication Slots: Preventing WAL Bloat and Other Production Issues (opens on the source site)
Table of Contents Use the pgoutput Logical Decoding Output Plug-in Define a Maximum Replication Slot Size Enable Heartbeats Use Table-level Publications Use Column and Row Filters Enable Fail-Over Slots Consider Using Replica Identity FULL Monitor, Monitor, Monitor! Drop Unused Replication Slots Summary Over the last couple of years, I’ve helped dozens of users and organizations to build Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines for their Postgres databases. A key concern in that process is setting up and managing replication slots, which are Postgres' mechanism for making sure that any segments of…
Passing planes and other whoosh sounds (opens on the source site)
I always assumed that the recognisable 'whoosh' sound a plane or helicopter makes when passing overhead simply comes from the famous Doppler effect. But when you listen closely, this explanation doesn't make complete sense. #planepassingwave > div { word-wrap: break-word; word-break: normal; } const regions = WaveSurfer.Regions.create(); const wavesurfer_whoosh = WaveSurfer.create({ container: '#planepassingwave', waveColor: 'rgb(25, 100, 200)', progressColor: 'rgb(0, 100, 100)', mediaControls: true, plugins: [regions], });…
Passing planes and other whoosh sounds (opens on the source site)
I always assumed that the recognisable 'whoosh' sound a plane or helicopter makes when passing overhead simply comes from the famous Doppler effect. But when you listen closely, this explanation doesn't make complete sense. (Audio clipped from freesound - here and here) A classic example of the Doppler effect is the sound of a passing ambulance constantly descending in pitch. When a plane flies overhead the roar of the engine sometimes does that as well. But you can also hear a wider, breathier noise that does something different: it's like the pitch goes down at first, but when the plane has…
A Functional intreface can extend other interfaces (opens on the source site)
A functional interface can extend a marker interface, functional interface, non-functional interface, and an annotation. A recent X poll suggested 25% of those responding didn't know that.
A Functional intreface can extend other interfaces (opens on the source site)
A functional interface can extend a marker interface, functional interface, non-functional interface, and an annotation. A recent X poll suggested 25% of those responding didn't know that.
Check whether the browser supports RGBA (and other CSS3 values) (opens on the source site)
When using CSS, we can just include both declarations, one using rgba, and one without it, as mentioned in my post on cross-browser RGBA backgrounds. When writing JavaScript however, it’s a waste of resources to do that (and requires more verbose code), since we can easily check whether the browser is RGBA-capable, almost as easily as we can check whether it suppports a given property. We can even follow the same technique to detect the support of other CSS3 values (for instance, multiple backgrounds support, HSLA support, etc). The technique I’m going to present is based on the fact that…
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