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161 postspdfmuse: A Deterministic PDF Parser That Failed on Real Resumes
pdfmuse's deterministic PDF parser looked solid until real resumes exposed a silent 10% failure rate from unhandled form XObjects.
Synapse Lets AI Flag False Positives, Never Delete Findings
Synapse's two-model AI triage flags false positives in security scans without deleting findings, preserving gate reliability and audit trails.
GoCL: A Zero-Overhead C++20 Vulkan Proxy Layer
GoCL is an open-source C++20 Vulkan proxy that rewrites SPIR-V on the fly based on GPU capabilities, lazy-loads heavy backends, and adds zero measurable runtime overhead.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comIntel Arc B70 32GB Runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 130 t/s via Vulkan
Benchmark: Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B via llama.cpp Vulkan at ~130 t/s (4-bit, 262k ctx) and ~69 t/s hybrid 8-bit offload.
Testing LLMs Like Software: A Promptfoo Deep Dive for QA
A production-level guide to testing LLM systems with Promptfoo: versioned evals, deterministic checks, judge-model bias, and provider benchmarking.
RSL: Machine-Readable Licensing Beats Blocking AI Crawlers
RSL lets publishers license content for AI training with machine-readable XML instead of blocking crawlers — namespace, carriers, and 402 enforcement explained.
XDP BFD Integrates with Stock FRR, Eliminates Flaps Under Stress
XDP-based BFD now integrates with stock FRR bfdd, cutting flaps to zero under stress and uncovering upstream FRR and kernel bugs along the way.
Sophos study: AI coding agents look like attackers to a SIEM
Sophos telemetry shows Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex trigger SIEM alerts for credential access and evasion during normal, benign operation.
Kubernetes DNS on AWS, Part 2: The Hidden ztunnel Layer
EKS DNS timeouts traced to Istio ambient mode's ztunnel DNS capture, a hidden layer that mimics NodeLocal DNS failures — fixed with one annotation.
How a hijacked npm preinstall hook delivered a silent infostealer
A hijacked npm package used a preinstall hook to drop a cross-platform Rust infostealer, exposing risks in unattended and AI-agent-driven installs.