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175 postsWhy AI Agents Must Never Choose Their Own Acting Subject
AI agents shouldn't self-assign identity via tool arguments. Learn why acting subjects must come from trusted boundaries, not model output.
Why PDF Ingestion, Not the LLM, Broke a Banking RAG Chatbot
How PDF extraction, broken tables, OCR, and chunking issues nearly derailed a production banking RAG chatbot pipeline.
8 security layers for an MCP marketplace: what each one catches
A developer built 8 defense-in-depth security layers for an MCP marketplace after a trojan slipped through — here's what each layer actually catches.
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.comThe Acknowledgment Gap: How Event-Driven Systems Silently Lose Messages
Why do event-driven systems silently drop messages between acceptance and completion? A deep dive into the acknowledgment gap and its fixes.
Open AI-Agent Incident Database Lists 32 Failures, Admits Its Gaps
ARE Incident Database catalogs 32 real AI agent failures mapped to OWASP ASI Top 10, with runnable repros and honestly flagged coverage gaps.
Local Model Showdown Round 9: Qwen 3.6, Nemotron, Qwythos Coding Test
Five LLMs face off on a real coding task via llama.cpp on an RTX 5090 in Round 9 of the Local Model Showdown series.
Intercept.js brings context-aware YARA scanning to JavaScript runtimes
Intercept.js runs context-aware YARA rules in any JS runtime, adding browser download context to catch 0-day threats before files hit disk.
Sophos Finds Coding Agents Trip the Same EDR Rules Built for Attackers
Sophos finds Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex trigger EDR rules built to catch attackers, exposing new risks in agentic coding workflows.
How to Build a 3-Tier On-Device AI Concierge
Learn to set up a 3-tier AI chat widget running on the visitor's browser at zero cost.
Engineering notes: making an AI system tell the truth
How NicheIQ rebuilt its AI idea-evaluation pipeline to fix self-scoring bias, failed self-refinement loops, and reach an honest No-Go verdict.