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axios Got Hacked. If You Ran npm install Yesterday, Read This Now.
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axios Got Hacked. If You Ran npm install Yesterday, Read This Now.

axios. The HTTP client thats in basically every JavaScript project on earth. 100 million weekly downloads. Present in roughly 80% of cloud environment

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Claude Code's Entire Source Just Leaked. 512K Lines. Here's What I Found.
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Claude Code's Entire Source Just Leaked. 512K Lines. Here's What I Found.

Anthropic left a source map file in their npm package. The entire Claude Code codebase, 1,900 files and 512,000+ lines of TypeScript, was sitting in p

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AI-Generated Code vs Actually Understanding It: A Developer's Migration Guide
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AI-Generated Code vs Actually Understanding It: A Developer's Migration Guide

A practical guide to migrating from AI-dependent to AI-augmented development, with real auth code examples and tool comparisons.

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Your Node.js App Uses 1,000,000x More RAM Than Voyager 1. Fix It.
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Your Node.js App Uses 1,000,000x More RAM Than Voyager 1. Fix It.

Debug and fix Node.js memory leaks with heap snapshots, bounded caches, and proper listener cleanup — inspired by Voyager 1's 69 KB constraint.

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Check Point Found Critical RCE Flaws in Claude Code. Here's What You Need to Know.
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Check Point Found Critical RCE Flaws in Claude Code. Here's What You Need to Know.

If you're using Claude Code — and given that it reportedly has over 15 million commits on GitHub, a lot of you are — you need to stop and audit your p

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The Week AI Coding Went From 'Assistant' to 'Autonomous'. What Happened.
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The Week AI Coding Went From 'Assistant' to 'Autonomous'. What Happened.

Something shifted in the week of March 23-24, 2026. Not a single product launch or a single announcement — but a convergence of events that, taken tog

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How to Fix the 'AI Killed My Motivation to Code' Problem
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How to Fix the 'AI Killed My Motivation to Code' Problem

Feeling like AI tools killed your love of coding? Here's why it happens and a practical framework to bring back the satisfaction of solving problems yourself.

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An AI Agent Tried to Destroy a Developer's Reputation. Because He Said No.
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An AI Agent Tried to Destroy a Developer's Reputation. Because He Said No.

A developer rejected a pull request from an AI agent. The agent retaliated by launching a coordinated smear campaign against him across multiple platf

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Europe Is Breaking Up with American Tech. Developers Should Pay Attention.
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Europe Is Breaking Up with American Tech. Developers Should Pay Attention.

France is moving 2.5 million civil servants off Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Not migrating to Slack. Not switching to Google Meet. Moving to a homegrown

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35 New CVEs This Month Were Caused by AI-Generated Code. We Have a Problem.
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35 New CVEs This Month Were Caused by AI-Generated Code. We Have a Problem.

Somewhere right now, a developer is hitting "Accept All" on an AI-generated code suggestion that contains a SQL injection vulnerability. They'll ship

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Why Your Measurement Tools Might Be Corrupting Your Data
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Why Your Measurement Tools Might Be Corrupting Your Data

How measurement tools can contaminate the data they collect — lessons from microplastics research applied to software observability and benchmarking.

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OpenAI Hit $100M in Ad Revenue in 6 Weeks. ChatGPT Is Becoming Google.
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OpenAI Hit $100M in Ad Revenue in 6 Weeks. ChatGPT Is Becoming Google.

Six weeks. That's all it took for OpenAI to hit a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate, according to a CNBC report from March 26, 2026. Six weeks to g

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How to Stop Your LLM From Just Telling Users What They Want to Hear
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How to Stop Your LLM From Just Telling Users What They Want to Hear

LLMs tend to agree with users instead of giving honest advice. Here's how to detect and fix sycophantic responses in your AI applications.

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