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The Onion's InfoWars officially has a launch date: On July 2nd, the conspiracy network previously run by Alex Jones will return as a comedy and media platform. The reboot comes more than a year and a half after news broke that the satirical news site was working to acquire the property owned by Jones, a […]
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same. Kē offers […]
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap. The post How pull request limits are cutting down the noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th - one week after the hearing, and […]
Bash is the easiest language for AI to write and the easiest language to get devastating output from. A 20-line script that "just cleans up old files" can recursively delete a home directory because the model assumed a variable would always be set. A "simple log shipper" can write your secrets to a remote server because the model used set -x for debugging and forgot to remove it. I have run AI-generated bash that I should not have. Most engineers I know have too. After enough close calls, there's a short checklist that catches the worst of it. This is that checklist. The five things to check before running any AI-generated bash 1. Does it start with a strict pragma? The first lines of any non-trivial bash script should be: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail IFS = $' \n\t ' What each does: set -e — exit on any command failure. Without this, a failure in line 5 doesn't stop the script from happily running lines 6-50. set -u — error on undefined variables. This is the one that saves you from rm -rf $UNDEFINED/ . set -o pipefail — propagate failures through pipes. Without it, failing-command | grep something succeeds because grep succeeds. IFS=$'\n\t' — sane field splitting. Defends against word-splitting bugs in filenames. If the AI-generated script doesn't have these, add them and re-read the script. You'll often discover bugs the pragma now flags. 2. Is every variable expansion quoted? # Wrong rm -rf $TARGET_DIR # Right rm -rf " $TARGET_DIR " The wrong version is what causes the "I deleted the root directory" stories. If $TARGET_DIR is empty or contains a space, the command becomes rm -rf (delete current directory) or rm -rf foo bar (delete two unintended things). Models default to the wrong version about half the time because the right version is harder to write in chat ("escape the quotes!") and the wrong version is what most blogs show. Fix: When reading AI bash, mentally check every $VAR for quotes. Add them if missing. This is the single biggest source of bas
You walk into the RFP briefing. Your competitor has 200 people, 97% AI coverage, and a 4-day delivery promise. You have 15 people and a proposal you haven't even finished writing. Do you bet on better tech, or on understanding people better — and playing dirtier when you have to? This story is your answer. Act I · The Crack When Finova's RFP landed, everyone in the industry knew how big this was. Cross-border payment system. Multi-currency settlement + compliance + risk. Their last deployment had a P0 incident — an exchange rate module drifted by four decimal places in an edge case, and audit chased it for two months. So Finova's CTO made it clear: a $1.8M contract, and whoever signs off owns the result. $1.8M. Enough to keep a small testing company alive for a whole year. Plenty of firms showed up at the briefing. But only two were real contenders. QualiGuard — mid-sized, just closed their Series A, 200 people, their own AI testing platform called Aegis. A $1.8M contract was barely a rounding error for them — but with Series A money comes the pressure to show revenue growth for the next round, and Finova was a trophy client in the cross-border payments space. The case study was worth more than the project itself. Derek stood at the podium, flipping through slides packed with numbers: Aegis delivers 97.2% test automation coverage. Full Finova platform testing in four business days. No "we'll try." Just "we can do it." VeriTest — small, fifteen people. Marcus spent the whole morning working the room with Finova's people. I sat in the back row with nothing. Marcus slid back over and leaned in: "Their PPT makes yours look like a joke." I didn't answer. I was watching Derek's boss. Sarah — QualiGuard's VP, Derek's direct supervisor. She sat in the front row, off to the side, and never once looked at Derek during his entire presentation. She was on her phone. As one of the few women running a technical department, I watched her longer than I watched Derek. When Derek fla
This is Part 13 of my series on the Microsoft Agent Framework. You can read the original post over on lukaswalter.dev . In the previous article , we looked at workflows. Workflows make sense when the process itself needs structure: state, checkpoints, events, human approvals, and resumable execution. This post is the bridge from Agent Framework into RAG. I plan on doing a full RAG deep dive sometime later. The practical question for now is smaller: How do I connect an Agent Framework agent to private application knowledge without stuffing every document into the prompt? For agents, RAG is less about adding more text and more about giving the agent a controlled retrieval path. The agent should fetch the right context at the point where it needs it. Agents do not know your private data Your company documents, product catalog, tickets, rules, policies, runbooks, and internal knowledge base live outside the model. The model has generic knowledge. Your application has private knowledge. Treat those as separate systems. You can paste some private data into the prompt, and for a demo that may be enough. But this falls apart quickly: full documents are expensive to send repeatedly long prompts are fragile stale documents may sit next to current ones users may not be allowed to see every source long context still needs selection The last point is easy to underestimate. A larger context window lets you send more text. It does not decide which text is correct, current, relevant, or permitted. Do not give the agent all knowledge. Give it the right context at the moment it needs it. Retrieval owns that job. The minimal RAG shape The basic RAG loop is small: user question -> retrieve relevant chunks -> pass chunks to the agent -> agent answers using that context For documents, the longer pipeline usually looks like this: documents -> chunks -> embeddings -> vector store -> search -> retrieved context -> agent response Documents are split into smaller chunks. Those chunks are embe
AI coding agents now edit repositories, run commands, and produce branches. That makes the spec before the work more important: it carries the context, boundaries, and success criteria the agent needs. What a good coding-agent spec includes Specs are becoming more important because AI coding agents are no longer only answering questions. They are reading repositories, editing files, running commands, producing branches, and asking humans to review the result. That changes what a prompt needs to become. When an assistant only answers a question, a private prompt can be enough. When an agent changes a shared codebase, the prompt becomes an assignment. And an assignment needs more than good wording. It needs the right context, boundaries, examples, and a way to judge whether the work matched the original intent. That is the practical reason to prepare a spec before sending a coding agent into a repository. The spec does not need to be long. It does need to tell the agent what problem it is solving, what behavior should change, what must not change, and how the result will be reviewed. At minimum, a good coding-agent spec should give the agent five things: the context behind the task the behavior that should change the constraints the agent should preserve examples or scenarios that define correctness the validation evidence a reviewer should inspect This is the useful idea behind spec-driven development, behavior scenarios, issue templates, lightweight design docs, OpenSpec, GitHub Spec Kit, and many internal engineering proposal formats. The specific framework matters less than the shape of the spec: the agent should receive enough context to act, and the team should receive enough structure to review the result. The spec is not a nicer prompt. It is the prepared assignment between human intent and machine execution. Prompts are good at starting work. Specs are better at carrying it. A private prompt is optimized for immediacy. It lives in a chat session. It can inclu
AI agents are getting very good at writing final reports. The problem is not only that they make mistakes. The problem is that sometimes they make mistakes with excellent presentation. Proofline is a 5-skill Markdown pack that catches fake-ready output before it turns into a release, handoff, public post, or "yeah, looks done". What Proofline does It is not trying to be another giant agent. It works as a review route after the agent produces a result: Reference Gap Ready Gate Reality QA Lean Pass Repair Report Compiler Each step asks an annoying but useful question: what is missing from the references, what was not checked, where did the agent pretend everything was fine, and what actually needs to be fixed? Who it is for Builders working with Codex-style agent chats, AI coding workflows, Markdown handoffs, and any process where "done" needs to mean more than a confident paragraph. Release: https://github.com/aisflows/proofline/releases/tag/v0.2.0-rc5
General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.
Gas optimization is satisfying. You shave a few thousand gas off a function and feel clever. But some optimizations trade away safety in ways that are not obvious, and I have seen "optimized" contracts that introduced vulnerabilities. Here are the gas wins that are genuinely free, the ones that cost you safety, and how to tell the difference. Where gas actually goes Before optimizing, know what is expensive. Storage operations dominate. Writing a fresh storage slot ( SSTORE from zero to non-zero) costs a lot; reading storage ( SLOAD ) is cheaper but still meaningful; computation in memory is cheap by comparison. So the highest-leverage optimizations are about touching storage less. Free win 1: cache storage reads in memory If you read the same storage variable multiple times in a function, each read is an SLOAD . Read it once into a local variable instead: // WASTEFUL: reads storage `total` three times function distribute() external { require(total > 0, "empty"); uint256 share = total / count; emit Distributed(total); } // OPTIMIZED: one SLOAD, two memory reads function distribute() external { uint256 _total = total; // single storage read require(_total > 0, "empty"); uint256 share = _total / count; emit Distributed(_total); } This is free in the sense that it changes nothing about correctness. The value is identical; you just read it once. Pure win. Free win 2: calldata instead of memory for read-only arrays For external function arguments you only read (never modify), calldata is cheaper than memory because it skips the copy: // memory copies the whole array into memory function process(uint256[] memory ids) external { ... } // calldata reads directly from the transaction data, no copy function process(uint256[] calldata ids) external { ... } Again, free. If you do not mutate the array, calldata is strictly better. Free win 3: storage packing Solidity packs multiple variables into one 32-byte slot if they fit and are adjacent. Order your storage variables so smal
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they're on sale to the public.
On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5. […]
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Adobe has added its Firefly AI tool to some of its most important apps.
Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface. The new Firefly experience launching today in private beta is designed to give you "persistent context, reusable assets, and organized workflows" across your projects, according to Adobe, […]
Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps. As part of a public beta launching today, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io now each have a bespoke AI Assistant that can be used […]
Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.