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why-we-open-sour-c1f013bf.webp alt: Building Digital Identity Tools - Why We Open-Sourced Our SSI SDK relative: false Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a framework that allows individuals and organizations to control their own digital identities and share verified credentials without relying on a central authority. This paradigm shift empowers users with greater privacy and control over their personal data, while also providing robust mechanisms for verifying the authenticity of credentials. What is Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)? SSI is built around the concept of decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and verifiable credentials. DIDs are unique identifiers that are controlled by the entity they represent, enabling them to manage their own identity data. Verifiable credentials are digital assertions that can be issued by one party and verified by another, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of the information shared. Why did we open-source the SSI SDK? Open-sourcing the SSI SDK was a strategic decision driven by several factors. First, fostering innovation within the community is crucial for advancing the field of digital identity. By making our SDK available to everyone, we encourage collaboration and experimentation, leading to new ideas and improvements. Second, promoting transparency is essential for building trust in digital identity systems. Open-source projects allow others to inspect the codebase, understand how it works, and identify potential vulnerabilities. This transparency helps build confidence in the security and reliability of the SDK. Finally, enabling a broader community to contribute to and benefit from secure digital identity solutions aligns with our mission to democratize access to these technologies. By lowering the barriers to entry, we hope to empower more developers and organizations to adopt and improve upon our work. What are the key features of the SSI SDK? The SSI SDK provides a comprehensive set of tools for building digital identity app

How Normal Software Engineers Actually Use AI in Their Daily Work Let's cut through the hype. You're not building the next AGI. You're a working software engineer with deadlines, legacy code, and a backlog that never shrinks. So how do you actually use AI tools in your day-to-day work? After surveying hundreds of developers and reflecting on real-world usage patterns, here's what normal software engineers are doing with AI—no Silicon Valley theatrics required. The Mundane But Invaluable: Code Completion and Boilerplate The most common use case is the least sexy: letting AI handle repetitive code. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and similar tools excel at generating boilerplate that you'd otherwise copy-paste from Stack Overflow or previous projects. Real example: Writing CRUD endpoints in Express/TypeScript: typescript // Type this comment and let AI complete: // Create a REST endpoint for user registration with email validation app.post('/api/users/register', async (req: Request, res: Response) => { try { const { email, password, name } = req.body; // Email validation const emailRegex = /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/; if (!emailRegex.test(email)) { return res.status(400).json({ error: 'Invalid email format' }); } // Check if user exists const existingUser = await User.findOne({ email }); if (existingUser) { return res.status(409).json({ error: 'User already exists' }); } // Hash password and create user const hashedPassword = await bcrypt.hash(password, 10); const user = await User.create({ email, password: hashedPassword, name }); res.status(201).json({ userId: user.id, email: user.email }); } catch (error) { res.status(500).json({ error: 'Internal server error' }); } }); Did AI write perfect code? No. But it gave you scaffolding to refine, saving 10-15 minutes of typing. That's the real win. The Game-Changer: Explaining Legacy Code and Obscure APIs Every developer inherits someone else's mess. AI tools shine when deciphering undocumented code or unfamiliar libraries. Pract

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There's a school of voice-agent development that treats turn detection as something you buy, not something you build. Pick a streaming STT provider, let its end-of-turn logic decide when the user is done, and move on. For a lot of teams that's the right move — and if you're weighing the options, our breakdown of turn detection vs forced endpoints is the place to start. But some teams have already solved turn detection. They've tuned their own voice-activity detection over thousands of calls, they know their audio, and they trust their endpointing more than any default. For those teams, a streaming model's built-in turn logic isn't a feature — it's something to work around. What they want is narrower and faster: hand over a finished chunk of speech, get accurate text back, get out of the way. That's the case for bringing your own turn detection and pairing it with fast ASR over HTTP. Turn detection is an architectural decision, not a default Here's the framing that matters. In a streaming setup, the STT model is a participant in the conversation — it's watching the audio and deciding, continuously, whether the user has finished. That's genuinely useful when you want the provider to own that judgment. But it means the model is inserting its own decision between "user stopped talking" and "you get the transcript." If you already know the turn is over — because your VAD just fired — you don't want the model deliberating. You want it transcribing. Every millisecond the STT layer spends re-deciding a question you've already answered is latency you're adding for no benefit. So the decision isn't "which provider has the best turn detection." For these teams it's "who owns the turn boundary?" If the answer is you, then the ideal STT layer is one that does exactly one thing: turn a finished clip into accurate text, fast. Built-in vs. bring-your-own Built-in (streaming). The model reads tonality, pacing, and rhythm to detect end-of-turn — with Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime, aroun

The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime.

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Despite a complete lack of evidence, everyone from Russia to Israel and Iran is being blamed for Lindsey Graham’s death.

Despite a complete lack of evidence, everyone from Russia to Israel and Iran is being blamed for Lindsey Graham’s death.

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I run ezyZip , a browser-based archive tool, so "which format should I use?" is a question I field constantly. The honest answer is usually "it depends," which satisfies nobody. So I stopped hand-waving and measured it. We benchmarked 42 archive and compression formats, spanning four decades, from 1984's Unix compress through today's Zstandard, Brotli, and context-mixing paq8px. Everything ran against the same realistic 55 MB corpus, every archive was round-trip verified byte for byte, and the whole thing reproduces from a single command. Here's what came out of it, and what I'd actually reach for. The setup Most compression benchmarks measure raw codecs on standardized corpora like Silesia. That's the right call for algorithm research and the wrong call for answering "what should I zip my folder with?" I wanted end-user formats, real CLI tools, container overhead and all, on data that looks like an actual folder. So the corpus is deliberately mixed: about 11 MB of text, 15 MB of office documents, 16 MB of images, and 13 MB of video, all public domain so it can be committed and redistributed. That mix matters. Office documents ( .docx , .xlsx , .pptx ) are themselves ZIP containers, so they stress how a tool handles already-compressed data. The JPEG and H.264 media is near-incompressible and sets an honest lower bound. The plain text and uncompressed images are where formats actually separate. Two rules kept it fair and practical: Only two levels per tool: its default, and its one "maximum compression" dial. No method tuning, no dictionary sizes, no thread-count games. That's what a normal person can reach. Everything is round-trip verified. Each archive gets extracted, and every file is hashed with SHA-256 against the original manifest. Exit codes are not trusted. That last rule earned its keep immediately. The verification gotcha On the image category, a 1985-era ARC build produced an archive that its own extractor happily unpacked, while printing a CRC warning an

GitHub has made the redesigned GitHub Copilot CLI terminal interface generally available. It adds a tabbed layout for sessions, gists, issues, and pull requests; an in-session, form-driven setup for MCP servers, skills, and plugins that avoids hand-editing config files; and a cleaner, theme-aware, more accessible UI with screen reader support. By Mark Silvester

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Gabriela Moreira about making formal methods accessible through the Quint specification language, how AI is dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for formal specification and model-based testing, and why defining correct system behaviour remains essential human work in an AI-driven world. By Gabriela Moreira