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We are happy to announce that luz version 0.3.0 is now on CRAN. This release brings a few improvements to the learning rate finder first contributed by Chris McMaster. As we didn’t have a 0.2.0 release post, we will also highlight a few improvements that date back to that version. What’s luz? Since it is relatively new package, we are starting this blog post with a quick recap of how luz works. If you already know what luz is, feel free to move on to the next section. luz is a high-level API for torch that aims to encapsulate the…
If you’ve spent any time on GitHub Trending this month, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: it isn’t research papers turning into repositories anymore, it’s agents. Coding agents, pentesting agents, trading agents, and the infrastructure that ties them all together. We tracked star growth, momentum, and real-world impact to identify the ten repositories that mattered most this month. Rather than ranking projects by stars alone, we considered both their influence on the AI ecosystem and how quickly they’re gaining traction. In this article, we’ll break down each repository, what it does, why it’s trending, and why it’s worth adding to your…
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and that service was slow or unavailable, failures cascaded through the entire system. Message queuing solved this by letting services communicate asynchronously: a producer could drop a message into a queue and move on, while a consumer picked it up when ready. This approach kept individual…
Ravie LakshmananJul 19, 2026Malware / Cyber Warfare Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the activity has been attributed to UAC-0145, a sub-cluster within Sandworm, an advanced hacking unit affiliated with GRU, Russia’s primary foreign military intelligence agency. In these attacks, threat actors have been found to leverage fake CAPTCHA checks on compromised websites that instruct prospective targets to execute a PowerShell command in the terminal. “The mentioned command, as an example, could…
The rapid expansion of the digital economy has changed how we think about finance, asset ownership, and network decentralization. It all revolves around one thing: blockchain technology. Digital currencies have become widely accepted, but the computational power needed to secure the networks behind them has become a problem from an environmental perspective. As the world focuses on minimizing its carbon footprint, the question arises: can blockchains ever go green? The Carbon Footprint of Digital Wealth A lot of early blockchain networks rely on a mechanism called Proof-of-Work (PoW). This process requires thousands of specialized computers around the globe to race…
Enterprise AI operates in conversations — multilingual, multi-turn, and context-dependent. A guardrail that performs only on English single-turn prompts cannot protect what enterprises are actually building. In a recent independent benchmark by ML6 on 80,000 Dutch-language prompts, Cisco AI Defense led the cohort of providers with the highest F1 score. 01 A Note on Semantics AI safety labels only work when everyone agrees on what they mean. Language is inherently semantically diffuse; intent, context, and linguistic nuance shape interpretation, and, consequently, the true label. Cisco addresses this through constitutional definitions: precise, per-technique operational specifications that serve as the single source of truth for classification, model training, and customer-facing explanations. This approach reduces…
Apple’s hardware price increases in June were costly and unwelcome. They were also just the start of a wave of higher prices on Apple products and services. Over the last few weeks, Apple has been raising prices in all areas for different reasons. Apple price increases are getting harder to avoid It started with Apple’s sweeping hardware increases on June 25. MacBook Neo jumped $100 to $699, the 13-inch MacBook Air rose $200 to $1,299, and the base iPad climbed $100 to $449. MacBook Pro, iPad Air, iPad Pro, iPad mini, Mac mini, iMac, Mac Studio, Apple TV 4K, HomePod, HomePod mini,…
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeYou often forget that APIs exist for most of the platforms you use. While some companies lock down their APIs to only provide very limited information, DEV.to goes the extra mile to provide an extremely robust API. Let’s go over what is available!Link to Project: https://www.josephamaurer.com/Projects/DevAPI/RecentDevPosts.htmlLink to DEV API Documentation: https://docs.forem.com/api/DEV’s API allows for lots of interesting functionality. In the video above, I go over a use case where you pull the latest 100 posts, and create bootstrap cards for each. In each card I display three buttons. The first is…
The teaser on the store landing page also shows the phone in a shiny gold colour again. It seems it will be this year’s hero colour, following on from Moonstone from the Pixel 10 Pro models. However, the back doesn’t match up with any of the leaked colours – unless the teaser image just isn’t revealing that part just yet. It looks closest to Dune (below), whose images from Amazon show a gold frame but an orangey/pink coral type of shade for the rear panel. The rest of the landing page, decked out in a sunset sandy tone, certainly seems…
Christina Stathopoulos, the data and AI evangelist behind Dare to Data, continued her run sorting the week’s most impactful stories into a handful of themes we’ve been watching play out over the past month: more firms investing in the compute AI runs on, more concerns about who controls a model’s borders, and more AI-generated code posing challenges to scaling AI enterprise-wide.Christina also quickly shared two updates from the frontier labs that we won’t get into below. First, OpenAI finished rolling out GPT-5.6, its family of models tuned for different workloads with an option to dial reasoning up or down, and…