General
The piece foresees a future where ML/LLM tech complicates accountability and customer service, introducing agentic commerce and diffuse responsibility. It outlines sections on customer service, arguing with models, and market forces, with examples of misidentifications and biased outcomes. It argues for governance and human-in-the-loop approaches to preserve accountability as AI mediates more decisions.
fakecloud is a free, open-source local AWS emulator presented as a LocalStack alternative. The README covers features, supported services, health and testing endpoints, SDKs, quick…
The article analyzes SABRE and the legacy Transaction Processing Facility to illustrate how a six-decade-old, high-throughput system remains the backbone of airline reservations. I…
A technical deep-dive into keeping a Postgres-backed queue healthy, explaining MVCC and dead tuples, the limits of autovacuum, and how PlanetScale's Database Traffic Control can th…
Google Security Blog discusses bringing the Rust programming language to Pixel baseband firmware to improve memory safety and security. The post highlights reducing vulnerabilities…
Vulnerability & CVE
The post traces Scratch's long history of SVG-related vulnerabilities, showing how SVGs can introduce XSS and data-exfiltration risks despite sanitization efforts. It covers major incidents from 2019 to 2026, discusses how sanitizers like regex-based removals and DOMPurify were bypassed, and explains the pivot to a sandboxed iframe approach as a more robust defense. It also notes AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities (Claude) and ongoing parsing challenges with css-tree, plus an alternative path explored by TurboWarp that isolates SVGs in a sandbox with CSP. The piece concludes that sanitization alone is unsustainable and future-proofing will require layered protections and browser-assisted security.