With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.

A Guardian investigation into the U.S. overdose slowdown found that national declines masked sharp local disparities. Here's how the reporting team got the story.

TL;DR: Titus is an open source secret scanner from Praetorian that detects and validates leaked credentials across source code, binary files, and HTTP traffic. It ships with 450+ detection rules and ...

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

Abstract: Recent progress in Large Language Models has pushed Text-to-SQL systems closer to enabling natural language queries over complex relational databases. Unfortunately, the models sometimes ...

Microsoft KB5074109 arrives with important security improvements, but the update also resolves a long-standing issue that caused widespread false vulnerability alerts across Windows systems. The ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing security applications to flag a core Windows component, the company said in a service alert posted this week. The list of affected systems is ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

SEATTLE, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual DB today announced a new partnership with SQLite, the embedded relational database engine used in billions of devices worldwide. Through this collaboration ...

In a cautionary tale for vibe coders, an app-building platform's AI went rogue and deleted a database without permission during a code freeze. Jason Lemkin was using Replit for more than a week when ...

Big Sleep, an AI agent Google introduced last year for searching out security vulnerabilities in both Google products and open-source projects, used information from Google Threat Intelligence to ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...