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PocketOS lost its production Railway database and every volume backup on April 24 when a Cursor agent made one nine-second API call nobody requested. A postmortem traces how much was lost to settings that were in place before the agent ran.
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Starlette resolves the route after the middleware stack has already run, so a geolocation middleware fires on /health and /docs as well. A per-route dependency scopes the same lookup to the handlers that actually need it.
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The token was unrelated to the task the agent was given, and its blanket GraphQL permissions covered the volume-level backups too. GitGuardian counts 24,008 secrets in public MCP config files, 2,117 of them still valid.
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Microsoft's researchers describe a device code phishing campaign that minted fresh codes the moment a target clicked, defeating the expiry that used to hold these attacks down. The flow it abuses is only needed by hardware that cannot show a login page.
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A dev.to breakdown prices one 80k-pageview site across five host categories. The image line can reach 25 times the seat line, which is where the platform-versus-VPS decision actually lives.
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Shrivu Shankar rented cloud GPUs, pointed about 100 abliterated open-source agents at his own name, and five hours later two weak passwords and three old side projects had fallen while his Gmail, 1Password and bank held.
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A consultant's six-month log across forty shipped Python automations reports build time 38 percent below baseline and client revisions halved, with an explicit warning that React work sits outside the sample.
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An investing knowledge graph scores mention pairs at 0.96 and 0.12 and calls everything below a high confidence mark a split, on the reasoning that a fabricated edge costs more than a missing one.
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HostingSift normalised 711 live plans from 39 hosts to dollars per gigabyte of RAM and found a 123x spread around a $6.00 median. That is only a buying signal if memory is the resource you run out of first.
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Ofcom's photosensitive-epilepsy rule is written in seconds, so the rate you extract frames at ends up inside the specification. The same overlooked parameter broke the SQL detector first and the model that adjudicates its output two days later.
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The project's own argument is that one free-tier server cannot serve everyone, so you clone it. The more interesting part is the tag sitting on every generated degree row.
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Compaction failed sixty times an hour on a full volume while dashboards stayed correct, because queries are served from memory. Liveness checks cannot see durability.
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A one-German-word-a-day channel took a week, three hosting platforms and a git history rewrite. None of the hard failures were in the AI layer.
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A 16,000-line Flask app shipped a GIF trimmer that accepted start and end times and threw them away. Python does not warn about redefinition. Pylint E0102 does, for free.
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