Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

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Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you […]

The Verge · August 30, 2026

What Happens to a Medical Image Before and After a Model Sees It

Medical imaging papers are full of familiar-looking terms: normalization, labels, validation, annotation, and preprocessing. If you come from general machine learning, you may think you already know w

Security Aug 24, 2026

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered PLC Attacks, GitLab Attacks, Stripe Key Leaks and More

A package gets installed. A login prompt opens. A box sits exposed to the internet. Nothing looks unusual yet. That’s roughly the mood this week. Trusted tools turn hostile, old weak spots get fresh attention, AI makes exploit work cheaper, and researchers keep finding attacks that sound harder than they actually are. Plenty to clean up. Here’s the short version. ⚡ Threat of the Week U.S.

Security Aug 24, 2026

WordlistLoader Delivers Amatera via ClickFix, SynkLoader Phishes Windows Passwords

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two new malware families called WordlistLoader and SynkLoader that's used to deliver next-stage payloads and likely sell access to ransomware groups. According to findings from Gen Digital, WordlistLoader is being used to deliver Amatera Stealer (aka ACR Stealer or AcridRain Stealer) via ClearFake campaigns, which employ the ClickFix (aka FakeCaptcha)

Learning Aug 24, 2026

How to Build Referral-Aware Split Payment Flows in Django

When a product has a single checkout, payment logic is usually simple: charge the user, mark the order as paid, and move on. But once the business model includes a deposit now, a balance later, and re

Learning Aug 24, 2026

Mobile Background Execution: iOS Background Modes, Android WorkManager, and Background Services in Dart

Every mobile developer eventually hits the same wall: the app works perfectly when the user is looking at it. But the moment they press the home button, everything stops. A sync that should have compl

Security Aug 24, 2026

Critical Keycloak Password Reset Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Any Account

Red Hat and the Keycloak project have released patches to address a critical security flaw in the open-source identity and access management server that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take over any user account by forcing a password reset. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-18963, is rated 9.1 on the CVSS scoring system by Red Hat, which acts as

Security Aug 24, 2026

Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent Backdoor

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a cyber espionage campaign targeting Myanmar that uses graduation ceremony invitation lures to deliver a Go backdoor called QUICAgent. The campaign, codenamed Operation QUICSILVER, has been found to target government and information technology sectors, per Seqrite Labs. The activity is assessed to be the work of a China-nexus threat actor with moderate

Security Aug 24, 2026

The Outsized Shadow: Why 5% of AI Users Are Your Biggest Security Risk

Big security risks come in small packages. While enterprise security teams focus on policing the proliferation of employees using ChatGPT and Claude for quick drafting tasks, a more urgent threat is posed by a handful of AI super-adopters who are quietly hardcoding unvetted tools into critical business operations. According to new research published by Akamai, the top 5% of enterprise power

Tech Aug 24, 2026

Celebrate 110 years of national parks with Maps, Search, and Gemini

What people are searching in the leadup to National Parks Week — plus, how Google can help turn your wanderlust into a well-planned adventure.

Tech Aug 24, 2026

How developers build AI for good with Gemma 4

A look at the winning entries from the Gemma 4 Good Challenge.

Learning Aug 24, 2026

How to Test Conversational AI: A Practical Guide for QA Engineers

When I first started learning about conversational AI testing, one question kept bothering me: Where is the expected result? Coming from traditional software testing, I was used to a familiar pattern.

Learning Aug 24, 2026

How to Build Type-Safe APIs with Hono and Zod

If you've shipped a Node.js API before, you already know this pain: your TypeScript types say one thing, your runtime validation says another, and your OpenAPI docs quietly disagree with both. Someone

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