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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.

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· · Towards Data Science

Beyond extract_text: The Two Layers of a PDF That Drive RAG Quality

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5A] - Document signals (metadata, native TOC, source software) and page-level content (text vs scans, tables, images, columns, page profile) The post Beyond extract_text: The Two Layers of a PDF That Drive RAG Quality appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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· · 9to5Google

Gemini in Chrome rolling out to Latin America, Africa, & Middle East

Following the last expansion to the Asia Pacific region, Google is bringing Gemini in Chrome to Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. more…

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· · 9to5Mac

HomePod gets better in two new ways with iOS 27

Apple’s HomePod products were largely absent from the company’s WWDC announcements this week, but there are two improvements coming in iOS 27—with more set to be unveiled this fall. more…

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· · GSMArena

Wear OS 7 update could be imminent, suggests Verizon Pixel Watch details

Google's Wear OS 7 update for Pixel smartwatches could be just around the corner, if recent changes to official Verizon Pixel Watch support pages are any indication. The folks over at Droid-Life spotted the updated support pages for the Pixel Watch 2, Pixel Watch 3, and Pixel Watch 4 on Verizon's we

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· · 9to5Google

Sizzling Summer Deals: Galaxy S26 Ultra, S26, and Acer Chromebooks Slashed by Thousands

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by Galaxy S26 Ultra 512GB at up to $280 off at Amazon today and up to $466 off in Best Buy open-box condition, alongside the regularly $1,100 Galaxy S26 512GB as low as $615 today ($484 off, open-box). You can also score Dad a laptop for Father’s Day while t

#mobile-deals#galaxy-s26#acer-chromebook#google-ai#smartphone-discounts

· · 9to5Mac

Apple Elevates Screen Time and Parental Controls in iOS 27 Overhaul

Apple is making a major push around child safety and parental controls with iOS 27, including a completely redesigned Screen Time experience, new limits for websites, expanded communication controls, and more flexible tools for managing when kids can use apps. The changes are part of Apple’s broader

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· · AndroidPolice

I ditched Android's notification manager for Buzzkill, and now my phone actually listens

It finally gave me the control I wanted over my notifications

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· · GSMArena

Counterpoint: shipments of MediaTek and Qualcomm chipsets decline

The skyrocketing costs of memory chips are changing the product mix of smartphone makers – cheaper, lower-margin phones aren’t selling so well, while pricier, high-performance models have bigger margins that helped them to absorb the blow. All of this has had an effect on the chipset market for smar

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· · 9to5Google

YouTube Music revamps interface, places Search in bottom navigation on Android, iOS

Following the Now Playing redesign in April, the next big YouTube Music change moves Search to the bottom bar. more…

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· · 9to5Mac

Deals: AirPods Pro 3 hit best price ever at $179, MacBook Pro $300 off, Series 11 $130 off, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by AirPods Pro 3 dropping even lower to the best price ever at $179 shipped (nearly 30% off) and all five AirPods Max 2 colors hitting the Amazon all-time low. We also have up to $300 off M5 Pro MacBook Pro models joined by Apple’s most affordable 15-inch M5

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· · The Hacker News

CISA Updates KEV Catalog with Cisco, Chrome, and Arista Vulnerabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8) - An improper encod

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· · The Hacker News

Langflow Vulnerability CVE-2026-5027 Leads to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

A high-severity unpatched security flaw in Langflow, an open-source low-code platform to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-5027 (CVSS score: 8.8), a case of

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· · The Hacker News

Ivanti, Fortinet, and SAP Release Patches for Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities

Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have released security updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The security flaw patched by Fortinet relates to a command injection vulnerability in FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cl

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· · Dev.to

Barcode scanning code for your coding agent fails in real-world use

Coding agents write barcode scanning code that compiles and passes review, then falls apart on a damaged label. Here's how we taught them to get it right. I'm Ilber, an Android developer at Scandit. I work on the SDK these skills install, so treat this as a build note from someone close to it, not a

#cloud-computing#barcode-scanning#android-development#coding-agents

· · Dev.to

Critical First 90 Days as CTO: Most Leaders Blow Their Chance

There's a moment every new CTO knows. It's your first Monday. You have admin access, a calendar full of introductions, and a head full of opinions about the codebase you skimmed over the weekend. Every instinct says: prove yourself. Find something broken and fix it. Show the team you're technical, s

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· · Dev.to

Breaking into Open Source: My Journey to npm Package Creator

A complete walkthrough of publishing Cartlify — a React e-commerce UI kit — to npm for the first time. Yesterday I published Cartlify to npm. npm install cartlify It sounds simple. But getting to that one line took more decisions, more configuration, and more trial and error than I expected. This ar

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· · Dev.to

Inside Claude's World: Unpacking the AI's Code Session from Scratch

Part 7 of 7 · Series: Building Your AI Developer Handbook · GitHub You're building a password reset feature. User enters email → gets a reset link → clicks link → enters new password. Standard flow. Medium complexity. Let's walk through every step using the full workflow — as if you're looking over

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· · Dev.to

Reentrancy in 2026: Why It Still Drains Millions (and How AI Spots It)

Reentrancy is the oldest trick in smart contract exploitation. The DAO fell to it in 2016. You would think a bug this famous would be extinct by now. It isn't. Protocols still lose millions to reentrancy every year, because the textbook version is the easy one, and attackers stopped using the textbo

#cloud-computing#smart-contracts#ai#cybersecurity#blockchain

· · Dev.to

One PDF Service to Rule Them All: A Cloud-Based Nightmare Solver

There is a file in almost every backend I have worked on. It generates PDFs. Invoices, mostly. Sometimes reports or certificates. It was written years ago by someone who left, it runs a headless browser nobody fully understands, and it falls over on the last day of the month when finance needs the i

#cloud#pdf-api#backend-development#software-engineering