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just now   (271+ words) In practice, that means an agent should be able to show the evidence behind a recommendation, make clear what systems and data it used, expose uncertainty, respect approval requirements and leave an audit trail of what happened. Reversibility matters too....

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (267+ words) More and more storefronts keep popping up in Paducah. Mayor George Bray has said the goal is economic growth and stable, higher-paying jobs. But a single job posting in the area gets hundreds, sometimes thousands of applications. And most of…...

36+ min ago   (46+ words) JetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break. So when an AI coding agent GitHub now lets admins set sandbox policy for Copilot in JetBrains IDEs—filesystem,…...

30+ min ago   (176+ words) 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐇𝐒: • Session replay, not just seat counts • Impact scores that separate speed from craft • Risk flags on unverified AI PRs • Coaching view of how top engineers actually prompt • SOC 2 and no training on your data 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑: VPs and…...

23+ min ago   (326+ words) Treat a game as source code, not as its runtime Can a 3D game be reverse-engineered, without infringing copyright, understood as a source representation, and transformed into a sufficiently general Intermediate Representation (IR) that allows it to execute on a runtime…...

18+ hour, 26+ min ago   (1046+ words) Aerotech News & Review Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Illinois, was awarded a $4,838,487,318 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for full rate production of the Common Infrared Countermeasure. One bid was solicited with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1646+ words) Brian from Charlottesville, VA What jelly flavor is the next big thing? (Please don't say, "We'll see.") Bob from Rome, NY Mike: I have good news. The high school I teach at granted my request to move my planning period…...

28+ min ago   (413+ words) Most PDF libraries for Python can write a PDF. Far fewer can produce a file that a validator accepts as PDF/A-1b, and fewer still can put a digital signature on it without shelling out to a second tool. Here is…...

32+ min ago   (533+ words) A regenerated README often looks like progress. The install block is tighter. A stale caption disappears. Then a reviewer finds that the same commit also rewrote the security contact, dropped two SLO numbers, and turned a retention rule into a…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (216+ words) “The new capabilities in Google Workspace aim to take away some of the cognitive load from our users,” a Google representative stated. “By allowing them to engage with their tools using their voice, we hope to help small business owners…...