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Overdrive’s digital book lending app Libby is adding — you guessed it! — AI. The new Inspire Me feature is an AI-fueled discovery tool tuned to your local branch’s collection. Following a soft launch this month, it will be officially available in September. To avoid the pitfalls of a full-on chatbot, Overdrive is limiting the […]
One more thing How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime Tokelau, a string of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997. Just three years later, the islands received a fax with […]
Aug 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Web Security Three new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Sitecore Experience Platform that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution. The flaws, per watchTowr Labs, are listed below – CVE-2025-53693 – HTML cache poisoning through unsafe reflections CVE-2025-53691 – Remote code execution (RCE) through […]
Introduction As part of my continuous exploration of application security, I worked on a practical project to comprehend the practical dangers of sending data without encryption. Even though theoretical knowledge is important, nothing helps to cement comprehension like extracting real-time credentials from network data. With the “HTTP Credential Sniffer & Secure Transmission Analyzer,” I delved […]
Open source runs on passion and persistence. Maintainers are the volunteers who show up to triage issues, review contributions, manage duplicates, and do the quiet work that keeps projects going. Most don’t plan on becoming community managers. But they built something useful, shared it, and stayed when people started depending on it. That’s how creators […]
Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of sites have famously run on a series of physical servers lodged in data centers in the US, mostly near New York City. In our scrappy days, we ran everything on a single machine and crowed about it when we got a second server to handle our SQL […]
Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes training a speech recognizer harder than it might at first seem. Without this alignment, the simple approaches aren’t available to us. We could devise a […]
On Aug. 27, Anthropic, the company behind Claude, unveiled what it calls its “National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council” — an 11-member council that includes a former U.S. senator and intelligence chief, to guide how its models are deployed in U.S. defense and government applications. Partnering with the Pentagon This might look like yet […]
from the can’t-risk-it dept In what may be the least surprising news in the world of copyright and the internet, Anthropic just agreed to settle the copyright lawsuit that everyone’s been watching, but not for the reasons most people think. This isn’t about AI training being found to infringe copyright—in fact, Anthropic won on that […]
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. The Pixel 10 series ships on August 28, 2025, but those who pre-order the devices […]
