I Built a 'Novel-Writing AI with Memory' on MacBook Neo: Part 1

A Record of Local AI Development~October 16, 2026IntroductionRecently, I have been using my MacBook Neo to build a local AI ...

Backups must be restored and verified—I measured the conditions under which SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL fail to restore and created a verification script

When judging whether a backup can be restored based solely on exit codes and integrity checks, I found conditions in SQLite, ...
shattered.io

Switch 2 Games List: Build a Tracker in 12 Steps [2026]

Build a Python tracker for the Nintendo Switch 2 games list: scrape, dedupe, alert on new releases, and export a shareable ...
shattered.io

Audit a Stablecoin’s Reserves: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

A stablecoin's peg is only as good as the dollars sitting behind it, and in 2026 regulators finally started forcing issuers ...
InfoWorld

Hands-on agentic development with Google’s Antigravity IDE

With Antigravity IDE and its coding agents, it takes no time at all to build a functioning web app with Astro, HTMX, and ...
Cybernews

Careless hacker leaves gift card fraud blueprint open: What did we learn?

Researchers found an exposed server documenting a large-scale gift card fraud operation and two related schemes involving ...
finance.biggo

Credit Karma's Harish Gaggar Says 90% Token Cuts, Not Bigger Models, Will Get AI Agents to Production

Most enterprise AI agents never make it past the pilot phase—and according to Harish Gaggar, senior engineer at Credit Karma, it's rarely because ...
finance.biggo

Kevin Orellana: Why Your AI Coding Agent Breaks in the Cloud, Not on Your Laptop

When AWS engineer Kevin Orellana pointed a coding agent at his own team's cloud sandbox and let it run 1,000 tasks overnight, he expected to find ...

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...
IgniteSAP

Python for SAP Consultants: Where It Appears and How Much You Need

In an August 2026 interview on SAP News, Sonja Liénard, SAP’s head of the ABAP platform, described ABAP Cloud as the stable ...
linuxiac

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 41, 2026 (October 5 – 11)

Python 3.15, COSMIC Desktop 1.10, OpenSSH 10.6, Tmux 3.8, NVIDIA 615.78.08, Flathub reverses AI-generated app ban, and more.
Security Boulevard

Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 1407 CVEs (CVE-2026-96951)

Critical1337Important0Moderate1LowMicrosoft addresses 1407 CVEs in the tenth Patch Tuesday of 2026, marking the second consecutive month to reset the bar as the largest Patch Tuesday release. This ...