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The article describes the creation of a mini real-time audio processing library called Voxtral, which is written in Rust and designed for low-latency audio applications. The library provides a set of modular components that can be used to build custom audio processing pipelines.

The article discusses the potential impact of climate change on the future of coffee production, highlighting concerns about the shrinking areas suitable for growing high-quality coffee and the need for adaptation strategies to ensure the sustainability of the coffee industry.

The article explores concerns about the potential use of the TikTok app as a backdoor for surveillance by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), despite TikTok's assurances of data privacy and security protections. It examines the app's connections to China and the ongoing debates around data privacy and national security.

The article discusses the growing popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK, with a record number of new EV registrations reported in 2022. It explores the factors driving this trend, including government incentives, environmental concerns, and advances in EV technology.

The article discusses how increased ICE activity has led more readers to seek out nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities, as these sites provide important information and support for affected individuals and families.

I'm a plumber who taught himself to code. I run a plumbing company during the day and mess with my homelab at night. About a year ago I started running AI agents with full shell access and API keys to help manage my business. Scheduling, invoicing, monitoring my K3s cluster.

It worked great until I realized nothing was stopping those agents from sending my credentials anywhere. I had API keys for Slack, email, cloud services, all sitting in environment variables that any tool call could exfiltrate. Static scanners check code before you install it, but they can't catch a trusted tool that decides to phone home at runtime.

So I built Pipelock. Single Go binary, sits between your AI agent and the outside world.

What it does:

- Scans all outbound traffic for secrets (API keys, tokens, passwords) and blocks them before they leave

- Blocks network access to unauthorized destinations (SSRF protection)

- Wraps MCP servers as a stdio proxy, scanning responses for prompt injection

- Monitors your workspace files for unauthorized changes The hard part was making it fast enough that you don't notice it's there. Every HTTP request runs through regex matching and entropy analysis. I spent a lot of time getting the scanning pipeline under a few milliseconds of latency. The MCP proxy was trickier. Intercepting JSON-RPC stdio streams in real time without breaking the conversation flow when something gets flagged took some iteration.

I run it daily on my own setup. My AI assistant manages Slack messages, queries our job management API, checks email, and monitors my Kubernetes cluster. Pipelock sits in front of all of it. Last week it caught a skill that was embedding my Slack token in a debug log heading to an external endpoint. Never would have noticed without the DLP scanner.

Snyk recently found that 283 out of 3,984 published agent skills (about 7%) were leaking credentials. That's the problem space. Static scanning catches malware. Runtime scanning catches everything else.

Try it:

brew install luckyPipewrench/tap/pipelock pipelock generate config --preset balanced -o pipelock.yaml pipelock proxy start --config pipelock.yaml

Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/I1UzzECkeCBx6p42

Curious for feedback on the detection approach. Exfiltration patterns I'm missing, whether the MCP proxy is useful to people running coding agents, and what breaks if you try it.

The article argues that the United States is an exception, rather than an exceptional nation, as it deviates from global norms in areas like healthcare, income inequality, and political polarization. It suggests that the U.S. should look to other countries for inspiration on improving social and economic policies.

Grindr, the popular LGBTQ+ dating app, is testing a new premium plan that costs $500 per month, aiming to transform the app into an AI-first platform and offer personalized features to users.

PortView is an open-source web application that provides a comprehensive overview of the performance and status of network ports and interfaces. It offers real-time monitoring, historical data analysis, and customizable dashboards to help network administrators efficiently manage and troubleshoot their infrastructure.

The article discusses the ongoing debate around the release of documents related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case. It highlights the efforts of two members of Congress to push for the full disclosure of these files, despite the redactions made by the government.

Plumber is an open-source, lightweight, and efficient API framework for R, enabling developers to create and deploy APIs quickly. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for building and exposing R functions as web services.

Hey HN! I built a native macOS menu bar app that shows your Claude Code usage limits at a glance — no more getting rate-limited mid-flow.

It reads your OAuth token from macOS Keychain, polls the Anthropic usage API, and displays your 5-hour and 7-day utilization as a clean progress bar right in your menu bar. Zero token consumption.

Built with Swift + SwiftUI. MIT licensed.

https://github.com/puq-ai/claude-meter

Tokyo public high schools have abolished rules that forced students to dye non-black hair and regulate their underwear color, marking a significant change in school uniform policies aimed at promoting greater student self-expression and individuality.

This article provides an overview of the 'Oh My Claude' code, a project that explores the capabilities of the Claude language model through a series of interactive examples and experiments. The code showcases various use cases for Claude, including text generation, task completion, and interactive dialogue.

The article discusses Microsoft's plan to reduce the prominence of OneDrive in Windows 11, addressing concerns about the company's perceived overemphasis on its own products and services within the operating system.

A16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, the sponsor of New York's AI safety bill, who says he's ready to fight back against the group's efforts to influence the legislation.

I’m building PicoClaw: a lightweight OpenClaw-style personal AI bot that runs as a single Go binary. OpenClaw (Moltbot / Clawdbot) is a great product. I wanted something with a simpler, more “single-binary” architecture that’s easy to read and hack on.

Repo: https://github.com/mosaxiv/picoclaw

VirusTotal, a leading cybersecurity platform, has partnered with OpenClaw AI to enhance its threat detection capabilities. The collaboration aims to provide users with more comprehensive and accurate malware analysis through the integration of OpenClaw's advanced AI-driven technologies.

The European Union is taking steps to reduce its reliance on the major credit card networks Visa and Mastercard, with the goal of creating a homegrown alternative payment system that would give the EU more control over cross-border transactions and reduce fees charged to merchants and consumers.

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