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If you're already running MongoDB and you reach for ASP.NET Core Identity, the official story points you at Entity Framework Core. That's a fine answer if you have a relational database. If you don't, you end up bolting a second data access stack onto an app that has exactly one store. You don't need it. […]

Every agent passport layer is grading its own exam Michael "Mike" K. Saleme Michael "Mike" K. Saleme Michael "Mike" K. Saleme Follow Jun 21 Every agent passport layer is grading its own exam #ai #security #agents #architecture 3 reactions 3 comments 4 min read

Refactoring is one of the most important skills in software engineering. Yet it is also one of the most feared. Every developer has experienced that moment: you discover a messy part of the codebase, identify a cleaner solution, and immediately hesitate. "What if I break production?" For front-end engineers, software developers, and startup founders, this […]

Self-Hosted Hermes Agent on iOS: Cloudflare Tunnel + Access Service Tokens + Hermex Get your Hermes Agent on your iPhone – without paying for a relay, without a VPN, with full Cloudflare edge protection. The Problem You're running Hermes Agent self-hosted on a VPS. You want to chat with it from your iPhone. There are […]

If you're building an app on top of OpenAI or Anthropic, you've probably noticed something uncomfortable: there's no native way to limit how much any individual user can cost you. OpenAI gives you org-level spend caps and project budgets. These protect OpenAI's billing relationship with you. They don't protect you from the one user who […]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation of a critical security flaw impacting Lantronix EDS5000 Series devices, urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 26, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-67038 (CVSS score: 9.8), a code injection flaw that could result […]

A coordinated law enforcement operation, in partnership with private sector companies, including Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has resulted in the takedown of criminal infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC. "The main common goal was to disrupt the 'assembly lines' cybercriminals use to launch ransomware, financial fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure," Europol said in

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new class of CI/CD workflow weakness that allows attackers to hijack workflows and compromise open-source supply chains. The "critical exploitable pattern" has been codenamed Cordyceps by Novee Security. The issue can allow full attacker control of repositories at dozens of the largest organizations worldwide, including Microsoft, Google, Apache, and

We are standing at the end of an era we never thought to mourn: the era of human-speed threats. For years, cybersecurity moved to a rhythm organizations could follow. A researcher found a bug, a CVE was cataloged, a vendor navigated a patch cycle, and weeks or even months later, a fix was deployed. In […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a cloud computing account put to use by subsidiaries of Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate HuiOne Group, as the Treasury unveiled fresh sanctions against nine individuals and 26 entities linked to Prince Group. "These subsidiaries are alleged to have assisted individuals and organizations in transferring […]