TODOs aren’t for doing
Teams balk at trackingTODOcomments. Some funnel them into bug trackers. Others prune stale tags. The post saysTODOs stash edge-case insights, not tickets... read more
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Secrets Management Tools: The Complete 2025 Guide
Pulumi ESC corrals secrets from 20 + stores—Vault, AWS, Azure, GCP—into a singleYAML config-as-codeengine. It spawns dynamic short-lived credentials and locks every action behind a centralized audit log. Existing secret stores stay intact. Retrieval hitssub-secondspeeds. Envelope encryption shields .. read more
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Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Coder AI Model for Agentic Programming Excellence
Alibaba unleashedQwen3-Coder, a480B-parameter MoE titan. It ignites35Bparameters per token to code, debug, and automate workflows. It spans256Ktokens of context—and can stretch to a million. It ships asQwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instructon Hugging Face and GitHub. It hooks intoQwen CodeCLI orClaude Code... read more
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OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August, The Verge reports
OpenAI set to launch GPT-5 in August, blending distinct models for versatile AI functionality. Watch for potential delays due to development hurdles or competitor announcements.Implication: OpenAI is shifting from "one model fits all" to a modular AI architecture. Expect future LLMs to act more like.. read more
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Automating Terraform Imports with Configuration Generation Using Claude Code
Terraform v1.5 debuts anexperimental flag,-generate-config-out. It grabs configs duringresource importand spits out raw HCL. Teams stash assets in animportblock, trigger the flag, then polish the generatedmain.tf. IaC onboarding feels like a sprint... read more
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I Watched Gemini CLI Hallucinate and Delete My Files
The Gemini CLI on Windows bungled a failedmkdir. It flagged the error as success, then ranmovecommands. Files landed in a ghost folder and got overwritten. Data vanished. WindowsmkdirsetsERRORLEVELon failure.movetreats missing targets as rename directives. No exit-code checks. No read-after-write ve.. read more
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Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands
A hacker slipped a wiper intoAmazon Qv1.84.0 via a dodgy GitHub pull. AWS revoked every key, nuked the rogue commit, then rolled outAmazon Q v1.85.0... read more
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SQL Injection as a Feature
Over ten years, the legacy report page mutated from a locked-downSQLform. It ended up as a hidden console spilling raw database guts. Developers swapped hardcoded queries fordatabase-drivenreport names. They slapped ontimeouts,string filters, and warnings but skipped restoring safe defaults. Implic.. read more
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AI As Profoundly Abnormal Technology
Scott Alexander’s team argues that AI is aprofoundly abnormal technologyon track forrecursive self-improvementwithin2–10 years. They counter (AIANT)’s view (AI As A Normal Technology) of slow, regulated diffusion by showing thatLLMsare rapidly adopted in medicine, law, and software — bypassing insti.. read more
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Microsoft Copilot Rooted to Gain Unauthorized Root Access to its Backend System
April 2025 Copilot Enterprise update slipped in aJupyter sandbox. It snuck in aPATH-poisonable pgrepat root’s entrypoint. Attackers could hijack that forroot execution.Eye Securityflagged the hole in April. By July 25, 2025, Microsoft patched this moderate bug. No data exfiltration reported. Why it.. read more
At its core, Slurm uses a centralized controller (slurmctld) to track cluster state and assign work, while lightweight daemons (slurmd) on each node execute tasks and communicate hierarchically for fault tolerance. Optional components like slurmdbd and slurmrestd extend Slurm with accounting and REST APIs. A rich set of commands—such as srun, squeue, scancel, and sinfo—gives users and administrators full visibility and control.
Slurm’s modular plugin architecture supports nearly every aspect of cluster operation, including authentication, MPI integration, container runtimes, resource limits, energy accounting, topology-aware scheduling, preemption, and GPU management via Generic Resources (GRES). Nodes are organized into partitions, enabling sophisticated policies for job size, priority, fairness, oversubscription, reservation, and resource exclusivity.
Widely adopted across academia, research labs, and enterprise HPC environments, Slurm serves as the backbone for many of the world’s top supercomputers, offering a battle-tested, flexible, and highly configurable framework for large-scale distributed computing.
