WhatsApp Will Soon Warn Users Before They Get Scammed

RAG vs. Direct Context: I Tested Both on Real Documents, Here's What Broke

A hands-on test of BGE-M3 + Qwen3 (RAG vs. direct-context answering) on a real research paper and a full-length book including a retrieval bug hiding in a footnote, and one surprisingly good model…

• RAG and direct-context answering tested on real documents
• RAG failed with full-length book, retrieved footnote as main contribution
• RAG excelled with specific question about book, identified lack of relevant context

22h ago ·dev.to

The Art of CHIP-8

22h ago ·beyondloom.com

AWS WAF Challenge: blocking bots before they reach the application

Quand on m’a appelé, l’attaque durait depuis environ une semaine. Elle visait la page de connexion d’une application historique qui générait son HTML côté serveur.

• Attack targeted legacy application's login page
• Million queries from vast IP addresses, ineffective IP blocking
• AWS WAF Challenge feature placed at infrastructure layer

22h ago ·dev.to

Over 1,000 Charities Hit by Beacon CRM Data Breach

The root cause of the incident is believed to be a compromised AWS access key that was exposed in publicly available JavaScript build artifacts.

21h ago ·securityweek.com