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Govt Uses New Way to Raise $100 Million Against Future Dollar Payments

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Bank Alfalah Limited (PSX: BAFL) have signed an agreement for Pakistan’s first Diversified Payment … Read More The post Govt Uses New Way to Raise $100 Million Against Future Dollar Payments appeared first on ProPakistani .

Govt Uses New Way to Raise $100 Million Against Future Dollar Payments

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CoSnitch Is a Reminder That Your Chatbot Will Tell on You If You Ask Nicely Enough

An AI assistant got talked into describing its own guts to a stranger. That's not a jailbreak curiosity, that's reconnaissance-as-a-service, and it should worry anyone who's bolted an LLM onto…

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The Background-Tab Bug I Missed in My JavaScript Polling Code

I thought replacing setInterval() with recursive setTimeout() had made a polling loop safe. Only one request would run at a time, and I cleared the next timeout when the page became hidden.

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