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China’s robot beat Bolt – then it hit the wall

Two major races were won and lost in Beijing on August 26. On one track, a humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 8.64 seconds, nearly a full second under Usain Bolt’s world record. On another, the same robot slammed into the padded wall at the end of the race track. Global headlines trumpeted the new […] The post China’s robot beat Bolt – then it hit the wall appeared first on Asia Times .

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Build a Crypto Position-Risk Calculator in JavaScript

AI disclosure: This article was prepared with AI assistance from my real trading notes, calculations, and review. The code and examples were checked before publication.

  • JavaScript calculator estimates crypto position risk
  • Factors include quantity, prices, leverage, fees, slippage
  • calculatePositionRisk function computes key metrics

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CVE-2026-69112: Hugging Face Accelerate Path Traversal Lets Attackers Read Arbitrary Files

Originally published at HOL CVE-2026-69112: Hugging Face Accelerate Path Traversal Lets Attackers Read Arbitrary Files from Checkpoint Indexes TL;DR: Hugging Face Accelerate through version 1.14.0…

  • CVE-2026-69112 vulnerability allows attackers to read arbitrary files.
  • Attackers manipulate weightmap entries in index files for path traversal.
  • Users should validate checkpoint index files to prevent unauthorized access.

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Nginx FastCGI Cache vs. WordPress Caching Plugins: What We Learned Moving a WooCommerce Store Off Plugin-Based Caching

Why We Moved a WooCommerce Store Off Plugin-Based Caching — and What Actually Broke Along the Way If you run WooCommerce, you've almost certainly installed a caching plugin at some point — WP Rocket…

  • Page-cache plugins rely on PHP to serve cached content, requiring process spin-up and execution.
  • Nginx FastCGI cache serves cached pages directly from its own cache store, bypassing PHP entirely.
  • Nginx FastCGI cache excels during traffic spikes, utilizing PHP-FPM capacity for dynamic requests.

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