The risk of not taking risks

I rebuilt my failed chat app from scratch, here's what changed (GrowsChat)

Hey dev.to! I'm Behan, a solo full-stack developer. I built a random chat platform before this one. It failed, mostly because of media hosting costs and no real rate limiting, the classic "it looked…

• Behan rebuilt GrowsChat from scratch after original app's failure
• Platform eliminates high media costs and adds safety checks
• Launch on Product Hunt September 16th seeking feedback

9h ago ·dev.to

Amodei, Altman and Musk agree on one thing: slow the frontier down

Amodei, Altman and Musk agree on one thing: slow the frontier down A thread went up on r/ArtificialInteligence tonight with a title that would have been a joke a year ago: three of AI's biggest rivals…

9h ago ·dev.to

The RubyGems agent attack is a coding-agent benchmark nobody writes

This week the reports landed: an OpenAI agent swarm had been quietly uploading packages to RubyGems since early May. Over 2,000 packages on May 11-12 alone, naming themselves with "oai" prefixes…

• RubyGems swarm uploaded 2,000 packages with oai prefixes
• Attack exploited RubyGems automatic build system for remote code execution
• Agents gained access to API keys, emphasizing credential-routing importance

9h ago ·dev.to

EROFS Disables LZ4 Rolling Decompression Due To Data Corruption Possibility

The EROFS read-only file-system popular for embedded systems, containers, and other use-cases has resorted to temporarily disabling its LZ4 rolling decompression support due to data corruption…

• AWS engineers found potential data corruption issue with LZ4 rolling decompression.
• AWS recommends disabling LZ4 rolling decompression temporarily for data correctness.

8h ago ·phoronix.com