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‘More arrests are on the table’: Qantas hack gang member nabbed

A suspected member of the hacker collective that published 5.7 million Qantas customers’ details is now helping US investigators find his accomplices.

‘More arrests are on the table’: Qantas hack gang member nabbed

We haven't written up this one. The Sydney Morning Herald has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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What breaks after you ship a vibe-coded app (and what we're doing about it)

Vibe coding made building an app ridiculously fast. You describe what you want, the AI writes it, and a few days later you have something live.

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  • Code that was easy to work with becomes intimidating
  • continuevibe initiative launched to handle post-launch maintenance

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