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Shadow Automator

Shadow Automator A fully-local, privacy-first desktop automation tool powered by a vision-language model. It sees your screen, finds UI elements by plain-text description, and clicks them — all on…

• Shadow Automator operates fully locally, prioritizing privacy.
• Powered by vision-language model Qwen2.5-VL-3B for UI element detection.
• Designed to automate office tasks without APIs, adapting to UI changes.

1h ago ·dev.to

Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX (Ashley Campion/CrowdStrike)

CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data.

1h ago ·crowdstrike.com

Refresh Token Rotation Explained: What Happens When a Token Is Reused?

A refresh token is supposed to be used to obtain a new access token. After a successful refresh, the client receives a new refresh token. The previous one becomes invalid. That sounds straightforward.

1h ago ·dev.to

Replacing a legacy system? Run the new code in its shadow first

Most rewrites of a working system fail the same way. The new code passes every test the team thought of, goes live, and then meets the rules nobody wrote down: the discount that only applies on the…

• Run new code alongside legacy system using shadowing technique
• New code processes same inputs, outputs recorded for comparison
• Differences treated as bugs or undocumented rules to address

1h ago ·dev.to