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Shai-Hulud Just Infected an AI Agent Platform's npm Package — What Self-Hosted n8n Builders Must Do Now

On October 8, 2026, the npm package tensorlake — the TypeScript SDK for Tensorlake's AI agent infrastructure — was compromised by a new Shai-Hulud worm variant. Version 0.5.144 shipped a preinstall hook that stole npm tokens, GitHub tokens, AWS keys, SSH keys, .env files, crypto wallets, and browser passwords from every machine that installed it. The version was pulled within minutes, but the…

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MongoDB Indexing Strategies: ESR Rule, Explain Plans, and Performance Tuning

+05:30" description: "Master MongoDB indexing by diving deep into the Equality, Sort, Range (ESR) rule, analyzing explain executionStats to catch COLLSCAN, and managing index overhead." tags…

  • Single-field indexes enable quick equality searches, sorting, and range queries.
  • Compound indexes follow the ESR rule: equality first, sorting second, range last.
  • Monitor index usage with .explain( executionStats ) and manage index storage with $indexStats.

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China state funds double down on Hua Hong in legacy chip push

Chinese state funds are ramping up support for the country’s second-largest contract chipmaker, pouring billions of yuan into the parent of Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor and a new manufacturing facility to fuel Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in mature-node chips.

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China state funds double down on Hua Hong in legacy chip push

Chinese state funds are ramping up support for the country’s second-largest contract chipmaker, pouring billions of yuan into the parent of Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor and a new manufacturing facility to fuel Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in mature-node chips.

·scmp.com

China state funds double down on Hua Hong in legacy chip push

Chinese state funds are ramping up support for the country’s second-largest contract chipmaker, pouring billions of yuan into the parent of Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor and a new manufacturing facility to fuel Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in mature-node chips.

·scmp.com

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