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Your Scraper's "Success" Metric Is Lying When the Site Sends You an Empty 200

Most collection pipelines count a fetch as a success when the HTTP status starts with 2. That works right up until the day a site hands you a polite 200 OK with an empty body, a consent interstitial, or a "you must enable JavaScript" shell — and your pipeline happily records zero rows as a clean run. I run a daily collector over public Telegram channel previews (no login, just the web view). Last…

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Riskified's Agent Identity Risk Intelligence Answers the Wrong Question First

On October 8, 2026, Riskified (NYSE: RSKD) launched Agent Identity Risk Intelligence — a system that identifies the AI personal assistant behind an order or customer-service request (Meta's Muse…

  • Riskified launches Agent Identity Risk Intelligence to identify AI assistants behind orders.
  • Platform integrates with Shopify and available via APIs, AWS Marketplace, Decision Studio, Zendesk.
  • Company plans limited beta release by December 2026, general availability by 2027.

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Sproutpatch: you tell it how you feel, and it'll make you touch grass

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass I did not want another app that talks about going outside. I wanted one that shuts up and starts a timer.

  • Sproutpatch app uses AI Gemma to reply to user notes
  • App considers weather, daylight to suggest outdoor walks
  • Open-source, runs locally for user privacy

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IRCv3 in Practice: Build a Modern IRC Bot with Capability Negotiation, SASL and Message Tags in Python

Hôm nay IRCv3 lên top Hacker News với hơn 300 điểm. Nhiều người nghĩ IRC là giao thức của thập niên 90 và đã "chết" từ khi có Slack hay Discord.

  • IRCv3 specification enhances modern IRC with message tags, SASL, timestamps
  • Python asyncio bot built using capability negotiation, SASL, tags
  • 60-line code avoids external libraries, demonstrates modern IRC bot

·dev.to

Galaxy Backbone Moves to Digitalise More MDAs from Current 30

Oghenevwede Ohwovoriole in Abuja The Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone (GBB), Prof. Ibrahim Adeyanju, has expressed the company’s plan to increase the number of digitalised Ministries, Departments…

  • Galaxy Backbone plans to digitalise more than 30 MDAs, expanding digitalisation efforts.
  • GBB aims to enhance paperless procedures and reach underserved areas in the digital transformation.

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