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Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements

Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update...

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Touch grass

Open touch-grass-murex.vercel.app. On the same Wi-Fi, node server.mjs --lan lets a phone open the card at the door. I used it on October 13 for a 25-minute garden card in Phoenix.

  • Touch Grass provides a brief for gardening tasks on a phone
  • Created garden card on October 13 with planting suggestions
  • Operates independently of network, no API reliance

The MCP security tools all scan. None of them stop the call.

I spent a morning looking at MCP security tooling. Cisco has a scanner, there are three or four audit CLIs, all of them read your tool descriptions and report sketchy ones.

  • Cisco MCP tools scan but don't stop malicious calls
  • mcp-bouncer wraps MCP server as JSON-RPC proxy
  • mcp-bouncer filters responses, enforces restrictions

How Do You Secure API Keys in an AWS Application?

A developer finishes a weekend project, pushes it to a public repository, and goes to bed. Somewhere in a configuration file is an API key for a paid third-party service.

  • API keys are strings used for service requests, tracking usage, and determining permissions.
  • AWS Secrets Manager securely stores and manages sensitive values like API keys.

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