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'Satellite Internet To Be Discussed At Parliamentary Panel Meet': BJP MP

BJP MP Dubey, who is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, said the panel has selected satellite internet as one of the subjects for close examination.

'Satellite Internet To Be Discussed At Parliamentary Panel Meet': BJP MP

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Disaster info service halted in parts of Japan over data breach fears

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The communications ministry said Wednesday disaster information services have been halted in parts of Japan amid fears of a personal

  • Disaster info services halted in Japan due to data breach fears
  • Arcadia Inc. notified to assess damage after suspicious access
  • Up to 3.14 million residents' addresses potentially exposed

Two new x402 APIs: DNS AXFR vulnerability probe + Set-Cookie cache-disclosure (c148)

Two new x402 APIs for AI agents (cycle 148) Shipped today to https://mins-alternatively-meanwhile-lauderdale.trycloudflare.com — now serving 211 paid x402 routes ($0.0005 each on Base mainnet USDC).

  • /api/dns-zone-transfer-probe API checks for DNS AXFR vulnerability
  • /api/cookie-cache-disclosure API scans for Set-Cookie cache-disclosure
  • Both APIs are paid services requiring USDC deposit

The Small-File Lakehouse Explosion: Why Streaming Destroys Iceberg

Originally published by the **Logic42 Sovereign Engineering Practice * at https://logic42.ai/articles/small-file-lakehouse-explosion-iceberg-compaction .* The Small-File Lakehouse Explosion: Why…

  • High-frequency streaming pipelines create thousands of tiny Parquet files.
  • Table metadata trees grow to gigabytes in 30-second commit cycles.
  • Query engines like Trino and DuckDB overwhelmed by metadata growth.

Name Your Booleans Like Questions

Here's a tiny habit that quietly makes code easier to read: name every boolean so it reads like a yes/no question. Compare these: if ( user . active && ! loading && permission ) { ... } if ( user .

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