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Tesla unveils Roadster that can flip in the air and land using thrusters

Tesla has unveiled a redesigned Roadster powered with rocket-style thrusters and said it would start production in 2028, more than a decade after it first showed a next-generation version of its electric sports car.

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Tesla unveils Roadster that can flip in the air and land using thrusters

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Hardening an AWS EKS cluster: IRSA, NetworkPolicies, restricted Pod Security and Secrets Manager via CSI

A freshly created EKS cluster works, but it's permissive. Every pod can reach every other pod, workloads can run as root, and the easy way to give an application AWS access is to attach permissions to…

  • Implement IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) for least-privilege IAM role assumption
  • Use NetworkPolicies to enforce default-deny traffic within orders namespace
  • Utilize Secrets Store CSI driver to mount AWS Secrets Manager secrets as files

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PO Matching Looked Like It Halved Unsafe Invoice Approvals Until I Checked Why

A LangGraph agent for Japanese invoices, killed with SIGKILL, pre-registered, and gated in CI. The headline gain from its last check turned out to be mostly routing, not detection.

  • PO matching reduced unsafe invoice approvals from 17.0% to 2.0%
  • Verification caught most errors, PO matching stopped one out of six wrong PO agreements
  • LangGraph agent had three versions, final one added duplicate checks and PO matching

·dev.to

WordPress Gets Scanned Every Hour. Core Does Nothing About It.

WordPress runs a huge share of the web, and that popularity cuts both ways: it also makes WordPress the single most-scanned CMS on the internet. Every hour, bots are quietly probing for wp-config.php.bak , hammering xmlrpc.php , trying default admin paths, and stuffing SQL injection attempts into every form field they can find.

  • WordPress scanned hourly for vulnerabilities
  • xZeroProtect plugin blocks malicious requests
  • Distinguishes bots from human traffic

·dev.to

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