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Ex-Likud official warns party app could be used to illegally monitor polling stations

In a sworn affidavit to the High Court, a former campaign tech chief claims the ruling party’s new app can bypass the law and secretly transmit voter data in real time using AI

Ex-Likud official warns party app could be used to illegally monitor polling stations

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Pin the Contract, Not the Model: A Bootcamp Lab on Provider-Swappable Agent Runs

A lab that grades an agent run should never care which model produced that run. If your rubric silently changes when the free tier changes, you were grading the vendor, not the student.

  • Focus rubric on agent-model contract, not model itself
  • Pin prompts with hashing to ensure consistent grading
  • Implement recording and replay system to eliminate flaky re-runs

Letter to 08:20-Me: Stop Auditing the Agent, Audit the Counters

I opened two terminals at 08:20 and closed them at 19:40. One terminal held a free server box. The other held an agent writing patches. By lunch I had three diffs and no idea which run produced which.

  • Author experimented with workflow on August 20th using free resources
  • Learned importance of logging steps and separate directories for writer/reviewer
  • Recommended six-step loop for audit trail and preventing recurring issues

Tech Journalist Robert X Cringely has Died

BoingBoing reports: Mark Stephens, better known under the pen name Robert X. Cringely, died last week at 73. Stephens chronicled the tech industry of the late 1980s and early 1990s — the age of Bill…

  • Robert X. Cringely died at 73 years old
  • Known as Mark Stephens, chronicled tech industry rise
  • Created 'Triumph of the Nerds' documentary

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