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Why It's Time to Rename Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Semgrep makes the case for renaming Cybersecurity Awareness Month to focus less on catchy campaigns and more on measurable secure-by-default engineering practices that actually reduce risk.
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Quick thoughts on GitHub’s Sept 23 incident
Lorin Hochstein reads GitHub's terse write-up of its Sept 23 Azure Central US database incident and pulls out the multiple contributing factors hiding in it: planned maintenance, replica failover, and an under-capacity primary.
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Tom Batey of WebDepend argues that AI can run checks but cannot judge whether software satisfies expectations—so businesses still need human testers who own responsibility when AI writes and verifies code.
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PlayTaurus argues guitarists should buy hardware for what it is and run community firmware on it—ESP32-class chips are cheap enough, NAM models are open, and closed pedal firmware is the last proprietary lock.
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# No more issues Written on 2026-09-04 An interesting change at Laravel yesterday: they disabled the ability to create issues on a number of repositories and instead encourage people to create pull-requests instead: To be clear: this is only the case for Laravel packages like Soc
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