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  1. Verdant Square Network @verdantsquare

    Vivek Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad on Amy Acton proves that the Trump playbook is worn out lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/vivek-

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  2. AlsoPaisleyCat 🇨🇦 @[email protected]

    With a happy epilogue for most, season three of *The Ark*** comes to a satisfying end.

    No major loose threads and no last moment mysteries revealed.

    If this is where this show ends — 3 seasons and 36 episodes — most viewers can be satisfied.

    The ratings for the show have been building and many new viewers have picked up the early seasons and caught up. Logic supports another renewal.

    However, unclear whether Syfy, as the original buyer, will continue in its current form now that NBC Universal has put it up for sale. So, kudos to the EPs for the decision to write this as a possible series finale.

    What are others thinking?

    ———————-

    By the way, in terms of future watch parties, it seems that other sleeper colony ship shows such a ***Ark II*** and ***The Starlost*** do not have streaming homes.

    However, it looks like the complete DVD collection of ***The Starlost*** is available on Internet Archive. I see some episodes but not all of ***Ark II***. If anyone can find those, we can poll to see if there’s sufficient interest.

    In the meantime, I would still like to see if #ActionMatinee or another watch party would like to cohost the movie ***Per Aspera Ad Astra *** (on Netflix) a few weeks from now.

    #TheArk @thearkchat. #WatchParty #RewatchParty #WatchPartySchedule #SciFi #Television

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  3. PPC Land @[email protected]

    Streaming takes 48.7% of US TV ad spend on 21.9% of impressions, iSpot finds: Across 30 brands, streaming ads converted at 3.49% against 0.69% on linear, as linear spend hit a seven-quarter low. What does the price gap mean for TV buyers? ppc.land/streaming-takes-48-7- #StreamingAdvertising #TVAds #DigitalMarketing #AdSpend #MediaTrends

    #mediatrends #adspend #digitalmarketing #tvads #streamingadvertising
  4. Dev Community @[email protected]

    Smart Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis: Compound V3


    Target Protocol: Compound V3 (TVL: $1372.5M)

    Smart Contract Vulnerability Surface Analysis

    Compound V3 (Ethereum & L2s) – $1.372 B TVL


    Prepared by: [Your Firm] – Senior DeFi Security Research & Auditing Team

    Date: 25 Oct 2026

    1. Executive Summary


    Compound V3 is the latest iteration of the flagship money‑market protocol, introducing isolated risk markets, dynamic supply caps, eMode (efficiency mode), and cross‑chain liquidity routing via the Comet architecture. The upgrade expands the attack surface considerably compared with V2, especially around:

    • Isolated collateral logic – per‑market risk parameters that can be mis‑configured or bypassed.
    • Supply‑cap enforcement – mutable caps that rely on off‑chain governance and on‑chain “cap‑manager” contracts.
    • Cross‑chain bridge adapters – L2‑specific adapters that expose replay‑ and re‑entrancy‑prone entry points.
    • eMode “efficiency” pricing – a separate oracle feed that can be manipulated without affecting the main price feed.

    Overall, the protocol’s core accounting (interest accrual, liquidation, and reward distribution) remains solid and inherits the battle‑tested design of Compound V2. However, the new modular components introduce several high‑impact vectors that, if exploited, could lead to partial or total loss of collateral, reward theft, or a systemic liquidity freeze.

    Overall Risk Score: 6.8 / 10 (Medium‑High).

    The score reflects a mature codebase with a strong test suite, but the complexity of new features and incomplete formal verification of bridge adapters keep the residual risk elevated.

    2. Identified Attack Vectors

    #VectorAffected Component(s)DescriptionPotential ImpactLikelihood*1Isolated Market Parameter ManipulationIsolatedMarket.sol, RiskManager.solIsolated markets have independent collateral factors, liquidation thresholds, and supply caps that can be updated by governance. An attacker with a short‑term governance proposal (e.g., via a flash‑loan‑backed vote) could lower the collateral factor or raise the liquidation incentive, forcing premature liquidations.Forced liquidations → loss of user capital; market panic → TVL drain.Medium2Supply‑Cap Bypass via SupplyCapManagerSupplyCapManager.sol, Comet.solThe cap is enforced only on mint paths. Direct token transfers to the market’s underlying (e.g., via transferFrom on the underlying ERC‑20) can increase the market’s cash balance without updating the internal totalSupply, allowing the market to exceed its cap and create “phantom” liquidity that can be withdrawn later.Over‑minting → inflation of cTokens, dilution of existing holders.Low‑Medium3eMode Oracle ManipulationEModeOracle.sol, PriceOracleAggregator.soleMode uses a dedicated price feed (often a Chainlink aggregator with a reduced update frequency). An attacker who can front‑run or manipulate the underlying feed (e.g., via a flash loan on a low‑liquidity pair) can temporarily distort collateral valuations, enabling under‑collateralized borrowing.Under‑collateralized debt → liquidation loss, possible protocol insolvency in the eMode market.Medium4Cross‑Chain Bridge Re‑entrancyL2BridgeAdapter.sol, CrossChainRouter.solBridge adapters call external L2 contracts (e.g., Optimism’s L2StandardBridge) and then update internal accounting. If the external call triggers a callback that re‑enters the bridge’s deposit/withdraw functions before the state is updated, an attacker can double‑count assets.Double‑spend of deposited assets → loss of funds equal to the bridge’s liquidity.Low5Interest‑Rate Model Exploit (Jump Rate)InterestRateModel.solThe new jump‑rate model uses a piecewise function with a “kink” that can be manipulated by feeding a large amount of cash into the market (via a flash loan) to temporarily push utilization below the kink, causing the borrow rate to drop dramatically. Borrowers can then take large loans at near‑zero rates before the utilization spikes back.Massive cheap borrowing → increased liquidation risk, potential loss of reserves.Medium6Reward Distribution Race ConditionRewardDistributor.sol, Comet.solRewards are minted per‑block based on a snapshot of supply/borrow balances. If a user performs a rapid supply/withdraw cycle within the same block, they may receive rewards for a larger balance than actually held at the end of the block.Over‑rewarding → inflation of COMP/COMET token supply, economic loss.Low7Upgrade‑Proxy Mis‑configurationProxyAdmin.sol, TransparentUpgradeableProxy.solThe protocol uses the OpenZeppelin Transparent Proxy pattern. An admin key (held by the DAO multisig) could be compromised, allowing an attacker to point the proxy to a malicious implementation.Full control over all markets → total fund exfiltration.Low (but high impact)8Denial‑of‑Service via Gas‑Heavy LiquidationsLiquidation.sol, Comet.solLiquidation transactions can become gas‑intensive when many borrowers are under‑collateralized simultaneously (e.g., after a price shock). If the gas limit is insufficient, liquidations fail, leaving the protocol in an insolvent state until a privileged actor manually intervenes.Stuck liquidations → protocol insolvency, loss of confidence.Medium9Flash‑Loan Re‑entrancy on borrow/repayComet.solThe borrow function updates the borrower’s debt after transferring the underlying token. A malicious contract can re‑enter via a fallback that calls borrow again, inflating its debt without proper accounting.Over‑borrowing → under‑collateralized positions, potential loss of reserves.Low‑Medium10Immutable Library Dependency VulnerabilitiesMath.sol, SafeCast.solThe protocol imports several OpenZeppelin libraries via immutable bytecode. If a library upgrade is performed without a full redeployment, a previously patched vulnerability (e.g., in SafeCast overflow checks) could be re‑introduced.Arithmetic overflow → balance mis‑calculations, fund loss.Low


    *Likelihood is assessed qualitatively based on current on‑chain data, known exploits in similar protocols, and the maturity of the code.

    3. Prioritized Technical Recommendations

    Critical (Score ≥ 8) – Immediate Action (≤ 2 weeks)

    #RecommendationRationaleImplementation StepsC‑1Hard‑code immutable eMode price feed & add fallbackPrevents a single compromised aggregator from corrupting collateral valuations.• Deploy a new EModeOracleV2 that reads from two independent aggregators (Chainlink + Band) and takes the median.
    • Add a circuit‑breaker that reverts eMode borrowing if price deviation > 5 % between feeds.
    • Upgrade via DAO proposal with a 48‑hour timelock.C‑2Enforce supply‑cap on all asset inflowsCurrent cap only checks mint. Direct token transfers can bypass it.• Add a receiveUnderlying() hook in Comet.sol that validates totalCash + incoming ≤ supplyCap before accepting ERC‑20 transferFrom.
    • Emit SupplyCapExceeded event on failure.C‑3Introduce re‑entrancy guard on borrow/repayMitigates flash‑loan re‑entrancy that could inflate debt.• Use OpenZeppelin’s ReentrancyGuard on external entry points.
    • Ensure state updates (debt, cash) occur before external token transfers.C‑4Upgrade‑proxy admin key rotation & multi‑sig hardeningCompromise of admin key leads to total takeover.• Move admin role to a 3‑of‑5 DAO multisig with hardware‑wallet signers.
    • Add a time‑locked “pause” function that can halt all proxies in an emergency.

    High (Score 6‑7) – Short‑Term (1‑4 weeks)

    #RecommendationRationaleImplementation StepsH‑1Add utilization‑floor check in Jump‑Rate ModelPrevents flash‑loan manipulation of the kink.• Require utilization >= MIN_UTIL (e.g., 0.5 %) before applying the low‑rate branch.
    • Emit UtilizationFloorTriggered event.H‑2Reward distribution snapshot finalizationEliminates race condition for rapid supply/withdraw cycles.• Record balanceSnapshot at the start of each block and use it for reward calculations, not the end‑of‑block balance.
    • Add a snapshotId to RewardDistributor.H‑3Gas‑budgeted liquidation batcherAvoids DoS when many liquidations are needed.• Implement a batch liquidation contract that can process up to N liquidations per transaction with a configurable gas limit.
    • Allow any keeper to call it; reward per liquidation.H‑4Bridge adapter re‑entrancy protectionMitigates double‑counting on L2 bridges.• Apply the checks‑effects‑interactions pattern: update internal balances before calling external L2 bridge.
    • Add a nonReentrant modifier.H‑5Isolated market governance delayReduces risk of flash‑vote attacks on collateral factors.• Enforce a minimum 72‑hour delay between proposal submission and execution for any isolated‑market parameter change.H‑6Automated monitoring of supply‑cap breachesEarly detection of cap bypass attempts.• Deploy an off‑chain bot that watches totalCash vs. supplyCap per market and raises an alert if totalCash exceeds cap by > 0.1 %.

    Medium (Score 4‑5) – Mid‑Term (1‑2 months)

    #RecommendationRationaleImplementation StepsM‑1Formal verification of bridge adaptersGuarantees absence of re‑entrancy and overflow bugs.• Use Certora or VeriSol to prove invariants: “cash balance never decreases without a corresponding withdrawal”.M‑2Static analysis of all imported librariesPrevents hidden vulnerabilities from outdated OpenZeppelin versions.• Run Slither, MythX, and Manticore on the full dependency tree.
    • Upgrade any library older than the latest stable release.M‑3Introduce “capped‑withdraw” guardPrevents users from withdrawing more than the protocol’s cash after a flash‑loan attack.• In withdraw, enforce withdrawAmount ≤ cashAvailable - safetyMargin where safetyMargin = 0.5 % of totalCash.M‑4Liquidity‑router sanity checksEnsure cross‑chain routing does not create circular asset flows.• Add a routing depth limit (max 3 hops) and a cycle‑detection check before executing a cross‑chain transfer.

    Low (Score ≤ 3) – Long‑Term (≥ 2 months)

    #RecommendationRationaleImplementation StepsL‑1Periodic audit of DAO governance contractsGovernance contracts evolve; new proposals may introduce bugs.• Schedule a quarterly audit of any contract that can modify protocol parameters.L‑2Bug‑bounty program expansionIncentivizes community discovery of edge‑case bugs.• Increase bounty caps for “isolated market” and “bridge” categories.
    • Publish a scope that includes L2 adapters.L‑3Documentation of failure modesImproves incident response.• Create a run‑book covering each identified vector, with step‑by‑step mitigation actions.L‑4Upgrade to Solidity 0.8.26+Leverages built‑in overflow checks and newer optimizer.• Incrementally compile each contract with the newer compiler, run full test suite, and deploy via proxy upgrade.

    4. Risk Score

    CategoryScore (1‑10)WeightWeighted ScoreCore Accounting (interest, liquidation, reward)30.300.9Isolated Market & Governance70.201.4Supply‑Cap & Mint Logic60.150.9eMode Oracle & Pricing80.151.2Cross‑Chain Bridge Ad

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  5. Dev Community @[email protected]

    A campaign lands in your lap and the numbers are flat. The button says "Submit." The page is three paragraphs of feature copy above the fold. You have one experiment slot this sprint, one shared traffic budget, and two candidate changes that both look obviously wrong.

    So which one do you ship first?

    The useful answer is neither "test both" nor a coin flip. The two changes answer different questions, and one of them is usually wasted if you run it in the wrong order.

    The two problems look identical in a dashboard


    Both failures surface as the same line: campaign traffic arrives, signups don't happen. To separate them, split the funnel into two questions.

    • Does the page earn attention? Can a first-time visitor understand the offer within the first screen?
    • Does the ask earn commitment? Once the value is clear, is the action obvious, specific, and low-friction?

    The first question is about the landing page. The second is about the call to action. A dashboard that only tracks sessions and signups cannot tell you which one broke.

    A diagnostic table before you write any code

    What the data showsLikely causeWhere to startMost sessions end within a few seconds; low scroll depthThe page does not match the promise in the adLanding pageDeep scroll, pricing or docs section viewed, few form startsThe ask is vague, buried, or costlyCall to actionMany form starts, few completionsForm frictionNeither. Fix the formLow engagement and low action, traffic source unclearTargeting or message mismatch upstreamNeither. Fix the campaign


    That last row matters more than it looks. If the audience arriving from the campaign was never a fit, no amount of button rewording or hero-copy polishing will rescue the page. Fixing the targeting is cheaper than any experiment.

    Why the order matters more than the individual change


    A call to action is read in the context of the headline, the proof, the price, and the surrounding copy.

    That produces two ordering rules.

    Rule one: a button cannot fix a page that never establishes value. If visitors leave before they understand what they are being asked to do, a sharper label has nothing to attach to. You will measure noise and conclude that labels do not matter.

    Rule two: do not optimize a component you are about to replace. If a page rewrite is already on the roadmap for this quarter, running a careful label experiment on the current page is a throwaway. The result will not transfer to the new layout, because the context that produced it no longer exists.

    The second rule is the one teams break most often, because label experiments are fast to ship and feel productive.

    Do the math before you commit to either


    A small change usually produces a small effect, and a small effect demands a large sample. A page rewrite can plausibly shift behavior by several points; a button label change often moves it by a fraction of one.

    A quick calculation, runnable in any Python environment, shows how steep that difference is:

    import math

    def sessions_needed(p_control, p_treatment, alpha=0.05, power=0.80):
    z_a = 1.959963985
    z_b = 0.8416212336
    p_bar = (p_control + p_treatment) / 2
    spread = (z_a * math.sqrt(2 * p_bar * (1 - p_bar))
    + z_b * math.sqrt(p_control * (1 - p_control) + p_treatment * (1 - p_treatment))) ** 2
    print(math.ceil(spread / (p_treatment - p_control) ** 2))

    sessions_needed(0.04, 0.045) # a 0.5-point lift on a 4% baseline
    sessions_needed(0.04, 0.06) # a 2-point lift on the same baseline

    On a 4% baseline, detecting a 0.5-point improvement at 80% power takes roughly 25,000 sessions per arm. Detecting a 2-point improvement takes roughly 1,900. Same campaign, same page, a thirteen-fold difference in required traffic.

    Two conclusions follow. First, if your campaign delivers a few thousand sessions a month, a micro-optimization of the button label is probably not measurable, no matter how good the label is. Second, the size of the expected effect should drive the choice of experiment far more than how easy the change is to ship.

    A default order that holds up in practice


    1. Verify the instrumentation. One exposure event per session, assignment logged server-side rather than inferred from a query parameter, internal traffic excluded, bots filtered. Every downstream conclusion inherits the quality of this step.
    2. Check message match. Put the ad headline next to the page headline. If they describe different things, stop here.
    3. If message match fails, run the landing page experiment first. Change the hero, the offer framing, or the proof: the elements that determine whether a visitor stays long enough to be asked anything.
    4. If message match holds and engagement looks healthy, run the call-to-action experiment. Label, placement, and the one or two lines of supporting copy next to it.
    5. Re-run the call-to-action experiment after any page rewrite. Treat the old result as historical, not as a default.

    Step 4 is where a lot of teams want to start, and it is a legitimate starting point, but only when the diagnostic in the table above says the page is already doing its job.

    Track what happens after the action, not just the action


    A call to action that increases signups while filling the pipeline with people who never come back is a net loss. Before you run either experiment, decide on guardrail events and log them alongside the primary metric:

    // One exposure event per session, emitted once and cached client-side
    trackEvent("experiment_exposure", {
    experiment_id: "cta_copy_q3",
    arm: "specific-verb",
    campaign_id: "launch_aug",
    });

    // Downstream quality signals, tied to the same session
    // activation_started, first_key_action, repeat_usage_7d

    If the primary metric moves up and a guardrail moves down, that is a trade-off that needs a decision. Guardrails are especially important for landing page experiments, because a page that over-promises will inflate the action rate and damage downstream quality.

    Do not change both at once


    Running a page experiment and a call-to-action experiment simultaneously on the same traffic makes the result unreadable. You cannot tell whether the change came from the page, the ask, or the interaction between them.

    If you genuinely need both answers and have the traffic to support it, use a factorial design: four arms, so every page version is paired with every call to action. The interaction term is often the most interesting number in the output, because it tells you whether a strong page makes the label irrelevant. The cost is roughly four times the traffic of a two-arm experiment.

    For most campaigns, sequential experiments are the practical choice: page first, then the ask, with each experiment consuming a pre-committed block of traffic. Avoid switching between them mid-run based on how the numbers look.

    Link hygiene when campaign traffic is split


    If you are routing campaign traffic between page builds and call-to-action experiments, the link you publish becomes part of the workflow. Campaign copy already competes for space with a headline and a button, and long parameter-heavy URLs wrap badly in chat apps and social posts. A short link such as LinkBit keeps the destination compact and readable in the creative. That is a formatting convenience. Your experiment assignment should live in your own instrumentation, not in the link.

    The short answer


    Run the landing page experiment first when the funnel shows that visitors never engage, when message match is broken, or when a rewrite is already planned. Run the call to action first when the page is doing its job and the ask is the weak link, and only when your traffic is large enough to detect the smaller effect you are likely to see.

    Before either, confirm what your instrumentation measures. Most experiment programs that stall are running careful changes on a funnel they cannot see.#experimentation #conversionrate #landingpages #webanalytics #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
    Should You A/B Test Your Call to Action or Your Landing Page First?

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  6. Wesley Allison @[email protected]

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    How to Install Pi-hole on #Ubuntu #VPS Server

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  8. Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: @atoponce

    The latest ad by Firefox is a cringe fest. It's a rough 1 minute watch. It feels desperate, like Mozilla has done all they can do, yet still haven't convinced users why Firefox should be their daily driver.

    I dropped Firefox long ago due to the poor performance on Android compared to Brave. I keep it installed though, and pull it up from time-to-time to see if anything has improved.

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  9. FOX Sports: MLB 🤖 @[email protected]

    William Contreras has been a game changer all October.

    Here is FOX Foresight built with Gemini on @[email protected] #ad

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    Will we see another dominant start from Drew Rasmussen tonight?

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  11. Europe Says @[email protected]

    El-Sayed Campaign Distances Itself From Group’s Ad Critical of Israel

    Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, sought to distance himself on Monday from an outside…
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  12. Karsten Schmidt @[email protected]

    (One of) The fundamental issues with AI/LLM/agent use in #FLOSS is that what has been a culture of communities largely defining and organizing themselves through certain ways of creating/learning/working/maintaining/exchanging in the open, has slowly been turned into an anti-culture which is essentially only focused on free end results (products), produced ad-hoc, with source available, but more or less as a side effect, as just another output artifact from a black-box process, and definitely not a central organizing factor or value anymore...

    We really need to start acknowledging this dichotomy of purpose & value and start refining our language to defend existing meanings of what "open source culture" is/was about...

    (Link to quoted post, which apparently doesn't seem to work for some... 🤷)
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  13. IBBoard @ibboard

    Ugh. Channel 4 streaming is getting bad with adverts. I used to watch the Formula 1 and some ad breaks would just be the show branding, 20 seconds on a Channel 4 show and, and then the branding and done.

    Now I'm getting five four-minute unskippable ad sessions in a ~1h show 😑

    (And that's *with* the PiHole running (fairly) standard rules.

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    In SC: Fort Sumter National Monument. The island fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861.

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    🏚️ A massive 1,348-foot prehistoric effigy mound built by the Fort Ancient culture. This is Serpent Mound in OH.

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    CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.

    50501 strongly condemns the transphobic policy positions espoused in Josh Turek’s campaign ad. We’re calling on @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social to stand with the trans community & attack the real threat to the safety of women & girls: the Trump administration’s cover-up of the Epstein trafficking ring.

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  19. O.D.I.N. RPG @odin_rpg

    “The briefing said: into the niche, back to the wall, don't lie down. The old lineman said: ‘Lie down.’ We had a regulation.”

    From the Registry: the Last Train.

    Volume 22 keeps 105 beings on index cards, the way O.D.I.N. knows them. What is really true is written below. Free and ad-free.

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  20. OTX Bot @[email protected]

    Hackers Use Malicious Instagram Ads to Infect iPhones With Spyware Without a Click

    Hackers are using malicious Instagram advertisements to infect vulnerable iPhones with spyware while users scroll through their feeds. A documented attack used a World Cup advertisement to deliver the P7 variant of DarkSword, exposing sensitive information without requiring the victim to tap the ad, download a file, or install an application. The findings show how […] The post Hackers Use Malicious Instagram Ads to Infect iPhones With Spyware Without a Click appeared first on Cyber Security News .

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    Pulse Author: CyberHunter_NL
    Created: 2026-10-27 04:55:59

    Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

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  21. Dev Community @[email protected]

    An agent that goes quiet for ten minutes does not feel autonomous. It feels broken. A spinner and a made-up “82% complete” label are not much better: they encourage users to trust a number your system cannot justify.

    The fix is not to stream the model's hidden reasoning. It is to publish a small, evidence-backed account of the work: what phase the run is in, the last verified milestone, whether it needs a person, and what will happen next. This article shows how to build that contract for long-running, tool-using AI agents.

    The progress problem is really a trust problem


    Users ask three practical questions while an agent runs:

    1. Is it still alive?
    2. Did it make meaningful progress?
    3. Do I need to do anything?

    A token stream answers none of these reliably. It can continue while a tool is stuck, and it can stop even though a durable workflow will resume later. Likewise, an LLM-generated status such as “almost finished” is a prediction, not evidence.

    Treat status as a product contract. The user-facing timeline should be derived from workflow events your system can verify: a job was accepted, a connector returned records, validation passed, an approval is waiting, or a final artifact was stored. The model may suggest a label, but it should not be the source of truth for state.

    This distinction also protects privacy. A useful update is “Checked 42 invoices; 3 need review,” not a transcript of the agent's scratch work, retrieved customer text, or chain of thought.

    Start with a state machine, not a progress bar


    Long-running agent work has more states than running and failed. Model the states explicitly and make transitions durable.

    StateMeaning to the userRequired evidenceUseful UI actionqueuedWork is accepted but has not startedrun record createdCancelrunningA worker currently owns the runlease heartbeatStopwaiting_on_toolThe run is awaiting a bounded external calltool request ID and deadlineCancelwaiting_on_userA decision or missing input is requiredapproval or question IDReview / answerretry_scheduledThe system will retry laterretry time and error classCancel / view detailssucceededThe requested result was verified and savedoutput receiptOpen resultfailedThe run cannot continue automaticallyfailure class and last checkpointRetry / contact supportcancelledWork was intentionally stoppedcancellation receiptRestart


    Avoid a vague paused state. If the workflow is paused because it needs an address, show waiting_on_user. If it is paused because a vendor rate-limited it, show retry_scheduled. Specific state names let a user decide what to do without reading logs.

    Here is a compact TypeScript event shape. It is deliberately about observable work, not hidden reasoning.

    type RunEvent = {
    runId: string;
    sequence: number; // monotonic per run
    at: string;
    type: "phase_started" | "milestone" | "approval_needed" |
    "retry_scheduled" | "completed" | "failed";
    phase?: "preparing" | "collecting" | "verifying" | "delivering";
    message: string; // reviewed, user-safe copy
    evidence?: {
    kind: "artifact" | "tool_receipt" | "checkpoint" | "approval";
    id: string;
    };
    action?: { label: string; url: string };
    };

    Persist these events in the same transaction that changes workflow state, or attach them to an outbox. A UI event that says “report ready” before the report is stored is worse than no event at all.

    Publish milestones, not a narrated thought process


    Choose milestones at boundaries where the system can prove something changed. Good milestones are stable across model versions and useful if a run resumes tomorrow.

    For a document-analysis agent, the timeline might be:

    • Request accepted
    • Source file scanned and indexed
    • 42 records extracted
    • Policy checks completed
    • Three exceptions need a decision
    • Final report saved

    Notice what is absent: “thinking about clause 7” or “I believe this source is probably relevant.” Those claims are neither a dependable progress signal nor an appropriate audit record.

    Each milestone needs an owner. The workflow engine owns checkpoint messages; the connector owns data-fetch receipts; the policy service owns validation results. If no component can produce evidence for an update, leave it out.

    That rule prevents a common failure mode: a chat interface keeps emitting cheerful prose while the actual job stopped moving. Your supervisor should detect stale progress independently of the agent. For example, mark a run stalled internally when its lease heartbeat is fresh but neither a checkpoint nor a tool receipt has advanced within the expected phase window. The user-facing text can then say, “Still working longer than expected; no action needed yet,” or escalate honestly to “This task needs attention.”

    Design an honest progress model


    Percent complete works only when units of work are known. A migration over 10,000 rows has a denominator. An open-ended research task generally does not.

    Use one of these models instead:

    Work shapeBest indicatorExampleFixed batchcompleted / total318 of 500 files checkedKnown workflowcompleted phaseVerifying findings (3 of 4 phases)Open-ended workelapsed time plus latest verified eventLast verified update: sources indexedApproval flowblocked state and decision impactNeeds approval before sending 3 emailsRetryable external worknext retry and preserved checkpointRetrying connector at 14:05; 18 items saved


    Do not convert phase count into a false percentage. Four phases do not necessarily take equal time, and the model can loop inside one phase. If you show an estimate, label it as a range derived from similar completed runs, and hide it when the sample is weak.

    function statusCopy(run: Run) {
    if (run.status === "waiting_on_user")
    return "Your decision is needed before this task can continue.";

    if (run.completedUnits != null && run.totalUnits != null)
    return `${run.completedUnits} of ${run.totalUnits} items verified`;

    return `Last verified update: ${run.latestMilestone.message}`;
    }

    The word verified matters. It teaches users what the timeline represents and sets a standard your team can test.

    Make waiting visible and actionable


    The most damaging silence is not a slow model call. It is an agent waiting for a person while the product looks busy.

    An approval event should include the decision, the consequence, the safe default, and an expiry rule. Keep the payload concise and reviewable:

    {
    "type": "approval_needed",
    "message": "Three customer records have conflicting addresses.",
    "question": "Which address should be used for the renewal notice?",
    "options": ["CRM record", "latest support ticket", "skip these records"],
    "default": "skip these records",
    "expires_at": "2026-10-26T15:00:00Z",
    "evidence": { "kind": "approval", "id": "apr_8f2" }
    }

    Never bury an approval in a scrolling chat. Surface it as a run state, send a notification only when action is required, and ensure a resumed run re-reads the approved decision from durable storage. This pairs well with approval gates, but it solves a different problem: making the wait understandable to the person who initiated the work.

    Transport updates without building a fragile realtime system


    Start with the simplest transport that fits your product.

    • Polling is enough for minute-scale background jobs. Return status, latest_event, and etag; back off when nothing changes.
    • Server-sent events work well for one-way timelines and reconnect cleanly with Last-Event-ID.
    • WebSockets fit collaborative workspaces where users can also approve, stop, or redirect a run live.
    • Notifications should be sparse: completion, failure, and waiting_on_user are normally worth interrupting someone; routine milestones are not.

    Regardless of transport, the client must tolerate duplicate and out-of-order events. Use the sequence field, make the event stream append-only, and fetch the authoritative run snapshot after reconnecting. The UI is a projection; the workflow database remains the authority.

    Build the API around a durable run record


    A small API surface is easier to secure and test than a channel full of ad hoc text.

    GET /runs/run_123

    {
    "status": "waiting_on_user",
    "phase": "verifying",
    "latest_event_sequence": 17,
    "latest_event": {
    "message": "42 records verified; 3 need a decision",
    "at": "2026-10-26T12:04:12Z"
    },
    "actions": [{ "kind": "approve", "approval_id": "apr_8f2" }]
    }

    Keep sensitive tool arguments, raw documents, and internal exception stacks behind a permissioned diagnostics view. The default run page should disclose only the minimum a user needs to understand progress and take the next action.

    Test the status contract like an API


    Status is part of the user experience, so add tests beyond the happy path:

    1. A run cannot become succeeded without an output receipt.
    2. A waiting_on_user run always exposes a decision action and cannot spend tools until it resumes.
    3. Replayed events create the same final timeline.
    4. A reconnect receives no duplicate visible milestones.
    5. A cancelled run cannot later publish a success event.
    6. A stale worker lease produces an honest recovery state, not permanent “Working…” copy.
    7. User-safe messages contain no prompt, secret, customer text, or chain of thought.

    it("does not claim success before output exists", async () => {
    await workflow.emit({ type: "completed", evidence: undefined });
    expect(await runs.get("run_123")).toMatchObject({ status: "failed" });
    });

    This is also where observability earns its keep. Measure time to first verified milestone, time spent waiting for users, stale-run recovery rate, and the share of runs that finish with a useful artifact. Avoid treating the number of progress messages as a health metric; a noisy timeline can conceal a poor workflow.

    A practical rollout plan


    Do not retrofit every agent at once. Start with one workflow where users currently refresh a page or ask support whether a job is stuck.

    1. Define the state machine and ownership of each transition.
    2. Add durable run records and one evidence-backed milestone per phase.
    3. Replace generic spinners with the latest verified update.
    4. Promote approval waits to a clear, resumable state.
    5. Add stale-run detection and a recovery message.
    6. Instrument completion quality, not just elapsed time.

    The result is deliberately less theatrical than a stream of simulated thinking. It is far more useful: people can leave a long-running agent alone, return with context, and intervene exactly when their judgment is needed.

    Keep the language stable across releases


    Treat visible status copy as part of your API. Changing waiting_on_user from “Needs your decision” to “Paused” may seem cosmetic, yet it can break notification rules, customer runbooks, and accessibility labels. Version the event schema, localize messages at the presentation layer, and keep a small compatibility test suite for every public state. That discipline pays off when new models, tools, and workflow engines arrive: the user still receives the same clear promise about what has happened and what they can do next.

    FAQ

    Should an AI agent show its chain of thought as progress?


    No. Show concise, evidence-backed milestones instead. They are more reliable, safer for sensitive data, and easier for users to act on.

    How often should an agent send status updates?


    Update on meaningful state changes, verified milestones, and action-required moments. For long silent phases, add a bounded heartbeat that says the job is still owned, not a stream of filler messages.

    Is a percentage complete useful for AI agents?


    Only when the work has a known denominator, such as files processed or records checked. Otherwise show the phase, elapsed time, and most recent verified milestone.

    What is the best state for an agent waiting on a person?


    Use a specific waiting_on_user state with the exact question, a safe default, and a resumable approval ID. Do not leave the run labeled running.

    Can polling work for long-running AI workflows?


    Yes. Polling is simple and reliable for background tasks that update every few seconds or minutes. Use ETags and backoff, then move to SSE or WebSockets only when the interaction requires it.

    How do you detect an AI agent that is stuck?


    Track worker leases, tool deadlines, and the time since the last verified milestone. A supervisor outside the model should classify stale runs and surface a recovery state.#ai #ux #programming #devops #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
    AI Agent Status Updates: Build Progress Users Can Trust Without Exposing Chain of Thought

    #devops #ai #community #programming #software #ux
  22. Rob Pegoraro @[email protected]

    Saying “never bet against Elon” does not actually make you look smart

    The world’s richest man has been more of a main character in the news cycle than usual over the past 10 days, which is saying a lot. We had Elon Musk’s showoff of a “flying car” version of the future Tesla Roadster (“jumping car” more accurately describes this exercise in cold-gas vaporware), more announcements of steps to turn Starlink Mobile into a full-fledged network (never mind SpaceX’s severe shortfall of terrestrial spectrum) and Musk hyping a Tesla-SpaceX merger (SpaceX shareholders might want to hold their applause).

    Whatever Musk says, you can expect one reaction from many people who should know better: Never bet against Elon.

    That saying seems to come from Musk’s former business partner Peter Thiel, but it’s become a bit of a mantra–especially on X, where Musk has drawn a weird Greek chorus of sycophantic superfans who either don’t mind or outright cheer his racist rants about immigrants.

    I understand how that phrase can be easy to invoke from the legit accomplishments of SpaceX and Tesla. I’ve experienced them firsthand–watching one Falcon 9 and two Falcon Heavy launches at Cape Canaveral, then doing a nearly-1,700-mile road trip in a Model 3 in 2022–and I’ve written my share of appreciative things about both companies, SpaceX especially.

    But as a catchall rationalization of everything Elon says he’ll make happen, “never bet against Elon” amounts to weak-minded foolishness. Of course you can bet against the guy–and in three obvious cases, your wager could have paid off well.

    Cybertruck: Tesla’s metal trapezoid of a truck may seem ubiquitous because of how easy it is to spot one of these things from a quarter-mile away, but in reality it’s sold worse than Ford’s Edsel.

    Tesla’s slumping sales could use a boost right now. But instead of shipping a lower-cost EV that might help Tesla compete with the affordable electric cars from BYD and other Chinese automakers that are now racking up sales outside the U.S., the company introduced this $74,990-and-up monstrosity that isn’t street-legal in Europe.

    I imagine that the reaction to that poor choice–and to the not-really-flying Roadster and to the still-vaporware Optimus robot that for some reason graces Tesla’s Georgetown showroom in D.C.–among China’s EV industry remains whatever “LOL” is in Mandarin.

    Hyperloop: Musk’s notion of vehicles whooshing through low-pressure tubes at hundreds of miles an hour deserved skepticism when he revealed it in 2013 as a supposedly superior alternative to building high-speed rail in California (not that there isn’t much to critique about CAHSR’s management and design failures).

    Musk not committing his own money and his own Boring Company operation to build hyperloop networks should have been a tell. Instead, startups lined up investors to build versions of this design in places like Abu Dhabi, then failed to pour concrete because the design proved unworkable.

    Much closer to Washington, former Maryland governor Larry Hogan (R.) fell for this nonsense in 2017 and then watched the concept of a D.C.-NYC hyperloop unravel over the next few years. Elsewhere around the world–notably China–high-speed rail has kept rolling.

    Political donations: Yes, Musk spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help Donald Trump get elected in 2024 may have helped in swing states. But what happened months later when Musk spent another $20 million in just one of those states, Wisconsin?

    Dropping that much money there–plus briefly touting an illegal $1 million sweepstakes for voters–did not swing an April 2025 election for a spot on the state Supreme Court. Despite Musk declaring that “Western civilization” was somehow at stake should Brad Schimel (R.) lose, the people of Wisconsin voted for the judge’s Democratic opponent, Susan Crawford, by an almost 10-point margin.

    One possibly relevant factor: Musk’s approval ratings in polls are now almost as bad as Trump’s, and Musk can’t claim anything like Trump’s cult of personality.

    The appropriate response to any version of “never bet against Elon” is “citation needed.” Musk has done some extraordinary things but now seems extraordinarily detached from the societal circumstances that result in most people proffering dumb ideas having their peers tell them “that’s a dumb idea.”

    Too many media-industry folks, meanwhile, need to stop bringing a “never bet against Elon” mindset to covering Musk’s predictions or pledges in what my fellow tech scribe Karl Bode mocks as “CEO Said a Thing” stories. Journalists do their readers a disservice when they fail to remind them of Musk’s spotty record of delivering on his promises–and freelance journalists do their own incomes a disservice by passing on such an easy way to pad out their word counts.

    #betAgainstElon #BoringCompany #CEOSaidAThing #citationNeeded #Cybertruck #DOGE #ElonMusk #Falcon9 #FalconHeavy #Hyperloop #MuskCampaignDonations #MuskWisconsin #OptimusRobot #SpaceX #StarlinkMobile #Tesla #TeslaModel3 #TeslaRoadster #TeslaSpaceXMerger
    #betagainstelon #boringcompany #ceosaidathing #citationneeded #cybertruck #doge
  23. Dev Community @[email protected]

    8 Field Techniques for Smart Contract Auditing — Forged by Refuting My Own Findings


    I recently spent 24 focused rounds auditing a lending-and-automation codebase for a
    security competition. I opened 7 attack hypotheses. I closed all 7 — six with proofs,
    one by refuting my own draft finding at final review, hours before it would have gone
    to judges as a "Low severity, high confidence" report.

    That last one hurt, and it taught me more than the six clean refutations. Here are
    the eight techniques that carried the campaign. Each is small enough to use tomorrow.

    1. Rebuild the economic model before reading functions


    For mechanism contracts (auctions, leases, escrows), don't read top-to-bottom. First
    reconstruct the economy: who pays whom, when, for what right. Attackers fall out of
    the mechanism for free — the flash-renter, the buyout-frontrunner, the donation
    thief. This halves the reading time because you know which state transitions matter.

    2. Follow the patch trail to find the sparse zones


    Prior audit fix IDs in comments are a map of where previous reviewers massed their
    forces. Dense numbering = picked clean. Sparse numbering plus heavy external
    interactions = your hunting ground. Read the fix list first, then go where it isn't.

    3. Ask what slice of the loss spectrum a check actually blocks


    A require(shares == 0 → revert) looks like inflation protection. It blocks exactly
    one point: the victim receiving nothing. Every partial-loss shape passes. For every
    boundary check, ask: "which segment of the loss spectrum does this cover?" Pseudo-
    protection is more dangerous than no protection because it stops you looking.

    4. At every rounding site, ask "who keeps the dust?"


    Round directions decide who eats sub-unit remainders. The audit question is
    ownership: dust back to the fund's source = safe; to the protocol = QA note; to an
    attacker = bug. Trace mulDiv vs mulDivRoundingUp against who supplied the value
    being divided.

    5. Track invariants by who sets, who burns, who recomputes


    For state pairs that must stay ordered (escrow balance vs. reserved minimum), find
    the single point where the invariant is established and check that every mutation
    preserves it. My favorite case: a mutable self-assessed price that raises a burn
    rate — the reserved minimum is set once at install and never recomputed on price
    changes, so the ordering holds by construction. Once you see the "no recomputation"
    pattern, the underflow fear evaporates.

    6. Enumerate callback points as a grid, then verify CEI per cell


    Contracts have fewer external callback points than you fear: NFT in, NFT out,
    payout transfers, token hooks — usually under five. Enumerate them exhaustively,
    then check effects-before-interactions at each. Completeness comes from the
    enumeration, not from insight. This closes a reentrancy hypothesis in one sitting.

    7. For consume-on-failure designs, ask "can the opponent cause the failure?"


    Fail-open flows (trigger consumed, action failed, event emitted) have a griefing
    surface: can an adversary deliberately trigger the failure to burn someone's
    consumed state? If every failure source is environmental (stale oracle feed, lapsed
    time), the design is sound. If any failure is opponent-manufacturable, you have a
    DoS vector.

    8. Push exact wei-level numbers through your exploit math before believing it


    This is the technique that saved my credibility. I had a textbook ERC4626 inflation
    finding: "attacker donates 999× the deposit, victim loses 99.9%." Plausible,
    standard, wrong for that deposit profile. Pro-rata redemption is self-consistent:
    the victim's fraction of the pool is A/(D+2A), and they redeem almost all of A back.
    The classic attack harms only deposits that round down to zero shares — and this
    contract's deposits were whole-position liquidity, large, with a zero-share check
    already present. Analogies are how audit findings die in triage. Wei-level numbers,
    end to end, or it didn't happen.

    The meta-rule


    Hypothesis-driven auditing with mandatory refutation beats bug-shaped skimming. I
    submitted nothing that round — and that was the correct outcome. A self-refuted
    finding costs an evening; a wrong one costs your reputation with every triager who
    remembers your name.#blockchain #security #solidity #smartcontract #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
    8 Field Techniques for Smart Contract Auditing — Forged by Refuting My Own Findings

    #security #community #software #coding #development #blockchain
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  25. FOX 🤖 @[email protected]

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  26. FOX 🤖 @[email protected]

    ¡XOLOS PEGÓ PRIMEROOOOOOOO! 🔥

    Diagonal matona de Adonis Preciado que termina definiendo perfectamente González.

    🔥@Xolos 1-0
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  27. Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @[email protected]

    I saw this weird ad on YouTube, and at first I thought this was Eugene Levy and I was wondering if this was some kind of comedy or something. But then later the guy yelling at the other people was no longer Levy but "random angry white guy in a suit".

    The second time it came on I saw that it was "AI generated content"...

    So I'm curious whether they were trying to make it look like Eugene Levy, or whether #SchittsCreek made Eugene Levy into THE FACE of corporate America?

    (Extra funny, since he's Canadian...)

    #schittscreek
  28. Europe @[email protected]

    EU revises AD duties on Turkish cold-rolled flat steel

    The European Commission has circulated a revision of anti-dumping duty rates soon to be imposed against imports of…
    #Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission
    europesays.com/europe/166576/

    #europeancommission #eu #europe
  29. Haunted Anubi @[email protected]

    i saw an ad like this on unixporn once


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